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 Contents:

  1.  Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set
  2.  Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 4 (additional notification)
  3.  Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 11 (new this weekend)
  4.  Announcing e-Paint 11 (additional notification)
  5.  Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details
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Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 11


We've added new functionality to the world's most capable leading-edge web 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 11, you'll find:

  • Social Media: Quickly compose your animations for Twitter, Facebook and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media window will automatically resize and crop your content and apply a rich palette of backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed through the PNG MNG Construction Set Professional Block menu.

  • Talkies: The Export to Movie option can now optionally add a sound track of your choice to digital video created from your animations.

  • Caption: The PNG MNG Construction Set Caption window will add captions to your animations. The Caption editor now allows for rich text — it's pretty much a small word processor that supports multiple fonts, typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten to add that the original PNG MNG Construction Set Caption window is still available, should you prefer it. Select Classic Caption Window in Setup to access it.

  • Updates Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for PNG MNG Construction Set have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date

  • Photostack: The Photostack window has been refined to address a number of performance issues for more attractive final animations.

  • Resize: Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality issues and a minor arithmetic error in the Resize to Dimensions option have been resolved.

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

 
Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set 11.



Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11, 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 Professional have been upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 11.

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 11 installers for your plugins.

All the animation plugins are at:



       


IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under PNG MNG Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and you plan to uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 to replace them with the new version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 10 plugins, and then uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG Construction Set 10.   

PNG MNG Construction Set 11 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 11 installers. Please see the the plugin help page for assistance.


Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 4
(additional notification)



A few more first-edition issues in Graphic Workshop Professional 11 have been addressed:

  • Several Windows-specific problems in the Social Media window and the Social media view mode filter have been resolved.

  • A potential security concern in the JPEG reader has been nailed.

  • The Up To Date notification agent has been updated.

A complete list of enhancements and bug fixes is available in the previous posting to this mailing list — please click on the foregoing link.

We recommend that everyone who previously installed Graphic Workshop Professional 11 update to the new release.




From the initial announcement:

Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been released.

We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular image management application, improved its performance, included several fresh ancillary applications 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 Graphic Workshop Professional 11, you'll find that it:

  • Adds Social Media: Quickly compose your pictures for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media window will automatically resize and crop your photographs and apply a rich palette of backgrounds to them. Right-click on any picture in a Graphic Workshop browser and select Social Media from the menu that appears, or batch-process multiple graphics through the Image menu.

  • Adds WebP Support to Supercompressor: Graphic Workshop's Supercompressor will automatically adjust the compression and quality parameters of the pictures you store to arrive at the smallest possible files. Hitherto the province of JPEGs, Supercompressor can now apply its stealth and cunning to WebP documents as well, which look way better when you need a tiny document footprint.

  • Updates Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.

  • Updates Caption: The Graphic Workshop Caption window will add captions to your pictures. The Caption editor now allows for rich text — it's pretty much a small word processor that supports multiple fonts, typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten to add that the original Graphic Workshop Caption window is still available, should you prefer it, and it now features a powerful macro language to automatically generate captions. Select Classic Caption Window in Setup to access it.

  • Adds Absolute Noise: The Fractals and Textures window now includes Absolute Noise, a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface generator. Create surreal photo backgrounds, import flawless textures into other applications or just lose yourself in an alternate universe. The animation to your right illustrates a few of the effects available through the Absolute Noise fractal generator.

  • Adds Screen Capture Annotation: The GWS Camera screen capture application can now optionally include captions with the capture graphics it creates. You can add a standard caption to every capture, be prompted for a caption for each screen capture or use the rich macro language of the Caption window to create automatic captions that include elements such as the time and date of your capture and the title of the window that was grabbed.

  • Adds Animation Workshop UltraLight: Graphic Workshop now installs with a fully functional simplified edition of our popular Animation Workshop application to build sophisticated, editable banners, advertisements and other complex objects for your web pages, social media postings, e-mail messages and PowerPoint presentations.

  • Updates Matt and Frame: The Matt and Frame window has been redesigned to make it more intuitive, and to address a few lingering functionality issues.

  • Adds Web Checker: Graphic Workshop's Web Checker is an ancillary application to spider your web site and bring to your attention any broken links and missing graphics it encounters. It's effortless to use, and usually a bit surprising the first time you run it and see what it finds.

  • Updates Watermark: The Watermark window has also been redesigned to make it more intuitive.

  • Updates GIF Construction Set UltraLight: The GIF Construction Set UltraLight application has been completely rewritten and expanded. It manages memory more effectively, has a smaller code footprint than its predecessors and is substantially quicker.

  • Fixes the Crop Window: The Crop window has been updated to address an issue which prevented it from correctly respecting the Windows task bar under some configurations of Windows.

  • Fixes Animated PNG: An issue that could cause the animated PNG viewer to display an initial blank frame for some animations has been addressed.

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


The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference has been revised for the version 11 software, and it includes sections for all the new functionality. It's available through Amazon —there's a link to it at the Graphic Workshop web page, and you can access it through the Get The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference item of Graphic Workshop's Help menu. Alternately, just click on the book to your right.


All the Graphic Workshop plugins have been upgraded to install in the version 11 software. Note that if you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:

  • Be sure to uninstall the version 10 plugins before you install Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Failing this, Graphic Workshop Professional 11 should prompt you to do so automatically the first time you run it.

  • You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to run under Graphic Workshop Professional 11.

If you're using a registered installation of the Graphic Workshop RAW Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of Graphic Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work with the version 11 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.


As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 10 and optionally copy your existing configuration, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even your open browser windows will be preserved.


Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, 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 GIF Construction Set Professional 11
(new this weekend)


A few first-edition issues in GIF Construction Set Professional 11 have been addressed:

  • The option to create AVI digital video with sound could create AVI documents that didn't play properly under some configurations of Windows. This has been fixed.

  • The Resize window didn't always resize to the specified dimensions when the resize to Dimensions option was selected. Now it does.

  • Some postings to this list last weekend omitted the Download Now button for GIF Construction Set Professional 11. It's back, below.




From the initial announcement:

GIF Construction Set Professional 11 has been released.

We've added new functionality to the world's most widely-used web 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 GIF Construction Set Professional 11, you'll find:

  • Reboot: GIF Construction Set Professional has been completely rewritten and expanded. It manages memory more effectively, has a smaller code footprint than its predecessors and is substantially quicker. Most of its functionality that previously only worked on selected blocks will now apply to an entire animation if no blocks are selected. The color management logic used throughout the application has been improved. Everything's easier and more intuitive.

  • Social Media: Quickly compose your animations for Twitter, Facebook and other popular social media platforms. The Social Media window will automatically resize and crop your content and apply a rich palette of backgrounds to it. Social Media can be accessed through the GIF Construction Set Professional Block menu.

  • Talkies: The Export to Movie option can now optionally add a sound track of your choice to digital video created from your animations.

  • Caption: The Caption window has been updated.

  • Updates Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for GIF Construction Set have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date
    .
  • Photostack: The Photostack window has been refined to address a number of performance issues for more attractive final animations.

  • Resize: Resize is quicker, and several final frame quality issues have been resolved.

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

 
Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction Set Professional 11.



Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 11, 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 GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 11.

If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 11 installers for your plugins.

All the animation plugins are at:



       


IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 10 or PNG MNG Construction Set 10 to replace them with the new version 11 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 10 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 10 and PNG MNG Construction Set 10.   

GIF Construction Set 11 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 11 installers. Please see the the plugin help page for assistance.


Announcing e-Paint 11 (additional notification)



We've added new functionality to e-Paint, 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 e-Paint 11, you'll find that it:

  • Adds Absolute Noise: The CGI window now includes Absolute Noise, a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface generator. Create surreal photo backgrounds, draw with fractals from a higher-order dimension or just lose yourself in an alternate universe. The animation to your right illustrates a few of the effects available through the Absolute Noise fractal generator.

  • Updates Image Libraries: All the libraries that read and write graphics for e-Paint have been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.

  • Toolbox: Refines various elements of the toolbox and the functionality associated with its drawing tools.

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

As in years past, when you run e-Paint 10 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of e-Paint 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 e-Paint 10.


Upgrades

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a no-cost upgrade to e-Paint 11.

If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 11 for half the current new-user price.

The first time you run e-Paint 11, 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.


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