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- Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 2 (additional
notification)
- Announcing
Animation Workshop 14
- Announcing Alpha
Paint 14 (second
notification)
- Announcing The
Ultimate Screen Clock 14 (additional
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Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 Revision 2
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 has
been updated.
In this release:
- One Drive:
The navigation panes of the 64-bit edition of Graphic
Workshop now include an item to directly access
OneDrive. Reach for the cloud.
- MOV:
Several issues with Graphic Workshop's MOV functionality
have 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.
- More
Pixels: The performance of the optimized low-level
pixel management logic in Graphic Workshop and its
ancillary applications has been further enhanced.
- WebP: The WebP interface has been improved.
From the initial release:
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 Animation
Workshop 14
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Animation Workshop 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to Animation
Workshop, 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
Animation Workshop 14, you'll find...
- Speed: The
low-level pixel logic for Animation
Workshop has been re-written in optimized
machine language. Since most of what Animation
Workshop does involves managing pixels, it
has become substantially quicker.
JPEG Security:
Animation Workshop's Turbo JPEG library has been updated
to the latest release to address some security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Animation Workshop to
update to this release as quickly as possible.
WebP: The WebP library has been updated
to improve its performance.
Rendering Engine: Improves the performance of Animation Workshop's
animation rendering engine.
Colors: The color selection window that appears
whenever Animation
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.
- 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 Animation Workshop
14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Animation Workshop 12 on or after July 1,
2022, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
Animation Workshop 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Animation Workshop 12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to
upgrade to Animation Workshop 14 for half the current
new-user price.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 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
background of the banner graphic above is used under
license from Shutterstock.
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Announcing Alpha Paint
14
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Alpha Paint 14 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 14, you'll find...
- Speed: The
low-level pixel logic for Alpha Paint
has been re-written in optimized machine language.
Since most of what Alpha Paint
does involves managing pixels, it has become
substantially quicker.
- WebP: The WebP library
has been updated to improve its performance.
- Drawing
Engine: Improves the performance of Alpha Paint's
drawing engine.
- Colors: The
color selection window that appears whenever Alpha 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 Alpha Paint 14.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Alpha Paint 12 on or after July 1, 2022,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Alpha Paint 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for Alpha
Paint 12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to
upgrade to Alpha
Paint 14 for half the current new-user price.
The first time you run Alpha 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 a picture by xoox xooxman, is
used under license from freeimages.com.
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Announcing The Ultimate
Screen Clock 14
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The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 has been
released.
We've added new functionality to The Ultimate
Screen Clock, 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 The Ultimate Screen Clock 14,
you'll find...
- Speed:
The low-level pixel logic for The Ultimate
Screen Clock has been re-written in
optimized machine language. Since much of what The Ultimate
Screen Clock does involves managing
pixels, it has become substantially quicker.
- JPEG
Security: The The
Ultimate Screen Clock's 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 The Ultimate
Screen Clock 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.
- Photoclock Style:
Add your photographs to the Photoclock style to create
inspired personalized clocks. Enjoy friends, family and
beloved pets with clock mechanisms installed in their
noses. We hasten to note that the example to your right,
shown here at a somewhat diminished resolution, hardly
does justice to the Photoclock — you can double-click on
it to see a life-size animated clock. Also, if your
beloved pet looks anything like the example here, you
might need some new friends and family the next time you
forget to feed it.
- Screen
Saver Backgrounds: The library of fractal screen
saver backgrounds included with The Ultimate Screen
Clock has been augmented with new universes of alternate
reality.
- Liquid Metal Style:
Bright, shiny and visible from low Earth orbit, the
Liquid Metal style comes in two colors, two sizes and an
optional animated dissolve version. If it were any
cooler, it would shatter penguins. Double-click on the
example here to see it at its full epic resolution.
- Populate
Screen Saver: The Welcome Wizard for The Ultimate
Screen Clock now includes an option to pre-populate and
configure the screen saver with a selection of styles
and backgrounds, so it's ready to rock without being
configured by hand. You can activate this feature
retroactively by selecting the Welcome Wizard option
from The Ultimate Screen Clock's right-click menu — just step
through its screens, enable the Populate Your Screen
Saver option and then click through until the wizard
finishes. You'll be prompted to overwrite your
existing screens aver configuration if one exists.
- Recent
Styles: The Recent Styles sub-menus in The
Ultimate Screen Clock are now sorted by name, rather
than the date each styles was last selected.
- Diode: A
bug in the digital dissolve versions of the Diode styles
has been addressed.
- Sport
Hands: The appearance of the Sport hand style
that appears in a number of The Ultimate Screen Clock's
analog styles has been refined.
- Colors:
The color selection window that appears whenever The Ultimate
Screen Clock 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 The Ultimate Screen
Clock 14.
Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen
Clock, you'll probably also want to install The Ultimate
Screen Clock Extra Styles library, which will
augment it with wealth of additional clock styles,
including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra
Styles library is also accessible through this big blue
button.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 12 on or after
June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade
to The Ultimate Screen Clock 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a
registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to
upgrade to The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 for half the
current new-user price.
The first time you run The Ultimate Screen
Clock 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 deck watch
graphic at the beginning of this section is by
Volodymyr Horbovyy, licensed through Alamy Ltd. The
leopard graphic used in the example of the
Photoclock style is by Alfred Hutter, used by
permission as per Wikimedia Commons.
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