Mark Ingram

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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
 
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator  

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona  Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint  Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter  Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile  Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16  

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona  Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint  Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter  Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile  Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16  

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona  Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint  Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter  Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile  Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16  

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona  Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint  Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter  Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile  Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16  

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona  Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint  Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter  Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile  Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16  

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
 
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus  Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field  Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks  Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues  Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu  Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator  

It was quite funny when some time ago, before this thread I heard that Windows version has no GPU acceleration yet. I have quite old CPU and everything works smooth as butter. Sure, I can hear fans on CPU going busy when working It will be so cool to get GPU acceleration on Windows too!
Now, when Adobe bought Allegorithmic I am kind of sure that they will screw it up and bloat Photoshop further instead of making the best from absolutely fantastic, Substance software they bought. Surely Adobe has some great devs working there, but people who make decisions seems to be absolute idiots (who think 3D printing integration is what Photoshop needed and trying to make everything overly easy, simple, drag and drop, voice command etc). So meanwhile, when Adobe decision taking people will be hard at work, figuring out how to bloat Photoshop up and slow down development of Substance - I hope Affinity team will bring us GPU usage on their lean-mean software package for windows. Good luck
PS
REALLY cant wait for 1.7. I mean... I can and will but damn it will be nice to get update for Affinity little package . Well, back to Photo..

When it arrives, I'm expecting the next iteration to have some pretty sweet fixes - the lads are doing a great job. Its actually very cool, and unique that us as users can interact with the actual developers. Thumbs up guys & gals.

No, OpenCL is deprecated on macOS (in favour of Metal).

Thanks Timo, it's much appreciated. When you raise these issues everyone benefits (eventually!).

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Just going to move this to the Questions forum, as this is off-topic in the beta forum.

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Hi PilleniusMC,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Version 1.7 of Affinity Photo for Mac added support for Metal compute (GPU) acceleration for several tasks (besides displaying/rendering the image on screen) thus the frequent fixes for this platform (for issues that have been reported related with its implementation). Affinity Photo for Windows doesn't benefit from any GPU acceleration yet - this is still being worked on. All the other fixes/improvements unrelated with GPU acceleration should come in an upcoming Beta for Windows.

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.
Fixes
Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working  Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document  Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer  Fixed snapping to guides and page edges Fixed importing of user items in correct order Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid  Fixed incorrect curve printing Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950  Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools) Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first  Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight  Fixed print copies limited to 99  Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common Fixed sporadic PSD export crash  Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes  Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager  Fixed being unable to select a crop preset  Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog) Prevent dragging of locked layers Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing  Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters  Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly  Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG  Added Hide/Show to Photo main menu Fixed Panorama orientation resulting in upside down images Improved selection refinement Fixed macro recording of document properties, and mixer brush  Fixed incorrect treatment of filter effects when resizing a document containing pixel layers  Fixed smoothing to curve tangent to take into account coincidental curve points (can now smooth to 'cusp' to allow for points with incidental handle points) Fixed auto-committing error in Liquify  Fixed SoftLight blend mode on negative values Fixed levels alerts not appearing  Fixed Flood Fill tool to allow transparent colours Fixed Voronoi alpha transform Fixed adjustment LUT export Fixed Red Eye Removal tool in Develop persona removing image Fixed Develop preview doing noise reduction twice  Fixed Adjustment panels not closing when adding a filter from the menus Fixed crash opening a document with 32-bit preview tab open  Fixed Gaussian blur crash when changing the blue value using the mouse wheel  Fixed some lens identification issues  Fixed adding a macro not adding to the default category Fixed sub-brush tab missing 'Edit' button  Fixed orientation of HDR merge of portrait RAW images  Fixed scale, rotate and translate not working when stacking  Reduced memory usage when multiple RAW files are open at once  Improved Develop performance by not performing chromatic aberration correction twice Changed Threshold histogram to show intensity Added Rasterise & Trim menu option, to trim rasterised item to spread boundary Improved Selective Colour's handling of CMYK images Show focused and selected Auto-Focus regions (in yellow and green, respectively) Fixed Auto-Focus rects to always draw in the right location Fixed LUT export of RGB cubes being interpretted in wrong channel order

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Everytime you could on the forum and raise work flow issues, we try to sort these out. I can't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I remember you mentioning being unable to drag windows accurately enough, so @Chris J added a fix for that. We've also been saving more settings in dialogs (I think I remember you raising issues with resize document / canvas which we addressed). So to say that we are ignoring things is not accurate. We might not have fixed things as quickly as you'd like, for that we apologise, but we are here, we are reading, and we are fixing. I've asked @Chris J to address more of the areas of the applications that don't remember settings for 1.7. With regards to centring the image when undocking a window, not everyone wants this to happen, feedback has been that people want to maintain the current zoom (if you're working in a specific area in a document and undock, why would you want to zoom out and lose your place?). We could look at adding a preference for this, but you have to realise, the reason we haven't made that change is because it's only been raised by 1 person, so we can't justify making the change.
With regards to the other users here, no, they aren't being paid by Serif. It might be that other people have different workflows to yourself, so are unaffected by the issues that you are raising.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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.

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Fixes
Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working  Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document  Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer  Fixed snapping to guides and page edges Fixed importing of user items in correct order Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid  Fixed incorrect curve printing Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950  Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools) Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first  Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight  Fixed print copies limited to 99  Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common Fixed sporadic PSD export crash  Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes  Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager  Fixed being unable to select a crop preset  Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog) Prevent dragging of locked layers Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing  Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters  Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly  Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG  Added Hide/Show to Photo main menu Fixed Panorama orientation resulting in upside down images Improved selection refinement Fixed macro recording of document properties, and mixer brush  Fixed incorrect treatment of filter effects when resizing a document containing pixel layers  Fixed smoothing to curve tangent to take into account coincidental curve points (can now smooth to 'cusp' to allow for points with incidental handle points) Fixed auto-committing error in Liquify  Fixed SoftLight blend mode on negative values Fixed levels alerts not appearing  Fixed Flood Fill tool to allow transparent colours Fixed Voronoi alpha transform Fixed adjustment LUT export Fixed Red Eye Removal tool in Develop persona removing image Fixed Develop preview doing noise reduction twice  Fixed Adjustment panels not closing when adding a filter from the menus Fixed crash opening a document with 32-bit preview tab open  Fixed Gaussian blur crash when changing the blue value using the mouse wheel  Fixed some lens identification issues  Fixed adding a macro not adding to the default category Fixed sub-brush tab missing 'Edit' button  Fixed orientation of HDR merge of portrait RAW images  Fixed scale, rotate and translate not working when stacking  Reduced memory usage when multiple RAW files are open at once  Improved Develop performance by not performing chromatic aberration correction twice Changed Threshold histogram to show intensity Added Rasterise & Trim menu option, to trim rasterised item to spread boundary Improved Selective Colour's handling of CMYK images Show focused and selected Auto-Focus regions (in yellow and green, respectively) Fixed Auto-Focus rects to always draw in the right location Fixed LUT export of RGB cubes being interpretted in wrong channel order

@hifred, just to let you know, we've started work on optionally allowing SHIFT to be reserved as a tool cycle modifier. We will probably default this behaviour to Off, so that it won't change the experience for existing customers, but it should be easy enough to switch it on in Preferences.

Hi @hifred, I have written out a post explaining that the feature is working as intended, but then as I was testing, have noticed a bug... The first part of my post details how it *should* work, then in the second part of the post I'll explain the bug (which should be easy to fix).
When you press 'B' it will cycle through any tools which have 'B' as their shortcut. You can see this by going into Preferences | Keyboard Shortcuts. If you choose Photo | Tools, you can scroll down to 'Paint Brush Tool' and see the shortcut, as well as hovering over the green and white arrows at the end of the text box, which will show you what other tools are assigned to this shortcut. By default that is 'Colour Replacement Brush Tool', 'Pixel Tool', and 'Smudge Brush Tool'. 
If you choose a tool which *doesn't* have the same shortcut, e.g. change to 'Flood Fill Tool' / 'Gradient Tool' ('G'), and then press the 'B' shortcut again, it will take you straight back to the last tool that you used from the 'B' shortcut group (e.g. if you were on 'Pixel Tool' it will return to 'Pixel Tool').
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The bug: If you have 'Pixel Tool' selected, for example, then use the mouse to choose 'Paint Brush Tool', then switch to another tool (e.g. 'Flood Fill Tool'), then press 'B', you would expect to go back to 'Paint Brush Tool', but instead you will go back to 'Pixel Tool' (as that was the last tool that was activated with the 'B' shortcut).
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We will look at fixing this for 1.7.

@hifred, just to let you know, we've started work on optionally allowing SHIFT to be reserved as a tool cycle modifier. We will probably default this behaviour to Off, so that it won't change the experience for existing customers, but it should be easy enough to switch it on in Preferences.

@hifred, just to let you know, we've started work on optionally allowing SHIFT to be reserved as a tool cycle modifier. We will probably default this behaviour to Off, so that it won't change the experience for existing customers, but it should be easy enough to switch it on in Preferences.