Gregory St. Laurent

Hi All,

I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family.
This is a moment of great excitement, anticipation, and profound gratitude for all of you who have been part of our story so far. 
We know that those of you who’ve put your faith in Affinity, some since we launched our very first Mac app, will have questions about what this means for the future of our products. Since the inception of Affinity, our mission has been to empower creatives with tools that unleash their full potential, fostering a community where innovation and artistry flourish. We've worked tirelessly to challenge the status quo, delivering professional-grade creative software that is both accessible and affordable. 
None of that changes today.
In Canva, we’ve found a kindred spirit who can help us take Affinity to new levels. Their extra resources will mean we can deliver much more, much faster. Beyond that, we can forge new horizons for Affinity products, opening up a world of possibilities which previously would never have been achievable. 
Canva’s revolutionary approach to design democratisation and commitment to empowering everyone to create aligns perfectly with our core values and vision. This union is a testament to what can be achieved when two companies that share a common goal of making design accessible and enjoyable for everyone come together. 
I want to express my deepest gratitude to our incredible Affinity team. Your passion, dedication, and relentless pursuit of excellence have been the driving force behind our success so far, and I can’t wait to continue this journey with you all. 
To our loyal users and the creative community, your support and feedback have been invaluable. You’ve inspired us to push boundaries and continuously improve, and we’re excited to embark on this new chapter together. 
The future is bright, and I am incredibly excited to continue our story together and create a world where design is within everyone's reach.
With heartfelt thanks,
Ash
For more information...
We have made four pledges to the Affinity community which you can read here. We have included some FAQs at the bottom of the announcement article here. A video message from me with some more background is on YouTube here. This announcement post is locked, but I have included a duplicate of it in the questions forum here which you can respond to.

Wonderful updates ❤️ I am catching up now on things I'd wanted to try as well as the new features. You are all doing a great job

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash
This is a duplicate post of a thread that is now locked and moved to the questions forum

Hi, I have it working, removed the applications from Faststone and re-did them now AP and Topaz are working, Many Thanks, Russ.

Thanks for the information Gregory.

No, this just shows the current folder of the files that you are viewing.

The Subscription-Licensing-Model at Adobe was one of the main Reasons why I switched to Affinity. I am happy to pay a certain Amount for Updates, but I definitely don't want a Abo where the Software stops working if I quit Subscription.

I agree. Same here.

I really don't understand the comment above.  What is wrong with 'fixes'?  I personally appreciate the fact that the developers are striving to provide a product with the fewest amount of bugs possible before moving on to another 'update/upgrade' that will inevitably introduce new issues. 

Thank You! I will try this on my laptop. I didn't know there was this granular control over selection, I thought it was all or nothing

The Affinity applications provide some functionality like that, and Windows itself provides some more, I believe. Perhaps this FAQ article will help:
 

If you haven't already, please look at the list of third-party software that is known to cause problems, and especially focus on Nahimic:
If it's running, it may be causing problems. And though I would have expected issues with 1.10.1, too, as it's an interaction with the Nvidial drivers your driver update may also be involved. Or possibly you also recently got a Nahimic update, which may be a factor.
 
I don't think I would call 20H2 a "fully updated" Windows 10 system.  I'm on 21H1, for example.

Me too, but I will have to do some more testing to confirm that it is totally gone. But it looks like it is!

1.10.4 will be released today that addresses the problem of Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops.
On the Affinity Store 1.10.4 builds should be available now and on the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store it will roll out worldwide over the next 24-48 hours, as normal.
Please see this announcement post for the link for your particular application

Thank to everyone for letting us know, it's been logged with the developers to investigate further as it does seem to be related to hardware acceleration. In the meantime if you disable it in Preferences > Performance you should be able to continue using the app. 

I have a similar setup (gtx 1660 super; 32gb ram; i7 processor, win10), and just applied unsharp masks and clarity filters to a bunch of photos, with acceleration on, without any problems. Could it be the graphics card driver? I'm using the studio version, currently 472.12.

Hello everyone,
I had the same issue, altough i could not reproduce it after a clean reboot and resetting photo
by pressing CTRL while starting the application.
Well, its back. I only get this when using unsharp-mask and clarity filters. I guess it depends on the performance lvl of the GPU.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
best regards,
r.

Having similar problems, random crashes since upgrade. Very bad performance with UHD 620, better but not great with AMD Radeon R7 M460.

Confirmed using Intel UHD integrated GPU and NVidia RTX 2080. Using both GPU lead to crashes and/or graphics glitches.

Same issue(s) with same graphics card.  Had to turn off hardware acceleration to work.  Did not have any issues with previous 1.10 version.   A lot of pixelations and square artifacts with latest upgrade. 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.4 (replacing 1.10.3)
(Note: 1.10.2 was an iPad only release)
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.4 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.1) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Fixed Live Filters with Radius or Distance spuriously changing the Azimuth anticlockwise Fixed Toggling 'Quick Mask' not updating until you toggle the mask off and on again Fixed 'Overlay Paint' and 'Overlay Erase' tools in Develop Persona not painting with correct spacing Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed 16-bit 'Saturation blend mode' displaying white pixels Fixed crash painting on empty pattern layer Fixed 'Levels' > 'Output black and white' using the same values when changing channels Fixed files losing quality after a merge or export Fixed potential crash opening an EXR document Fixed crash opening multiple FITS files at once Fixed DNG files not being displayed in Develop Persona with Hardware Acceleration enabled Fixed Astrophotography to cope with Unicode file paths Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occasionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Improved 'Uninstall Pack' flow to auto-select the pack Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page Fixed 'Defringe' > 'Also remove complementary colour' Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed document pixel resolution being stored in the wrong format within XMP metadata (breaks later parsing of the same data; hides the values from the metadata panel's 'Detail' view) Increased maximum defringe radius Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc. Fixed Astrophotography Stack failing on some DNG's with no warning Improved Astrophotography 'Make Align Layers By Stars' to work for layers in transformed groups Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops. App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem. Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 since are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo Windows update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

It was:
Changes Since 1.9.3 (source)
- Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape.
What's wrong with the Rotate button? I'm not sure how the app can anticipate whether you want to do a landscape or portrait crop. 
 
I don't think it's realistic to have a landscape and portrait preset for each of the ratios. The list is already long enough. This is why there's a Rotate button on the context toolbar.
Either add your own preset, manage it and move it to the top of the list if it's one you use regularly or use the Rotate button.

Thank You!
 

After completing editing on a substantial photo shoot, I can confirm major performance improvements with ver 1.10 Great job Dev's! Affinity Photo is better than ever!

After completing editing on a substantial photo shoot, I can confirm major performance improvements with ver 1.10 Great job Dev's! Affinity Photo is better than ever!