Jock Thomson

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Many performance improvements for large documents Open FITS files in the main persona and show a Develop FITS panel for single channel FITS files  Fixed ISO speed not reported for some images Fixed PDF Import using wrong widths for some accented characters in Helvetica Fixed being unable to type decimals / rational numbers for regions that use commas instead of full stops  Added support for Xtrans sensors in Astro Stacking Fixed updating a PDF via resource manager resetting Interpret/Passthrough  Fixed some font weights remaining in All Caps after toggling them off using the Character Panel  Fixed Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC not being identified  Fixed Sony DT 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 SAM (SAL18135) Lens profile not being found automatically Previous release notes

Hi @Mark Oehlschlager,
This is already logged to be looked at.

I had to right click and select open in a new tab on chrome for it to work

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Fixed crash undoing Flatten Layers 1.9.0.927 (RC5) release notes

Hi there.
After seeing a video with Nick Page using Lumenzia in Photoshop, I was inspired to do luminosity masks in a new and much more customizable way than the much used 5 levels of brigths, midtones, and darks.
With these macros, when you create a light, midtones, or dark mask, it doesn't create the mask immediately, but applies 3 adjustments: a B&W, a Curves, and a Levels adjustment. Now you can adjust the three fine tune whatwhat you want in your selection. And using B&W adjustment you can more easily target specific colors.
The only difference between the 3 that the curves layer is inverted in the darks, and peaks at the halfway point in the midtones mask.
When you are happy with the selection, select the "Complete" macro, which will create a selection, and a new spare channel from the selection.
Hope you find this useful.
 
Stroiman's Luminosity Masks.afmacros

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Changes
Fixed High Pass incorrectly applying to masks Added Output Black Level to the Astrophotography Remove Background panel Fixed Benchmark Run button enabling too soon  Improved PDF import of alpha-only images Removed Export Preview (it will come back later, with improvements) Added OpenAsset integration (requires an existing OpenAsset account) Fixed crashes relating to expanded groups in Layers panel Fixed BMP loading for files with offset data Enable PDF Passthrough Fixed crash after clicking Texture panel in Brush Editor  1.9.0.885 release notes

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Fixed importing duplicate style category to append a suffix number Fixed crash when moving a mask from a layer to a live stack group Added Select Same Name and Select Same Tag Colour (available via Layers panel context menu)  Added Place Images panel Fixed Blur Brush Tool cursor not showing the correct nozzle Fixed copying pixel layers and pasting as a DIB producing an empty bitmap  Restored default JPEG extension to .jpg  Fixed crashes relating to importing TIFF files with ZIP compression, and writing TIFF files with ZIP compression Fixed new HDR Merge and new Focus Merge preventing application shutdown if all input files fail to load Added failure notification for new HDR Merge, new Focus Merge, and new Stack documents if all input files fail to load Fixed vector export failing to respect JPEG and PNG dimension limits Fixed failure to open .heic files if the path contains non-ASCII characters Fixed custom LensFun profiles failing to load Fixed typing in Lens Correction Filter Camera combo closing the popup 1.9.0.869 release notes

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Changes
Enabled (more) accurate history thumbnails Added support for JpegXR RGB 101010 Fixed crash when entering Develop Persona during macro recording session Fixed rotated or skewed filled rectangles (with no stroke) rendering incorrectly (fills extending to rotated bounding box)  Fixed Hue shift slider background to not move with the slider  Fixed crash when using Ctrl+Right Click (Selection context menu) on empty area  Fixed crash on startup if a proxy is configured without a scheme Fixed inability to add tab stop lower than the already existing highest value  Fixed pasted images incorrectly having the document colour space in Resource Manager instead of the image's colour space  Fixed crash changing Character Decorations Outline Colour without a document open  Fixed crash loading images greater than 2GB in size Fixed failure to load TIFF files greater than 2GB in size Fixed cursor not being visible after interacting with the Export dialog  Allow variations in file extensions during export (e.g. *.tiff and *.tif). Default extension is first in the list (i.e. *.jpeg, *.tiff). Changed the preference 'Import PSD Text As Text' to be enabled by default 1.9.0.864 release notes

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Fixes
Improved Studio Presets Improved hardware acceleration Fixed hardware acceleration to fall back to software rendering more reliably under NVIDIA GPUs Fixed filter effects rendering Added ability to rotate view around mouse with Alt+MouseWheel. Shift+Alt+MouseWheel will rotate around the centre. Holding Ctrl at the same time will increase rotation speed. Added Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R as new default shortcut for resetting the view rotation.  1.9.0.767 release notes

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Fixes
Fixed tablet input problems by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3.  Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode (previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored). Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool Fixed raster Crop Tool units multiplying incorrectly on the context toolbar 1.8.4.693 release notes

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Fixes
Added missing Procedural Texture degrees/radians toggle  Fixed being unable to move Info targets in Develop Persona Improved precision of Defringe Fixed Focus Merge throwing away images Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Aligment option is set Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enlosure nodes non-icon area Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repsitioned to the top level Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set  1.8.0.585 release notes

PeanutsA,
Sorry, but that was a forum email you (and 192 others) are subscribed to this announcement thread. It was a copy paste error on the important 1.8.0 announcement, and I have corrected the wording now. If you do not want to be notified then unsubscribe from that thread. If you do want to continue to receive them, then I will do my best to not make copy/paste errors in future.

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Added vertical scrollers and I-beam cursor to Metadata panel Added support for IPTC Genre, Subject Codes and Scenes  Added support for XMP sidecar metadata Changed Lens correction to no longer show a list of possible lens names when it can't disambiguate Added lens profile: Tokina AF 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro DX II  Fixed Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 A025 automatic profile lookup failing Fixed Tamron 28-300m f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD (A010) not being identified Fixed smart selection brush crash  Fixed long macro names wrapping onto multiple lines  Fixed long history rows expanding too wide, making alternative futures button to disappear Added a new preference to control whether documents open in the current active window group Fixed new documents starting minimised (when previous document was minimised) Fixed crash on startup when broken fonts are installed Fixed occasional problems with replacing document fonts with their installed equivalent Fixed dashed lines not printing consistently across various printers  Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects  Fixed mouse getting locked into straight line mode after using a pen and ALT key Fixed expanding linestyles which have a brush applied and variable pressure profile Removed limit on favourite fonts Fixed Studio panels being wrong size after reset  Fixed the item name dialog not focusing the text box by default Fixed the active document not always being shown on the document panel 1.8.0.526 release notes

Hi both,
I tested this with our Intous Pro Small (PTH-451) and works fine. We've changed how things work in the beta and you would need "Windows Ink" enabled in Wacom preferences > Mapping. 

Hey IndigoMoon,
This has been implemented. 

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Fixes
Improved lens correction of RAW files coming from lenses with fixed focal length Added Macro library file import on drag and drop Added 'Source' and 'Blend Mode' to flood fill context toolbar Added 'Source' and 'Refine' to flood select context toolbar Fixed crash in Procedural Texture when scrolling up/down in the value field Improved Halftone panel to be less cramped Fixed Metadata panel rating being offset by 1 Added support for Canon EOS 90D Fixed Metadata panel to prevent further input when reaching the character limit for a field Fixed Metadata panel Description field under File not working with Enter key Fixed Lens Profile Detection icon (i) disappearing after opening the Lens list, even if the lens isn't changed Renamed View > Studio > EXIF menu item to Metadata Fixed stroke mitre Reduced Asset panel default icon size slightly to fit 4 columns Fixed inability to drag objects into Assets panel Disabled Windows Ink feedback ripples when clicking with a pointer device Improved geometric add to allow a single shape so we can unite shapes to remove overlapping areas Improved SVG export to not simplify structure, as some people require the original structure Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible Fixed cursor jumping when autopanning with pointer device Fixed selection of artboards and / or contents Added right and middle button support for pointer devices Fixed tool cursors when using pointer device Fixed Wacom Tablet starts drawing straight line after changing focus Fixed Stock panel search being cleared when switching image providers Fixed Global Colour dialog colour picker always uses RGB Fixed EPS import sporadically failing to load objects Fixed PDF export so embedding colour profile always converts image colour spaces to match the profile Fixed Colour Picker failing to average when click dragging Added missing tooltip on Brushes panel Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data) 1.8.0.514 release notes

Hi IndigoMoon,
I believe we will be improving this during the 1.8 beta phase. Thanks for letting us know  

JFYI, in my case still an open issue (5DM3 with Tamron SP 24-70)....

I've been playing around with writing some macros and have decided to share six of them.
1-4.  Turn your pic. into a presentation A4 photo with a white canvas border having room to enter text beneath and a thin black border around the pic. to make it stand out.  Four options to cover Landscape or Portrait for both 3:2 aspect ratio and 4:3 aspect ratio as determined my your camera.
5.  Alpha Channel Sharpening - gives a final delicate sharpening to your photo.
6.  Colour Sketch - turn any colour photo into a 'sketch'.  Final output will need to have the black level adjusted (Adjustment layer, Levels, Black Level) to suit different photos.  Likely it would also work with black and white photos but I haven't tried that.
Tested with AF Photo 1.6 and the beta version of 1.7.
I hope they prove useful.
Dennis-Photo.afmacros

I have made 10 free tone mapping presets. I have not seen any tone mapping presets for affinity photo so I made some for anybody who might want them. Of course they will not all work with every photo like all presets but I hope someone finds them useful : ) To upload them just click on the zip. file, then in the tone mapping persona on the presets menu; click "Import Presets", Enjoy! 
Thanks! 
Hanan Edwards Presets.zip

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Fixes
Fixed 360 images losing their 360 functionality after being exported Fixed crash when installing a new font Fixed new fonts failing to appear when several thousand fonts have been installed Changed selection refinement to be the same as in version 1.6 Fixed yellow colour cast opening some DNGs, such as converted Canon EOS 6D CR2 files Fixed hang when pressing ESC to cancel Navigator panel Movement Improved Photoshop plugin support (more to come in the future) Fixed Styles missing labels when using grid view Improved Healing brush Fixed inability to assign Backspace key as a shortcut Added missing Select menu to Export Persona Fixed Studio panel group gets disconnected after switching Personas Added JXR file associations Fixed import of JXR 16-bit half float documents properly Fixed Crop tool Reveal 1.7.1.404 (RC2) release notes
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It really doesn't like to be dragged does it... Blimey! I will get this logged. Thanks  

It`s still not possible to edit gradient tool colors in toolbar. Look at screnshot. if "L" slider is moved with mouse - color flickers and jumping back to original color. No way to change color, very annoying. But if you use color picker at the corner and tap picked color - it updates gradient color normally (but this is inconvinient).
 

Hi squeezer,
Open a RAW file go to menu View ▸ Assistant Manager..., make sure the RAW output format is set to RGB (16bit). If it's already set as such, develop the file and you should be able to assign the non linear profile going to menu Document ▸ Assign ICC Profile (the sRGB is usually on the bottom of the list). If the RAW output format was set to 32 bit, change to 16 bit, close the RAW file and re-open it again. Follow the steps I described in. the beginning of this post.

Today, let’s have fun with Gradient Maps…
Gradient Maps are a great way to color grade photos, since they map dark, light, and midtone values according to a pre-defined gradient. This can easily define a “look” for photos that might otherwise be hard to accomplish.
Although I am not a user of Photoshop, our “arch rival” has a wonderful group of gradient maps called “Photographic Toning” that are specifically designed to color grade photos. Although you have to drill down through a few panels and dialog boxes to find them (and you sort of have to know they’re there in the first place) they are a truly nice addition. Also, they are easily obtained by anyone.
But, as they say, there’s the rub. Affinity Photo cannot import Photoshop gradient maps. Affinity Photo can store pre-defined gradients in the Swatches studio, but for some unknown reason the stored gradients are not available from the Gradient Map studio panel. Gradient Maps can be stored as presets, and can be chosen from the Adjustments panel, but I don’t believe they can be easily exported from one computer and brought into a different one.
So… after a long couple of days of transcription, I have created a set of Macros that apply each of the 38 Photographic Toning gradient maps. Since macros are easy to store, and to share, I am making them available for anyone who wants them.
There are actually 2 sets of Macros included - each as an easy-to-import Category from the Library panel. The first group of Macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients” and these are named according to the gradient map they apply. Each macro creates a Gradient Map layer, applies the appropriate color values, and names the layer according to the gradient map it applied. The second set of macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients - reduced.” This category also applies the gradient maps in a similar fashion, but then reduces the opacity of the layer to 30%. This reduces the effect of the Gradient Map, and produces a much subtler effect.
Here is an image that shows the full-strength versions of all 38 gradient maps.

And here is a photo to which I’ve applied a full-strength gradient map, and also a reduced-strength gradient map.

These macro categories are included in the ZIP file attached to this post, along with a Letter sized JPG that includes samples of the gradient maps. Also included in the ZIP file is another macro category that includes one more macro. It’s called “Obama Hope Poster” and, as you might have guessed, it turns any photo into an Obama Hope-style poster. Just because…
Please enjoy them!
Photographic Toning Gradient Maps.zip