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 Contents:

1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 5 (new this weekend)
   
2.  Announcing Alpha Paint 12 (second notification)
3.  Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 12 (additional notification)
4.  GIF Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 2 (additional notification)
5.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details

Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 5

Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been updated.

In this release:

• Window Menu: The Graphic Workshop Window menu can include links to other software — by default, it will provide you with quick access to Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications and any other current Alchemy Mindworks software on your system. The Window menu logic has been completely rewritten and seriously enhanced. See the discussion of the Window menu in the Reference section of Graphic Workshop documentation.
  
  
• View Mode Message: Graphic Workshop's View mode will apprise you of its mode options the first time you look at a picture. The notification window includes an option to disable this message in the future. If you use Graphic Workshop primarily to view pictures from other applications, the option to disable the prompt window could have been ignored between sessions. This has been addressed.
  
  
• File Tips: The yellow file tip windows that appear in Graphic Workshop's browsers if you hover your mouse cursor over a thumbnail have been expanded to include more information.
  
  
• Sort By Time: The browser Sort by Time option hitherto sorted by the most recent modification time under some configurations of Windows. It now sorts by the file creation time, as it was intended to do.
  
  
• Archive Manager: Graphic Workshop's stand-alone ancillary Archive Manager application has seen a number of user interface improvements, most notably highlighting the list column that's being sorted by.
  
  
• e-Paint UltraLight: A number of cosmetic issues that appeared when e-Paint UltraLight was run in Windows 11 have been addressed.
  
  
• Color Selection: Several of Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications refused to open their named color tables when a Select Color window appeared, under some configurations of Windows. Now they do.
  

If you haven't experienced Graphic Workshop Professional 12 as yet, please see its initial release announcement for a list of all its new and enhanced functionality.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 12.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 12 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 12, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

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

You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link.

Announcing Alpha Paint 12

Alpha Paint 12 has been released.

We've added new functionality to Alpha Paint, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (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 12, you'll find...

• Quick 64-bit Architecture: Alpha Paint is now available in both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty much never runs into memory issues. We hasten to note that registering or updating to Alpha Paint 12 will avail you of a registration key that works with either edition... or both, if you're feeling adventurous.
  
  
• Windows 11 Compatible: The version 11 software has been showing some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing and/or running therein. Alpha Paint 12 rocks under Windows 11.
  
  
• Drawing Engine: Improves the performance of Alpha Paint's drawing engine.
  
  
• WebP: Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for Alpha Paint to address several potential security issues and to improve its image quality.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint 12.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Alpha Paint 12.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 12 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Alpha Paint 12, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 12

PNG MNG Construction Set 12 has been released.

We've added new functionality to PNG MNG Construction Set, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (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 PNG MNG Construction Set 12, you'll find...

• Quick 64-bit Architecture: PNG MNG Construction Set Professional is now available in both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty much never runs into memory issues. We hasten to note that registering or updating to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 12 will avail you of a registration key that works with either edition... or both, if you're feeling adventurous.
  
  
• Windows 11 Compatible: The version 11 software has been showing some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing and/or running therein. PNG MNG Construction Set 12 rocks under Windows 11.
  
  
• Web Gallery: PNG MNG Construction Set's new Web Gallery will create sophisticated web pages for your animations with clickable thumbnails, paging and index and way more... even if you've never been within a light-year of HTML coding. Select Edit → Web Gallery.
  
  
• Animation Plugins: PNG MNG Construction Set's plugins have been revised and updated, with enhanced documentation, Open and Save buttons for many of the plugins and improved performance. The 3D Effects plugin set now includes a plugin to create animated photo-dodecahedrons, like the one to your right.
  
  
• JPEG Security: PNG MNG Construction Set's Turbo JPEG and IJG JPEG libraries have been updated to the latest releases to address some security issues.
  
  We'd like to urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set Professional to update to this release as quickly as possible.
  
  
• WebP: Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for PNG MNG Construction Set to address several potential security issues and to improve its image quality.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 12.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 12.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 12 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set 12, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Plugins

All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 12.

If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 12 installers for your plugins.

All the animation plugins are at:

IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and you plan to uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 to replace them with the new version 12 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 11 plugins, and then uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and PNG MNG Construction Set 11.   

PNG MNG Construction Set 12 will offer to automatically remove your old plugins for you the first time it runs — go for it, as this will save you lots of clicking later on.

We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've downloaded the version 12 installers. Please see the the plugin help page for assistance.

GIF Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 2

GIF Construction Set Professional 12 has been released.

We've added new functionality to GIF Construction Set Professional, improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (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 GIF Construction Set Professional 12, you'll find...

In this release:

• Web Gallery: Addresses a number of issues in the Web Gallery window that crept into the revision one software.
  

From the initial release:

• Quick 64-bit Architecture: GIF Construction Set Professional is now available in both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty much never runs into memory issues. We hasten to note that registering or updating to GIF Construction Set Professional 12 will avail you of a registration key that works with either edition... or both, if you're feeling adventurous.
  
  
• Windows 11 Compatible: The version 11 software has been showing some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing and/or running therein. GIF Construction Set Professional 12 rocks under Windows 11.
  
  
• Web Gallery: GIF Construction Set Professional's new Web Gallery will create sophisticated web pages for your animations with clickable thumbnails, paging and index and way more... even if you've never been within a light-year of HTML coding. Select Edit → Web Gallery.
  
  
• Animation Plugins: GIF Construction Set Professional's plugins have been revised and updated, with enhanced documentation, Open and Save buttons for many of the plugins and improved performance. The 3D Effects plugin set now includes a plugin to create animated photo-dodecahedrons, like the one to your right.
  
  
• JPEG Security: GIF Construction Set Professional's Turbo JPEG and IJG JPEG libraries have been updated to the latest releases to address some security issues.
  
  We'd like to urge all users of GIF Construction Set Professional to update to this release as quickly as possible.
  
  
• WebP: Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for GIF Construction Set Professional to address several potential security issues and to improve its image quality.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.

Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction Set Professional 12.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 12.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 12 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 12, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license.

Plugins

All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 12.

If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 12 installers for your plugins.

All the animation plugins are at:

IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 to replace them with the new version 12 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 11 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 11 and PNG MNG Construction Set 11.   

GIF Construction Set 12 will offer to automatically remove your old plugins for you the first time it runs — go for it, as this will save you lots of clicking later on.

We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've downloaded the version 12 installers. Please see the the plugin help page for assistance.

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