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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3 
  2.  Announcing Animation Workshop 10 (second notification)
  3.  Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 10 (additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 3

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:

  • Redesigns the batch Identify Mystery Files window to allow its contents to be sorted by name, type, size and date. This makes it a lot easier to locate the files you'd like to identify. Should you have missed the batch Identify Mystery Files window thus far, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery Files from the Graphic Workshop Professional 10 File menu.

  • Updates the color selection windows that appear in Graphic Workshop and all its ancillary applications to include an editable hexadecimal color value field. This allows colors to be directly copied and pasted into web page HTML documents, and between applications that support this notation.

  • Improves the performance of the Identify Mystery Files window when it's confronted with a WebP document... of which there appear to be more with each passing second.

  • Adds a Windows File Explorer emulation mode to Graphic Workshop's drag and drop functionality — it can be enabled in the Setup → Browser → Drop Options field. With Windows Emulation selected, dragging files between folders on the same drive will move them, dragging files between drives will copy them and holding down the Ctrl key when you drag and drop files will copy them no matter where they're going.

  • Updates Archive Manager so a Wait window appears when files are dropped into a ZIP archive. It also fine-tunes the user interface of its various File Open and File Save windows.

  • Further improves the new validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop unregistering itself due to silent Windows upgrades. We hasten to add that since the release of Graphic Workshop Professional 10, this has occurred precisely zero times.

  • Fixes a bug in the Ultralight Screen Clock that could cause some of the animated styles to display a white rectangle in place of the leading digit for one second at the top of each hour under some builds and configurations of Windows.

  • Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.

  • Updates the documentation.

If you haven't installed Graphic Workshop Professional 10 yet, you might want to review a more extensive list of its new functionality and enhancements.

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.


Announcing Animation Workshop 10
(second notification)

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.



Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 10
(additional notification)

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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