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        AMI GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL 

                  Version 2.0a 
           For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT
            
                   Release Date
                  Sept. 14, 2001

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



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

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 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 Professional is $40. 
If you have a registered copy of Graphic Workshop Classic, 
the upgrade fee is $20. Add $5.00 shipping if you'd like the 
current version sent to you on CD-ROM.

After installing Graphic Workshop Professional, 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 Professional 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. 



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  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,

-- amigws01.xml -- a portable application description file, and 

-- gwsp20.exe   -- the application install program. 

New functionality is added to Graphic Workshop Professional 
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. The Graphic Workshop Professional'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.



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  INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
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Graphic Workshop Professional 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 Professional is the image management 
package for Windows 95/98/2000 and Windows NT. 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, drive a scanner, decode pictures from the 
Internet, process and fine tune your photographs, then 
Graphic Workshop Professional is the program you need.

If you need a less extensive version of Graphic Workshop, 
check out Graphic Workshop Classic at our Legacy Application
page http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/legacyapp.html



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  GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL'S FUNCTIONALITY 
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The list of Graphic Workshop Professional'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. 
  - Acquire images from a TWAIN scanner. 
  - 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 Professional software itself, 
the Graphic Workshop Professional suite includes several ancillary 
applications. Registering Graphic Workshop Professional 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 Professional 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 

If you'd like to play MP3 files through Graphic Workshop Professional 
and you don't currently have an MP3 player installed in your system, 
please see our guide to suitable free MP3 players at:  
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/mp3.html



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  INSTALLATION OF GRAPHIC WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL 
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Extract the file gwsp20.exe from this zipped file to a temporary 
folder such as c:\temp

Please install Graphic Workshop Professional 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 
Professional. Follow the prompts that guide you through 
the install procedure. After installation, the source file gwsp20.exe 
can be deleted from the temporary folder.

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. 



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




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