AiDon

And why don't you simply enter the e-mail address you used to purchase the software and the product key you received after your purchase? As others have already mentioned this should fix the issue.

Thanks for that. I remember it originally wasn’t possible for users of the Microsoft Store versions to run the betas, but I knew they had subsequently sorted things out. I just wondered whether something might have got messed up with the latest versions.

You could argue about this forever, DNG is a public standard launched in 2004,
AfPhoto is a proprietary standard for Affinity
and PSD is a proprietary standard for Adobe.
And why not add APhoto support to Lightroom, On1 RAW, Luminar, etc., etc

Hello John, your words are harsh and straight out hostile, i hope that its just a misunderstanding that you are attacking others personally.

There is an "infinite amount of users" its the human population growth which is growing each year.
Even if there where a theoretical saturation of consumption, Serif would then release a new version - a paid upgrade and the sales begin again.
Serif hasn`t even begun yet in catering to at least ~1 billion potential customers which would happen if RTL writing was available inside the Affinity range.
Here an image showing the distribution of just one of the many scripts(here is the Arabic script distribution) which happen to be RTL writing, there are more scripts like Hebrew which also is RTL.

 
Subscriptions are like renting a house, you won´t get attached to the area/product and can and will probably move on to other areas/prodcuts like you dear John are doing while abandoning the Adobe renting area.

Why would you want another company to be a mirror image of Adobe? As a photographer I don't see Adobe's products as leaders in the industry, maybe Adobe has a larger market share through judicious purchases, but the functionality of Affinity Photo is superior to Photoshop, Capture One superior to Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign are ho hum. I think that the important thing is that there are alternatives, read 'alternatives' and that is real 'alternatives', and not copies of Adobe products available in the market.
In my case I really like the functionality of Affinity Photo and currently it is the best product out there, with Photoshop coming second by a long way. 

Thanks AiDon, I have successfully reproduced this. I'll pass it to the developers for you.

Yep, we certainly disagree, it's increasingly obvious to me, in mostly every point. But that's not an issue, at all. I respect your reasoning.  I find though, that a lot of what you see as facts, are more in the land of the opinions, too, but we are not going to agree either on that, I'm afraid. And that's perfectly fine, as well.  Still... I have certain personal curiosity, and is not the very first time it happens, as neither is the first person reaching here with these POVs (which I am not demonizing. It's interesting hearing people's opinions, whichever they are).... My question is... You seem to really give a lot more value, and the crown of the professional tools (set of tools) , even the right business model, to Adobe CC's entire suite.   So, ...Why not just keep using it, if it is so perfect ? (or even if they were at a 70% of your ideal model) I mean, with your views on the matter, I don't see the practical point of all this, and I understand way more the reaction of "crawler87", in that review. That is, this person just immediately went back to Photoshop (is what I do with a ton of software I dislike, those never pass the first hours of trial testing). Because, you know, perfection just does not need anything else, and you even prefer the subscription model, so, all good.
I have paid many thousands for purchase-only software in the past, and its updates. Even more, I have even done so with way more money for causes you perhaps would never even believe... Am not a cheap guy when I see it's worth an investment. Anyway, it has become increasingly clear to me that with enough effort and skill, I (and I mean me, not everyone, be it average joes or pros) can use even some instances of open source (there's a huge variance in quality there from one solution to another, there's the great, the average and the terrible. But trust me on that the great is there, too.), and a lot of commercial mid-cost, to a professional level that before I was only skilled enough to do with the major tools (It's WAY EASIER!) : Adobe's and Autodesk ones. Happily, that has changed. And BTW, am a very seasoned professional in a bunch of (graphic content related) fields. You could put that in doubt, and there would be then no way to continue the debate in that matter (as not gonna provide the proofs or any personal data).
But not only that about certain type of software... I have worked at companies where, not because of the money, but because of company owners' principles, (and in other ones, for money reasons), it HAD to be open source (in reference to your comment about open source).  And I was able to deal with all the printing, web design, video editing, 3D modeling, and etc, for the entire company in several cases using solely open source. Freaking darn hard, but not impossible.

There are also tons of business that make a single commercial application, and do enough (even a huge load) money to achieve own personal goals of the business owners, and have a happy life. Whether it matches an ideal model for business' maximum success or not, it wont be as crucial if the founders got what they actually needed or desired.  I was not arguing that for an infinite growth, your suggested methods aren't the right ones : I was not really getting into debating that.

But really, not looking for debate in all the other points either, as I realize we are too far in our points of view to find common grounds (sadly). I'm solely curious about why don't you just keep using the Adobe CC suite.  And is a sincere question, no sarcasm involved or anything (actually, none was really involved in any of my statements or comments). I'm genuinely curious, as, carefully reading your words, you seem to really see all sort of virtues in Adobe CC (or at least, way more than in Serif's offer) , not only in the technical aspect, also in its business model (and so, future perspective) , and even it its renting system. I mean, if I had those views, I wouldn't even waste a single neuron impulse in even one only post here... I mean, what I don't get is the motivation for it... Your points, I understood them well, I might not agree, but they are well explained....(which is quite, as English is not my first language).
 

Why would you want another company to be a mirror image of Adobe? As a photographer I don't see Adobe's products as leaders in the industry, maybe Adobe has a larger market share through judicious purchases, but the functionality of Affinity Photo is superior to Photoshop, Capture One superior to Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign are ho hum. I think that the important thing is that there are alternatives, read 'alternatives' and that is real 'alternatives', and not copies of Adobe products available in the market.
In my case I really like the functionality of Affinity Photo and currently it is the best product out there, with Photoshop coming second by a long way. 

Thanks for your positive attitude regarding Serif's potential and your confidence in our future if we choose to go public.

You neglected to mention that John Scully, who was instrumental in ousting Steve Jobs from Apple, almost brought the company to its knees after Jobs left.
The USA started out neutral but entered the First World War in 1917 because Germany had sunk several civilian vessels, and they only entered the Second World War in 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

Serif have always welcomed constructive criticism. I simply ask everyone to express it civilly. Our corporate team already have some larger companies who prefer to have a perpetual license model as has been described in interviews by our MD Ash Hewson. That is why we encourage multi-licence customer to contact that team as many companies do not wish to simply buy X licences as a one off and want an ongoing relationship with us

They are all here and almost all are not making ad hominem attacks to prove their point. 
Serif are doing just fine, thanks for your "concern". 

This community are not in the business of determining Serif strategy. We are not a democracy

Big Thanks from me too. It loads much faster and the improvement of denoising is great. It works much better now. Thumbs up

I must say I am astonished by the improvements in RAW file opening times which are down to between 2-4 seconds on my configuration including RAF, CR2 (including 5DsR 75MB) and ARW. All I can say is I am looking forward to the CR3 support.
Please thank the developers for the amazing work.

I must say I am astonished by the improvements in RAW file opening times which are down to between 2-4 seconds on my configuration including RAF, CR2 (including 5DsR 75MB) and ARW. All I can say is I am looking forward to the CR3 support.
Please thank the developers for the amazing work.

I must say I am astonished by the improvements in RAW file opening times which are down to between 2-4 seconds on my configuration including RAF, CR2 (including 5DsR 75MB) and ARW. All I can say is I am looking forward to the CR3 support.
Please thank the developers for the amazing work.

I must say I am astonished by the improvements in RAW file opening times which are down to between 2-4 seconds on my configuration including RAF, CR2 (including 5DsR 75MB) and ARW. All I can say is I am looking forward to the CR3 support.
Please thank the developers for the amazing work.

Looks like an issue with RGB/16. I couldn't reproduce this on an RGB/8 image. I'll get this passed to the developers for you—thanks!

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Hi All
This is an issue with many live filters either applied as a child or as part of a group. This is an issue that has crept over form the mac side but I shall let the dev team know
Thanks

Serif are obviously using this forum to receive and acknowledge bug reports, but what makes you think they’re also using it to track those bugs? As for transparency, Serif is a private commercial concern, not an open-source community, so it makes sense for them to be circumspect about what they post to public forums such as these.

I think the OP wants an official version from Serif, not an unofficial version from a third party:
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Why would you want another company to be a mirror image of Adobe? As a photographer I don't see Adobe's products as leaders in the industry, maybe Adobe has a larger market share through judicious purchases, but the functionality of Affinity Photo is superior to Photoshop, Capture One superior to Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign are ho hum. I think that the important thing is that there are alternatives, read 'alternatives' and that is real 'alternatives', and not copies of Adobe products available in the market.
In my case I really like the functionality of Affinity Photo and currently it is the best product out there, with Photoshop coming second by a long way. 

As I mentioned previously DNGs from the CR3/M50, I have been using it for 7 months, are fine BUT don't embed the original CR3 in the DNG.
If my first post had been read and acted on it was a simple solution, here is the CR3 extracted and converted to DNG again.