Rhuantavan

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.0
Changes in this build
A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Photo 1.9
The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.0 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.8.6 are as follows:
New Features:
Live liquify layers (learn more) Linked layers (learn more) Pattern layers (learn more) Stacking for astrophotography (see tutorials here) Divide blend mode (learn more) Path text added (learn more) Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) Use filters on masks Edit spare channels as layers Added per-layer antialiasing controls in the advanced blending menu Added export preview panel (for raster types) Support PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Benchmarking option to measure speed of your device Content sync of store purchases (requires Sierra [or above] and registration)
This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements:
Improved “Serif Labs” RAW engine including native CR3 support Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Hierarchical view (learn more) Configurable margin guide colour Import multiple LUTS (learn more) Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% Snap to pixel selection bounds Added curves adjustment to the tone mapping persona Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) Added support for 12bit grayscale TIFF files Many TIFF file handling improvements Added “Duplicate spare channel” to right click menu Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.) Gradient map adjustments now support global colours Filter effects now work properly with global colours The Curves adjustment now has numeric field controls for precise positioning Unable to use CMYK/LAB/GREY equations in a Live Procedural Texture Adjustments no longer auto apply when expanding a section of the adjustments panel Freehand Selection Tool (Polygonal): Fixed pressing backspace while drawing the selection path deletes the layer rather than the last node More filters now work on masks / adjustments / spare channels (Add Noise, Perlin Noise, etc.) LUT adjustments can be exported directly from the adjustments panel, and batch imported from files Having a large number of LUT presets will no longer make application startup slow Assistant options are now available from preferences (so there is no need to open a document to access them) many redraw issues addressed Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About).
If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available.
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

It's been.. a while. Is the team considering adding a scratch disk location option?

I can't see why we shouldn't expand colour range selection. We will put it on the list.

I second this request. Select Sampled Color just isn't good enough. I need to be able to select a band of colors on the hue spectrum, not just a single color. Photoshop has this capability, and the HSL slider in Photoshop even allows the HSL shift to be applied to just a subset of the hue spectrum. It's a huge time saver!

Hi
 
Is it possible with “one click” to replace a Green Screen with a transparent background in Affinity Photo? Normally I’m using Final Cut Pro X to make videos, and in this application I’m used to use Green Screen as Chroma key. Is there a similar function in Affinity Photo? 

Dear Forum Member,
 
I want to mirror a isometric Shape (picture) in 30° Axis (red line).
 

 
The usual Mirror function only works Horizontal and Vertical. 
 
 
Know anyone how to do that?
 
Thanks for help.
 
Matthias

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: None
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: http://affinity.seri...m/beta-download
Update: Run the app to get the link / click download above.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- PSB file import.
- Per-channel blending options. - RAW metadata improvements. - Two new samples. - Restored 3D LUT adjustment presets to presets panel. - Printing improvements.   - Export improvements. - Document icon improvements. - LAB blend modes improved. - Further Develop Persona improvements, notably highlight recovery. - Numerous PSD import improvements. - Interlaced PNG fixes. - Live filters improved. - Significant localisation and help improvements.   - Fixed terrible crashes on 10.7, 10.8. - Numerous small stability / performance improvements.  

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
 
Improvements, Features, Fixes
 
- Support for the new Force Touch trackpad on new MacBook and MacBook Pro
- Added support for Yosemite’s “Photos” app in the media browser
- Added ‘Polygon mode’ to the Pen Tool which acts like Line mode used to and changed Line mode to draw individual line segments
- Improved translations in all languages
- New algorithm used in the Pixel Tool so that you can more reliably paint beautiful, narrow pixel lines
- Blend ranges can now be non-linear
- LAB/CMYK blend mode improvements
- All pixel tools can now use the Ctrl+Option drag size modifier
- Grid manager improvements - now has a basic and an advanced mode
- Pressing the red close button no longer quits the application
- EPS import improvements
- PDF import improvements
- PSD import improvements
- Text no longer draws stroke outline if there is no stroke colour
- Text tool selection behaviour improved
- Many new keyboard shortcuts (see Issue 2 of Affinity Review for a full list!)
- Numerous stability improvements

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
 
Improvements, Features, Fixes
 
- Fix for incorrect rendering of AI/PDF imported objects with blend modes and passthrough option
- Hide the tool UI during numerous interactions (stroke width, pressure profile, layer effect interaction)
- Fix for vector export of objects which had thin strokes and either pressure profiles or inner/outer alignment
- Added support for cmap table format2, used by Asian languages. Also added support for most Apple text encodings to all the cmap formats
- Fix for numerous strange Zoom Tool and View Tool consistency issues
- RGB and CMYK sliders can now be linked by dragging while holding Shift
- Improved PSD import including support for reading in guides
- Fix for embedded documents not correctly honouring the option to ‘prefer aspect ratio locked resize’ in the same way other images do
- Context menu in Layers panel now includes ‘Rasterise…’
- Fix for colour buttons in ‘box’ colour controls not drawing correctly for the current profile
- Fix for loading certain optimised PNGs
- Added Hue range support to HSL adjustment and also option to enable HSV
- Fix for miscellaneous problems with the Open Recent menu item
- Added label-dragging of text fields to adjust the value in the field
- Improved accuracy of the new text on path functionality
- Fix for not being able to cut/copy/paste in certain text fields in the application
- Improved PSD export file size and support for writing out guides
- Changed Text Tool logic - Escape now deselects the current object if there is no text selection highlight but remains in the Text Tool
- Improved vector file import of curves - they should now have useful curve node types automatically set in order to help with re-editing them
- Fix for unexpected behaviour of frame text objects at certain angles
- Changed the default for ‘Text in Points’ to be enabled
- Added .abr PhotoShop brush file import
- Improved EPS import
- Fill/Stroke context toolbar flyouts now support noise/opacity slider for colours
- Improved user experience of ‘Open in Affinity Photo’ - no longer requires a previously saved document so should be more transparent
- Improved PDF import of opacity on bitmap fills
- Fill Tool now works on raster selections and on masks/adjustments
- Colour panel sliders can now be set to edit values in 8bit, 16bit or percentage
- Fix for non-square textures being stretched when used in raster brushes
- Improved RTF import - fixes a bug seen by pasting certain characters from a Microsoft Word table
- SVG import improved to include ‘symbol’ tag support
- Fix for sliders not automatically disappearing when activated and used through one mouse down -> drag procedure
- Added default page setups for iPhone 6 Plus documents and Apple Watch (38mm and 42mm). Cmd+8 should show you the correct physical size of the device's screen on your display
- Fix for PDF export of lines with miter join type causing unnecessary line expansion
- Fix for boolean operations involving text only considering the first character in the result!
- Added ability to switch views by using Cmd+`
- Forced our popup panels to always appear on top of other UI
- Improved SVG export file size
- Improved on-document object selection logic
- Fix for intermittent crash coming out of Separated mode
- Miscellaneous other tweaks and improvements

Hi,
 
Just thought I'd spend a little time giving an update about where we are with Photo, and what we plan to use the rest of our development time for. There is no fixed "release date" for Photo - it will ship when we feel it's ready to ship. That said, I feel we are probably just over half way through development of the beta. Here's what we think we need to do before we can ship:
 
1.) Finish Photo Persona - mainly, mask and channels improvements, printing improvements and crop tool improvements. Lots of little odds and ends to clean up.
 
2.) Develop Persona - we're going to rewrite the processing engine and change the UI significantly. Most of our remaining time will be spent here.
 
3.) Photoshop Plugins - we're going to spend a lot of time improving the plugin engine, and reach out to plugin makers to help us get everything where it should be.
 
Obviously, we will always be taking on bug reports - and they will continue to get fixed as they come in. Soon though, we will stop accepting "Feature Requests" for the main Photo Persona (you can still make them, and they will still be read, but we only move things into the "Accepted" sub forum if we plan to implement them before the next full release). We'll start accepting those requests again, once the first version of the app has shipped. Photo development will be, eventually, exactly the same as Designer - a retail version of the app in the MAS, and weekly beta builds for customers containing the latest features / improvements, so even though your feature requests might stay a while longer now before they get accepted, we'll be back to accepting them the week after Photo ships.
 
That said, we often get feature requests which we consider "low hanging fruit" - ie. a useful feature which turns out to be very easy to implement. It's likely we'll still be accepting and implementing some of those throughout the remaining beta time.
 
I think we have maybe one of two weeks of work on the Photo Persona, then we'll start working on Develop :)
 
Thanks,
 
Andy.
 
 

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
We intend to update the currently available Mac App Store product in the near future and will produce the binary for this from the current beta. We feel that we have added a great many new features and bug fixes and would like to get these into the hands of the majority of our customers. We are aware that not every bug has been fixed but we have to commit to updating the App Store version as long as we are not introducing any regressions in functionality or usability. For now, our focus must be on making sure the features included in this release candidate build are as stable and robust as possible, so we will not be adding any new features until we have released this version. We would appreciate it greatly if you are able to spend some time looking at this release candidate version and thoroughly testing it, letting us know any issues that you are having with it so we can prioritise our time to tend to as much as possible.
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
Documents made in this version will not be openable in older versions of Affinity Designer. This change was necessary in order to ensure a consistent baseline for our file format for the Affinity Photo Beta. When we update the Mac App Store version it will upgrade to this new archive version number too so will not be an issue in the future.   Improvements, Features, Fixes   - Fix for ‘text in points’ logic error
- Automatic panel resizing logic added to cope with translated strings that were becoming cropped
- Performance improvement for non-RGB8 colour formats
- Fix for Transform panel changes ignoring any ‘nudge’ adjustments previously made with the arrow keys
- Improved cursors for Gradient Tool, Transparency Tool, Vector Crop Tool and shadow offset tools
- Path Text tweaks - support for filler text, many speed improvements
- Removed visible ’focus’ highlight on the line page style buttons
- Reduced the level of danger implied by the warning given when saving history with documents
- Completely changed the way we deal with high-DPI documents. There is now no ‘retina’ checkbox and all documents for physical devices are specified in points with a given DPI.
- Fix for hit-testing issues with the colour wheel and ‘recent’ colours in the Swatches panel
- Fix for a few Layers panel issues - Shift-Click on a thumbnail works as expected to multi-select the rows again and dragging a layer to the New Layer button now duplicates the layer again.
- Text context toolbar now has live preview enabled for its Leading control
- Correctly read DPI information from PNG files when we load them
- Hopefully improved the speed of opening the Character panel when you have many fonts installed
- PDF import improvements
- Fix for Divide boolean operation creating the wrong results and/or crashing
- Fix for Pixel Persona menu items being in a different order to the Draw Persona menu items
- Fix for changing a line’s pressure profile not remembering each Undo step correctly
- Fix for entering a Hex colour not always producing the correct colour
- Improved the user experience when dealing with documents which take a long time to draw (typically very effect-heavy documents)
 
   

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
We intend to update the currently available Mac App Store product in the near future and will produce the binary for this from the current beta. We feel that we have added a great many new features and bug fixes and would like to get these into the hands of the majority of our customers. We are aware that not every bug has been fixed but we have to commit to updating the App Store version as long as we are not introducing any regressions in functionality or usability. For now, our focus must be on making sure the features included in this release candidate build are as stable and robust as possible, so we will not be adding any new features until we have released this version. We would appreciate it greatly if you are able to spend some time looking at this release candidate version and thoroughly testing it, letting us know any issues that you are having with it so we can prioritise our time to tend to as much as possible.
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
Documents made in this version will not be openable in older versions of Affinity Designer. This change was necessary in order to ensure a consistent baseline for our file format for the Affinity Photo Beta. When we update the Mac App Store version it will upgrade to this new archive version number too so will not be an issue in the future.   Improvements, Features, Fixes   - Improved Corner Tool UI, plus miscellaneous bug fixes
- Improved Ctrl+Option drag-resizing in the brush tools
- View Tool and Zoom Tool double-click behaviours added (zoom to fit and zoom to 100%, respectively)
- Introduced top-level ‘Text’ menu item, which replaces the old ‘Format’ menu and removed vector-related operations from the menus in Pixel Persona
- Added the ability to Save/Revert document defaults
- Fix for ‘None’, ‘Black’ and ‘White’ fill not working on the swatches page in the fill flyout
- PDF import now supports multitone bitmaps with an arbitrary number of channels
- Floating studio panels now have a close button
- Increased contrast of the view tab’s close button when multiple documents are open
- Performance improvements for Path Text
- Paragraph Leading is now available on the text context toolbar
- Fix for moving objects after nudging them causing the wrong results
- Starting to fix localised strings not fitting in some panels - still more to do…
- Improved Freehand import
- Fix for SVG export not correctly exporting simple lines
- Fix for vector export
- Fix for changing presets in Document Setup not correctly setting DPI and retina checkbox
- Fix for some adjustments going wrong in CMYK
- Miscellaneous other fixes and improvements

hi, Affinity Designer Team. Im Madder Merlin.
I am not good at English, but will participate in the forum using the Google Translate.
 
I want to assign a shortcut to the paint brush and eraser of pixel persona.
Paint function of Affinity Designer is great, but I believe that convenience is missing.
 
And, since want to do more instantly brush size and brush opacity, shortcut want also to these functions.
This is one of the idea, I think it a great to be able to adjust the drag while pressing a particular key.   Please consideration. thanks for reading.

You can pick colours in most tools by holding Option then dragging. You then need to select the sampled colour from the swatch.

This will be addressed in the future.

Hello,
 
Affinity designer is my best software, but, I need open PSD files and this files have smart objects, but, the affinity designer open with as a layer.
 
Can solve this in a future version.
 
I dont't want use Photoshop again ;)
 
Thank's

I have noticed that you are working to fix the brushes lag problem in Affinity Photo. (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4941-brushes-lagging-offset-while-painting/) I am wondering it you are doing the same for Designer, as I am experiencing that kind of lag in AD too.

You Sir, do wonders. It works like a charm. ;)

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
Documents made in this version will not be openable in older versions of Affinity Designer. This change was necessary in order to ensure a consistent baseline for our file format for the Affinity Photo Beta. When we update the Mac App Store version it will upgrade to this new archive version number too so will not be an issue in the future.   Improvements, Features, Fixes   - Included German, French, Spanish and US English translations - Fix for pixel brush tools not starting at the beginning of the drawn curve - Fix for problems with masks drawing incorrectly since last week’s beta - EPS export should have greater compatibility with Cinema 4D - Enabling ‘smallest size’ in the EPS export options should now significantly reduce file size - Improved Freehand import - some documents which previously reported being corrupt can now be opened - Small tweak to PSD import of text when dealing with carriage returns - Honour the orientation tag when loading images - Replaced ‘show/hide UI’ with ‘Toggle UI’ and removed ’Show All UI’ - Increase/decrease point size of text now increments in sensible units and changed shortcuts to Cmd+< and Cmd+> - Fix for moving the pen away from any attached tablets and back causing unexpected tool switching - Miscellaneous fixes for studio tabs

We are fixing the offset problem soon and I hope the lag is also caused by the same thing. I'm a bit confused by the ",ore lines you draw it get slower" as in photo all the data goes on the same layer so can't get any slower - this isn't true of designer however.

From what I've seen so far you guys did a wonderful job with Photo, thank you so much!! One thing in particular that needs some closer look for me is the noticeable lagging of paint brushes plus the little offset when starting to paint (leading to little gaps in drawings). I've noticed some lagging in designer as well, but since the focus is on vector drawing it is not as important as it is here.
 
 

Great job team! There's nothing better than an update to a great app.