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For Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, Vista and Windows 7. With solutions for Linux and Macintosh.

Graphic Workshop Professional is the image management package for Windows, and the ultimate digital darkroom. It features support for over 50 popular graphic formats; multiple browser windows; batch processing and conversion; thumbnails; a rich library of image filters and a lot more. Whether you'd like to browse your image collection and view pictures, convert between formats, print your graphics as hard copy, acquire images from a digital camera, maintain a sophisticated keyword database, decode pictures from the Internet, process and fine-tune your photographs... the list of Graphic Workshop's functionality can run for pages.

Its extensive documentation and a lively, approachable tutorial will have you up and running in minutes.

This software is available for electronic delivery and on CD-ROM.

Graphic Workshop Professional received top ratings and awards at Wugnet, Soft 32, ZD Net, Softpile, Tucows and others.

Graphic Workshop Professional and all its ancillary applications are shareware. We invite you to evaluate the Graphic Workshop Professional package to see if it's suitable for your needs. If you like it, please register it. If it turns out not to be what you need, or if you don't feel it's worth registering, please uninstall it from your hard drive and accept our thanks for trying it out. If you do productive work of any sort with this software, you are no longer evaluating it.

If you encounter problems with it or if you have any questions, please contact us at alchemy@mindworkshop.com. Our e-mail and web page addresses can also be found in the About dialog for the software.

What It Does

Graphic Workshop Professional is the image management package for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME and NT. It features multiple browser windows, batch processing, drag and drop, thumbnails, Pentium-optimized functionality and a lot more. It converts, prints, views, dithers, captions, transforms, flips, rotates, scales, crops, colour-adjusts, quantizes, catalogs and wreaks special effects on ART, AVI, BGA, BMP, CALS, CAM, CDR bitmaps and previews, CUT, DCX, DLL, EMF, EXE, FIF, FITS, FLC, FLI, FPX FlashPix, GEM/Ventura IMG, GIF, HRZ, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPEG, KDC, KQP, LBM, MacPaint, MIDI play only, MOV, MP3 play only (with external player), MPEG view only, MSP, PCD, PCT (Macintosh PICT), PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAS, RGB, RGB, RLE, SCR, SFW, SGI, Targa, TIFF, TXT, VBX, WAV, WBMP, WMF, WPG and XBM picture files. Graphic Workshop Professional requires a Pentium or better processor. A display adapter and Windows screen driver capable of displaying more than 256 colours are recommended.

Note that the documentation for Graphic Workshop Professional is provided as a series of HTML documents installed with the software. When you access the documents, your web browser will open these files.

Users of Graphic Workshop Classic - Graphic Workshop 1.1 - will find the following new features of Graphic Workshop Professional, among others:

• Multiple browser windows.
• Directory tree displays in its browser windows.
• Johnson-Grace ART file support to handle ART files from AOL.
• Pentium-optimized code to run everything at least a bit faster.
• Tip of the Day.
• Delete to the recycle bin.
• Zoom by factor in View mode.
• Considerably improved Crop function.
• Small thumbnail mode.
• Mystery file identifier.
• More comprehensive documentation.
• Thumbnail database.
• Captioning.
• High-resolution thumbnail printing, along the lines of Alchemy Mindworks' GrafCat software.
• EXE picture configuration.
• Windows screen saver creation.
• Extensive QuickTime MOV support.
• Fast JPEG reading with the Pegasus JPEG libraries.
• Support for Pegasus PIC and KQP files, as used by several commercial photofinishers.
• Support for Macintosh PICT files.
• Resource Extractor - look for graphics, icons, text and sounds in Windows executables and libraries.
• Rotator - changes your Windows wallpaper and screen saver periodically.
• Screen capture (Windows 95 and 98 only).
• Make your own Windows screen savers - convert to SCR.
• The amazingly fast Pegasus JPEG library.
• Graphic Workshop is now a drag and drop source - you can drag files between browser windows.
• GrafCat - print high-resolution thumbnails from Graphic Workshop.
• Captioning - add text to your pictures.
• EXE Picture configuration.
• Association Wizard.
• GIF Construction Set UltraLight - a simple GIF animator based on Alchemy Mindworks' GIF Construction Set software.
• Create your own Windows startup and shut down screens.
• Right-click on any single-image graphic file in a Graphic Workshop Professional browser window to open it for editing in your paint software.


The best way to get in touch with us is by e-mail to alchemy@mindworkshop.com. Except in conditions of flood, famine or mental-health days, our e-mail is answered within a few hours.

Technical support and customer service are available at 1-905-936-9501, 10:00am to 5:00pm EST most business days. If you encounter our answering machine – it does happen occasionally – please try back later. One of the considerations in offering very low cost software is that we are unable to return calls for technical support.

If you are an unregistered user of this software, we will at our discretion assist you to the extent required for you to ascertain whether this software is suitable for your application.

Callers who are rude, abusive or pig-headed with our technical support staff will wind up as demon-chow. See the section on Registration elsewhere in this document.

Please do not call our 800 number for technical support. The people who answer our sales line can put a credit card machine into warp drive, but they know less about software than most cats know about quantum mechanics. They are unable to transfer your call.

You can contact us by snail-mail at:

Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
P.O. Box 500
Beeton, Ontario
L0G 1A0
Canada

Our FAX number is 1-905-936-9502.

We are unable to provide technical support by FAX or snail-mail.


Please note that Alchemy Mindworks' offices may move in the future. If you attempt to reach one of our 905-area code numbers and it is not in service, please visit our web page at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/tollfree.html for our new numbers. This will not affect our toll-free ordering numbers.

We ask that in contacting us you appreciate that we are a small company with limited resources. If you have not registered this software we will not tell you to go to hell, but please don't ask us for half an hour of free technical support. We have not built the price of technical support into the cost of Graphic Workshop, as few users require it. We believe very strongly in not making everyone pay for something that only a small group needs. If our various governments felt the same way, our various economies wouldn't be in the midst of melting down.


Source : http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html