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  1.  Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5
  2.  Animation Workshop 10 Revision 2 (second notification)
  3.  GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3 (additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 5

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:


  • JPEG Security: Updates the primary JPG libraries used by Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications to the latest release. This addresses a potential security issue. 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.

  • Quick Thumbnails: Adds support for the Windows thumbnail cache, this being where Windows stores the thumbnails it uses in File Explorer. When Graphic Workshop creates thumbnails for graphics that Windows has previously cached, it can now do so at something approaching light speed by accessing the cache. It's impressive to watch.

    See the discussion of Thumbnails in the Graphic Workshop Reference document for more about this.

    This feature requires Windows 10.

  • Zoomed Thumbnails: Adds more support for the Windows thumbnail cache, in this case to Graphic Workshop's Zoomed Thumbnails display mode. By default, it will use cached Windows thumbnails in Zoomed mode, allowing for laser-sharp graphics.

    Especially if your eyesight isn't what it once was, you need to experience this one. Right-click in a Graphic Workshop browser, select Thumbnails from the sub-menu that appears and make sure Zoom Windows Thumbnails is enabled. Right click and select View Mode from the sub-menu that appears and select Zoomed Thumbnails.

    This feature requires Windows 10.

  • Animated PNG: Adds viewing support for animated PNG documents. If you double-click on one, it will play in Graphic Workshop's View window, much as do WebP and GIF animations. The animation that's bouncing around to your right — assuming that whatever you're using to read this posting supports animated PNG — is a suitable example. Right click on it and save it to try Graphic Workshop's animated PNG support.

    There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog.

  • Image Libraries: Updates all the image libraries used by Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications — e-Paint UltraLight, Montage, GIF Construction Set UltraLight and so on — to address a theoretical bug that could have introduced unwanted artifacts at the right edges of imported and saved graphics.

  • Ripples Texture: Adds Ripples to the Graphic Workshop Textures and Fractals window. Create a faint disturbance in a tranquil pond, or crank it up to maximum and visit an alternate universe during lunch.

  • Paste: Addresses an issue in the Paste From Clipboard item of Graphic Workshop's Edit menu that could cause it to select the discrete Save As window option even if it was configured not to.

  • Multiple Select: Improves the multiple image selection window to handle alpha graphics correctly.

  • Progress Window: Improves the Progress window so its scroll bar doesn't appear until a batch completes, which is both less distracting and slightly quicker.

  • Alpha Backgrounds: Improves the management of alpha backgrounds throughout the application, and adds a color button in Setup to set the default alpha background, for graphics that don't specify one.

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

  • Documentation: 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.


The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons

Animation Workshop 10 Revision 2

Animation Workshop 10 has been updated. This release:


  • Updates a number of user-interface items in the dialog windows in Animation Workshop.

  • Adds an Export to Animated PNG option. Animated PNG objects are true-color, leading edge animations that are supported by all the current mainstream web browsers. They feature millisecond-resolution timing, alpha transparency and modern image compression. You can use them on a web page just as you would GIF animations, but with way more attractive results.

    In addition, if someone from a time warp does hit your page with an ancient or unusually weird browser, animated PNGs will look like traditional still-image PNGs
    — browsers that can't animate them will display the first frame as a still image.

    As an aside, if the bouncing ball animation, above, isn't actually bouncing, your web browser doesn't support animated PNG. In the event that your web browser is Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, we hasten to observe that Microsoft's Edge Chromium browser, with full animated PNG support, will be rolling out any day now.

    There's a more extensive discussion of animated PNGs at our blog.

  • Updates the primary PNG libraries used by Animation Workshop 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.

  • 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.

Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 10.


Upgrades

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

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



The bouncing ball animation was created and placed in the public domain by Holger Will, and was released through Wikimedia Commons

GIF Construction Set Professional 10 Revision 3
(second notification)

GIF Construction Set 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, even if the pictures being referenced are really, really big.

  • Updates the primary PNG libraries used by GIF Construction Set 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.

  • Speeds up Animation Wizard.

  • 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 10.


Upgrades

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

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




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