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