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We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.10.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.10.1 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.10.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial. Unsplash removed from the stock panel Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 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 the first update for Affinity Designer for Windows (version 1.5.1). The update is described here and can be downloaded from here. Once downloaded, close Affinity Designer and run (double click) the downloaded EXE to install it. To install this version you will need to have the Affinity Designer for Windows already installed OR you will need to type in your email address and a valid Product key when prompted. When installing on top of an existing version you will not be prompted for the product key. If you need it you can find your product key (and a download button) in your Affinity store account, where you will also find the email address used to generate the key when you ordered the software. If you have installed any previous beta version of Affinity Designer 1.5.0 or 1.5.1, it can be safely uninstalled before or after installing this release update, they are independent installs. The beta will stop working soon anyway. Please report any problems you have installing or using this new version in the Windows forum here Patrick Connor The Affinity Team

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).

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.2 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized artboards or groups Fixed crash with Vector Brush Tool when the Appearance panel is open and undoing a brush stroke and selection changes to an object that had no linestyle Fixed failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang.. Help and Localisation improvements Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. 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 Designer 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 Designer). 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 Designer 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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.3 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 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).

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.2 The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.2 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved hardware acceleration with live filters Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Fixed Canon D90 + EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens not being identified Added lens corrections & LensType mappings for Irix 11mm F4 and Irix 150mm F2.8 lenses Added support for Adobe Lens Correction Profiles Improved performance of Export and Merge Visible for documents with lots of live filters by working in larger tiles Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard. Improved Lens Correction identification Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as ".afluts" files Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory Fixed specific Print Profile crash Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang Various stability improvements 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 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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.10.3 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.10.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fix for layers control issues, introduced in iOS 15.0.2 Fix for text caret failing to move left/right with cursor key input from Magic Keyboard. More sensible options for Navigator zoom input field. Assorted other small fixes. The improvements in 1.10 since 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.3 (note this 1.10.3 build calls itself 1.10.19 in the about box, but is nevertheless 1.10.3 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.3 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fix for layers control issues, introduced in iOS 15.0.2 Fix for text caret failing to move left/right with cursor key input from Magic Keyboard. More sensible options for Navigator zoom input field. Assorted other small fixes. The improvements in 1.10 since 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.2 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.) Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups Fixed crash when placing assets containing Artboards Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode Asset Pack list sorting improved. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Data Merge Manager could crash on 'Generate' under certain circumstances Several stability improvements in response to issues with specific documents Create palette from document was only using the current spread Fixed possible crash reparenting anchors in the Anchor Panel. Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards Scaling issues with placed Artboards Tool not updated correctly when Zooming (Win) Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom (Win) Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) (Win) Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings (Win) Fixed crash when embedding a document listed as missing content in the Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash when attempting to open a file with links to images containing disallowed path characters (from e.g. macOS) (Mac) Fixed gradient transparency not working with images on M1 (Mac) Showing a studio page should unhide the application UI (Mac) Fixes issues with numeric entry fields in some non-English locales. Document /Spread Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI Business card templates shouldn't be facing page Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread Fixed Bleed inconsistency that could occur when 'Adding Pages from File...' (Mac) New Document Templates are now alphabetically ordered (Mac) Fixed bleed / margin colour tooltips Text Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]" Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font) Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow Redraw issue resizing Table with insets RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text Typography Panel fails to display certain properties Improvements when copying text as Unicode. Also renamed 'Normalize Breaks' to 'Preserve Unicode Breaks' in Preferences (Mac) Font Size drop menu now sends updates when keys are used as well as mouse (Mac) Hyperlinks containing spaces at the end of the URL broken (Mac) Hyperlink button can be incorrect disabled (Mac) Anchor dialog doesn't display correctly on older macOS (Mac) Edit Text Style dialog list truncated on Big Sur (Win) Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows Import / Export / Resources Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document Missing Content Status for placed PDFs Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies Linked Documents (EPS, SVG, AF) sometimes displayed the PDF Passthrough options Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames (mac) Prevent overwriting a Package on document close (mac) Fix for Export More > Preset menu being disabled 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 Publisher 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 Publisher > 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 Publisher 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 iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.2 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.10.2 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.10.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved performance of the Infer LUT function. Improved overlay paint / erase brushes in develop. Fixed 3 finger redo tap in iOS15. Fixed gradient midpoints when hardware acceleration is enabled. Fixed lighting filter UI issues. Fixed incorrect window size on the new iPad mini. Fixed spurious brush hardness when changing tools. Fixed issues when refining and outputting as a new layer + mask. Assorted other small fixes. The improvements in 1.10 since 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.2 (note this 1.10.2 build calls itself 1.10.16 in the about box, but is nevertheless 1.10.2 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed 3 finger redo tap in iOS15. Fixed incorrect window size on the new iPad mini. Assorted other small fixes. The improvements in 1.10 since 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.3 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 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 Publisher, version 1.9.3 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Publisher 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 Publisher > 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 Publisher 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 Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow). Placed images. Text. Embedded documents. Low-memory conditions. New Selection options Parent, Top, & Bottom Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Improved SVG import/export. Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load. (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Added support for most emoji. Added ‘Limit Initial Zoom to 100%’ preferences option. Resource Manager: New "Relink" option for missing resources. Added "File Type" column. EPS files can be linked. Assorted other small fixes. Help & localisation improvements. 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 Designer). 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 Designer 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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.4 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.8.4 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.8.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Preparations to our macOS apps to ready them for the release of Big Sur later in the year Mitigate blurring when converting to / from equirectangular projection. PSD export will no longer clip layers to the page. Fixed Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens identification. Fixed corruption with certain batch jobs when Metal compute is enabled. Fixed corruption in EPS export when Metal compute is enabled. Fixed issue where pixel selection is not initially visible when loading a document. 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. 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 other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 made since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.1 update announcement and this 1.8.2 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).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved GPU rendering Improved Serif Labs RAW engine Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses Improved PDF import/export Astrophotography Edit stacked image names for better organisation Stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups (auto-alignment avoids resampling) Open FITS files directly in Photo Persona (control over demosaicing) Support for FUJIFILM X-Trans sensor images Improved performance with: Panorama stitching Defringing and increased maximum radius Multiple placed Info page samplers Adjustment layers when hardware acceleration is disabled Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory situations Converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats Documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible) Raw CR3 support (for Canon EOS 850D) Median Blur mode for Frequency Separation filter Added hardware acceleration to Gradient Map adjustment Added GPU acceleration for blend ranges Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape Added support for most emoji Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles Added additional file drag drop options when holding Option key Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources New File Type column EPS files can be linked Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement.. 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).

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.2 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.1 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.) Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups Fixed crash when placing assets containing Artboards Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode Asset Pack list sorting improved. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Data Merge Manager could crash on 'Generate' under certain circumstances Several stability improvements in response to issues with specific documents Create palette from document was only using the current spread Fixed possible crash reparenting anchors in the Anchor Panel. Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards Scaling issues with placed Artboards Tool not updated correctly when Zooming (Win) Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom (Win) Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) (Win) Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings (Win) Fixed crash when embedding a document listed as missing content in the Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash when attempting to open a file with links to images containing disallowed path characters (from e.g. macOS) (Mac) Fixed gradient transparency not working with images on M1 (Mac) Showing a studio page should unhide the application UI (Mac) Fixes issues with numeric entry fields in some non-English locales. Document /Spread Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI Business card templates shouldn't be facing page Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread Fixed Bleed inconsistency that could occur when 'Adding Pages from File...' (Mac) New Document Templates are now alphabetically ordered (Mac) Fixed bleed / margin colour tooltips Text Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]" Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font) Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow Redraw issue resizing Table with insets RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text Typography Panel fails to display certain properties Improvements when copying text as Unicode. Also renamed 'Normalize Breaks' to 'Preserve Unicode Breaks' in Preferences (Mac) Font Size drop menu now sends updates when keys are used as well as mouse (Mac) Hyperlinks containing spaces at the end of the URL broken (Mac) Hyperlink button can be incorrect disabled (Mac) Anchor dialog doesn't display correctly on older macOS (Mac) Edit Text Style dialog list truncated on Big Sur (Win) Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows Import / Export / Resources Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document Missing Content Status for placed PDFs Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies Linked Documents (EPS, SVG, AF) sometimes displayed the PDF Passthrough options Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames (mac) Prevent overwriting a Package on document close (mac) Fix for Export More > Preset menu being disabled Changes, improvements 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 Publisher 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 Publisher). 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 Publisher 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.

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 Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.2 are as follows: Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Editing speed with long stories Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory conditions Placed PDFs set to Passthrough Documents containing placed documents (Resource Manager) Smaller PDF export file sizes when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDFs are present. Better output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough exported as PDF formats that do not support Passthrough. Added support for most emoji Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Added ‘Limit Initial Zoom to 100%’ preferences option (Windows) Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names. Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Import keyboard shortcuts from IDML files. Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources. New File Type column. EPS files can be linked. Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement. 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 Publisher). 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 Publisher 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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.1 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.10.1 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.10.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Unsplash removed from the stock panel Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.1 (note this 1.10.1 build calls itself 1.10.5 in the about box, but is nevertheless 1.10.1 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.1 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.10.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Unsplash removed from the stock panel. Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0 The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.0 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved GPU rendering Improved Serif Labs RAW engine Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses Improved PDF import/export Astrophotography Edit stacked image names for better organisation Stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups (auto-alignment avoids resampling) Open FITS files directly in Photo Persona (control over demosaicing) Support for FUJIFILM X-Trans sensor images Improved performance with: Panorama stitching Multiple placed Info page samplers Adjustment layers when hardware acceleration is disabled Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory situations (including Windows OpenCL preventing fall-back from hardware to software) Converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats Documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible) Raw CR3 support (for Canon EOS 850D) Median Blur mode for Frequency Separation filter Added hardware acceleration to Gradient Map adjustment Added support for most emoji Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles Added additional file drag drop options when holding Alt key Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources New File Type column EPS files can be linked Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement. 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.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.8.4 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.8.4 (over the last release Affinity Designer macOS 1.8.3) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Preparations to our macOS apps to ready them for the release of Big Sur later in the year Fix for undesirable shapes being created when dragging the start/end nodes of a shape on top of each other to close the shape. Improved margin and bleed presets for documents.. Fix for EPS exporting with black bitmap areas. Fix for incorrect rendering of grids in OpenGL past certain zoom levels. Fix for poor functioning of 'Force Touch' trackpads in pressure-sensitive tools. Speculative fix for occasional lockups in Pencil Tool. Added option in preferences to re-enable the old behaviour for deleting objects (we used to previously favour empty selections). 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 (make it easier to drag child items around within their container without affecting parenting). PDF Import - Import now allows creation of Artistic Text if 'Group lines of Text into Text Frames' is switched off PDF import performance improvements. Document save performance improvements. Text performance improvements. Assorted small bug fixes. Fix for 'Expand Strokes' failing to consider 'velocity' as a width controller. Fix for focus issues when tabbing between text entry fields in the Colour panel with Text objects selected. Fix for operation of Command+Right-Click on an object to show the tree hierarchy of the selected node. Allow certain documents created on Windows to open correctly (if the document contained a saved reference to exporting as Windows GDI formats). Help and Localisation improvements Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.1 update announcement and this 1.8.2 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 Publisher, version 1.10.0 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Editing speed with long stories Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory conditions Placed PDFs set to Passthrough Documents containing placed documents (Resource Manager) Smaller PDF export file sizes when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDFs are present. Better output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough exported as PDF formats that do not support Passthrough. Added support for most emoji Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names. Import keyboard shortcuts from IDML files. Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources. New File Type column. EPS files can be linked. Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement. 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 Publisher > 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 Publisher 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 Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.1 The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.1 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed Crashes and errors when using the My Account option Fixed crash at start-up due to broken OpenCL drivers ( potential startup crashes are detected, and hardware acceleration is prevented.) Disabled hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and later cards (awaiting response to bug filed with AMD) Fixed asset dragging performance for some assets Fixed some documents failing to load (hanging) Fixed JPEG and TIFF filter descriptions (was "Affinity Files") Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only Updated image metadata parsing Updated lens data (see here) Fixed hardware acceleration performance and quality for: Patch Tool, Shadows & Highlights, Healing Brush, Channel Mixer, Focus Merge, Remove Lens Vignette (Develop Persona), Shear Filter, Posterise Liquify Turbulence Tool, Haze Removal Filter, Panorama Improved content syncing Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped Added .fts extension support Improved Astrophotography to detect bad pixels before inspecting light frames Improved Astrophotography to use the bad pixel map, if any, when loading images for alignment. Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (i.e. single holes) Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents Fixed Panorama Erase from Source Mask tool artefacts Fixed TGA import to allow loading of larger files Fixed crash when loading some CR3 files. Fixed Studio Preset shortcuts not being restored after a subsequent launch Fixed potential crash on the pattern layer context toolbar sampler control Fixed potential crash when a updating the layer editability Fixed potential crash showing Product Key dialog Fixed "Copy As SVG" preventing Affinity data being added to the clipboard Fixed New from Clipboard of raster data from external applications, as it was always preferring EMF/WMF over raster data (ignoring the 'Prefer metafile over raster ...' general setting) Fixed artefacts when rotating live filters as children of pixel layers Fixed Astrophotography results file labels being white in light UI mode Fixed cancelling Astrophotography Stacking to ask for confirmation before closing the document Renamed Linked Layers "Filter effect parameters" to "Layer effect parameters" Fixed being unable to apply styles with a single click in list mode Fixed crash on shutdown while My Account content is still downloading Improved PDF Import of text lists and numbers lists Fixed PDF Import incorrectly identifying clips as redundant and removing them Fixed copying of objects not copying their tag colour Fixed Export Preview scaling issues Various stability improvements 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 Windows 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 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.