p_mac

The year is almost over, so let's share some reusable fireworks items for your possible flyers and new year cards. - Note that those firework assets are always groups of vector elements, thus if you want to recolor some of them you best select the whole individual group.

These assets are usable for things like shown in the following examples ...


The corresponding fireworks assets file as a zip-archive:
fireworks.zip  

Hey! I created a FREE sample pack including 8 of my favorite brushes of The Ultimate Brush Bundle v3.0. You can download them by clicking here.

If you want to check out the full bundle (176+ photo realistic brushes + complete tutorial library and installation guide) - click here!
Have fun with your new brushes!
– IAMRENSI

@stokerg yes it looks as though everything is working as it should with apologies for misspelling your name. 
Thanks to @DM1 for spelling lesson and @walt.farrell for technical advice. 

The black thumbnails occurred when the camera software was version 1.  After updating to version 2, there has been no problem.  I just imported uncompressed files with no difficulty to Photos and imported into AP both ways.  

Pretty rude don't you think.  
Have you tried viewing some of the new tutorials?
 

Pretty rude don't you think.  
Have you tried viewing some of the new tutorials?
 

I've just talked with dev and I'm filling a report for this. Thanks for your feedback.

No, tiff shouldn't cause issues here. I'm afraid there's no other way to deselect besides the Selection menu (the square on top) or using the shortcut cmd+D in case you have a physical keyboard connected. The new Quick Menu also doesn't have this as an option for the buttons unfortunately.

Thanks Chris B. 
yes I have the latest beta and it is working as you have described. 
 
 

This is fixed in the beta. 2 fingers undoes and 3 fingers redoes and you do not get that menu. I'm not sure if you have the Testflight betas?
 

Hey p_mac - we're already looking into this. It was broken by iOS 15. 

Three finger tap used to generate a redo action.  In the new beta, the redo now appears in the popup menu which is opened with the three finger tap.  Neither seem to be working for me.  Am I missing a trick or something?

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Nope
Please don’t consider changing the way you do things Patrick.  
Sounds like a promotion to me Dan Brooks.

Yes !!!!!!! 😸😃👍
 

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
App Store: Not submitted
Download link: Download
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the fifth build of Affinity Photo 1.10.0 for iOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.2 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Last Beta
 
- Fixed blend mode issues in the compositor.
- Fixed text input issues.
- Further attempt to fix odd behaviour when using pop up menu controls.
- Fixed issues with merge down / visible / selected.
- Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats.
- Fixed curves / levels / channel mixer adjustments which affect alpha when placed as an enclosure.
- Assorted other tiny fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.9.2
 
- Avoid spurious brush previews when painting with certain brushes.
- Fix issue where context bar controls wouldn't update properly when selecting from a popup menu.
- Further patch tool fixes in LAB colour mode.
- Obey the document colour space when putting PDF data on the pasteboard.
- Fixed a sporadic deadlock issue when hardware acceleration is enabled.
- Fixed potential crash when typing text.
- Fixed potential crash when rendering large panoramas.
- Fixed issues when loading small documents into separated mode (documents were rotated).
- Fixed live defringe bug when zooming.
- Improved defringe performance and increased maximum radius.
- Improve performance when multiple Info page samplers are placed on the document.
- Improve adjustment layer performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.
- Added CR3 support for Canon EOS 850D.
- Emoji improvements and fixes.
- Improved gradient fill noise rendering.
- Lens correction improvements for Canon / Tamron / Sigma lenses.
- Fixed issues when refining a selection and outputting as a new layer with mask.
- Fixed mesh warp issues.
- Fixed issue which was preventing accurate selection of pixel layers.
- Fixed Apply Image when used on masks.
- Fixed TIFF DPI issues.
- Fixed numerous sharpen brush tool issues.
- Fixed issues when pasting pixel layers into larger documents.
- Added support for emoji 😃👌😻.
- Added the ability to load ACM lens profiles.
- Added the ability to create a pattern layer from the current selection.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Fixed issues opening some DNG files.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.

I am assuming that this is the issue that I have been telling you about. I don’t believe that it has been fixed, made a bit better.
It is sort of a mixed bag now.
Please see video below.

RPReplay_Final1626807392.mov

I am assuming that this is the issue that I have been telling you about. I don’t believe that it has been fixed, made a bit better.
It is sort of a mixed bag now.
Please see video below.

RPReplay_Final1626807392.mov

Thank you for all your hard work to improve this awesome software.  Slowing but surely.
Don’t want to be a nag but do want to highlight an improvement that i noticed with the latest update with regard to the adjustments to levels, curves, procedural textures, or anything that use an adjustment menu.  What I have noticed is that for examples Levels, by using the left-right arrows the operations work properly.  However, the pop-up menu do not.

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Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
App Store: Not submitted
Download link: Download
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the third build of Affinity Photo 1.10.0 for iOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.2 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Last Beta
 
- Fixed potential crash when typing text.
- Fixed potential crash when rendering large panoramas.
- Fixed issues when loading small documents into separated mode (documents were rotated).
- Fixed live defringe bug when zooming.
- Improved defringe performance and increased maximum radius.
- Improve performance when multiple Info page samplers are placed on the document.
- Improve adjustment layer performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.9.2
 
- Added CR3 support for Canon EOS 850D.
- Emoji improvements and fixes.
- Improved gradient fill noise rendering.
- Lens correction improvements for Canon / Tamron / Sigma lenses.
- Fixed issues when refining a selection and outputting as a new layer with mask.
- Fixed mesh warp issues.
- Fixed issue which was preventing accurate selection of pixel layers.
- Fixed Apply Image when used on masks.
- Fixed TIFF DPI issues.
- Fixed numerous sharpen brush tool issues.
- Fixed issues when pasting pixel layers into larger documents.
- Added support for emoji 😃👌😻.
- Added the ability to load ACM lens profiles.
- Added the ability to create a pattern layer from the current selection.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Fixed issues opening some DNG files.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.

Was playing around with Procedural texture and found some very strange behaviour.  Two ways to use the menu, as a pop-up, and with the left-right arrows.  There seems to be some function to the latter, but the pop-up menu is very strange.  Please see video.
Hope you can reproduce this issue.  
IPad Pro 12.5”, latest iPadOS

IMG_1492.MOV
RPReplay_Final1625808964.mp4

Nope
Please don’t consider changing the way you do things Patrick.  
Sounds like a promotion to me Dan Brooks.

Hi James, firstly thank you for the revamped tutorials, they are awesome as usual.  
I was wondering if you could give us a tutorial on the new HSL filter.  It is vastly changed and I would like the perspective on how much has changed as it seems to be much more complex than the previous iteration.  
With thanks in advance.  

Is a Source Panel for Focus Merge on iPad on the developer radar?
it would be nice to have this ability just as it is on Photo for MacOS?

Is a Source Panel for Focus Merge on iPad on the developer radar?
it would be nice to have this ability just as it is on Photo for MacOS?

Hi @p_mac,
There will be a beta coming for the iPad version but only the Dev team will know when.  Best thing you can do is keep an eye on the beta iPad forum here.