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Learn how to actually use the Displacement Effect in Affinity Photo. Here are some awesome tricks to make it work and get great looking results.This quick fix for the broken Displacement Effect in Affinity Photo. With this solution you can get rid of the ugly outer edges. 
If you know my channel, you know that i always add some extra insights. So we are going to use the Blend Ranges and an ambient Light Layer to make it look even better and really create the illusion of a Text painted onto the wall. 

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My friend - a Huge Prince fan - celebrates a big birthday next month, so I’ve created this as a present.
Hopefully he’ll like it!
Prince.pdf

This has very nearly been the death of me - but the end is finally in sight!

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.2
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash A few fixes for opening documents which contain embedded documents. Fix for dragging an asset which contains an artboard into the document. Fix for exporting large images occasionally failing. Fix for insta-crash encountered in the Vector Brush tool on 'Undo' action. Fix for inability to create a new Object Style if the only difference was a property of the stroke. Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions. Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.). Typography panel performance improvements.- Fix for Assets and Symbols transforming greatly when dragged onto resized artboards. Small fixes for occasional misbehaviour of placed PDFs. Fix for OpenAsset issues. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Fixed an occasional problem with the New Document dialog not showing content after tabbing away to another app and back again. Renamed the export area options to something more friendly (on the Export dialog). Misc visual fixes for menu items that were not the correct (app) colour scheme. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8.x (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer macOS 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 application menu, Affinity Designer > About).
If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available.
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.2
The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Assorted performance improvements for assets. Assorted content download improvements and fixes. Added ability to optionally sort brushes by name. Improved performance of export and merge visible, especially in documents with Live Filters. Fixed a crash when using File -> Share after File -> Export. Fixed a bug where some Live Filters would appear to move after save / load. Fixed a crash when opening a brush category context menu with no selection. Fixed a bug which caused adjustment to fail to apply easily when clicking with a stylus. Fixed potential deadlock issue when loading large files. Fixed assorted small registration page issues. Fixed the size of the “General” section in preferences. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Fixed inability to add / rename / delete export presets. Fixed issue where UI would remain hidden when a studio page was enabled from the menu. Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as “.afluts” files. Added ability to drag / drop all adjustment presets to reorder them. Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions. Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.). Typography panel performance improvements. Minor improvements to Gaussian Blur performance when GPU is enabled. Assorted visual fixes in the adjustments panel. Further fixes for deadlocks with multiple GPUs. Restored ability to plug an eGPU in while the app is running. Enforce ISO country code character limit. Fixed crashes with malformed ICC profiles. Improved the reliability of panorama stitching. Fixed bugs which were preventing Unsplash stock page items from working. Improved PSD import from recent versions of PS. Output levels (in the levels adjustment layer) are now correctly exported to / imported from PSD. Fixed missing EXIF data for EOS 300D RAW. Fixed a HEIC crash. Localisation improvements. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements. Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo macOS 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 application menu, Affinity Photo > About).
If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available.
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

Wow! Awesome!!

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.1
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.0 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes. This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixed numerous brush management issues. Fixed toolbar height in separated mode. Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped. TIFF loading fixes. Assets improvements and fixes. Fixed some icons being very small. Fixed incorrect/missing cursor issues. Fixed crash loading large TGA files. Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. Fixed New Document dialog on older macOS versions. Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. Fix for Compound node operation mode chooser not being available in the Layers studio. Fixed Resource Manager on OS X 10.9 Fix for updating images via Resource Manager causing image scale to be reset. Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (i.e. single holes). New samples. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8.x (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer macOS update announcement 
The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About).
If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available.
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. 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 Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

Greetings to all who dwell here. Went seeking refuge from the cult of Adobe and found Affinity. I'm in heaven! Love the software, looking forward to using the tablet versions, especially. Now can anyone tell me how to add and avatar? I really don't want to be a giant B forever

Another one, featuring the same look-and-feel of my previous post. As the eye is always the main element, I thought of naming this one as the 1000 eyes of Doctor Mabuse – as in the Fritz Lang's movie.
It's not as rich as the first one but I do like the depth of the layers I got with the radial elements.

Sorry. My bad. You're absolutely correct.

@rovedajr
I would prefer the file that demonstrates the problem with a beta build was posted into the beta forum, where the QA team and developer are more active, thanks.

Uhh…guys. I was using the 1.8.2 Beta, adding some shapes, when this happened:

faulty.afdesign

For Mac, got to 
PC betas can be found here:
If you read up in the respective beta fora, you will get an idea about the existing issues and fixes.
 
 

Here's another example of a failing expand stroke.

MacOS 10.15.3
Affinity Designer 1.8.1
Edit: Seems to be fixed in Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.2.4
 
broken-document-icon.afdesign

Thank you all for offering information and your opinions.
Well, of course I am aware of the fact that Affinity does not make the rules of the respective app stores but this said, it makes it even more important that applications are only released when they are ready for it. Unfortunately, once purchased, one is locked in that ecosystem, and Serif so far has not offered to lend a hand to get out of it (e.g. making a non-Appstore license for a legacy version available to me).
I am a beta tester for many applications, in particular programs that are crucial for my research and that have a history of rolling out buggy updates. This is very time-consuming (if done right), and I do this not only to contribute to the development but also to be aware of potential shortcomings/changes of upcoming updates. Till recently, Serif has done a great job, was very responsive to user suggestions so I saw no need to get involved. Times seem to have changed, and beta testing it is..
Again, I am highly supportive of Serif (I initiated the switch to Affinity products for the whole research group after all (i.e. over 15 seats)) and I think it is important to have them around, developing great products. I also do not go on a rant over the occasional bug. Yet, I think it is important to make it known, when the development decisions and/or the quality assurance standards are not meeting the needs of the customers anymore. 
Cheers,
L.

To participate in the "beta program" is quite easy: Just go to the respective beta forum within this Affinity forum and download the latest beta release. It is called a "public customer beta". So, as long as you have purchased AD, AP or APub you can install and test any of the beta apps alongside with the retail version of the three apps. Just for your information: The retail version and the beta do not interfere. They are installed in different folders and don't share any individual settings.
Serif has published some bug fixes already. But you need to install the respective beta app to test whether or not they solve the trouble for you.

That's Great news. It seems that you are using the iPad version, I hope it's fixed too on the mac pro. I will test it when I get home.

This appears fixed in AP 1.8.2.172 beta.

I disagree, it's far worse than before in every scenario for me. I tried expanding a simple stroke around the Honda logo for a customer and it turned into abstract art. Expanding strokes around any text seems to fail for me, and combining the results with the original shape is an absolute disaster.

Well, MEB, I took the liberty to attach a file too. It shows the error quite clearly. I hope it helps.
alcazar.afdesign

Hi rovedajr, Brian D,
For Affinity Store users only (these versions require a product key for activation) please check the links below:
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Publisher
For Mac App Store users there's no way to revert to a previous version unless you have made a backup before.

Next Months? How about right effin NOW?! This must be a hotfix within days! Im literally unable to finish my work because of that! Whenever i try to use the feature it randomly takes out points of rectangular shapes and makes it curve. im in the middle of time sensitive client work to finish up the logo and cant finish it because it always produces this crap.
 

Thanks for that information. It saved my day. I was experiencing the very same issue.

Trying to get away from the photo-realism of my recent work, so set myself the challenge of creating a much simpler piece, and this was the result.

Another one, featuring the same look-and-feel of my previous post. As the eye is always the main element, I thought of naming this one as the 1000 eyes of Doctor Mabuse – as in the Fritz Lang's movie.
It's not as rich as the first one but I do like the depth of the layers I got with the radial elements.