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We'd like to take this opportunity to wish all the users of our software the very best of the festive season, whatever it's called in your house.

We'd also like to wish you substantially less snowfall than is illustrated here.

May the season bring you joy, the comfort of family, the serenity of the closing of the year... and no socks.

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 4

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 has been updated.

In this release:

Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause Graphic Workshop to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.

Cloud Textures: The fractal cloud texture generator that appears in Graphic Workshop's Fractals and textures window, and in several ancillary applications, has been updated to address a buffer overrun that could crash the software calling it.

Fractal Textures: The fractal texture generator that appears in Graphic Workshop's Fractals and textures window, and in several ancillary applications, has been updated to improve its aspect ratio management, such that non-square textures look more natural.

Crop: The Crop Properties window now includes a History field, to remember and instantly recall your crop settings. Note that if you don't find this as helpful as we did, it can be disabled by unselecting Enable History Lists in Setup.

Transform: A number of cosmetic user interface issues have been addressed in the Transform window.

EXIF Editor: Pretty much the same cosmetic user interface issues have been addressed in the EXIF Editor window.

File Tip Sizes: Graphic Workshop's file tips — the yellow windows that appear if you hover your mouse cursor over a thumbnail in one of Graphic Workshop's browser windows — now include the file dimensions and color depths for the graphics they pertain to. In the event that you're running Graphic Workshop on a slow or very busy computer and you find that this feature causes the file tip windows to appear with an unacceptable delay, you can disable this feature by unselecting Show File Tip Sizes in Setup.

Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 15.

If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 14 on or after May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 14 prior to May 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 15, 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.

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Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 15

Screen Saver Construction Set 15 has been released.

We've added new functionality to Screen Saver 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 Screen Saver Construction Set 15, you'll find...

PNG Security: The Screen Saver Construction Set PNG 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 Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.

The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.40.
JPEG: The Screen Saver Construction Set JPEG library has been updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release.
WebP: The Screen Saver Construction Set WebP library has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to this release.
Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause Screen Saver Construction Set to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.

Themes: An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
WIX Installer: A bug in the version field of the installer creation logic has been addressed.
Private Documents: Screen Saver Construction Set optionally can create its documents without storing creator information. Enable the Save Without Creator Information option in Setup.
Drawing Engine: A number of metrics and details have been improved in the Presentation drawing engines for Screen Saver Construction Set.
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 Screen Saver Construction Set 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 14 on or after August 1, 2023, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 15.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Screen Saver Construction Set 14 prior to August 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 15 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Screen Saver Construction Set 15, 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 Presentation Wizard 15

Presentation Wizard 15 has been released.

We've added new functionality to Presentation Wizard, 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 Presentation Wizard 15, you'll find...

Speed: A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most of the latest releases of Windows.

PNG Security: The Presentation Wizard PNG 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 Presentation Wizard to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.

The current version of the PNG library is now available in the About → Credits window. It's currently 1.6.40.
JPEG: The Presentation Wizard JPEG library has been updated to version 3.0.1 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Presentation Wizard to update to this release.
WebP: The Presentation Wizard WebP library has been updated to version 1.3.2 to address a security issue. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of Presentation Wizard to update to this release.
Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause Presentation Wizard to terminate unexpectedly has been addressed.

Themes: An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
WIX Installer: A bug in the version field of the installer creation logic has been addressed.
Private Documents: Presentation Wizard optionally can create its documents without storing creator information. Enable the Save Without Creator Information option in Setup.
Drawing Engine: A number of metrics and details have been improved in the Presentation drawing engines for Presentation Wizard.
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 Presentation Wizard 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 14 on or after August 1, 2023, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Presentation Wizard 15.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 14 prior to August 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Presentation Wizard 15 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Presentation Wizard 15, 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.

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Contents:

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 4

Upgrades

Announcing Screen Saver Construction Set 15

Upgrades

Announcing Presentation Wizard 15

Upgrades

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