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Contents:
- Announcing Graphic
Workshop Professional 14 (additional
notification)
- Announcing
e-Paint 14
- Announcing PNG
MNG Construction Set 14 (second
notification)
- GIF Construction
Set Professional 14 Revision 2 (second
notification)
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Announcing Graphic
Workshop Professional 14
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 has
been released.
We've added new functionality to the known universe's most
popular image management application, improved its
performance, included some fresh ancillary software 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 Graphic
Workshop Professional
14, you'll find:
- Animate Transitions: Create
sophisticated animations and videos from your favorite
photographs. The example to your right doesn't get
within a light-year of the capabilities of this
technology — click on it to experience a much
higher-resolution video, complete with a sound track.
Select Animate Objects from the Image menu of Graphic
Workshop, and then Animate Transitions from the sub-menu
that appears. Add some of your own pictures to the
Animate Transitions window, click on Preview and be
amazed.
- Speed:
The low-level pixel logic for Graphic Workshop and its
ancillary applications has been re-written in optimized
machine language. Since most of what Graphic Workshop
does involves managing pixels, it has become
substantially quicker.
- JPEG
Security: The Graphic Workshop JPEG library has
been updated to the latest release to address several
potential security and performance issues. We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of Graphic
Workshop to update to this release, 'coz the universe
has a lot of really bad people in it.
- WebP:
The WebP library has been updated to improve its
performance.
- TIFF:
Graphic Workshop's TIFF functionality has been updated
to support a much wider palette of TIFF files, and to
address a number of performance issues. While TIFF may
in fact be something of a revenant of the distant past,
TIFF graphics don't think so, and they still turn up.
- Impact:
The new Impact filter in Graphic Workshop's View mode
Filter window will refine and nuance your photographs...
or it will rip a hole in space-time and make your
pictures visible from low Earth orbit. With awesome
power comes awesome responsibility.
- Animation:
A memory leak in the Graphic Workshop animation and
video logic that could shut down Graphic Workshop under
some configurations of Windows is now history.
- Identify
Mystery Files: The batch mode of Graphic
Workshop's Identify Mystery Files window has been
improved to correctly deal with documents having no file
extensions, and to speed up its deliberations.
- More
Identify Mystery Files: All Graphic Workshop's
batch processes will now apprise you of source documents
having incorrect extensions, and automatically rename
them for you.
- Filters:
A number of Graphic Workshop's image filters that rely
on lookup tables have been improved to remove
inappropriate dark pixels under some configurations of
Windows.
- Font
Wrangler UltraLight: Preview, install and remove
fonts with the font management tool that should have
come with Windows.
- Overrides:
An issue with the format override logic in the View mode
Save As window that caused the wrong format override
window to open under some configurations of Windows is
history.
- Shards: The
View mode Shards filter logic has been enhanced to
handle image edges more convincingly.
- Textures:
A number of image instabilities in the Textures and
Fractals window have been addressed.
- Colors:
The color selection window that appears whenever Graphic
Workshop prompts you to select a color has been enhanced
with an expanded palette of more contemporary colors —
scroll to the bottom of the list to see them. In
addition, you can now re-arrange the color list by
dragging and dropping its items.
- Video: Conversion
from animations to digital video under Graphic Workshop
will now preserve the original animation running time.
- Social
Media: Two new background options have been added
to the Graphic Workshop Social Media window. A memory
leak in Social media has been stomped.
- Browser
Windows: An issue that could cause Graphic
Workshop's browser windows to be positioned such that
their scroll bars were inaccessible under some
configurations of Windows has been addressed.
- AVI:
Several issues with the AVI Override window have been
addressed, and the AVI writer now correctly manages the
length of sound objects in documents converted to AVI.
- Virtual
Thumbnails: Graphic Workshop's virtual thumbnail
engine will now access the Windows thumbnail database
for its images, making the virtual thumbnail mode
shockingly quick.
- Rotate
Filter: The Graphic Workshop View mode Rotate
filter's Preserve Original Size option now handles
background colors correctly.
- File Names:
Graphic Workshop now defaults to looking for exact
matches for file extensions. In previous editions,
Windows' ambiguity in dealing with extensions like .JPE
and .JPEG could persuade Graphic Workshop to duplicate
some browser items, or not show them at all.
The Graphic Workshop
Printed Reference has been revised for the version
14 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 version 14. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:
- Be sure to
uninstall the version 12 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 14. Failing this, Graphic
Workshop Professional 14 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 14.
- The plugin
installers will install plugins for both the 32- and
64-bit editions of Graphic Workshop as applicable — you
don't have to download separate 32- and 64-bit plugins.
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 14 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic
Workshop Professional 14 for the first time, it will look
for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 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.
Note that if you installed both the 32- and 64-bit
editions of Graphic Workshop Professional 12 on the same
computer, the automatic uninstall will only remove one of
them. You'll need to remove its sibling by hand.
Click on the blue
button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 12 on or
after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 12 prior to
June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop
Professional 14, 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.
The graphic of the woman with a
digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license
from StockFresh.
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Announcing e-Paint 14
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e-Paint 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to e-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
e-Paint 14, you'll find...
- Blend
Modes: e-Paint now supports blend modes for many
of its drawing tools. In addition to simply pasting and
drawing with color, you can add, average, get vivid,
become dark and go extreme. See the discussion of Blend
Modes in the Reference document of the e-Paint manual.
- Speed:
The low-level pixel logic for e-Paint has
been re-written in optimized machine language. Since
most of what e-Paint
does involves managing pixels, it has become
substantially quicker.
- JPEG
Security: The e-Paint JPEG library has been
updated to the latest release to address several
potential security and performance issues. We'd like to
take this opportunity to urge all users of e-Paint to
update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of
really bad people in it.
- WebP:
The WebP library has been updated to improve its
performance.
- Impact:
The new Impact filter in e-Paint Filter window will refine
and nuance your photographs... or it will rip a hole in
space-time and make your pictures visible from low Earth
orbit. With awesome power comes awesome responsibility.
- Textures:
A number of image instabilities in the CGI Textures
window have been addressed.
- Colors:
The color selection window that appears whenever e-Paint
prompts you to select a color has been enhanced with an
expanded palette of more contemporary colors — scroll to
the bottom of the list to see them. In addition, you can
now re-arrange the color list by dragging and dropping
its items.
- 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 e-Paint 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for e-Paint 12 on or after June 1, 2022,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to e-Paint 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for e-Paint
12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 14 for half the
current new-user price.
The first time you run e-Paint 14, 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.
The banner
graphic above, a detail from Girl with Tattoos, is
by Sarah Wissink, and is used under license from
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Announcing PNG MNG
Construction Set 14
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PNG MNG Construction Set 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to PNG MNG
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 PNG
MNG Construction Set 14, you'll find...
- Speed:
The low-level pixel logic for PNG MNG
Construction Set and its plugins has been
re-written in optimized machine language. Since most of
what PNG MNG
Construction Set does involves managing pixels,
it has become substantially quicker.
- JPEG
Security: The PNG MNG Construction Set JPEG
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all
users of PNG
MNG Construction Set to update to this release,
'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
- WebP:
The WebP library has been updated to improve its
performance.
- Social Media:
Two new background options have been added to the PNG MNG
Construction Set Social Media
window. A memory leak in Social media has been
stomped.
- Plugins: The
PNG MNG
Construction Set animation plugins
have been updated and a number of performance and
quality issues have been addressed.
- Colors:
The color selection window that appears whenever PNG MNG
Construction Set
prompts you to select a color has been enhanced with
an expanded palette of more contemporary colors —
scroll to the bottom of the list to see them. In
addition, you can now re-arrange the color list by
dragging and dropping its items.
- 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 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 12 on or after
June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade
to PNG MNG Construction
Set Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for PNG
MNG Construction Set Professional 12 prior to
June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
14 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
14, 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.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for PNG MNG
Construction Set have been upgraded to run with PNG MNG
Construction Set 14.
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 14 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF
Construction Set 12 or PNG MNG Construction Set 12 and you
plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 12 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 12 to replace them with the new version
14 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 12
plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 12 and
PNG MNG Construction Set 12.
PNG MNG Construction Set 14 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 14
installers. Please see the the
plugin help page for assistance.
The background
of the banner graphic above, a detail from a picture by
Jimi Backhouse, is used under license from
freeimages.com. The ink well icon for PNG MNG
Construction Set was created by Eugen Buzuk of
icondrawer.com, and is used under license.
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GIF Construction Set
Professional 14 Revision 2
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Last week's release of GIF Construction Set
Professional 12 had a few first-edition issues, which have
now been addressed:
- Pixels:
An obscure
problem with our new optimized pixel-management logic
could cause sixteen-color graphics to have some of
their adjacent pixels interchanged. We frown on this —
it's been fixed.
- WebP: The
WebP interface has been improved.
Note that the pixel-management
logic problem also affected GIF Construction Set's
animation plugins. If you installed the version 14
plugins last weekend, we urge you to download and
install the updated ones now. See the Plugins button,
below.
From last week's announcement:
GIF Construction Set Professional
14 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 14,
you'll find...
- Speed:
The low-level pixel logic for GIF
Construction Set and its plugins has been
re-written in optimized machine language. Since most
of what GIF Construction Set does
involves managing pixels, it has become
substantially quicker.
- JPEG
Security: The GIF Construction Set JPEG
library has been updated to the latest release to
address several potential security and performance
issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge
all users of GIF Construction Set to update
to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of
really bad people in it.
- WebP:
The WebP library has been updated to improve its
performance.
- Social
Media: Two new background options have been
added to the GIF Construction Set
Social Media window. A memory leak in Social media
has been stomped.
- Plugins: The
GIF Construction Set animation plugins
have been updated and a number of performance and
quality issues have been addressed.
- Colors:
The color selection window that appears
whenever GIF
Construction Set
prompts you to select a color has been
enhanced with an expanded palette of more
contemporary colors — scroll to the bottom
of the list to see them. In addition, you
can now re-arrange the color list by
dragging and dropping its items.
- 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 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional
12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost
upgrade to GIF
Construction Set Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded
a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional
12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction
Set Professional 14 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you run GIF Construction
Set Professional 14, 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.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for GIF
Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to
run with GIF Construction Set Professional 14.
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 14 installers for
your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under
GIF Construction Set 12 or PNG MNG Construction Set 12
and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 12 or
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 to replace them with the
new version 14 software, please be sure uninstall all
your version 12 plugins, and then uninstall GIF
Construction Set 12 and PNG MNG Construction Set
12.
GIF Construction Set 14 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 14 installers. Please see the the
plugin help page for assistance.
The background of the banner
graphic above, a detail from a picture by Fabibel,
is used under license from freeimages.com.
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