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Macros are being touted as coming in the next beta due in the next few days as per the beta forum.

Status: Beta Release
Purpose: Fixes, improvements, new features.
Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance.
Mac App Store: Released
 
Hi Guys,

The fifth (and hopefully last) beta of 1.6.3 has been deployed on TestFlight. The changes are detailed below.

You can download the App Store version at any time to stop using the beta - and download the TestFlight build at any time to go back to the beta.
 
As this build is going to the App Store soon, we would like to take this opportunity to say a massive "Thanks!" to everyone who has taken the time to be a part of this beta so far - we genuinely could not do this without you..
 
That said, we are not done :) 1.6.3 will go to the App Store, probably tomorrow - but we will be back in beta within a week. For the next 1.6.4 release, we are hoping to add Macros, non-destructive RAW support, improved Adjustment / Filter UI, improved compositing performance, full iOS11 support and much, much more. We hope you guys will stick around for that ride :)
 
Thanks once again for your help..
 
Affinity Photo Team  :ph34r:

Changes this version
 
- Run in native resolution on iPad Pro 10.5” device (yay!).
- Fixed panorama crash after using transform tool. - Fixed crashes when adding many items from Photos library at once. - Wet edges setting now works properly in the brush editor. - Fixed a selection brush crash in 32bit RGB colour mode. - Stopped the refine selection tool post-processing twice. - Help improvements. - Localisation tweaks. - Improved icons and images in the welcome screen. - A new sample (“The Hotel” by Neil Ladkin). - General performance improvements. - Numerous small bug fixes.   Additional changes since last App Store version   - Improve performance with complicated documents.
- Improve selection brush stability. - Improve selection refinement stability. - Don’t allow HDR merge with less than 2 images. - Made studios more useful when the software keyboard is showing. - Fixed tooltip positioning in left handed mode. - Fixed issue when starting a new document whilst another document is still saving. - Small PDF import tweaks. - Make adding multiple files from Photos more reliable and show progress. - Numerous other small improvements / fixes.   - Improved brush performance on large layers.
- Canvas rotation will snap to 90 degree increments if within 5 degrees.
- Improved help - including new FR, DE, EN-US localisations. More to come!
- Improved RAW metadata support and reliability.
- Further HDR stability improvements.
- Fixed incorrect zoom level readout in navigator studio when canvas is rotated.
- Fixed inability to correctly disable colour overlay layer effect.
- Fixed issue whereby using Pencil would make canvas rotation available in all tools (!)
- Fixed issue where the “RAW” logo would appear randomly on Photo library images in the new chooser.
- Fixed crash when using the Interactive Introduction.
- Fixed portrait issues with the keyboard toolbar.
- Fixed weird red artefacts when using inpainting tool.
- Localisation tweaks.
- Portrait mode implementation.
- New chooser for Photos - supports multi selection, indicates RAW.
- Improved pencil / gestures support.
- Undo / redo buttons available in full-screen mode.
- Support pasting of images from other applications.
- Ability to duplicate open documents from the home screen.
- Panoramas can now be created from RAW files.
- HDR Merge can now be performed on RAW files.
- Panorama stability improvements.
- Can now choose font face - not just family.
- Inpainting improvements and stability fixes.
- Improved iCloud folder support.
- Improved performance in documents with lots of masks / adjustments.
- Fixed export crashes.
- Cancel split screen preview when converting filters to live filters.
- Develop UI improvements / fixes.
- Fixed “Date Shot” metadata issue with RAW.
- Font stability improvements.
- Fixed Post-Crop Vignette in develop.
- Fixed weird highlights issue in develop.
- Ability to turn off spelling red underlines.
- Some pretty animations in the document manager.
- Fixed failure to obey RAW tone curve, output depth preferences.
- Numerous other small stability fixes.
- Improved help.
- Improved localisations.

- Transformed / portrait develop fixes.
- Selections persona should have canvas rotation tool.
- Fix share button
- Fix panorama-from-photos stitch bug.
- Fixed share to Flickr, AirDrop, etc.
- Better text for Place menu items.
- Fixed “Save Affinity Layers” in TIFF export.
- Pixel tool improvements - erase and other alternate modes.
- Show the build number in the preferences panel.
- Fixed flip document flipping in the wrong axis.
- Fixed HSV mode of HSL adjustment.
- Fixed shadows, clarity sliders being dodgy in develop persona.
- Fixed problems loading PSD files made by Procreate.
- Curves tool should refresh the channels list if the colour space changes.
- Fixed adjustments which can be applied in any colour space.
- Shear filter fixes and improvements.
- Fixed failure to load anything if photo library contains RAW but user has “Optimise iPad storage” enabled.
- Preference option to limit touch to gestures.
- Fixed some broken LAB blend modes.
- Further efforts to make inpainting, panorama more stable.
- Improved layers studio - you can now see / select unto 2 masks / adjustments without expanding a layer.
- Attempts to mitigate crashes with weird fonts.
- Fixed issues where documents would become “Unable to load” until an app restart.
- More tutorials!
- Numerous other small improvements and fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Thanks for the report - I'll get that logged

These requests are to improve workflow. I tend to export using the same specs (type, dimensions, quality, etc) and to the same location 80% of the time. It would be nice if I could create either:
 
A custom default of the export dialog and location, OR Be able to create multiple export presets (or scenes or scenarios or whatever you want to call them), OR Have the option to Export same as previous (using most recently used settings)  
Also, in the Locations dialog, why does it always default to iCloud? And in manage locations, why can't I move one of the other locations above iCloud (which does not appear in the list at all)? I never use iCloud so it is sort of annoying to have to go through the extra layers every time to pick the cloud service that I do use.
 
Finally, I hope that Photo will take advantage of iOS 11's file system for Export (or Save As?).
 
Thanks!

User-settable Defaults or even better, "Sticky Settings" is an option that has been requested and re-requested since the release of Affinity Designer.  It would be the single most desirable, most efficiency-improving, workflow-enhancing update that Affinity could make.  Perhaps...eventually...we will get it.

Thats it. Thanks Alfred. You saved my day.

A *.afmacro file contains a single macro and is loaded via the Macros panel, but a *.afmacros file contains a collection of macros and is loaded via the Library panel. I don't think this has changed for the 1.6 beta.

Agreed - an urgent wish from my side!
 
At least the macro import function in order to use macros on the iPad which were created on a desktop would be VERY helpful.

Hello,
I have a question to this topic:
Is there a CONVENIENT way to export several (or many) jpg to a pre-defined folder in order to avoid to "mix" them with the original RAW files?
 
My recent procedure is:
- Import the RAW files with the SD card adapter to the iPad image gallery.
- move these files to an extra folder/album
- edit the RAW files and export them
- find the exportet jpg files between all the other similar looking RAQ files (cumbersome!!) and move them to another folder/album
- erase RAW files in order to save memory
 
I would appreciate if there would be the option to safe the exportet jpg files into a pre-defined folder or album, but so far I did not find a way. Any good ideas or workarounds?
When saving the jpg on iCloud drive, they are named "unnamed.jpg" (or something like that) which is absolutely not helpful. Why not keeping the original file name and just change the file type from name.RAW to name.jpg?
Jens

That's customer service !

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

Yes Yes !
Affinity evolves so fast,
By its extraordinary team,
Which he leaves far, far behind,
all the others !!!
Congratulations to your team. :) :) :)

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 third 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
Improved load time of RAW files More light UI fixes Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Fixed no input being received from some Huion tablet devices 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 Lighting filter dialog at 150% display scale at minimum supported resolution appears cut off Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed cursor not being visible over UI when using brush stabiliser 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 Fixed Transform & Navigator Panels overlapping when detached  

Thanks,
 
Your last two suggestions have been implemented in the new beta (coming today!).
 
I agree with the other suggestions too - we will get them done.
 
Andy.

What gives you that impression? We're constantly working on the software, and I've just finished another beta build that will be handed over to QA for testing, before being released to customers (hopefully tomorrow).
 
What problems are you experiencing?
 
Thanks,