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Simply view it as an indication of how important the light UI is to those of us struggling visually with the dark UI.

This is part of the product’s future and improvement. The UI is actually the central component to work with. Why have the latest cutting edge functionality if you’re constantly annoyed by a bad user interface that makes it hard to actually use the latest cutting edge features? Everything is equally important – and now it’s the light UI’s turn to be implemented.

Thank you for the update.  This makes getting the most out of new features so much easier for those of us who are print-oriented.

Option would be nice to crop/inpaint/leave as is.

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YES !!! I can't wait - this team is amazing! : )

This is soooooo awesome! And a terrible tease … :D … thank you so much! You guys are simply the greatest …  :D

Very happy, MBd!  I would be thrilled to see a light UI in 1.6. I was afraid that we'd have to wait for Photo/Designer 2.  

Very happy, MBd!  I would be thrilled to see a light UI in 1.6. I was afraid that we'd have to wait for Photo/Designer 2.  

Wow ....... daily updates! You guys are astonishing!
 
A beta a day keeps Adobe away .........  B)

Status: GM Seed
Purpose: Fixes / Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Submitted
 
Download: 1.5 GM Seed
 
That's all folks - 1.5 is in the can :) I've listed the final fixes which made it in below. Stay tuned for news on what we are hoping to achieve in 1.6 in the coming weeks.. Thanks one last time for all your help  :D  
 
Fixes / Improvements:
 
- Final localisations. - Final help, help localisations. - Final Touch Bar tweaks. - Final Tone Mapping presets. - Improved HDR merge noise reduction.   - Fixed RAW issues with Panasonic DMC-GX80/85 and Sony DSLR-A450/500/550/580. - Fixed further OnOne TIFF issues. - Fixed a Tone Map UI crash. - Fixed a PDF overprint issue. - Fixed some PSD import issues.   - Updated licenses.rtf.   Affinity Photo Team   :ph34r:     Here's a recap of the new features in Photo 1.5, along with beta versions of the (excellent, in my opinion) tutorial videos which will accompany the features...   Focus Merge Support   Focus merging allows you to generate a detailed composite image from a number of images focused at differing lengths. Use File -> New Focus Merge to get started.   Video tutorials: Focus Merging Focus Merge Retouching Focus Merging Bracketed Images   HDR Merge Support   HDR merging lets you create a deep, unbounded 32-bit image from a number of exposure bracketed source images. Use File -> New HDR Merge to get started.   Video tutorials: HDR: Merging and Tone Mapping HDR: Tone Map Presets HDR: Panoramas HDR: Preprocessing HDR: Advanced Editing HDR: Ghosts Removal   New 32bit RGB Editing Mode   Photo now offers a full compositing / editing environment for 32bit unbounded images.   Video tutorials: HDR: 32-bit Editing   32bit Develop   Photo can now Develop RAW files directly into a 32bit document - so all highlights / shadows are preserved and recoverable at any time.   Video tutorials: 32-bit Raw Development   OCIO (OpenColorIO) Support   Photo now support end-to-end OCIO colour workflows.   Video tutorials: OpenColorIO Setup OpenColorIO Adjustment   Tone Mapping Persona   Full tone mapping Persona for both HDR and LDR images. This is obviously best used with an image merged by HDR merge - although you can use it on any image.   Video tutorials: Regular Tone Mapping   OpenEXR / HDR (Radiance) / 32bit TIFF Import / Export   Photo can now import and export .hdr (Radiance, RGBE) and .exr (OpenEXR) images. It correctly deals with 0-alpha cases (as per the OpenEXR spec) and generally operates in linear space. It support multi-layer EXR files and offers control (through Preferences) over alpha association and premultiplication.   Video tutorials: OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export OpenEXR Import Options   Macros   Using the View -> Studio -> Macro and View -> Studio -> Library menu items, you can access new panels which will allow you to record actions, save them, then play them back later. You can also store them in a handy gallery.   Video tutorials: Macros Macros: Equations   Batch Processing   Using File -> New Batch job, you can queue up processing on a large number of files. You can resize, convert format and apply any number of macros to each file. The batch processing happens in the background - so you can continue working whilst the jobs are processed.   Video tutorials: Batch Processing   Live Projections   Photo 1.5 contains a new mechanism which allows you to edit an image in different spatial domains - we currently support the “Equirectangular” domain (360 pano - Ricoh Theta, etc.). You can use all tools when editing - and you can convert back once you have edited. This is especially useful for cleaning up stitching artefacts, or artefacts at the zenith / nadir of the image. Use the options in Layer -> Live Projection to get started.   Video tutorials: 360 Live Editing 360 Advanced Editing 360 Retouching 360 Multiple Views Live Perspective Projection    Improved Pixel Tool   The pixel tool is improved in 1.5 - you can hold shift when dragging to constrain the direction of painting (sorry we did not get this working sooner!). You can also select what happens when you hold Alt and drag - erase to transparent, erase to background colour, or erase to whatever the nominated snapshot / history location is (like in the Clone tool).   New “Pixel Art” Document Resizing   Photo now contains an alternative way to resize a document - using well known pixel-art resampling algorithms. If you work with pixel art and want to use this feature, it’s located under the Document menu.   Video tutorials: Pixel Art Resize    New “Accumulation” Brush Dynamics   Many users have asked for “Opacity Jitter”. For us, opacity is a constant thing and will remain constant. However, we have added a new property to brushes - “Accumulation” - which should allow you to get what you need      :)   Text Styles   Affinity Photo now has the same Text Styles support as Designer - it’s all shared code so it should work right out of the box      :)   New Marquee Modes (Polygonal, Magnetic)   Photo now has 3 modes for the freehand selection tool - Freehand, Polygonal and Magnetic.   Video tutorials: Freehand Selection Tool   Even more RAW cameras supported   Over 70 new RAW cameras are supported.   Improved Metadata Mining   Our detection of RAW / JPEG / etc. metadata has been upgraded and some serious bugs have been fixed.   Massive Improvements to Export Persona   Our Export Persona has seen huge upgrades in this cycle - you now have total control of exactly what resolution sets get exported. You can also use our handy batch export builders to quickly generate content for external consumption - ie. Xcode .assets - even Spline compatible metadata can be generated!   Layered TIFF Interop   Users have constantly asked us to support “Layered TIFF”. Layered TIFF is not a thing. TIFF with embedded data is a thing - and I’m happy to report that we now import embedded PSD / Affinity data and can write TIFF with embedded Affinity data.   Halftone Filter   We have a marvellous new halftone pattern filter in 1.5 - it can approximate monochrome, colour, circular and line halftones.   Video tutorials: Halftone Scanlines Effect   Improved Apply Image Filter   Users can how use the current layer as the source for Apply Image - or drag any layer from the layers tab into the dialog to use that as thr source. We also offer handy equations in the filter to control how channels are transferred - in an arbitrary colour source.   Video tutorials: Apply Image Apply Image: Equations   Improved Select Sampled Colour Filter   You can now select by intensity in the select sampled colour tool.   Equations Filter   A new Equations Distortion filter allows users to create custom spatial filters.   Video tutorials: Equations filter Macros: Equations   Dust & Scratches Filter   Many user have asked us for a “Dust & Scratches” filter - so we have made one. It’s extremely useful for removing sporadic small defects in images. Please let us know if it works for you.   Video tutorials: Dust & Scratches Filter    “Edit in Affinity Photo” Photos extension   This is something which we didn’t think we could do - a Photos extension for Mac OS 10.9 and above which simply allows you to use the full Photo app to edit your images - and stores the changes you have made as a layered document.   New Colour Picker Tool   After literally thousands of requests, we have implemented a dedicated picker tool for colours.   New Clone Sources Panel   We now have a new studio panel which allows you to store up an unlimited number of global sources for the Clone / Healing brush - it even works across multiple documents.   Video tutorials: Clone Sources Clone Sources: Texture Creation   Direct PSD Write-Back   One of the most requested features - direct write-back to PSD. A number of 3rd party DAM applications will happily deal in PSD - but until now, Photo required you to File -> Export for PSD. No longer! You can now just hit File -> Save! You will need to turn this on - in File -> Preferences - please read the warning there carefully!   Video tutorials: Direct PSD write-back (round tripping)   No Thumbnails Option   This is more a Designer feature, but I promised it some time ago so here it is - you can choose (in Preferences) not to write out a thumbnail with your documents. This has the advantage of making your documents use less space - but obviously you won’t get Finder thumbnails, etc.   Improved Vectorscope   Our old HSL vectorscope is no more - replaced by a vastly more appropriate Rec.709 YUV scope with an improved graticule      :)   Improved Photoshop Plugin Support   We have found a significant bug with our plugin code - it has been fixed      :) We are now finding the majority of plugins work properly.   Multi-monitor Colour Profile Support   Sorry it took so long to get this fixed - we now can profile different on different monitors.   Adjustment Performance Improvements   Found and fixed a simple issue which made changing adjustment parameters appear to be slow. Fixed.   Automatic Lens Corrections   Automatic lens corrections (distortion and vignetting) are now supported for a wide array of lens profiles. This option is available in the Develop Assistant (enabled by default).   Video tutorials: Automatic Lens Corrections  
Improved RAW Colour Handling
 
The way colour operations are handled in the Develop persona has been improved - the difference is most noticeable in images with intense, saturated colours (think low light photography with lots of artificial lighting).
 
Video tutorials:
Raw Colour Quality     This update also includes literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements, some of which are listed below:   - User control over two pass rendering on Retina devices. - PSD import / export improvements. - PDF import / export improvements. - Snapping improvements - candidate-free snapping, gaps-and-spans (Alt key in Move Tool), so much more! - Performance and stability improvements for macOS Sierra.   Download: 1.5 GM Seed

Please make panels with flexible widths.. they are fixed .. if i'm working for a 64 x 64 pixel icon.. the navigator always shows a bigger view .. blurry view.. If panel width can be flexible, we can reduce the panel's width to get appropriate preview size. 
 
Also most of the time time .. these panels overlays half of the screen.. 
6.25% tool bar
21% on left panels..
21% on the right panel..
 
46% of workable canvas...
 
it's hard to keep moving panels here and there.. 
 
please make all panels "autocollapse able" please please please... 

Since I don't use Illustrator, or Pixelmator, how Affinity's interface stacks up against theirs is of no import to me.  What does matter is how easy it is for older, less-than-perfect eyes to differentiate between black and really dark gray.  For those not having problems, I'm happy for you.  For those of us who are, we mostly don't need advice to change things that we already know are not the source of our problems with a low-contrast interface.  For what it's worth (which isn't a lot) I actually have Pixelmator and I don't use it, and prolly never will, because of the interface.

The original post referred to expanding from the center.  That is still not available in RC2.  (Or if it is, I haven't discovered how to do it.)  And it is still greatly desired.  I don't know why such a basic option has been ignored for so long.

Thank you for sharing these.

I had the same issue when saving my sig scan as a jpeg.  You need to save it as a PNG in order to have a transparent background.

Thanks, James.  That's what I needed to know before committing to the Rasterize option.  And thank you MBd for your help.

One only has to look at Jony Ive's UN-decorated Christmas Tree Window for Claridges to see where the OS is going next.  Prolly a large blank slate that neither requires nor allows any user interaction whatsoever.  (I think that used to be the definition of TV, which has conversely become more interactive.)  And too many apps blindly follow suit, sacrificing usability for all for coolness for a few.

I've been off for some time and involved with other applications.  I just came back to see if there was any progress.  I'm glad to see my posting stirred up a bit of demand.
I was once an Apple guy.  But that was when apple still gave a damn about professional users.  They've become rather arrogant and dismissive of any who don't keep up with what's 'now'.   An older Apple store told me in soto voice that the corporation had gone from transformative to transactional - as I hand him my credit card.
 
Mr. Ives comes across as rather full of  himself.  The whole flattening of the UI for instance was unwelcome.  He took a beautiful interface that took advantage of the machine made for visual display and ushered in something one would expect from a soviet factory.   
 
So when can we expect V2??   
 
 
I'm not sure why you find it necessary to make everyone else wrong.  Don't you have more important things to do than ranting on this forum? :)

The original post referred to expanding from the center.  That is still not available in RC2.  (Or if it is, I haven't discovered how to do it.)  And it is still greatly desired.  I don't know why such a basic option has been ignored for so long.

I'm loving most of the new features.  But having View/Studio/Show Left Studio turned on by default is a PITA.  It's a constant irritant to have to go in and turn that off not only every time I open a new image but also anytime I hit Undo one time too many.  Please let that be a user choice option.

Thanks, Paolo.  As always, great tools and a generous source!  You give so much to this forum.

Try these steps, jer:
 
1. Load the image and choose the Crop Tool
2. On the Context toolbar, set the mode to 'Absolute Dimensions'
3. Drag the top left-hand corner up and to the left to add 20px to each dimension
4. Drag the bottom right-hand corner down and to the right to add 20px to each dimension
5. Press 'Apply' to apply the crop

I do really like Photo and Designer and expect to keep them as my go-to apps but unless there is an option for a lighter UI in version 2, I don't expect to upgrade either one.  Instead I'll just muddle along with the final version of V1.  I'm hoping that's not a choice I have to make but I'm really, really tired of struggling with this dark, low-contrast interface.

And if the very sight of this makes the developers shudder with revulsion, we promise we won't ever tell you that we're using it.  We'll just pretend it doesn't exist while feasting our own eyes on legible, easily recognizable letters and icons that let us make swift and correct decisions instead of our usual "squint and stab." ;)