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        Contents:

 1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 3* (new this weekend)
 2. *Announcing Alpha Paint 11*
 3. * Windows Speedup: Disable Defender's Real Time Protection
    *(second notification)*
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 4. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details*

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    Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 3
    (new this weekend)



Last week's release of Graphic Workshop Professional 11 had a few 
first-edition issues, which have now been addressed:

  * The Destination list in the new Social Media window didn't populate
    itself under some configurations of Windows. Now it does.

  * The Social Media View mode filter was missing. It has been found and
    returned to its desk.

  * The new Web Checker application's status window, and its attendant
    Abort button, didn't appear under some configurations of Windows. It
    does now.

  * Graphic Workshop didn't always correctly configure file associations
    so it would appear in the Open With list for Windows File Explorer.
    This has been fixed.

  * Converting graphics with alpha-channel transparency to formats that
    don't support transparency, such as JPG, could result in pretty
    weird pictures. It's history.

  * Some PNG documents with alpha channel transparency and select other
    chunks could crash the PNG reader. This no longer happens.

  * The justification settings of the classic Caption window now behave
    correctly.

  * The frame metrics in the default Caption window now also behave
    correctly.

  * A bug in the View window that could crash Graphic Workshop if it was
    confronted with large graphics having wildly different dimensions
    has been stomped.

  * Thumbnails generated from grey-scale graphics with alpha channel
    transparency could have a decidedly red tint to them. Now they're
    authentic grey.

  * The Scrapbook application now includes logic to prevent multiple
    instances of it from being run, which generated several spurious
    error messages.

  * The Audible Confirmation menu item in Resource Extractor now works
    correctly.

  * After an unanticipated delay, the Graphic Workshop Professional 11
    Printed Reference is now available through Amazon. Please click on
    the red book later in this section.

We recommend that everyone who installed Graphic Workshop Professional 
11 last week update to the new release.


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 From last week's announcement:

Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been released.

We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular image 
management application, improved its performance, included several fresh 
ancillary applications and generally refined it to better get along with 
Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under 
earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're 
feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop Professional 
11, you'll find that it:

  * *****Adds **Social Media: *Quickly compose your pictures for
    Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other popular social media
    platforms. The Social Media window will automatically resize and
    crop your photographs and apply a rich palette of backgrounds to
    them. Right-click on any picture in a Graphic Workshop browser and
    select Social Media from the menu that appears, or batch-process
    multiple graphics through the Image menu.

  * *Adds WebP Support to Supercompressor:* Graphic Workshop's
    Supercompressor will automatically adjust the compression and
    quality parameters of the pictures you store to arrive at the
    smallest possible files. Hitherto the province of JPEGs,
    Supercompressor can now apply its stealth and cunning to WebP
    documents as well, which look way better when you need a tiny
    document footprint.

  * *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
    graphics for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications have
    been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof.
    There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks
    of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its
    security elements up to date.

  * *Updates Caption: *The Graphic Workshop Caption window will add
    captions to your pictures. The Caption editor now allows for rich
    text — it's pretty much a small word processor that supports
    multiple fonts, typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten
    to add that the original Graphic Workshop Caption window is still
    available, should you prefer it, and it now features a powerful
    macro language to automatically generate captions. Select Classic
    Caption Window in Setup to access it.

  * ***Adds Absolute Noise: *The Fractals and Textures window now
    includes Absolute Noise, a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface
    generator. Create surreal photo backgrounds, import flawless
    textures into other applications or just lose yourself in an
    alternate universe. The animation to your right illustrates a few of
    the effects available through the Absolute Noise fractal generator.

  * *Adds Screen Capture Annotation:* The GWS Camera screen capture
    application can now optionally include captions with the capture
    graphics it creates. You can add a standard caption to every
    capture, be prompted for a caption for each screen capture or use
    the rich macro language of the Caption window to create automatic
    captions that include elements such as the time and date of your
    capture and the title of the window that was grabbed.

  * *Adds Animation Workshop UltraLight:* Graphic Workshop now installs
    with a fully functional simplified edition of our popular Animation
    Workshop application to build sophisticated, editable banners,
    advertisements and other complex objects for your web pages, social
    media postings, e-mail messages and PowerPoint presentations.

  * *Updates Matt and Frame: *The Matt and Frame window has been
    redesigned to make it more intuitive, and to address a few lingering
    functionality issues.

  * *Adds Web Checker:* Graphic Workshop's Web Checker is an ancillary
    application to spider your web site and bring to your attention any
    broken links and missing graphics it encounters. It's effortless to
    use, and usually a bit surprising the first time you run it and see
    what it finds.

  * *Updates Watermark: *The Watermark window has also been redesigned
    to make it more intuitive.

  * *Updates GIF Construction Set UltraLight:* The GIF Construction Set
    UltraLight application has been completely rewritten and expanded.
    It manages memory more effectively, has a smaller code footprint
    than its predecessors and is substantially quicker.

  * *Fixes the Crop Window: *The Crop window has been updated to address
    an issue which prevented it from correctly respecting the Windows
    task bar under some configurations of Windows.

  * *Fixes Animated PNG:* An issue that could cause the animated PNG
    viewer to display an initial blank frame for some animations has
    been addressed.

  * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.
  * *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.


The *Graphic 
Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed Reference* 
has been revised for the version 11 software, and it includes sections 
for all the new functionality. It's available through Amazon —there's a 
link to it at the Graphic Workshop web page, and you can access it 
through the Get The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference item of Graphic 
Workshop's Help menu. Alternately, just click on the book to your right.


All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in the 
version 11 software. Note that if you're currently using an earlier 
version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:

  * Be sure to uninstall the version 10 plugins before you install
    Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
    Professional 11 should prompt you to do so automatically the first
    time you run it.

  * You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to run
    under Graphic Workshop Professional 11.

If you're using a registered installation of the Graphic Workshop RAW 
Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of Graphic 
Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work with the 
version 11 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.


As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for the 
first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop 
Professional 10 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so 
you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even your open browser 
windows will be preserved.


Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.


    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>


      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost 
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to 
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will 
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


You can access the no-cost upgrade page 
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the 
foregoing link.



    Announcing Alpha Paint 11



Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 11 has been released.

Alpha Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and 
manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will create:

  * Professional web page images
  * Eye-catching effects for social media
  * Killer graphics for PowerPoint presentations
  * Titles for videos

...and pretty much anything else that requires leading-edge art and 
transparency.

In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.

<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>Alpha Paint is intuitive, easy 
to use and it won't require that you get involved with complicated 
mathematics, higher-order spatial dimensions or a manual that requires 
more than one human lifetime to read.

Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to successfully operate a 
web browser should be able to master Alpha Paint in under an hour.

We've added new functionality to Alpha Paint, improved its performance 
and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten 
to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, 
all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.)

Among the new features and enhancements to Alpha Paint, you'll find that it:

  * *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
    graphics for Alpha Paint have been reviewed to ensure that they're
    secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable
    people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the
    users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.

  * *Toolbox:* Refines various elements of the toolbox and the
    functionality associated with its drawing tools.

  * *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
    software developers never really stop meddling with.

  * *Documentation: *Updates the documentation.


    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>


      Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10 on 
or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* Alpha 
Paint to 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10 
prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 11 for 
*half the current new-user price*.

The first time you run Alpha Paint 11, it will determine which upgrade 
option applies to your license.

Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.

    <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>


You can access the no-cost upgrade page 
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the 
foregoing link.



    Windows Speedup:
    Disable Defender's Real Time Protection (second notification)



The Windows Defender security application that installs with Windows 10 
is a redoubtable defense against the bottom feeders, script kiddies and 
brain donors of the Internet. This said, it can prove to be somewhat 
overprotective.

The Real Time Protection feature of Defender scans every file that gets 
anywhere near your computer, in real time, to make sure that none of 
them includes anything unexpected. While a laudable feature, it soaks up 
a lot of processor time and system resources in doing so.

Unless you sprang for a really fast computer with enough memory to fully 
occupy a modest suburban livingroom, having Defender’s real time 
protection running will slow your system down… probably quite a lot.

The past summer, Real Time Protection appears to have mutated. Windows 
would no longer allow it to be disabled through its Settings panel. 
Windows and everything running under it dropped into neutral.

We've found a way around this issue — if you trust yourself not to click 
on mysterious e-mail attachments or download software from peculiar web 
sites with a lot of spelling errors, you might want to look at restoring 
your system's performance

Click on the big blue button to see how this works.


    <http://blog.mindworkshop.com/gif-construction-set/windows-speedup-disabling-defenders-real-time-protection/>



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