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Thank you Affinity for supporting older Graphicablets and to choose an Option in Preferences that they work right. My old one works well again now. Thumbs up 👍

We all do. This should have been in version 1.0. Unfortunately no word from Affinity developers as far as I know despite being asked for for years. It was on their "roadmap" in 2015...
 
 

+1 for this feature: I could really use a mesh or freeform gradient tool.

The Colour replacement tool should really be called the hue replacement tool as that is closer to what it actually does. Using white is a bit like desaturating the colour, that is why it was turning a shade of grey. To see this for yourself you can use the HSL filter, select the red colour dot and use the picker and click on the shirt, then drag the saturation shift to the left -100% and the shirt will turn the same grey as on the screenshot pic.

One more great demo of the value of having a fill slider for color in addition to -- as opposed to just having -- the opacity slider.
 
 

One feature that has been confirmed for 1.9 when creating brushes is the ability to create brush textures from your canvas selection. That to me I am very much looking forward to, since the current workflow for creating custom brushes is very tedious to say the least. Other than that, we don't know much else if there will be more changes coming with the next major release.

Hi @sujithta, I'm not exactly sure what you are requesting here, and using overly large text in your post doesn't make it any easier to understand.
 
To create a mask from a pixel selection, you can choose Layer -> New Mask Layer, or click the Mask Layer button along the bottom of the Layers panel.  If you have an existing mask layer and select it, you can use the brush tool (for example) to modify that mask, and it will be restricted to make changes within a pixel selection if you have one.
Option (alt) clicking on a layer (on the Mac at least) takes you into isolated editing mode for that layer, hiding the other layers while you are working on it.  Shift clicking a mask layer toggles it on and off.
To invert the mask, select it in the Layers panel and choose Layer -> Invert (menu bar), or use the keyboard shortcut (Command+I on the Mac).

I would like to express my great thanks to Serif. When adjusting the size and sharpness of the brush tip, you no longer have to fiddle with two mouse buttons.
The handling when adding and subtracting selections has also improved. Serif has fortunately moved away from the right mouse button.
But why doesn't Ctrl+Alt work with the Select Range tool  (Magic Wand)?

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Fixes
Fixed Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens identification Only update pixels that have changed in a live projection Changed PSD exports to not clip to the page Fixed loading a document with existing pixel selection not drawing the marching ants until zooming in Changed Marquee tools shortcut for Add to be Ctrl+Alt instead of right mouse button Changed Selection Brush tool shortcut for Add (in Subtract mode) to be Alt instead of right mouse button Improved some paper Document Presets to have better margin and bleeds. Margins are now more proportioned to their page sizes and press ready presets now have a minimum of 3mm bleed. 1.8.4.681 release notes

Please, add another brush to liquify persona: mesh smoothing. It is already present in Photoshop and sometimes it is very handy

Please, make inner/outer glow as live filter. The very same as in Layer FX.
Sometimes there is a real need to add masking for this effect, whick is not possible with Layer FX without unnecessary nesting

It could be the same buttons, with different actions depending of :
Nothing selected: flip the whole document Selection: flip the selected items

We would like to add these as options under 'Customise Toolbar' but not enable them by default. We will also make sure this is added to the documentation  

For the Bamboo you'll need to use the --legacy-wintab command line option.

Steps to reproduce:
- create layer with liver procedure adjustment
- alt-click on layer to enter into it
- right-click on layer in ;ayers panel and choose rasterize
- You`ll get instacrash
Video with crash and test file in attachment
Screen_Recording_2020-07-20_at_16_11_01.mov Untitled.afphoto

Steps to reproduce:
- create layer with liver procedure adjustment
- alt-click on layer to enter into it
- right-click on layer in ;ayers panel and choose rasterize
- You`ll get instacrash
Video with crash and test file in attachment
Screen_Recording_2020-07-20_at_16_11_01.mov Untitled.afphoto

Even using the same settings, I think the live filter and the non-live version work slightly differently, hence the differences in file size (?)
 

I use the Windows key all the time, Win+E to launch Explorer, Win+1/2/3 to launch apps from the taskbar, Win+R for Run dialog, Win+Shift+S for the Snip tool. etc etc. 
People have an expectation for how the Windows key behaves, and applications shouldn't override that expectation. Perhaps there could be a preference to enable it, but it could never be the default.

Because the Ctrl equivalent is right mouse button on Windows. So the shortcut would require holding RMB while you then click with RMB...
I wasn't aware of that feature until now, so we'll have to look at implementing a new shortcut on Windows.

- Fixed issue with the Colour panel when switching away from a mask.
Yes! Finally! Hooray! Thanks :))

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Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the second build of Affinity Photo 1.8.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Changes Since Last Build
 
- Improved selective viewing of LAB document channels in the Channels panel.
- Improvements for Force Touch Trackpad users.
- Improved layers panel representation of empty groups.
- Improvements to Canon EOS-1D Mk. III metadata import.
- Improved reliability of Canon CR3 RAW loading.
- Improved support for .fff RAW files.
- Right click in the Move Tool will offer a tree of layers to select from.
- Honour the monochrome flag in X3F files.
- “Save document with history” will now show up as a recorded macro step.
- Resetting the Voronoi filter now resets to the correct values.
- Mask thumbnails now look the same in dark / light UI mode.
- General layers panel tidying & drag improvements.
- Fixed a crash when refining selection.
- Fixed an issue where the history page could get out of step in Develop.
- Fixed erroneous blend mode imports for PSD files.
- Fixed potential hang when using “Move inside”.
- Fixed issue with the Colour panel when switching away from a mask.
- Fixed a crash in red-eye removal.
- Fixed loading of X3F files with non-square pixels.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.8.3
 
- Integrated x3f-tools project, significantly improving support for X3F RAW.
- Added ability to show folders as icons in the layers panel.
- Added option to always show folders as “small” in the layers panel.
- Improved dragging behaviour in the layers panel.
- PDF import performance improvements.
- Document save performance improvements.
- Detect Edges improved on 32bit documents.
- Lens profile popup might report incorrect state.
- RW2 files can cause a crash.
- Text performance improvements.
- Selection brush width is not remember after being changed using modifier keys.
- Placing RAW files now produces Pixel layers, as opposed to Image layers.
- Fixed reading of XP metadata under certain conditions.
- Fix for Nikon D90 RAW loading issues.
- Fixed High Pass filter when using LAB colour.
- Assorted small bug fixes.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
 
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Fixes
X3F: Fixed uninitialised crop areas in release builds  X3F: Fixed non-sequenced reads from files (was preventing any X3F file from being loaded in CL release builds)  X3F: Apply Black and White in Develop Persona when the Monochrome flag is set Fixed redo always being a step behind in Develop Persona Fixed import of PSD files with extended blend modes Fixed Hasselblad RAW files loading thumbnail preview only Fixed occasional crashes loading RAW files  Allow Saving a document with history to be in recorded macros Fixed crash when making some selections Fixed Voronoi reset not matching the default Changed mask thumbnails to use black, not transparent Improved LAB defaults for selective channels in the document view Fixed OCIO transform being removed when the window is moved or minimised Fixed Character Panel's Decorations colour box displaying in RGB  Fixed Layer Effects Gradient Overlay sliders not working correctly 1.8.4.676 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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
Changed brush parameter shortcut from Alt+RightMouseButton to Ctrl+Alt (same as macOS) Added --legacy-wintab command line parameter, which will use low-precision mouse input and tablet pressure data (the same as previous Affinity versions). This is only for users of old tablets that don't report valid high precision input (e.g. Wacom Graphire). 1.8.4.674 release notes

I'll stop focusing on this GPU issue.
(it's definitely going to be supported sometime in the future! )
(Efforts by Mark Ingram, Chief Developer of Windows affinity)

Don't worry, it's high on my priority list, there's no way I could forget about it!