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We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.8.3 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.8.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed issue whereby layers clipped at to embedded document would not get clipped. Alignment tweaks. Fixed misidentification of "Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary" when mounted on a Canon camera. Fixed rendering issue with small radius filter effects. PDF export fixes. New document from clipboard improvements. Defringe filter improvements. Boolean op tweaks from Designer. Assorted small crash fixes. Assorted performance improvements. Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask. Fix issues with live filters making layers disappear. Fix embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels. Try to import PSDs with non-standard vector origination data. Small terminology fixes (EXIF -> Metadata). Fixed sporadic crashes with procedural texture UI. Silenced PSD import warnings which don’t affect the import result. Fixed develop steppers for noise reduction. 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).

I downloaded the Publisher 1.8 update. Now none of my Affinity apps will start up. What the heck is going on?

After I installed 3. update for all three programs, my apps are no longer linked together. Before, when I opened my Publisher file, the other two would open as well and would show on the top tool bar so I could jump between the three programs. Now, they are no longer linked and I have to open all three apps individually, which will make sharing and working on files between the three programs so much more difficult. Does anyone know why or have a solution to the problem? Was I on a beta testing or something because I read a question where someone "wished" they could do something like this, but I have been doing this for at least a year now... I want it back!!!!!

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.8.3 (made since the last release Affinity Publisher on macOS 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels Fix for crash and incorrect placement moving a group into or out of a Picture Frame Boolean Operation fixes Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table (Win) Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content (Win) Create artboard missing from New Document dialog in Designer Persona Page Management Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized Text Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as '<FillerText>' Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool Fixed changing text capitalization without a selection causing a crash. Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case Copy-paste Arabic text from .docx comes as Chinese in Publisher (Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent Import Empty (0 Kb) files could crash the import process Export PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths 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 the 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 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 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS Further boolean operation improvements Tweaks to Alignment Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as "Pemtax" Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space Fixed autosave failing to work Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool Fixed sporadic PSD import crash Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed 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 1.8.0 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 Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.3 Changes in this Build The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped Further boolean operation improvements Tweaks to Alignment Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded Fixed loss of selection scope when deleting objects Improved boolean operations on large shapes Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool Fixed sporadic PSD import crash Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed 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 1.8.0 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 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.

I purchased publisher (1.7.1) on June 3, 2019, for my MacOS and received my product key on the 20th. Shortly after this, on opening the app, an "update" screen appeared, but none of the buttons or link contained work. Instead, if I try to select any option, it freezes. My only option has been to close the popup to access Publisher. I also have Photo and Designer, which work fine. In fact, I recently did an online update at the App Store for Designer and noticed it does not recognize that I already have Publisher, just the other two. Something is amiss. Please advise. Thank you.

hope for the next update

hello developers and designers , i have a question that i am very confused to buy affinity because it has no shape builder tool , i tried the boolean operation but i could not do the same result in illustrator in speed and achievements , i want to just know if there are plans from developers to do something like or even better than shape builder tool ? it will save time and effort in incredible way for me and i thing many designers too , so please tell me if there just a plans for doing that because i still do not know what should i buy because affinity designer is very strong tool but it has not function that it is very necessary for me and adobe products are really expensive , so please anyone knows anything whether developers or designers tell me because i am very confused , thanks.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels Fix for crash and incorrect placement moving a group into or out of a Picture Frame Boolean Operation fixes Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table (Win) Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content (Win) Create artboard missing from New Document dialog in Designer Persona Page Management Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized Text Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as '<FillerText>' Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool Fixed changing text capitalization without a selection causing a crash. Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case Copy-paste Arabic text from .docx comes as Chinese in Publisher (Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent Import Empty (0 Kb) files could crash the import process Export PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and the 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 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.

Logging into Publisher a message popped up about the new update, but none of the buttons or even the link worked. It froze and I had to do a forced quit.

Running Affinity Publisher on an HP Desktop with Windows 10. Today, 11th April, I opened Affinity Publisher and got a message about an update to 1.8.3, so I downloaded the file, but each time I tried to run it, the update goes past the "allow" screen and "preparing" then I get "set-up failed". I tried again from inside my Affinity account, but again several attempts failed. Now I cannot get into Affinity at all - so it seems the update has removed or corrupted my original copy! When I click on my task bar icon, or through Start-up, even saying "run as administrator" I get: Looking in the crash reports folder there are none for today, the latest being 14th March, so I have added those in case they are relevant. Help please, as I cannot access Publisher now at all. 95b0e1fc-6461-48be-89cf-ee9abaf08aba.dmp d5303f95-7968-4675-b09a-bc78f0f093da.dmp

The update from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 fails quite early with "Setup failed". The log ends up with the message: +Creating InstallOperation + Path: C:\Program Files\Affinity Photo\ + WantShortcut: False +Requesting operation: SetupUI.InstallOperation +Switching to page: Operation +Starting MsiOperation +Error: Systém nemůže otevřít zadaný soubor nebo zařízení. +MsiOperation result: 110 +Setting result page message: Setup failed The error message says that the specified file or device cannot be opened. Tried to restart the computer, run the setup with administrator rights directly, but did not help.

ALL THREE updates failed and killed my installations. THANKS A LOT!

I have just started affinity photo and been offered an update, which I accepted. The update ran its course and then said "failed to up date". I now cannot start Affinity photo and subsequent downloads have failed to install as well. The program does not now show in my installed programs and I can't uninstall it.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed font sorting. Fix for expand stroke applied to objects with sharply varying pressure profiles near their start/end. Fixed issue whereby layers clipped to embedded document would not get clipped. Alignment tweaks. Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed rendering issue with small radius filter effects. Significant stability improvements for 2GB, 3GB iPads. Performance improvements for 4GB+ iPads. PDF export fixes. New document from clipboard improvements. Boolean operation improvements (excluding Divide operation). Assorted small crash fixes. Numerous small performance improvements. Localisation tweaks. Help improvements. Earlier changes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features & improvements) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 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 iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.3 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.8.2) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed font sorting. Fixed issue whereby layers clipped at to embedded document would not get clipped. Alignment tweaks. Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents. Fixed rendering issue with small radius filter effects. Ability to import .afasset files from Files app. Significant stability improvements for 2GB, 3GB iPads. Performance improvements for 4GB iPads. PDF export fixes. New document from clipboard improvements. Defringe filter improvements. Boolean op tweaks from Designer. Assorted small crash fixes. Assorted small performance improvements. Fix issues with live filters making layers disappear. Fix embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels. Try to import PSDs with non-standard vector origination data. Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask. Assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Earlier changes in 1.8 added since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and the Affinity Photo 1.8.2 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.

Hi, I'm currently running 1.7.3 and can see that there is an update from this version to 1.8.x The App store shows an update but after clicking on Update, nothing happens and the Update button simply reverts to UPDATE. Occasionally, this changes to OPEN but all that does is launch my current version. I see no option to check for updates so am struggling to get the latest update.

Hi you all, I have two questions about the license. I have read that it is possible to install it in multiple devices. I have a laptop and desktop, both windows. Is it possible? When you write "Updates available as we improve", it means also if you produce a new version with a different number? Example, I bought 1.8, you will update my version up to 1.9/2.0? Thank you in advance, Best V

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.2 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.2 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup Added "Use Windows Ink for tablet input" preference (enabled by default, disable to use WinTab) Fixed artefacts when rasterising a group with live filters Fixed Layer Effects to smart objects Fixed flat EXR export to honour layer blend mode Fixed selection problems with clipped groups Fixed failure to export to vector formats when a document contains a flipped object with line style and scale to object enabled Fixed PDF export outputting some 1-bit masks as inverted, leaving them mostly transparent Fixed crash reordering layers via drag/drop when Layers panel is floating Added missing 'Repeat Filter' keyboard shortcut Fixed Canon 5D MK II images not loading correctly Fixed sporadic RAW load crash Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink Improved text responsiveness Added missing Procedural Texture degrees/radians toggle Fixed being unable to move Info targets in Develop Persona Improved precision of Defringe Fixed Focus Merge throwing away images Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Aligment option is set Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enlosure nodes non-icon area Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repsitioned to the top level Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set 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 1.8.0 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.

Hey guys, I updated my Affinity Photo to Version 1.8.2, but then it doesn't work anymore. There is a code called: CLR 80004005. I tried to restart my Laptop, tried to repair the installation, tried to install it again, tried to installed the old version, but it doesn't work... Before the update everything was ok. Maybe someone can help

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.8.2 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.8.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer macOS 1.8.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Potentially made a lot of operations much faster... but at minimum should have fixed some of the odd things that happen to artboards recently! Fix for export issues relating to masks. Fix for inability to select 'Document' as the target area for an embedded document that had artboards. PDF export fix for flipped/rotated objects with stroke weight set to scale with the object - this could have previously caused a failure. Fix for selection-related problems with clipped objects. Fix for text going out as curves in PDFs from the Mac App Store version. Fix for crashes when saving documents started using an architectural preset. Fix for importing malformed PNG images. Double-clicking the title bar now honours the system setting for this action. Fix for slow tool interactions when the selection contains a 'textured' font applied to artistic text. Fix for expand stroke on dashed lines which had the inner/outer alignment set on closed curves. Fix for PDF export issues relating to missing straight line segments. Allow PSD smart object import in Designer. Further expand stroke and boolean geometry fixes. Fix some symbol instability problems.. Fix for some compound objects not allowing documents to be opened in 1.8 Improvements to customisable shortcuts UI. Added ability to preview fonts on dark or light background. New document panel - terminology and UI tweaks. New document panel - saves settings between uses. Reinstated double click functionality on zoom, view tools. Improved responsiveness when editing large blocks of text. Fixed blurred toolbar buttons on non-retina displays. Fixed mask bugs when resizing documents. Application (bought through MAS) will now run on Lion and Mountain Lion (again) 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. 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).

<EDITED> Please note, Affinity Photo 1.8.2 for Mac is now live so this thread is locked </EDITED> We are pleased to announce a major update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.1 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.8.1 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.7.3 are as follows: New Features & Improvements: Template support – save documents as template files to re-use time and time again, share templates across all apps and even access files on multiple devices through cloud storage. New document dialog – it’s now simpler than ever to find, create and manage document presets with customised, saveable presets and thumbnail previews. Unified toolbar – thanks to the integration of window controls and the app’s main toolbar, Mac users (Mojave and above) can now enjoy more usable document space. Updated PANTONE© library – work with a seemingly endless range of colours, including updated PANTONE© Color Bridge and PANTONE© Formula Guide solid palettes (coated and uncoated). Lens correction improvements – benefit from manual lens correction override in the Develop Persona, take advantage of the newly added ‘recently used’ and ‘favourites’ lists, and enjoy improved lens correction of RAW files coming from fixed focal length lenses. Big plugin support improvements – experience the power of a range of plugins in the app, including improved support for Nik collection 2.5 by DxO. Better metadata handling – new support for user-editable fields in image metadata, including the IPTC standard for copyright and other information, plus, save and import metadata files (XMP) [enable in preferences], batch whole folders of images and tag with appropriate ownership info, and more. PSD smart object support – any smart objects included in PSD files can now be imported into Affinity Photo as embedded documents [enable in preferences], letting you easily edit layers within any smart object and maintain a non-destructive workflow into Affinity – even on iPad!. Canon CR3 RAW support – open and edit your highest quality photographs in Affinity Photo. Apple keyboard shortcuts for text editing —use Apple default keyboard shortcuts for text editing and entry for an even more streamlined workflow. Improved handling of RAW files when using batch processing. Improved channels panel behaviour when disabling alpha. New samples New stock brushes (your custom brushes will not be lost). Many other improvements. Fixes Develop stability improvements. Fixed issues when printing/exporting live filters. Fixed customised shortcut save issues. Fixed various Live Filter rendering issues. Fixed crash loading certain JPEG files. Double click to edit embedded docs from layers panel. CMYK TIFF import improvements. Reference presets for the Pro Display XDR are now supported properly. Filter effects now support high intensity colours in 32-bit mode. Text field expression improvements. Added a new lens profile selector to Develop. Reimplemented the HSL filter's HSV option. Improved quality & file size of results when exporting JPEG. Switching to a mask node will now automatically switch to the grey colour slider. Improved lens correction of RAW files coming from lenses with fixed focal length. Improved unsharp mask “threshold” slider. Improved selection refinement performance & quality. Improved the noise reduction filter result when applied to JPEGs. Improved precision of Gaussian algorithm (to reduce banding). Improved reporting of file load errors (could previously report file corruption incorrectly). Improved performance of operations with large selections. Improved memory use with alternate futures and when replacing image layers. Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible. Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data). Fixed deletion of brushes / styles / etc. not reducing disk usage correctly. Fixed PSD export of hidden layers. Fixed angle cursors when the view has been rotated. Fixed “Create Palette” from CMYK images resulting in RGB colours. Fixed Pixel Selection appears incorrectly when started near page edge. Fixed rasterising a fill layer goes wrong after changing document size. Fixed Marquee Selection not constraining to a square if you drag across the right diagonal. Fixed mis-identification of some Tamron lenses mounted to Canon bodies. Fixed failure to load some PSB files (and failing to report errors). Fixed crash importing PSD files containing embedded colour profiles with unicode characters in their names. Memory management improvements. Assorted other small fixes and improvements. 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 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). NOTE: This was originally released as 1.8.0 on the Affinity Store and the Mac App Store. Affinity Photo 1.8.0 on the Mac App Store had a permission missing that caused a problem with plugins. That build has been replaced with an otherwise identical 1.8.1 build. The Affinity Store version did not have this problem, but has been rebuilt to keep numbering systems in sync with the Mac App Store.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.2 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fixed marquee layer selection including locked objects. Fixed Designer crashing when attempting to Save to Photos prior to allowing access/permission. Fix for PDF export not embedding fonts correctly. Keyboard shortcut list doesn't update after changing a shortcut from unassigned. Fixed sporadic PDF load crash. Boolean operation fixes. Convert to curves improvements. Improved responsiveness when editing large blocks of text. Fixed some non-functioning options when exporting PSD. General performance improvements. Localisation tweaks. Help improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8.0 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features & improvements) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 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 1.8.2 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.8.2 (made since the last release Affinity Publisher on macOS 1.8.1) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed possible source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup Fix for bleed not available in Photo Persona New document panel - terminology and UI tweaks New document panel - saves settings between uses Stability and performance improvements for geometry operations Fix for collecting multiple instances of the same resource image Fixed issue with placed Artboard documents losing selected Artboard ID Application (bought through MAS) will now run on Lion and Mountain Lion (again) (Mac) Changing preflight profile with no document open causes crash (Mac) Fixed possible crash on File > New in Designer Persona (Mac) Fixes for blurry icons on non-retina screens Help and Localisation improvements Document Management Fixes for slow page operations - adding / deleting /moving etc Stability and performance improvements adding and deleting pages Fixed issue with sections being incorrectly deleted when pages deleted Hyperlinks Hyperlink Panel wasn't displaying hyperlinks on Master pages Renaming hyperlinks in Hyperlink Panel can detach objects Text Spelling not honouring the language set for the text frames when opening document Fix for ligatures being disabled in justified text Fixes for Catalan Hyphenation (Mac) Fixed crash typing into Font name selection UI IDML IDML Import could create corrupt images IDML Import crash fixes with specific documents IDML Import - crash fixes for specific documents IDML import of hyphenation Other Import / Export Fixed issue exporting caused by hyperlinks PDF Export - Images with a 1 bit mask could be output incorrectly (or not at all) XLSX - File import 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. 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).