General Ripper

Added Mitre Limit to Contour Tool I praised Serif for repairing the Contour Tool. It really works well in this beta. Although I still miss the option scale with object. Please add this button and it will be really fun. This option is also missing from the Corner Tool.

As for me, this is not so important. Better to make a unique one picture ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The numbers are still there for me.

There really was no need to have a separate floating window for the preview and in terms of UI/UX it is bad and confusing. There is plenty of space within the export dialogue and yet the team have elected not to use it.
One step back imho.

Don't be ridiculous... 😉
I want to see how much time you spend working with the gold section. You'll just get tired of using "Geometry" tools when in a project, for example, 100 circles))) , than a simple tool like shape builder.

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Added Export As Timelapse capability  Added Astrophotography Use the more correct perspective grid drawing for the live perspective tool Fixed Linked filters name Added Export Preview Added resumable downloads  Changed Lock Colourspace (on the Colour Chooser etc) to be on by default Added missing Reapply Base Styles text menu entry Fixed being unable to apply Styles with a single click  Fixed Layer Effects being incorrectly rasterised in PDF export 1.9.0.876 release notes

All new features of Photoshop 2021 are not needed in the professional segment, because the professional is not paid for the movement of sliders. They are paid for precise work. All these new features for junior designer... Many professionals are still working in Photoshop CS6 2014
 
P.S. Algorithms work terrible, I never used them because after them you still need to fix everything

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed Ctrl Reset not removing Assets  Fixed crash when editing a macro with no document open Added Combined Raster & Vector benchmark  Added placement policy Added missing baseline menu options Fixed blending issues with Live Filters Added support for 12bit mono TIFFs Added Pattern Layers Added Live Liquify Fixed pressing Backspace during Freehand Selection Tool (Polygonal mode) deleting the layer, rather than the last node Fixed Develop Persona Crop Tool rotation producing artifacts Fixed Focus Merge always creating 96DPI documents (now uses DPI and metadata from first source image) Fixed Live Projection artifacts in 32-bit documents Fixed cancelling Crop Tool not doing anything Added anti-aliasing blend option  Added "Find in Layers Panel" menu item Changed default for "Show Selection in Layers Panel" to be on (and renamed to "Auto-scroll to show selection in Layers Panel") Fixed incorrect attribute bits in exported 32-bit TGA Allow downloads to be cancelled, and changed auto-download to be off by default Fixed PDF export converting RGB bitmaps to CMYK if the original document had the bitmap's working profile Improved PDF import of tinted colour comparison for registration colours Improved Assets drag and drop from Explorer Added Ctrl+RightMouse to display tree of objects Improved ABR import 1.9.0.852 release notes

To bring AD to perfection, it remains a little, fix the visible lines, add shape builder tool and little more chips.

I am still beginning to notice how people say that Serif is very slow to develop, but Potatoshop came out in 1990, 30 years ago, Affinity Photo came out in  2015, 5 years ago, Knowing all the difficulties of software development, how many problems can be and jump out Serif has made very good software. Adobe got drunk making old stinky software by subscription shoving the functionality under the old core until it all burst. It's a pity the talents are disappearing right now adding stupid sliders, stupid algorithms.
P.S. Familiar designers who work in a global company they work in PS 2014, lol , and they easily do everything they need. I'm not saying you shouldn't update the program, do not need to add raw functionality and 5 years to patch it.

I am still beginning to notice how people say that Serif is very slow to develop, but Potatoshop came out in 1990, 30 years ago, Affinity Photo came out in  2015, 5 years ago, Knowing all the difficulties of software development, how many problems can be and jump out Serif has made very good software. Adobe got drunk making old stinky software by subscription shoving the functionality under the old core until it all burst. It's a pity the talents are disappearing right now adding stupid sliders, stupid algorithms.
P.S. Familiar designers who work in a global company they work in PS 2014, lol , and they easily do everything they need. I'm not saying you shouldn't update the program, do not need to add raw functionality and 5 years to patch it.

Even the funniest thing is, the people who are promoting Photoshop 2021 and the new algorithmic functionality. You will notice that they do everything on a white background to hide all the shortcomings of these very algorithms, it looks ridiculous, trying to sell shit. In the market either professionals this raw shit will not use.
The most important thing is that Serif adds functions that will really be useful and not raw.
I'm hoping for Serif

All new features of Photoshop 2021 are not needed in the professional segment, because the professional is not paid for the movement of sliders. They are paid for precise work. All these new features for junior designer... Many professionals are still working in Photoshop CS6 2014
 
P.S. Algorithms work terrible, I never used them because after them you still need to fix everything

Even the funniest thing is, the people who are promoting Photoshop 2021 and the new algorithmic functionality. You will notice that they do everything on a white background to hide all the shortcomings of these very algorithms, it looks ridiculous, trying to sell shit. In the market either professionals this raw shit will not use.
The most important thing is that Serif adds functions that will really be useful and not raw.
I'm hoping for Serif

Even the funniest thing is, the people who are promoting Photoshop 2021 and the new algorithmic functionality. You will notice that they do everything on a white background to hide all the shortcomings of these very algorithms, it looks ridiculous, trying to sell shit. In the market either professionals this raw shit will not use.
The most important thing is that Serif adds functions that will really be useful and not raw.
I'm hoping for Serif

All new features of Photoshop 2021 are not needed in the professional segment, because the professional is not paid for the movement of sliders. They are paid for precise work. All these new features for junior designer... Many professionals are still working in Photoshop CS6 2014
 
P.S. Algorithms work terrible, I never used them because after them you still need to fix everything

As for the GPU acceleration improvements, I noticed that the bug I reported some days ago seems to have disappeared, which is really reassuring. The Brushes panel had a bunch of visual bugs regarding round brushes and using them were very buggy. Both of those issues have been fixed as well. Drawing and painting for the most part are feeling smoother and smoother for each Beta version. Large brushes work exceptionally well and are significantly faster and more responsive than in 1.8.5. 
However, I have been trying to push the Beta to its absolute limit to find potential issues and I happened to find three still which are all related to brush stroke speed.
1) The faster you draw with your brush, the more you will begin noticing start-up lag for every stroke. This does disappear if you keep pressuring the pen and all brush strokes become super responsive, but it is still a noticeable problem since fast strokes are quite common. The problem affects both larger and smaller brushes on large canvases.
2) At some point the program UI stops responding for a while after I had painted tons of lines in a very short time span. The brushes don't have to be large to notice the slowdown on larger canvases.
3) When I used one of my round brushes with pen pressure settings, the History panel started combining brush strokes as if they counted as one action on the timeline when drawing super fast. The video shown below shows just a brief taste of the problem in action, but I was at one point able to combine several brush strokes as one single history state, which is quite unusual since I have never seen this happen before in older versions of Affinity.

Desktop 2020.10.04 - 17.20.06.05.mp4  

I'm on day two of a trial of Affinity Designer as a replacement for Adobe Illustrator and unfortunately this is the biggest issue I've come across so far - I'm really unsure of how to use the existing tools to create these complex shapes out of multiple pen lines, in Illustrator it was just one click 😩😢

I really hope that the guys from Affinity will add shape builder tool, I want to work with the golden ratio .
Yes, and many others write that now this is terribly lacking for AD 😏

Don't be ridiculous... 😉
I want to see how much time you spend working with the gold section. You'll just get tired of using "Geometry" tools when in a project, for example, 100 circles))) , than a simple tool like shape builder.

I would like to know have plans to add shape builder tool for Affinity Designer ?
A very necessary element for working with the golden ratio for example.
And very much saves nerves, time
🙂

This feature is unparalleled and extremely powerful.
redefines vector coloring.
Affinity should do everything in its power to support this feature.  @TonyB   
Learn more:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/gradients.html#create_apply_freeform_gradient

Don't worry, it's high on my priority list, there's no way I could forget about it!

I hope they do it

Thank you MEB,
I hope Affinity will soon add a similar tool.
Recently acquired: Designer, Photo, Publisher, declined from Adobe.
Thanks again for the answer.
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