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		<title>A Word About Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the Alchemy Mindworks applications are updated several times a year. A few of the more active ones – Graphic Workshop, GIF Construction Set, PNG MNG Construction Set and so on – have seen upgrades once a month. Users of these products have at times inquired whether it’s necessary to install all the updates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Version 4 Updates in 30 Seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The process of installing updates to Alchemy Mindworks’ version 4 applications is somewhat more involved than was the case for their ancestors. While doing so will unquestionably entail more clicking than users of our products may be used to – for which we’re suitably contrite – you can minimize the additional work required if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There a 64-Bit Version?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The transition from 16-bit Windows software to 32-bit Windows software over a decade ago was an event that future archeologists will no doubt write papers about and bore people at parties with until they all make up excuses about having forgotten to hypnotize their ferrets and leave. Admittedly, archeologists get excited about the damnedest things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Animation Objects for Animation Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[3D Effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animated Tiles #1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buttons #2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Signs #2]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GIF Construction Set]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plugins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology #4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Text Effects 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions #2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you can create sophisticated banners and other complex animations using Alchemy Mindworks’ Animation Workshop – and nothing else – adding animated objects to Animation Workshop will unquestionably drop it into hyperspace. Alchemy Mindworks offers a suite of inexpensive, easy-to-master tools to build animations. Animation Workshop will import animations from a number of popular formats. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building an Alpha-Shadow Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Introduction to Alpha-Channel Animations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While its sounds like a fragment of dialog from a 1980s science fiction flick shot on a budget in an unnamed eastern European country, alpha channels are actually a profoundly useful feature of graphics&#8230; as long as you know what they’re really up to. Note that for the purpose of this posting, you’ll need PNG/MNG [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quest for the Missing Paint</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the Alchemy Mindworks applications – including GIF Construction Set Professional, Graphic Workshop Professional, Animation Workshop, PNG/MNG Construction Set and Presentation Wizard &#8211; have internal Paint functions that call Windows Paint. At least, they do if it’s been installed. Should you click on Paint in one of our applications and discover that nothing much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matting Animations in GIF Construction Set</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often convenient to force existing animations to have specific fixed dimensions, that is, to matt them within a colored rectangle. This is easily to accomplish in GIF Construction Set Professional, although the process of doing so might not be immediately obvious. Creating a matt around a single image is relatively easy in a paint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Images to Animated 3D Objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alchemy Mindworks 3D Effects #1 plugin can create rotating three-dimensional objects with your choice of still graphics affixed to their faces. Adding pictures to these objects is easy, and if you understand what&#8217;s going on behind the curtain, your pictures can look sharp and sophisticated. The surfaces of three-dimensional objects are covered with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Text Effects 4 Plugin Banner was Built</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The banner advertisement for the Alchemy Mindworks Text Effects #4 plugin has received considerable comment since it appeared in the banner rotation at our various web pages &#8211; and no small degree of interest in how it was created. The procedure was elegantly simple, but perhaps not immediately obvious. You&#8217;ll probably be able to use [...]]]></description>
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