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 Contents:

  1.  e-Paint 10 Revision 2
  2.  Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4 (second notification)
  3.  Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2 (additional notification)
  4.  Windows 7 End of Life (second notification)
  5.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
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e-Paint 10 Revision 2

e-Paint 10 has been updated. This release:

  • Updates the File menu recent documents list to optionally fetch its thumbnails from the Windows thumbnail cache. This allows it to open way faster, and to banish forever the blue check mark graphics that indicated that the files pictures being referenced were really, really big.

  • Updates the primary PNG libraries used by e-Paint to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  • Addresses several metrics issues in the shape tool. Yes, you sleep through high-school geometry at your peril.

  • Further enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of e-Paint 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 e-Paint 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 10 for half the single-user license price.

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




Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 4
(second notification)

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:

  • Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.
  • Adds EXIF support for PNG files. You can view EXIF metadata stored in PNG graphics, remove it with the Secure EXIF option of the browser right-click menu and modify it using Graphic Workshop's amazing internal EXIF editor.

    You can also have EXIF metadata — such as your camera settings and your GPS location — preserved when you convert between JPG and PNG. See the section of the Graphic Workshop manual document that deals with EXIF for more about this.

  • Fixes a problem with The UltraLight Screen Clock that could cause a warning to be displayed when the clock started, depending on your build and configuration of Windows.

  • Addresses a problem with the file rename function of Graphic Workshop's browser windows, which hitherto refused to accept commas in some circumstances.

  • Updates Archive Manager to improve a number of user interface elements, and to correct several kind of embarrassing spelling errors.

  • Adds an option to Graphic Workshop's configuration to allow the image resizing filter used to display zoomed thumbnails to be specified — see
    ThumbnailZoomFilter in the Configuration document. If you use the Zoomed Thumbnail browser mode and you want to maximize its image quality, select a filter option that best suits the graphics you work with and the typical state of your eyes.

  • 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, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for half the single-user license price.

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



Alpha Paint 10 Revision 2
(additional notification)

Alpha Paint 10 has been updated. This release:


  • Updates the color selection windows that appear in Alpha Paint  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 a number of user-interface elements in the tool box, and deals with several control fields which could accept out-of-range values, causing the software to misbehave in some situations.

  • Updates the primary PNG library used by Alpha Paint to the latest release. This addresses several potential security and image quality issues. We urge all the users of our software to keep it up to date and stay ahead of file vulnerabilities... there are some really bad people hiding under rocks as you read this, doing everything they can to ruin your day.

  • Addresses a number of issues from the initial release.

  • Further enhances the sneakiness of the validation logic to reduce the likelihood of Alpha Paint 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 Alpha Paint Professional 10.



Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 10 for half the single-user license price.

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



Windows 7 End of Life
(second notification)

In a little under a week, Windows 7 will reach its end of life. Security updates, bug fixes, malware protection and virus signatures will no longer be forthcoming from Microsoft. Windows 7 will become the province of the wildly adventurous and the clinically insane.

It was our favorite version of Windows too, and we hate to see it go.

In the event that you'll be upgrading to Windows 10 and you find yourself still running versions 4 or 5 of Graphic Workshop, GIF Construction Set or any of the other Alchemy Mindworks applications with a decade or so on their clocks, we'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to upgrade to version 10.

Doing so will:
  • Get you all the latest functionality of our current releases.
  • Avail you of our aggressive security updates.
  • Avoid some serious profanity, because the version 4 and 5 software predates Windows 10, and as such doesn't install or run under it.
While the reduced-price upgrade window for these older applications expired ages ago, from now until January 14, 2020 — this date being the official last waltz for Windows 7 — we'd like to offer registered users of our version 4 and 5 software half-price upgrades to version 10.

Click on the big blue button and use the Software Upgrades section of our e-commerce page. If you encounter a message to the effect that half-price upgrades are only available for users of version 9 and 10, you can safely ignore it.


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