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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 6

Graphic Workshop Professional 15 has been updated.

In this release:

Audio Read Performance: The memory management for the MP3 and OGG audio file readers has been refined to enhance their speed... radically. They're way quicker than once they were.

Animated Transitions: The memory management enhancement that sped up the aforementioned audio files has had a similar effect on the Animated Transitions window in Graphic Workshop's Image menu.

OGG Crash: A bug that could crash Graphic Workshop when OGG files were written under some configurations of Windows is now history, and seriously regrets ever having been born.

Raster Filter: The Raster option in Graphic Workshop's View mode Filter window can now create rasters at any angle you like. You don't want to know about the high-school trigonometry that went into making this work.

The Raster filter is a cool effect to make pretty much anything look technological and sophisticated.

Archive Manager: Archive Manager will now automatically select all the items in an archive as soon as one is opened, allowing them to, for example, all be extracted with a minimum amount of rodent mileage and clicking. This behavior can be disabled by unselecting the Select All After Open item in Setup.

Performance: Several more performance improvements have been implemented throughout the application.

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 14, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for half the current new-user price.

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

The graphic of the woman with a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used under license from StockFresh. The woman in the example raster graphic in this section doesn't exist — her picture was created by an AI at This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com.

Alpha Paint 15 Revision 2

Alpha Paint 15 has been updated.

In this release:

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

Cloud Textures: The fractal cloud texture generator that appears in Alpha Paint Fill window has been updated to address a buffer overrun that could crash the software calling it.

Fractal Textures: The fractal texture generator that appears in Alpha Paint's Fill window has been updated to improve its aspect ratio management, such that non-square textures look more natural.

WebP: The Alpha Paint 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 Alpha Paint to update to this release.

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.

Drawing Engine: Improves the performance of Alpha Paint's drawing engine.
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 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 14, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 15 for half the current new-user price.

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

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PNG MNG Construction Set 15 Revision 2

PNG MNG Construction Set has been updated.

In this release:

Adjust View To Fit: Really extensive animations that are too large to fit on your desktop are now resized in memory when they're viewed by default. This behavior can be disabled by unselecting Adjust Oversize View Windows in Setup.

It has come to our attention that some users of PNG MNG Construction Set have found an unusual application for it. They render animations of machine parts to watch how they behave. Some of these renderings are created at very high resolutions, hence this feature.
PNG Security: The PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set to update to this release.
WebP: The PNG MNG 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 PNG MNG Construction Set to update to this release.

Memory Leak: A resource memory issue that could cause PNG MNG 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.
Supercompressor: A bug in the PNG MNG Construction Set Supercompressor that could see it create invalid animation files in some circumstances has been stomped.
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 15.

Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 14, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 15 for half the current new-user price.

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

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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 6

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Alpha Paint 15 Revision 2

Upgrades

PNG MNG Construction Set 15 Revision 2

Upgrades

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