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 Contents:

1.  Graphic Workshop Professional RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 2
    (additional notification)
2.  Graphic Workshop Professional - Ten More Cool Features
3.  Pagan Daybook 10 Revision 3
4.  Screen Saver Construction Set 10 revision 3 (second notification)
5.  PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revisions 7 (additional notification)
6.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
   
   

Graphic Workshop Professional 10
RAW Digital Camera and Smartphone Plugin
Revision 2 (additional notification)

The RAW Digital Camera Plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated to address numerous format variations, and to add support for over 100 new cameras.

It currently processes pictures from 1,117 popular digital cameras and phones, including iPhones and the Samsung Galaxy.

If you haven't encountered this technology before, most digital cameras that didn't arrive as a prize in a cereal box create JPEG images by default, but they can be configured to store raw sensor data. Correctly processed, pictures saved to RAW files look vastly better than JPEGs, as they suffer no image degradation.

The "correctly processed" part is this plugin. The RAW Digital Camera Plugin will let you view RAW image files exactly as your camera created them, and store them in a non-lossy format, such as PNG.

If you own a digital camera or a supported phone — or if you're just thinking about buying one — you and your immediate descendants will thank you for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a complete list of the cameras the plugin supports.

You'll need to be running Graphic Workshop Professional 10 to install this plugin. If you're running an earlier version of Graphic Workshop, please click on the huge blue button below to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 and access this amazing plugin.

In the event that you have a registration key for an earlier release of the RAW Digital Camera Plugin, note that it will still work with this version.

iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. Samsung Galaxy is a trademark of Samsung Electronics. Alchemy Mindworks has no business relationship with Apple Inc. or Samsung Electronics. These trade names are used herein for reference only.

Graphic Workshop Professional -
10 More Cool Features

Graphic Workshop Professional 10 is rich with functionality... some of which you might not know it has. Here are ten leading-edge features you can access in Graphic Workshop.

• Crop Window: Crop your pictures with breathtaking ease in the Graphic Workshop Crop window. If you need to crop graphics with numerical precision, select Properties from the Crop window's File menu. Finally, you can configure the crop settings for one graphic and subsequently apply them to an entire batch. Crop can also be accessed directly through the View window.
  
  
• Print Dodecahedron: Transform your twelve favorite photographs into a three-dimensional desk toy. The Print Dodecahedron window will calculate all the angles and fold lines required to print a flawless twelve-sided figure. Some arts and crafts to cut it out and fold it will be required.
  
  
• Adjust: Quickly refine your pictures with the Adjust window, accessible through the Graphic Workshop browser right-click menu. Intuitive, interactive and immediate, Adjust will quickly repair the ravages of poor lighting, insufficient contrast and questionable automatic exposure. It has a learning curve best measured with a microscope.
  
  
• Matt and Frame: Add flawless frames around your pictures. With access to the Graphic Workshop Textures and Fractals functionality to create its materials, the Matt and Frame window can do things to rectangles that were the stuff of myth and legend in ages past.
  
  
• Montage: The Montage application that's included with Graphic Workshop Professional will import as many pictures as you like and provide you with a virtual cork board on which to place them. Add frames and captions with a few clicks, and export your completed montage to a graphic for subsequent distribution. Try to avoid building all your cat pictures into a single page.
  
  
• Hexagon Filter: Turn any photograph into a flawless mosaic of six-sided tiles. If you're not seriously into bee-keeping, they can be reminiscent of late twentieth-century kitchen decor.
  
  The example here hardly does justice to the art form — click on it for a more representative view. Select the Hexagon option from Graphic Workshop's View mode Filters window to hex your own pictures.
  
  
• WebP: Your web pages, social media posts and e-mailed photographs to your family in Arizona can be both smaller and way better looking if you store them as WebP documents, rather than JPEGs. Graphic Workshop features full WebP support, as does the e-Paint UltraLight application that installs with it. WebP is supported by all the current web browsers.
  
  
• Fast JPEG: Graphic Workshop has the quickest JPEG reader in the known universe... most JPG graphics will have opened before the echoes of your mouse clicking have entirely faded away. Be sure to select the LibJpeg Turbo option in the JPEG Processor field of Graphic Workshop's Setup window.
  
  
• e-Paint UltraLight: Graphic Workshop includes a light, easy-to-master edition of our justifiably renowned e-Paint application. Retouch your photographs, draw animation cells or install the heads of unpopular politicians on the bodies of aliens and start your own tabloid newspaper.
  
  
• Application Reset Blocker: One of the more annoying behaviors of Windows 10 is its propensity for reverting the non-Microsoft applications you've associated with specific file types to sort-of-comparable apps that were installed with Windows. It does so from time to time for no apparent reason... and then it displays a seemingly endless sequence of notification windows like the one above to make sure you're aware that it was displeased with your previous choice of software. The Application Reset Blocker that installs with Graphic Workshop will disabuse it of this behavior.
  

Pagan Daybook 10 Revision 3 

• JPEG Library: The library that reads and writes JPEG documents — or .JPG files — has been updated to the latest release. This addresses a potential stability and security issue, and it improves the already light-speed JPEG management in Pagan Daybook.
  
  
• The high-speed JPEG reader improves the performance of Pagan Daybook's screen saver, among other things.
  
  We urge all users of Pagan Daybook to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  
  
• Observance Database: Updates the observance database, addresses a few typos. The gods favor decent spelling... probably.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

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Screen Saver Construction 10 Revision 3
(second notification)

• JPEG Library: The library that reads and writes JPEG documents — or .JPG files — has been updated to the latest release. This addresses a potential stability and security issue, and it improves the already light-speed JPEG management in Screen Saver Construction Set
  
  We urge all users of Screen Saver Construction Set to update to the current release and nail these vulnerabilities before they nail you.
  
  
• Legacy Windows Support: A fairly ruthless review of the Screen Saver Construction Set document runtime has identified a number of legacy Windows issues — support for features of Windows that are deprecated, or no longer exist. Dispatching this functionality to the furthest reaches of time has made the runtime, and hence all Screen Saver Construction Set documents, quicker and less demanding of memory and system resources.
  
  
• Page Editor: Several user-interface issues in the page editor have been addressed.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

PNG MNG Construction Set 10 Revision 7
(additional notification)

• Batch Processor: Addresses a number of issues in the PNG MNG Construction Set batch processor that hitherto prevented it from working under some configurations of Windows. We frown on things not working.
  
  
• PNG In-line Graphics: The Export to ILG function — to create in-line HTML animations — can now them as PNG data as well as GIF. This will let you embed true-color animations with millisecond timing and flawless alpha transparency directly in your HTML documents, with no references to external files.
  
  
• Crop: Several user-interface inconsistencies... and a few genuine bugs... have been stomped in the Crop window. Cropped animations now appear in new document windows.
  
  
• Flip and Rotate: Nails a problem in which the background color button didn't always select the color it thought it was selecting.
  
  
• Protection Matrix: The Protection Matrix window — to divide single-image graphics into multiple tiles, such that they're way more difficult to right-click and make off with — has been updated. It creates cleaner HTML, and allows its images to be written to a sub-folder.
  
  
• Performance: Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with.
       
  
• Documentation: Updates the documentation.
  

Upgrades

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