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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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 crash when access is denied to the ProgramData directory (diverts to user's AppData) Fixed objects not adding to symbols correctly Fixed crash dragging in empty Library panel Fixed crash pressing up arrow in opacity edit box Fixed SVG import not using units (was always at 72dpi) Fixed SVG loading of hidden attributes Fixed SVG loading of strokes with no line style but with width Added ability to break curves in multiple places at once Fixed export to allow forward slash Fixed Brush Dialog not updating after changes to context bar or via shortcuts Fixed undo/redo of brightness in Tone Mapping persona showing reverse in UI Fixed being unable to rotate image past -0.7 when using increment Added missing tooltips in the New Batch Job dialog Fixed Export Size not changing when using Selection with/without Background Fixed colour swatches dragging colours from the panel over objects Fixed Gradient Tool flyout disappearing when trying to adjust RGB Sliders Fixed SVG import of stroke-dasharray values when the array has an odd number of items Fixed SVG import of stroke-dasharray="0" (now parsed the same way as stroke-dasharray="none") Fixed SVG import to use case-insensitive colour names Fixed Preferences > Performance dialog entries shifted too far left Fixed missing warning icons in Export Persona Added PSB file extension to open dialog Fixed images copied from Microsoft paint appearing upside down Fixed not opening maximized after resetting the Preferences options Fixed Swatches panel 'Create palette from image' incorrectly needing document Fixed having a .(dot) before the file extension not populating the Save As dialog Fixed Dust and Scratches and Halftone live filters missing entry on Layer panel Fixed equations not flagged red if they are not complete and correct Fixed Export allows decimal point pixel sizes Fixed manually editing guides on second artboard give incorrect value Fixed starting or opening a document with no visible window area causes it to be inverted  
Known Issues (that did not affect earlier betas)
Brush Editor dialog sliders are laggy (fixed in next beta)

We've mentioned many times that we are constantly working on improving RAW loading times.

Hi
Like Affinity in JPEG but loading times in raw are sooooooo slow. Just changed from Canon to Fuji. Canon raw was slow but Fuji raf takes  44 sec to load!!!!!.
Compared to Silky Raw Converter 2 loads the same raw file in 4 secs?
Is this likely to improved in Affinity or should I used Silky for Raw and the Affinity for Jpeg?
Thanks
Michael

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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 Gradient flyout incorrectly showing previously applied gradient Added keyline added around main window and dialogs Added Radial Controller support option into preferences Fixed ghost text objects shown in the view after creating text and moving it Fixed lines shooting out when drawing with the Surface Pen Changed pen tilt to be mirrored around vertical Fixed selection refinement in CMYK documents Fixed Exif information being removed when performing an image stack Added blacklisting of broken colour profiles (if loading them causes a crash, the next time the application runs, it will skip that profile) Changed Find in Layers Panel to switch to the Layers Panel if it's not visible Fixed FX Symbol failing to show on clipped objects Fixed being unable to change font of multi-font selection Fixed ICC profile combo boxes being too wide Fixed more Light UI issues Fixed missing Arrow Ends icons on context toolbar Fixed a number of the fields in Adjustments are clipped Fixed HSL Adjust able to enter invalid values for Hue Shift Fixed filters not able to go above 1024 Fixed OpenType MarkToLigature rule, which fixes accents on certain font glyphs Fixed import of Russian RTF text with "Language for non-Unicode programs" in Windows set to Russian Fixed SVG export to export radial and elliptical fills as vector regardless of transform Fixed PDF export to export radial and elliptical gradients as vector even if sheared Fixed crash when Inpainting on a cropped, rotated image Fixed uncommitted nudge transforms getting reverted when the user hits Escape Fixed crash when closing document Improved the performance of the develop histogram Fixed blank documents prompting to save on close Added missing Live Halftone Filter Fixed memory leak in Export dialog Fixed crash when changing export options then attempting to export on a new document Fixed sporadic crash when panning a document Fixed crash when drag re-ordering macros Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to open files via Explorer Fixed crash when the user right clicks in the open file dialog, when they have bad shell extensions installed (e.g. AMD drivers) Fixed some objects failing to invalidate properly Fixed more Russian UI issues Fixed untranslated Hintline items Fixed pressing the X on the close dialog closing the document without saving Fixed clipped Macro names in the Library Fixed crash loading EPS files Fixed black rectangle around shape when exporting due to Outline FX Fixed Exposure increasing with RAW files in stack Added guides to the Raster Crop tool Fixed double push rotation contribution in Liquify Fixed crash with massive filter nodes Fixed selection brush size not being remembered Fixed sporadic crash when editing memory intensive images

Are there any plans to fix bug with histogram in develop persona in V 1.6 ?
This bug was already mentioned in few topics, for instance.
In this topic it is also mentioned that this bug is related to sensor type and that particularly affects fuji x-trans sensor.
If you can't repair this bug then please just remove every FujiFilm x camera from supported list because with this histogram error developing for x-trans sensor is unusable, since I think that nobody develop raw files without consulting histogram.
 
Also I was said to see that there isn't any advancement maid in regards to shadow recovery in develop persona. Lifting shadows still suffers form muddy look and over saturated colors.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Isn't Photoshop CS6/CC or Corel Photo etc a 64bit app?
They are scanning fine on Windows. Sorry, but I cannot understand the problem here. But Im not a programmer.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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 and drop of files into Application Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out Changed text to always render at full quality when typing Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it Fixed black window border on some dialogs Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden Fixed Halftone filter slider values to match macOS version Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle) Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid) Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch

My Fujifilm RAF Files opens in 

33 seconds on Windows 10 using v.1.5.2.69
25 seconds on Windows 10 using v.1.6.0.76
25 seconds on Windows 10 using v.1.6.0.79 (but drag and drop into AP don't work anymore)
 
there is an improvement over v1.5, but its still not good.

I've attached a RAF File for some tests for you guys
DSCF0396.RAF

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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
Added new Font Family control to match macOS version Added support for Dials Fixed JPEG failing to load reliably (getting stuck on 'Loading Document...') Fixed colour profile loading to ensure all profiles are loaded despite earlier errors Fixed crash when the GPU device is lost (this can happen when drivers are updated, or GPUs are switched, with technology such as NVIDIA Optimus) Fixed failure to export as PDF when a document contains very small objects Improved performance of UI elements on dialogs Fixed printing colour profile conversion Detect whether the application will crash due to applications such as RivaTuner injecting code into our application (and display a warning) Fixed minor issues with HDR merge Fixed rulers not drawing correctly in light UI Fixed Text Style panel text being aliased Added support for planar CMYK TIFF Fixed exporting a multi-selection of overlapping objects with background, drawing with artefacts Fixed Vignette artefact Fixed slice matting reverting to None Added progress when committing a refined selection Improvements to Selection Refinement Fixed crash when reading malformed TIFF files Fixed white flash on start-up Fixed Tab Stop values and Show Text in points Removed matting of 'None' from jpeg slices Added missing 'Make Global' option to Swatches panel Changed Zoom panel appearance to match macOS version Fixed alignment of colour swatches on Tools panel Fixed cancelling the creation of an adjustment preset adding it regardless Fixed deleting a macro not updating the library list Removed Show Overlay button from Develop overlay tools context toolbar Fixed precision on Equirectangular projection context toolbar Fixed Develop Persona prompting to save when cancelling a develop session Fixed crash when resizing documents or canvas to very small sizes Fixed crash when removing the first or last lights Fixed crash when attempting to zoom to a node which has zero size Fixed crash when the highlighted blend mode is unhighlighted Fixed crash when attempting to load any EPS file that will fail to load Fixed slices not drawing correctly after zoom Added missing Print dialog buttons Added 'Open Stock URL' button Fixed crash when dragging a compound layer Fixed odd pixel rounding in the document view with some display scales Fixed some issues with Photoshop plugins

My mask creation workflow (in Photoshop) requires that I use most paint/edit tools on a mask. After all, a mask is just a greyscale image.
So, why is it that the Dodge and Burn tools (two of the tools that I use more often when creating masks) don't work with masks?

AP does the same. I suggested the change to the "standard" behavior two times already and I'm quite sure someone did before me. I hope they change it in some future release, because it is really annoying.

Not sure it's a feature, more of an improvement, but it has cause some troubles to me.
 
In all applications that I'm aware of, the Save As function will save in the folder where the file is currently located in. 
A.D. does not, it saves in the last folder that was used, always. Even if I close a file and open a totally different one, SaveAs will default to the last saved folder.  I have files spread all over the disk because of that :(
 
It's annoying especially because the standard behaviour is so universally ingrained I find it hard to remember to change the save location every time. 
 
 
 
Keep up the good work

The current Gradient Map feature is quite basic like the one in Photoshop, but in many ways, it could be a much more useful tool with the following additions:
 
HSL Mode: Instead of going based only on Luminance, this would use the input hue or saturation as the lookup index. In combination with HSL blend modes, this would allow for some fantastic workflows like basically warping the color wheel to taste, similar to the "HSL Wheels" feature in Magic Bullet Colorista (Note: don't be fooled by the name of the feature, this is NOT referring to the three-way color corrector). Just use a gradient of the HSL spectrum and drag or re-define stops, set the result to "Hue" blend mode, and you have an extremely powerful color correction tool that gives you results that would be difficult to achieve in any other way.  
Circular Editor Option: Like the Colorama filter built-into in After Effects, this makes it easy to work on maps that are supposed to start and end with the same color. In combination with an input for a number of revolutions (cycles) to use, this would also make it easy to create gradient effects where a few stops are repeated multiple times across the spectrum (like, say, alternating black-white-black-white). This would also massively improve usability in conjunction with the HSL mode option suggested above.  
Access to swatches: This would make it easy to re-use gradients by defining them or recalling them from swatches as an alternative to using Adjustment Presets.  
Interpolation control: Sometimes the transition from one color to the next needs fine-tuning – this is something that Affinity's gradient editor already supports, but not in the Gradient Map dialog. A Constant Interpolation setting where the color would just be constant up until the next stop would also be useful since it would eliminate the need for duplicate stops in the same position, which are really hard to select. Possibly, the curve editor could also be re-used to define falloff using a Bézier or Catmull-Rom-Spline.  
Duplicate Stop option: Often, it is necessary to use the same color multiple times in a gradient. Adding a button for this and/or enabling Option+Drag to duplicate would be useful. Photoshop aggravatingly always inserts new stops with the same color instead of the color that is already there at that position in the gradient, but the (better) implementation of this in Affinity had the side effect that duplicating stops became harder.  
On-image sampling: While the dialog box is open, it would be useful to highlight the value under the mouse pointer in the gradient display to be able to place a stop exactly at the desired position. Clicking in the image would insert a stop.  
On-image highlighting: Conversely, when editing/dragging a stop in the gradient editor, an option to highlight the affected pixels in the image would be helpful. The options could be: off (nothing) all pixels that have exactly the value represented by the position of the stop (similar to focus peaking) the zone that will be affected in the image. The overlay would start at 100% intensity at the value represented by the stop and fall off to 0% on each side until the position of the next stop respectively, taking the falloff into account (see "Interpolation Control" above). Optionally, two different colors could be used to represent each side of the stop.  
Resizable dialog box for more precision: When editing 16-bit images or editing falloff from one stop to the next or when placing stops very close to each other, it would be useful to have more room to work with. Making gradient editor dialog boxes in the application resizable would alleviate this problem.  
Snap to Luminosity button: Sometimes, it is useful to place stops exactly at the point in the gradient that corresponds to their luminosity, especially when they are defined by selecting swatches from a color palette. Adding a button that moves all selected stops to that position would make this really quick. For instance, tinting an image with two tones while keeping black and white intact could be achieved very quickly by selecting a black-to-white preset, then adding two stop, selecting a color from the document color palette for each, and clicking that "Snap Selected Stops to Luminosity" button.  
Ability to move start and end stops. The values before the first stop and after the last one would simply use constant extrapolation. This would eliminate the need for duplicate stops, which take longer to create and are harder to edit since all operations need to be performed twice.

Why is it not possible to create Guides when the Node Tool is active. It seems like a commonly desired affect. Currently every time I want to create a guide line i have to place a marker on the screen of my monitor and then switch to the Move Tool in order to create a Guide by dragging from the documents Ruler. It would be great if we could great guides regardless of which tool is active.
 
Hope you guys can fix this.
Thanks

I should add a side note:
 
The alternative to making the RAW processing algorithms as good as ACR or Capture One Pro 10's is to simply make the workflow non-destructive, so that people can send their work from the iPad to a desktop app such as the previously mentioned apps. Wow, was that or was that not a great way to plug a non-destructive workflow again? Iol

So cool feature) Will AD have something like thathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZF1ye0c4P4

It is still the same issue with some Fujifilm Images. This time from my X20.
The images are about 1,5 Stops to dark. See the examples for imported RAW versus the original out of cam jpg.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is the fourth beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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 (since last beta build 74)
Further improved RAW loading times Fixed incorrect colours when performing document to screen colour conversion More Light UI fixes Reduced size of mitre output in SVG Differences over Public Release Version 1.5.3.69
First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) New Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools New Glyph browser Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre  Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre  Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements Added option to use High Precision input from WinTab (Wacom and compatible) devices (off by default) Improved load time of RAW files  Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Improved Inpainting seam healing Improved Inpainting memory usage Improved UI responsiveness when panning or zooming during complex operations Fixed right clicking thumbnails in the Layers panel deselects multiple-selected objects Fixed colour chooser dialog failing to show waterfall after applying gradient Fixed panel resizing behaves differently to macOS version Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed object moves in Layers panel when attempting to select it when scrollbar is visible Fixed text justification when a line-break is on the last line Reduced size of mitre output in SVG

When a feature such as snapping is on then the button should be lighter not darker. Dark should be off and light should be on. I have never seen it the other way around.
 
:)
 

There are still more improvements we can make, so should be able to take another second or two off that at some point.

I can say RAW loads way quicker on my system. 4-5 secs on average for a 24Mp Canon CR2. Was around 8-10 secs on previous beta. Lookin' good so far!

It would be nice if you could show the aspect ratio when using unconstrained resizing. Even nicer would be the ability to snap to common ratios.
 
Thanks for considering this idea!

What I'm missing is the function of making a vector from selection. Let's say you have a bitmap (black shape on white back). With the Magic Wand Tool in Fireworks you could click anywhere in the black area, it automatically selected it with marching ants, and from the context menu you could choose "make vector from selection". 
 
I need this desperately! 
thanks.

Hi,
On a German keyboard, the default keys for changing brush size are not usable; keys '[' and ']' must be entered by pressing Alt+5 and Alt+6. Therefore, I redefined the keys to use '<' and '>' instead which works fine, but only for brushes. I cannot use them to resize the tool size in the liquify perspective nor for brush overlays in the HDR perspective. I think they should work everywhere where I want to increase and decrease a tool size while working.
Furthermore in the preferences dialog, I think, the setting should not be placed under paint brush but in a more common (generic) category.

Hi Affinity team
 
Please, make possible delete parts of the gradient overlay with Overlay Erase Tool in Develop Persona.
 
Cheers