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Contents:
- Announcing
Animation Workshop 10
- Announcing
PNG MNG Construction Set 10 (second notification)
- Announcing
GIF Construction Set Professional 10 (additional
notification)
- Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 2 (additional notification)
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Announcing Animation Workshop 10
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We've enhanced functionality of
Animation Workshop, built out its WebP support for
breathtaking true-color web page animations, improved
its performance and generally refined it to
better get along with Windows 10. (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 10, you'll find that it:
- Builds out the WebP
support for Animation Workshop. You can now import
still images from WebP documents, and import WebP
animations. The WebP export functionality has been
refined to create better-looking final animations. Should you be
unfamiliar with WebP, it's a graphic document
format created by Google to replace PNG, JPG and
GIF. It offers lossless and lessy compression,
true color imaging and full alpha transparency.
Best of all, it's supported by all the current web
browsers.
There's an extensive discussion of
WebP at our blog.
- Updates the primary JPEG
library used by Animation
Workshop to the latest release. This
addresses several potential security and image
quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure...
bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity to stress
the importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files
on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and execute
arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your
computer.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Adds a hex
field to the color selection windows, allowing
colors to be copied and pasted between other
applications... most notably, whatever you use to
manage web pages.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic
to reduce the likelihood of Animation Workshop
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
As in years
past, when you run Animation Workshop 10 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation
of Animation
Workshop 9 and optionally copy your
existing configuration, so you won't have to set
everything up by hand.
Click
on the blue button to download Animation Workshop
10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 9 on or after May 1, 2019, you're
welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Animation
Workshop 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Animation
Workshop 9 prior to May 1, 2019, we invite
you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 10 for half
the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Animation
Workshop 10, 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 PNG MNG Construction Set 10
(second notification)
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We've added
new functionality to the world's most capable
leading-edge animator, improved its performance, and
generally refined it to better get along with Windows
10. (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
10, you'll find that it:
- Adds a window to create
Photo Stack animations... an example of which can be
seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add
your pictures, graphics, banners or other elements
to your web page or social media as an animation
that suggests a collection of paper photographs
being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler,
it would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have
bears in your house, which isn't wholly desirable.
- Fixes an
install issue that rendered the animation plugin
installers incapable of finding PNG MNG Construction
Set after a major upgrade under some configurations
of windows.
- Adds a hex
field to the color selection windows, allowing
colors to be copied and pasted between other
applications... most notably, whatever you use to
manage web pages.
- Improves
the Crop window to make it more responsive, and to
fix several issues that caused its cursor to flash
and generally make a nuisance if themselves.
- Updates the primary JPEG
library used by PNG MNG Construction Set to
the latest release. This addresses several potential
security and image quality issues, and a few...
albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd like to take this
opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date
— there are unquestionably maliciously-crafted
graphics in the wild that can crash older JPEG
software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
nasty, code on your system.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic
to reduce the likelihood of PNG MNG Construction Set
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
Click on the
blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're
welcome to a no-cost upgrade to PNG MNG
Construction Set 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 prior to April 1, 2019, we invite
you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 10 for half
the current new-user price.
The first
time you run PNG
MNG Construction Set 10, 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 10.
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 10 installers for
your plugins.
All the
animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT:
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 9 or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 9 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 to replace them with the new
version 10 software, please be sure uninstall all your
version 9 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction
Set 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set
9.
GIF
Construction Set 10 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 10 installers. Please see
the the plugin help page for
assistance.
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Announcing GIF Construction Set
Professional 10
(additional notification)
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We've added
new functionality to the world's most widely-used web
animator, improved its performance, and generally
refined it to better get along with Windows 10. (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 10, you'll find that it:
- Adds a window to create
Photo Stack animations... an example of which can be
seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add
your pictures, graphics, banners or other elements
to your web page or social media as an animation
that suggests a collection of paper photographs
being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler,
it would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have
bears in your house, which isn't wholly desirable.
- Fixes an
install issue that rendered the animation plugin
installers incapable of finding GIF Construction Set
after a major upgrade under some configurations of
windows.
- Improves
the Crop window to make it more responsive, and to
fix several issues that caused its cursor to flash
and generally make a nuisance if themselves.
- Updates the primary JPEG
library used by GIF Construction Set to the
latest release. This addresses several potential
security and image quality issues, and a few...
albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd like to take this
opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date
— there are unquestionably maliciously-crafted
graphics in the wild that can crash older JPEG
software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
nasty, code on your system.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic
to reduce the likelihood of GIF Construction Set
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
Click on the
blue button to download GIF Construction Set
Professional 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 on or after April 1,
2019, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 prior to April 1,
2019, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
Professional 10 for half the current new-user
price.
The first
time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 10, 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 10.
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 10 installers for
your plugins.
All the
animation plugins are at:
IMPORTANT:
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 9 or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 9 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 to replace them with the new
version 10 software, please be sure uninstall all your
version 9 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction
Set 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set
9.
GIF
Construction Set 10 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 10 installers. Please see
the the plugin help page for
assistance.
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 2
(additional notification)
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Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This
release:
- Accelerates
the preferred Graphic Workshop JPEG processor to
pretty much the speed of light. We were amazed...
huge megapixel JPG files open before the echos of
your mouse clicking have died away. You really have
to see this one at work to properly appreciate it.
- Addresses
a number of issues in the Filters window user
interface, most notably the cursors for the original
and processed image windows.
- Speeds up
the WebP reader. It enjoys much the same performance
boost as JPG.
- Addresses
a number of user-interface and cosmetic issues in
the Crop window, including the demise of the dreaded
flash cursors under the latest release of Windows
10.
- Improves
the appearance of the Halftone and Lightbox filters.
- Fixes a
bug in the controls of the Matt filter.
- Addresses
a number of other issues in the initial version 10
release.
From the Initial release of Graphic Workshop
Professional 10:
We've added
new functionality to the known universe's most popular
image management application, improved its
performance, included several fresh ancillary
applications and generally refined it to better get
along with Windows 10. (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 10, you'll find that it:
- Adds Print
Workshop. Create hard copy of your pictures
with precise size and positioning, down to the
nearest hundredth of an inch (or of a centimeter).
Effortless to configure, this is the ideal tool for
creating photographs suitable for framing, flyers,
handouts and other professional output on paper. It
can even be configured to include trim lines and
pre-press marks. Right-click on a graphic and select
Print Workshop form the menu that appears.
- Improves
the speed of the Graphic Workshop browser windows
with predictive thumbnail caching. Once a
browser window has opened, Graphic Workshop will
take its best guess at the thumbnails you're likely
to scroll into view next and fetch them when you're
not doing anything, pretty much eliminating any
visible delay when you do get to them. It's the sort
of thing only software developers could get excited
about, but it works really well.
- Adds
a set of CGI surface textures to the Graphic
Workshop Fractals and Textures window. Create
convincing real-world surfaces, or build an
exo-planet of your own devising. These things also
look breathtaking when they appear in the Matt and
Frame function of Graphic Workshop. A few examples
of the limitless capabilities of these textures
appears to your right... admittedly squeezed into
some fairly restricted real estate.
- Adds a
batch mode to the Identify Mystery Files
function of Graphic Workshop. Hold down the Shift
key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery
Files from the File menu.
- Adds The
UltraLight Screen Clock. A simplified version
of our immensely powerful and wildly popular
Ultimate Screen Clock, The UltraLight Screen Clock
will add your choice of sophisticated digital or
analog clocks to your Windows desktop. It's cool
enough to shatter penguins and have PETA people
protesting outside your digs for a solid week.
- Addresses
a problem in Icon Editor UltraLight that
could cause its drawing cursors to blink or flash
for no apparent reason under some configurations of
Windows.
- Adds a Hexagon filter
to the View mode Filters window. Render your
favorite pictures as a matrix of six-sided
interlocking tiles. Channel your inner bee-keeper,
harken back to the days of retro floor coverings or
just do geometry because you can remember how. This
one looks really cool when it's applied to
high-resolution digital camera images. The example
to your right is somewhat space-deprived — click on
it to see a larger picture.
- Adds the Graphic
Workshop Screen Saver. Have your computer
display your choice of pictures in a dynamic,
animated slide show when your system is idle. Run in
its native application mode, the Graphic Workshop
Screen Saver also make a quick, accessible engine to
display banners and advertisements on a large
flat-screen monitor for retail environments.
- Adds Application
Reset Blocker. If you've been beset by Windows
10 periodically flying into a panic and resetting
most of the applications you've selected to open
documents to Edge, Photos, Groove and so on, you can
banish the "app caused a problem" notification with
this intuitive tool. Be sure to read the Help for
this application before you click on Go.
- Updates the primary JPEG
library used by Graphic Workshop to the latest
release. This addresses several potential security
and image quality issues, and a few... albeit very
obscure... bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity
to stress the importance of keeping whatever reads
JPG files on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and execute
arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your
system.
- Updates
the WebP libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.
- Recognizes
the .jpeg file extension as being valid JPEG
files.
- Adds a
second Pipes style to the Textures and
Filters window — thanks to everyone who e-mailed
about the initial plumber's nightmare. Choose
between the Industrial and Stainless Steel
styles.
- Updates
the TIFF reader logic to correctly handle
weird sixteen-bit gray-scale images correctly.
There's always one more peculiar TIFF file.
- Fixes a
bug in the Search window that could allow it
to be reduced in size sufficiently to obscure the
Exit button under some configurations of Windows.
- Further
enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic
to reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.
- Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
- Updates
the documentation.
The Graphic
Workshop
Printed Reference has been revised for the
version 10 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.
All the
Graphic Workshop plugins have been upgraded to
install in the version 10 software. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:
- Be sure to
uninstall the version 9 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 10. Failing this,
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 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 10.
If you're
using a registered copy 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 10 plugin
— you won't have to buy it again.
As in years
past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10
for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 9 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.
Click
on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.
Upgrades
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019,
you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 10.
If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional
10 for half the current new-user price.
The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, 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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