Haluke

+1 for seamless texture editing in AP and AD. (Vector tiling would be cool, too.)
 
The affine filter sort of does the job, but going back and forth, retiling/resetting the offset and
rescaling/checking how it tiles is really cumbersome. Try making a high resolution tree bark texture tileable.
While a nice outcome is perfectly achievable, much of the effort goes into fiddling with the affine filter.
 
Krita's approach reminds me of the live filters we have.
Here is how it's "supposed to" work in Krita. Unfortunately, the mac version just doesn't work properly.

Another illustration trying the latest beta.
 
More details and thoughts on it in my Behance portfolio. 
 
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31578563/1957-Chevy-Corvette-Roadster-Affinity-D-Vectors
 
 

Probably. That people want to use artboards as pages, and open and save multi-page PDFs, shows that many Designer users would appreciate proper page support.

Thanks for the information. We need to improve on the Colour Chords items at some point. It won't happen for the next build because it's a bit late, but it should happen in the future at some point. :)

Hi Chirpy,
 
I know exactly what you mean and I think we've already mentioned it on the forums before - we'll be adding it as soon as we can get around to it :) 
 
Thanks,
Matt

I'd like to make a request for something I used ALL the time in Macromedia FreeHand: the Find & Replace Graphics panel.
It is one of the most time saving and amazing things even put into graphics software and I miss it greatly. Adobe still has a page up with some very old looking screenshots of it from Mac OS 9: https://www.adobe.com/support/freehand/programs/creating_animations/creating_animations03.html
 
You could basically find anything in your document and replace it with something completely different. Colors, strokes, stroke widths, symbols, overprint attributes. The list goes on. It was an amazing boon to productivity when dealing with very detailed illustrations or many-page documents.

Option to zero (0:0) the ruler both vertically and horizontally at any part of the page.
 
Drag and drop - double click to reset to default.
 
Please.
 
S
 

Some tools to control overprinting will be welcome. After controls for Pantones, plates and overprinting controls will add something useful for Affinity Designer and Affinity Desktop publishing. Controlling overprinting on objects or selection, a panel (like Illustrator) where you can hide a color and view overprinting is really important before you send files to printer (the professional, not the machine).

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
 
Notable changes:
- Artboards. These are still work-in-progress and you can expect a few niggles, but at least you can see the direction we're heading. At present we still need to add auto-slice creation to Export Persona for artboards and we also show an occasional flicker when adding artboards: these will be fixed before the next update. We also need to move guide, grid and rulers to work per-artboard, so these are currently not as they will be in the final release and will be fixed asap.
- Global colours.
- Full support for P3 panels found in the new 5k iMac and 4k iMac. If you have one of these you can try making a new RGB8 document with ProPhoto profile and choosing RGB(255,0,0) or RGB(0,255,0) as the colour of your objects - they should look richer and more vivid than you are used to seeing.
- View points added to the Navigator. The Navigator has an advanced mode that lets you choose to create and swap between specific view zoom/position saved points.
- Font fixes. Specifically, a number of font-related crashes have been addressed
- Export/Import improvements - particularly PDF.
- Fix for Text tool failing to accept certain characters (those that were mapped to other shortcuts!)
- Snapping improved for Rotation Centre. Rotation Centre is available from the Move Tool's context toolbar.
- Pantone/named colour/tint improvements. Selecting an object which has a Pantone colour will automatically choose the tint options in the colour panel.
- Canvas rotation. The canvas can be rotated by using the touchpad's rotate gesture or by using the View menu items 'Rotate Left', 'Rotate Right' or 'Reset Rotation'.
- Fix for colour conversion issues exhibited with HSL colours in RGB document formats.
- Character & Paragraph panel improvements.
- Typography panel show visually the effects of different OpenType features. Select some text and go to the Typography panel - this will show you the available options for your current font and text selection. Try changing fonts for more options.
- Printer’s marks and bleed available for output. The export options for PDF now include these additional options, as does the Print dialog.
- Smart Tap feature. Toggle between the current zoom and 100% by double-tapping with two fingers on the trackpad. This is useful for designing up close and being able to easily refer to a 100% view and then back again.
- Updated splash screens. These are necessary as we need to include Pantone licensing information.
- Added Split-toning adjustment. This is available from the Layers panel's adjustments menu and the main Layers->Adjustments menu.
- Snapshots panel. This panel (disabled by default) allows you to take a snapshot of the document in the current state and refer back to it at later points.
- Added shortcuts for the different Personas. These can be customised by the user as desired.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
 
Notable changes:
- New Panorama Persona - available from File -> New Panorama.
- 5 new Photos extensions - Miniaturise, Monochrome, Liquify, Develop and Dehaze - 400% rendering performance improvement in most common situations. - Global colours. - Full support for P3 panels found in the new 5k iMac and 4k iMac. If you have one of these you can try making a new RGB8 document with ProPhoto profile and choosing RGB(255,0,0) or RGB(0,255,0) as the colour of your objects - they should look richer and more vivid than you are used to seeing.
- View points added to the Navigator. The Navigator has an advanced mode that lets you choose to create and swap between specific view zoom/position saved points.
- Font fixes. Specifically, a number of font-related crashes have been addressed
- Export/Import improvements - particularly PDF.
- Fix for Text tool failing to accept certain characters (those that were mapped to other shortcuts!)
- Snapping improved for Rotation Centre. Rotation Centre is available from the Move Tool's context toolbar.
- Pantone/named colour/tint improvements. Selecting an object which has a Pantone colour will automatically choose the tint options in the colour panel.
- Canvas rotation. The canvas can be rotated by using the touchpad's rotate gesture or by using the View menu items 'Rotate Left', 'Rotate Right' or 'Reset Rotation'.
- Fix for colour conversion issues exhibited with HSL colours in RGB document formats.
- Character & Paragraph panel improvements.
- Typography panel show visually the effects of different OpenType features. Select some text and go to the Typography panel - this will show you the available options for your current font and text selection. Try changing fonts for more options.
- Printer’s marks and bleed available for output. The export options for PDF now include these additional options, as does the Print dialog.
- Smart Tap feature. Toggle between the current zoom and 100% by double-tapping with two fingers on the trackpad. This is useful for designing up close and being able to easily refer to a 100% view and then back again.
- Updated splash screens. These are necessary as we need to include Pantone licensing information.
- Added Split-toning adjustment. This is available from the Layers panel's adjustments menu and the main Layers->Adjustments menu.
- Improvements to deform filter - you can now select and manipulate multiple pins at once.

Lets say that I create a new color swatch.
I apply that swatch to an object.
If I changed the color of the swatch, the change should reflect in the object and to any other objects it is applied to, throughout the document.
But, as it is now, it seems that I can't even edit a swatch, once it is created.
 
Also, it should be possible to create Tints based on color swatches. The tints would also update if the original color swatch was edited.
 
I know this is becoming annoying, but FreeHand had this working perfectly. Illustrator has the ability of defining colors as "Global" or "Local". All colors in FreeHand were "Global" and, if this is implemented in Affinity Designer (I hope it does), the "Global" mode should be the default one.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
 
Notable changes:
 
- Live preview of compound object boolean mode
- Overprint black
- Fully support El Capitan split-view
- Enabled monochromatic icons
- Fixed cycling of tool shortcuts
- Fixed international character input
- Improved PDF import/export
- Added user-adjustable controller ramps for brush variances
- Added recent fonts to dropdown
- Improved iCloud file syncing and merging
- Added cancel button to export progress panels
- Added Registration colour
- Improved file size of PSD export
- Updated help
- Fix for Ctrl-run up issues
- Numerous stability fixes

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
Please Note: We will do our utmost to fix anything that emerges as quickly as possible, but we just wanted you to understand that for production work we would recommend using the Mac App Store version until this beta has been validated for a few weeks.
 
Notable changes:
 
- New cameras supported in Develop Persona (list coming soon!)
- Ability to auto-align image stacks
- Live preview of stack operator change
- Overprint black and spot colours
- Fully support El Capitan split-view
- Fixed cycling of tool shortcuts
- Fixed international character input
- Improved PDF import/export
- Added user-adjustable controller ramps for brush variances
- Added recent fonts to dropdown
- Improved iCloud file syncing and merging
- Added cancel button to export progress panels
- Added Registration colour
- Improved file size of PSD export
- Updated help
- Fix for Ctrl-run up issues
 
- Numerous stability fixes

Just to be a terrible tease... take a look ;)
 
rotate_canvas.mov
 
Oh, I hasten to add that it's only this slow because it's my debugging build which is about 10 times slower than the release build - it's late and I can't wait for it to rebuild before going to bed!

First let me say how impressed I am with Affinity Photo. I have been a Photoshop user since it was released about 25 years ago. I'm happy to have explored the beta and be among the early adoptors of Affinity Photo.
 
Getting used to interface difference is always a part of migrating from one software to another. I understand that.
 
One feature I use constantly (or would were it available) is to hide the mask selection (aka hide the marching ants) when image editing. In Photoshop this was easily done hitting [command H]. I gather this command is used for other purposes in AF, and there is not current keyboard alternative.
 
Adding this feature would rank very high on my list of feature requests.
 
Thank you for all the work making such an outstanding and exciting product!
 
All the best,
 
Bill

I'm very excited for Affinity Photo to become an "industry standard" digital painting tool, but there are a few things it needs first:

 

- Color picker HUD (fly-out palette accessible while working on the canvas)

- Customizable hot-key commands

- Live rotate tool

- Canvas flipping hot-keys.

 

If those four things can be added to the software as it is now, there is no reason for digital painters to keep their exorbitant loyalty to Adobe. I for one am eager to get off the bank-busting CC subscription, and I know that Affinity is the imminent promised land once the aforementioned needs of digital painters are featured in Affinity Photo. Please feel free to add more items my fellow digital painters in this thread. I hope the Affinity staff takes note!

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
Please Note: This beta includes many changes which have never been beta-tested before. Being realistic, it is quite likely that you may encounter an occasional bug. We will do our utmost to fix anything that emerges as quickly as possible, but we just wanted you to understand that for production work we would recommend using the Mac App Store version until this beta has been validated for a few weeks. There are no translations included with this beta version, sorry - they will return next time...
 
 
There are far too many under-the-hood changes this time to list them all, but the highlights for this beta are:
 
- New "Haze Removal" filter.
- User-definable keyboard shortcuts (first phase - more to come...)
- New PDF export engine with ability to output PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4
- Added Character and Paragraph panels - rather than these options being stuck in large modeless dialogs
- Boolean geometry operations fixed
- Many import and export improvements to PSD, PDF, EPS, SVG, etc.
- Attempt to import .AI legacy files
- New, searchable preferences panel with support for user-definable nudge distances
 
...and of course, the two changes I'm sure everyone will be most happy of all with: The beta now has its own icon and also has a sensible numbering scheme!  :)
  There are many, many more improvements and fixes in this build - and probably a few new bugs :D   See if you can find them ;)  

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
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.
 
Please Note: This beta includes many changes which have never been beta-tested before. Being realistic, it is quite likely that you may encounter an occasional bug. We will do our utmost to fix anything that emerges as quickly as possible, but we just wanted you to understand that for production work we would recommend using the Mac App Store version until this beta has been validated for a few weeks. There are no translations included with this beta version, sorry - they will return next time...
 
 
There are far too many under-the-hood changes this time to list them all, but the highlights for this beta are:
 
- User-definable keyboard shortcuts (first phase - more to come...)
- New PDF export engine with ability to output PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4
- Added Character and Paragraph panels - rather than these options being stuck in large modeless dialogs
- Boolean geometry operations fixed
- Many import and export improvements to PSD, PDF, EPS, SVG, etc.
- Attempt to import .AI legacy files
- New, searchable preferences panel with support for user-definable nudge distances
 
...and of course, the two changes I'm sure everyone will be most happy of all with: The beta now has its own icon and also has a sensible numbering scheme! :)

Hi everyone
 
In case you didn't know, AFFINITY PHOTO HAS LAUNCHED and is in the Mac App Store now.
 
I could say a ton about how fantastic the app is and give you so much information, but it's already out there on our website, so I'll just give you some links!
 
Mac App Store shortcut
 
Affinity Photo web page
 
Awesome promo video
 
Affinity Photo full features page with system requirements
 
Affinity Photo blog post about the launch
 
Launch Tweet - please retweet if you can
 
Launch Facebook post - and please share too :)
 
Obviously the whole team is delighted to see today after so much work, the devs have done an incredible job. Thank you all too for your part in helping the app grow during the beta test.
 
Dale.

Hi there,
i'd really like to see a brush stabilizer in Affinity Photo for an even better painting experience.
 
Something like it's integrated in Manga/Clip Studio or as it's available as a Photoshop plugin:
http://lazynezumi.com
 
best regards
 

Hi all, I just had a quick look at photo beta and it looks great!
 
There are two features supported in Krita which I think would make fantastic additions to both photo and designer:
 
1: Tile mode (or "wrapping" mode). In this mode you can see the image/canvas repeated at least once beyond each edge and corner, and you can just draw off the edge and the drawing automatically wraps around to the other side. Ideally most of the built in effects and filters would also work properly with tiled mode, such as blurs, bevels, shadows, etc. This would be superb for making or working with seamlessly tiled backgrounds and game textures.
 
2: Infinite canvas. When you find yourself running out of space at one edge of the canvas, this feature would make it very easy to extend the canvas just in that direction.
 
Cheers,
Jules
 

The screenshot below was taken in AD. The alignment and distribution blocks are missing from AP's toolbar customisation window.
As it currently is, one has to drag the alignment buttons one by one to the toolbar (not as convenient as dragging the blocks).
Could we have them in AP as well please?
 
Cheers!

would be very useful if program can import and export 2D CAD.

Congratulations! Well deserved!
It's Photo's turn now :)

Hi everyone
 
We're over the moon to announce that Affinity Designer has been recognised by Apple with a prestigious Apple Design Award at WWDC 2015 in San Francisco. Congratulations to the whole SerifLabs team for such a remarkable achievement, 5 years in the making.
 
It's the stuff of dreams, thanks to all our fans and forum participants for helping to make it an awesome reality.
 
Read more at https://affinity.serif.com/blog/affinity-designer-wins-prestigious-apple-design-award
 
Dale, on behalf of everyone at Serif.