Gnobelix

Again, no problems with transparent background.
Thanks

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Fixes
Fixed Pixelmator PSD text import
Added transparent TGA import support
Attempt to support fonts with truncated type 4 tables (e.g. Serpentine)
Fixed text frame auto-resizing not working with a single character
Added support for fonts that substitute spaces, eg Nyala
Fixed Liquify Brush panel size slider limited to 1024px
Fixed brush selection is not retained after duplicating brush
Fixed changing brush tip is not always initially accepted 
Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc
Fixed Fill Noise not applied when filling with Custom colour, Primary and Secondary colours etc  
Fixed Colour Chooser not correctly switching to match the selected colour 
Improved curve fitting for raster brushes
Fixed tool shortcuts ignore modifier keys 
Fixed Text Styles showing wrong units for Justification options 
Fixed Tab Stop units not auto updating with document units 
Fixed Text Style dialog missing the [No Change] behaviour for the Tab Stop table 
Fixed drag and drop from IrfanView not accepting file items into the document as new layers
Fixed exporting multiple documents
Fixed crash using Pen tool (* see known issues)
Fixed when a colour is removed, the Opacity/Noise slider is not disabled 
Fixed floating windows starting off-screen when monitor is disconnected
Fixed layer folder icon not initially updating
Fixed floating windows appearing on the incorrect taskbar
Fixed text not being drawn after power duplicate
Fixed rare instances of being unable to select text
Fixed a couple of instances where the colour wheel wouldn't update properly
Fixed unable to select a second swatch for bevel and emboss highlight and shadows 
Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment
Fixed unusable transparent area left after cropping with New View 
 
Known issues
Using the Pen Tool can result in high memory usage

Got it and it is fixed
Thanks

thanks a lot for showing,
the individual steps are well explained.

Hey there guys...just a simple way to do a double exposure in Affinity designer..... figured I would share since i was posting it on my site anyway. In included the odifiable project file.....but the origin files are in the youtube page.....it is all wrapped up in once nice file 
 
 
bear modifiable file.afdesign

Hi,
Here is a library of macros of various LAB operations. It can do
- Selective desaturation of LAB channels
- Separate LAB channels to greyscale layers without switching to LAB mode
- Join back LAB greyscale layers to a composite image without switching to LAB mode
- LAB color contrast boost
Enjoy!
 
As for the file size being 4MB for a few macros, I have no idea, it is probably a bug.
SH LAB tools.afmacros

Thanks. - Give it a try, settings are always also dependent on the sort of input color image, so you might have to change certain default settings to your needs.
Metamorphosis...

It's a different licence for each OS, so yes, you have to buy another license.  Each OS requires its own development and support, so that's not unreasonable, especialy when you consider how cheap the software is.

@Gnobelix,
There's no need to copy the selection to the clipboard. just create the selection and press ⌘ (cmd) + J to create a layer with the selected part (assuming the original layer is a pixel layer not an image layer type).

Question 1: select the text, right-click then convert in curve.
Question 2: No, I think you will not be in any  graphics program a one clic solution find.
          
There are a lot of tutorials  click here

Hello krbo,
that's not normal and annoying, if it takes so long until a simple JPG file is saved.
I've opened a 137 MB TIF file, and following steps carried out.
Duplicate the Layer
Live Filter:
Shadows / Highlights Filter
Clarity Filter
Unsharp Mask Filter
Vignette Filter
for the calculating an export size and save, needed my PC  scarce 30 sec.
So similar values as HVDB has determined.
Try resetting all settings maybe it helps.

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Fixes
Fixed crash when making a gradient document fill global  Improved performance when History and Layers panel are visible Fixed PDF Export bleed for artboards Fixed PDF Export for some documents Added bottom right resize grip corner to floating document windows Added Float, Float All, Dock and Dock All commands to Window menu Fixed Adjustment panels appearing at an invalid location if the panel was closed on a monitor which is then subsequently unplugged Fixed metadata not loading for unicode paths opened via drag and drop Fixed failure to close down due to waiting for invalid files to finish opening Fixed Text Styles panel to reflect the document defaults when no text is selected  Fixed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers  Fixed document DPI showing decimal places Fixed Workspaces getting reset when new panels are added in updates Fixed vector export of clips on rasterised items Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable not fitting to printer margins  Fixed second Print having a zero size document in printer dialog  Fixed exporting artboards to include any adjustments drawn on top of it, even if they are outside of the artboard Fixed fonts being rejected if they had a space in their Postscript name Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay Improved resizing of floating document windows Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closes the app Fixed Alignment Editor applying a second time when clicking away via a direct new selection Changed 'Arrange' button text to be 'Alignment' Fixed being unable to adjust custom wet edges spline  Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once 

Here's a test using a recent raw shot. f32, 30sec, ISO50 using Sony A7R2 and FE24-240. Test controls for all images is shadows right up, highlights right down. Notable differences!
Original:

Affinity 1.6.1.93 - Note muddying of shadows.

Affinity 1.6.3.98 - massive improvement!

Photoshop CS6 - less improvement of shadows, greater pulling back of highlights

Lightroom 6 - unsurprisingly similar to Photoshop CS6

DxO OpticsPro 11 - much more extreme shadows treatment (is similar to Affinity at about 50%)

ON1 Photo Raw 2018 - very little change in highlight, less improvement in shadows, good colour control

Luminar 2018, similar to ON1 Photo Raw 2018

 
If I was to choose one, it would be Affinity. DxO is too extreme in shadows. ON1 and Luminar are less effective, especially in highlights. I would like more highlight control, though - note how the white car headlight streams are separated by Photoshop/Lightroom.

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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: A valid product key, (issued if Affinity Photo was purchased from Affinity Store).

As this is a beta 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, including the total loss of any documents. 

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Fixes
Improvements to Shadows and Highlights  Improvements to Clarity Fixed View Mode menu item incorrectly exposed in Affinity Photo Export Persona  Fixed double clicking View Tool is not consistent between Personas  Fixed crash when making a gradient document fill global  Improved performance when History and Layers panel are visible Fixed PDF Export for some documents Added bottom right resize grip corner to floating document windows Added Float, Float All, Dock and Dock All commands to Window menu Fixed Adjustment panels appearing at an invalid location if the panel was closed on a monitor which is then subsequently unplugged Fixed metadata not loading for unicode paths opened via drag and drop Fixed failure to close down due to waiting for invalid files to finish opening Fixed Text Styles panel to reflect the document defaults when no text is selected  Fixed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers  Fixed document DPI showing decimal places Fixed Workspaces getting reset when new panels are added in updates Fixed vector export of clips on rasterised items Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable not fitting to printer margins  Fixed second Print having a zero size document in printer dialog  Fixed fonts being rejected if they had a space in their Postscript name Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay Fixed Spacebar not changing cursor to hand when in Develop Improved resizing of floating document windows Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closes the app Fixed Alignment Editor applying a second time when clicking away via a direct new selection Changed 'Arrange' button text to be 'Alignment' Fixed being unable to adjust custom wet edges spline  Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once 

Hi Jens, I can address a couple of these points quickly:
 
 
I appreciate it's not a solution, but there are a plethora of video tutorials that will show you the interface in detail. You can check them out on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZ7Y0kROWitLXsh6z4Z3qBYCS6xoIXHN and in particular there's a Discover video here which runs through the interface: https://youtu.be/_wwgo9Z9yYQ
 
 
If you open a JPEG or PNG straight into Photo, you'll be able to "write back" to them instantly based on edits you've made. If you've made purely destructive edits, using Save or CTRL+S will write back to the file instantly. If you've added non-destructive adjustments, filters, etc, then you'll get a prompt to either flatten and overwrite the initial file, or to save as an .afphoto document to retain the non-destructive edits.
 
You can also do this with PSD documents, but you need to enable write-back through Preferences.
 
I appreciate that having common file formats on a typical Save dialog would be useful; for now, though, you could quickly use the Export shortcut (Shift + Ctrl + Alt + S) and it will remember the last image format and preset you were using.
 
 
 
Photo has live filter layers, they're accessed from the Layer menu. They behave like adjustment layers, so you can indeed tweak filter settings and edit the filter's mask whenever you want. Bear in mind that although you can add separate mask layers to adjustments and filters, there's no need to. Just click on the layer's thumbnail - that's the mask. So you can invert it, paint on it using white/black to show/hide parts of it, Alt+click to isolate it, etc.
 
 
Hope that helps, that's all I've got time for this evening! (Got to go and play with the dogs )

File->New From Clipboard  (shortcut: ctrl alt shift n, by default, but you can customize that from the preferences dialogs)

In this short tutorial I'll show you how to draw simple polygon spirals in Affinity Designer 1.6.0.
We will use the rotation origin, transformation panel and the duplicate function. 
 

Link to the video on YouTube
 
Enjoy the video and have fun to draw your own polygon spirals. It's simple but interesting!
 
Norbert

Hallo manrone,
Try it sometime.
Hide the layers not to be exported.
In the export menu you can make settings
see screenshot.
I hope this helps.

Hello Alfred,
Thanks for the answer

You can add symbols to the Assets panel and save them that way.

I miss an item in File menu to "Close All" files.
 
Or maybe also a contextual menu over the file tabs to "Close", "Close All", "Close Other", "Close right tabs",...
 
 
Thanks.

To all the users, staff an developers who have put in so much effort
Relax and enjoy your Christmas
 

Fact is that the normal PNG export does not work as it should.
I think the Affinity Team, is in the well earned  Christmas holiday
and will surprise us with its creative diversity in the new year.

Yes! Clear that is what I am reporting. A bug in the beta. DOn't mind my reexplaining things.. I want to make sure the developers know exactly what is going on with it
Thanks for the response

I have to correct my statement, see above
During the export, I noticed that an ICC profile is activated,
deactivate the ICC profile, then works the PNG export with 24 bit and transparent background