Nero

My suggestion to the designers of Affinity Photo is to provide a Golden Ratio overlay , besides the Thirds Ratio, Golden spiral and Diagonals.
As I read in this Forum group there is a great need for it.

Well, this is what i mean (in photoshop ):
 
 

Hi @Nero,
Thanks for bringing this up. We are aware of the issues with the Zoom tool/controls in the context toolbar. I've bumped/updated our reports and linked to this thread for reference.

Well, this is what i mean (in photoshop ):
 
 

Wow I'm glad to see it was my fault! Thank you for help and sorry for annoying comments about this topic. However the cursor seems to stay low-res anyway...  
Maybe I am just pixel-perfect terrorist.
Many thanks to all of you!

now:
Thanks to @Chris B
who pointed out I had not right setting for Retina rendering, I'm not sure now what's the default - imho for digital drawing/painting slow works better but It's superfine to choose.
before:
I'm still waiting for retina half-res to full-res flickering while painting bug to be fixed.
I've post it many times and every beta that's the first fix I am looking for and the first thing I test... still not correct.
Please, please fix it - it's so annoying...
Thank you 🖤

Hey Nero,
You're seeing two passes here—for speed purposes. You can go to Preferences > Performance and change Retina rendering to High Quality (Slowest) and it will do a single render pass which should stop the flickering. 

zoom tool context toolbar bug:
- also I would expect that I can drag the arrow to set the scale that way. it's stuck in place (just in some case it moves with mouse like on the beginning of screen recording) - you have to click somewhere beside.
- slider with arrow doesn't reflect (update) when scale is changed in number-box next to it.
Screen_Recording_2020-11-30_at_02_43_10.mov

Hi,
We are collecting benchmarks from users of the 1.9 betas in the Windows forum (as the Windows builds are finally getting GPU acceleration).
It will be useful to collect similar benchmarks on the Mac. If you would like to contribute your Mac benchmarks, the thread is here:
Thanks,
Andy.

Hey Nero,
Sorry this still isn't resolved. I've linked your post to the bug report and updated it.
 

Zoom value (top left) still doesn't update when using zoom tool... There are still many more important bugs probably :(
In sense of rendering graphic on retina while painting pixelmator or Ps still win. Saying that as fan I only wish this to be fixed.
Looking forward,
thank you!
 

there is a problem with zoom indicator.
If you change the value in select, the bar does not update.
If you move the zoom bar, the select does not update
Thanks a lot.
David
Registrazione schermo 2020-02-27 alle 10.32.39.mov

Zoom Tool - context toolbar doesn't change
have you noticed??? Sorry for being nervous about that but need to be sure in basic stuff (like how close I look) to make this awesome software rules!
Best,

Sure @Patrick Connor - thank you for edit!
I hope it will be solved not only moved...
However good health to you in such a crazy time! 😷
 
(Big fan of affinity since the beginning.)

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
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Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate build of Affinity Photo 1.8 for macOS.
We hope that you will enjoy the new capabilities introduced in this release and we look forward to any and all feedback you give to us.
Many thanks (as always),
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes This Build
 
- Develop stability improvements.
- Fixed issues when printing live filters.
- Assorted small bug fixes.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.7
 
- Memory management improvements.
- Fixed shortcut save issues.
- Fixed various Live Filter rendering issues.
- Fixed crash loading certain JPEG files.
- Assorted other fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- PSD smart object improvements.
- RAW camera support improvements.
- Double click to edit embedded docs from layers panel.
- New samples
- CMYK TIFF import improvements.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
- Numerous small fixes.
- PSD smart object import support (enable in preferences).
- Reference presets for the Pro Display XDR are now supported properly.
- Filter effects now support high intensity colours in 32bit mode.
- Embedded document fixes.
- New stock brushes (your custom brushes will not be lost).
- New document panel tweaks.
- Text field expression improvements.
- Improved RAW support (Serif Labs).
- Improved handling of RAW files when using batch processing.
- Improved channels panel behaviour when disabling alpha.
- Numerous other smaller fixes and improvements.
- Overhauled the “File -> New” dialog - user templates are now supported.
- Implemented unified toolbar for appropriately modern macOS versions.
- Updated PANTONE palettes to include new Solid and Bridge sets.
- Renamed EXIF panel to Metadata and added support for user-editable fields, including IPTC).
- Added ability to read metadata from an XMP sidecar file (enable in Preferences).
- Added native CR3 support to the SerifLabs RAW engine.
- Added a new lens profile selector to Develop.
- Reimplemented the HSL filter's HSV option.
- Improved quality & file size of results when exporting JPEG.
- Switching to a mask node will now automatically switch to the grey colour slider.
- Improved lens correction of RAW files coming from lenses with fixed focal length.
- Improved unsharp mask “threshold” slider.
- Improved selection refinement performance & quality.
- Improved the noise reduction filter result when applied to JPEGs.
- Improved precision of Gaussian algorithm (to reduce banding).
- Improved reporting of file load errors (could previously report file corruption incorrectly).
- Improved performance of operations with large selections.
- Improved memory use with alternate futures and when replacing image layers.
- Improvements to Photoshop plugin support, notably for DxO plugins (but also for many others).
- Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible.
- Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data).
- Fixed deletion of brushes / styles / etc. not reducing disk usage correctly.
- Fixed PSD export of hidden layers.
- Fixed angle cursors when the view has been rotated.
- Fixed “Create Palette” from CMYK images resulting in RGB colours.
- Fixed Pixel Selection appears incorrectly when started near page edge.
- Fixed rasterising a fill layer goes wrong after changing document size.
- Fixed Marquee Selection not constraining to a square if you drag across the right diagonal.
- Fixed mis-identification of some Tamron lenses mounted to Canon bodies.
- Fixed failure to load some PSB files (and failing to report errors).
- Fixed missing EXIF data for CRWs.
- Fixed crash importing PSD files containing embedded colour profiles with unicode characters in their names.
- Assorted other small fixes and improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
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View > Zoom > Actual Size (by default, Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) + 😎

I've made some improvements for tablets and iOS pen.  These will come out very soon - either on the day we release Publisher, or sooner as a 1.7.1 release.

I think the OP was asking about Publisher, and the beta tester discount and gift.

Just tagged your comment to catch you, in case you missed Patrick Connor's note above.  I pre-ordered through the Serif Affinity store, and am all set for the download on June 19!!   

Thanks. Then the answer is the opposite of what I said. The 30% discount is (a) serif store only and (b) beta testers only and (c) pre-launch only.

That amount of discount (30%) is only for beta testers and only via Serif's Affinity Store, from what we've been told. But we (users) expect that there will be a 20% discount for everyone via the Mac and Windows Stores as a launch discount for a short period of time.
Good question about the gift. Only Serif can comment on that, but my guess is that it's the same: only via the Affinity Store.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: Here
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the beta of Affinity Designer 1.7 for macOS.
Designer 1.7 is a significant change to the currently shipping 1.6 version. Files edited in this version will not be backwards-compatible with the shipping 1.6 version. As such, we would not recommend using this 1.7 version for critical or production work at this stage. It is inevitable that there were will be a number of issues with 1.7 but we hope these will be minor and aim to resolve any issues very quickly, so please use it and explore the new features, but also do keep in mind that you may find snags and we would appreciate your help with finding and reporting these to us.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
It’s also worth noting that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs from previous releases and hope to fix as many as possible before the final release of 1.7. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcment thread
With all that said, we hope that you will enjoy the new capabilities introduced in this initial release and we look forward to any and all feedback you give to us.
Many thanks,
Matt
 
Please refer to previous beta 1.7.0.4 post where there's a list of major changes since 1.6. This latest update builds on the 1.7.0.10 changes and also includes the following changes:
Fix for issues saving after applying a 'none' arrowhead! Miscellaneous PDF import improvements. Artboard positions are now show relative to the whole spread, rather than showing as 0,0 at all times. Pen Tool now has an extra option to allow for the selection to be retained while adding new curves/extending existing ones. This is useful for allowing you to make use of snapping to other object geometry while creating/editing curves. It is on by default. 'Rotation centre' is now 'Transform origin' to better reflect what it does. Added a user-definable transform origin to the Node Tool's transform mode. Inserting a fill colour stop now correctly interpolates intensity (useful for 32bit documents).

Was about to post a serious drawing lag using my Wacom tablet, but apparently has now been fixed on this release. You're on fire! 

Thanks I shall get this passed on to the development team

text in top-left corner (Current Spread/All Spreads/Selected Spreads) missing piece of last character typed 
macOS 10.13.6 on iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) 
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