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  AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL 

  Version 2.0a.52 
  For Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
 
  Jan. 1, 2004

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



  ALCHEMY MINDWORKS INC. 
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  http://www.mindworkshop.com/ 
  alchemy@mindworkshop.com 
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TO REGISTER AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PRO 
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AMI Graphic Workshop Pro and all its ancillary applications 
are distributed as shareware, software that you can 
--- "Try Before You Buy." ---

We invite you to evaluate Graphic Workshop Pro 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 delete 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.

The registration for Graphic Workshop is $45. Add $5.00 
shipping if you'd like the current version sent to you 
on CD-ROM.

After installing Graphic Workshop, check out the Registration 
and Technical Support document and the Order Form document in 
the program's folder for information on the many options 
available to register, or order the program on CD-ROM, by 
phone, fax, mail or via our on-line secure server. 

The unregistered evaluation copy of the most recent release of 
Graphic Workshop may be distributed freely in its 
unaltered state as long as the means of distribution are in 
keeping with Alchemy Mindworks' current policies for shareware 
distribution. The current policies are summarized in the 
SHAREWAR.HTM file which is added to the program's folder 
during installation of the program. 




ABOUT THIS DOWNLOAD 
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This download contains these files, 

-- readme.txt    -- which you obviously have found, 

-- file_id.diz   -- a brief description text file,

-- amigws06.xml  -- a portable application description file, 

-- GraphicWorkshop.exe -- the application install program. 

New functionality is added to Graphic Workshop from time to 
time. So, it is recommended that you visit the program's 
information page, on occasion, to see if there is an update. 
Graphic Workshop's information page is 
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html. 

A CRC value can be used to check the integrity of a file you 
have downloaded. By assuring that the CRC check value matches 
the CRC check value for the file in question, you will reduce 
the possibility of attempting to install a damaged archive to 
about one in 4,294,964,296 - odds even longer than those of 
winning most state-run lotteries. 

You must have the Alchemy Mindworks CRC software installed 
on your system to perform this check. Please visit the CRC 
page to download the CRC software if you do not currently 
have it. It's small, free and a valuable asset to make 
sure that your Alchemy Mindworks software has not been 
damaged in transit.




INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
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Graphic Workshop performs best on a computer with a Pentium 
or better processor. A display adapter and a Windows screen 
driver capable of displaying more than 256 colours are 
recommended. 

Graphic Workshop is the image management package for 
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It features multiple browser 
windows, batch processing, drag and drop, thumbnails, 
Pentium-optimized functionality and a lot more. 

If you are looking for a program to browse your image 
collection and view pictures, convert between formats, 
print your graphics as hard copy, maintain a sophisticated 
keyword database, decode pictures from the Internet, 
process and fine tune your photographs, then Graphic 
Workshop is the program you need.



 
AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PRO'S FUNCTIONALITY 
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The list of Graphic Workshop's functionality can run 
for pages. Here are a few:

  - Convert between image formats. 
  - View files in any of the supported file formats. 
  - Create Kodak Photo-CD image files. 
  - Play MP3, WAV, MIDI, AVI, MPEG... files. 
  - Display a slide show of images. 
  - Print image files to any printer supported by Windows. 
  - Reverse image files. 
  - Dither colour images into halftones. 
  - Rotate image files in any increments. 
  - Flip image files vertically and horizontally. 
  - Scale images up or down with optional anti-aliased scaling. 
  - Colour reduce and colour dither images. 
  - Soften, sharpen and manipulate colour images. 
  - Adjust image colour, contrast and brightness. 
  - Crop images interactively. 
  - Move and copy files. 
  - Apply sophisticated image filters to your graphics, 
    including soften, sharpen, emboss and edge detection. 
  - Maintain an image database with keyword searching. 
  - Run any function in batch mode. 
  - Use virtual memory to work with large images. 
  - Analyse unknown graphic files 
  - Print high-resolution paper catalogs of your picture collection 
  - Create Windows icons. 
  - Display and extract frames from animations. 
  - Create thumbnail arrays of your image collection. 
  - Add text captions to your graphics. 
  - Identify mystery graphic files. 
  - Create animated screen savers from your graphics. 
  - View and convert downloadable and on-disk photographs from 
    many commercial photofinishers, including Wolf Camera, 
    Konica, The Camera Shop, Mystic Color Lab, Snap Shops, 
    Blacks, Ritz Camera and York Link.* 

    *These names are registered trademarks of the 
     businesses listed. None of these photofinishers 
     are affiliated with Alchemy Mindworks Inc. 


In addition to the Graphic Workshop software itself, the Graphic 
Workshop suite includes several ancillary applications. Registering 
Graphic Workshop also registers these applications. 

-- GIF Construction Set UltraLight 
   A simplified version of Alchemy Mindworks' popular GIF animator. 
   Create instant web page animations using the built-in Animation 
   Wizard. 

-- Camera Screen Capture 
   Capture all or part of a Windows screen to image files (Windows 
   95 and 98 only). 

-- Rotator 
   Have your Windows wallpaper or your screen savers automatically 
   changed each morning. 

-- Resource Extractor 
   Easily locate and extract icons, bitmaps, sounds and other 
   resources from Windows executables and DLL libraries. 


Graphic Workshop supports over 50 graphic file formats plus 
numerous variations of them. check out the ever growing list at
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwspro.html 





INSTALLATION OF AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PRO 
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Extract the file GraphicWorkshop.exe from this zipped file to 
a temporary folder such as c:\temp

Please install Graphic Workshop through the Run item of your 
Start menu. It is recommended that you close all applications 
before installing. Installing it through Explorer or Add/Remove 
Programs will usually fail very colourfully. 

The self-extracting Windows archive installs Graphic Workshop. 
Follow the prompts that guide you through the install procedure. 

You must have a minimum of 16 megabytes of free hard drive space 
to install this package. Part of this space is used for temporary 
files created by the installer, and will be freed as soon as the 
installation is complete. 




  TO UNINSTALL AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PRO
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Use Add or Remove Programs under the 
Start -- Settings -- Control Panel.
 




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