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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed PDF export rasterising embedded documents for PDF/X-1 if they don't need a transparency group Fixed PDF export with Device Link colour profiles Fixed crash when trying to create palette from TIFF Fixed Curves Adjustment graph appearance in 32-bit mode Fixed 'File Not Found' error when dragging files from 7zip Fixed being unable to type in fill opacity Fixed being unable to mouse wheel scroll in the Typography panel Fixed rendering documents at less than 100% zoom, when Windows Display Scale is set to 125% or less Fixed being unable to load multiple files at the same time Fixed Library panel to scroll smoothly Fixed brush random scatter not being random enough Fixed Slice panel to synchronise with the selection Fixed laggy Brush Editor dialog sliders

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed PDF export rasterising embedded documents for PDF/X-1 if they don't need a transparency group Fixed PDF export with Device Link colour profiles Fixed crash when trying to create palette from TIFF Fixed Snapping Candidates option not being remembered Fixed Curves Adjustment graph appearance in 32-bit mode Fixed 'File Not Found' error when dragging files from 7zip Fixed being unable to type in fill opacity Fixed being unable to mouse wheel scroll in the Typography panel Fixed rendering documents at less than 100% zoom, when Windows Display Scale is set to 125% or less Fixed being unable to load multiple files at the same time Fixed brush random scatter not being random enough Fixed Slice panel to synchronise with the selection Fixed objects pasting incorrectly from a constrained object Fixed laggy Brush Editor dialog sliders

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed Gradient flyout incorrectly showing previously applied gradient Added keyline added around main window and dialogs Added Radial Controller support option into preferences Fixed ghost text objects shown in the view after creating text and moving it Fixed lines shooting out when drawing with the Surface Pen Changed pen tilt to be mirrored around vertical Fixed selection refinement in CMYK documents Fixed Exif information being removed when performing an image stack Added blacklisting of broken colour profiles (if loading them causes a crash, the next time the application runs, it will skip that profile) Changed Find in Layers Panel to switch to the Layers Panel if it's not visible Fixed FX Symbol failing to show on clipped objects Fixed being unable to change font of multi-font selection Fixed ICC profile combo boxes being too wide Fixed more Light UI issues Fixed missing Arrow Ends icons on context toolbar Fixed a number of the fields in Adjustments are clipped Fixed HSL Adjust able to enter invalid values for Hue Shift Fixed filters not able to go above 1024 Fixed OpenType MarkToLigature rule, which fixes accents on certain font glyphs Fixed import of Russian RTF text with "Language for non-Unicode programs" in Windows set to Russian Fixed SVG export to export radial and elliptical fills as vector regardless of transform Fixed PDF export to export radial and elliptical gradients as vector even if sheared Fixed crash when Inpainting on a cropped, rotated image Fixed uncommitted nudge transforms getting reverted when the user hits Escape Fixed crash when closing document Improved the performance of the develop histogram Fixed blank documents prompting to save on close Added missing Live Halftone Filter Fixed memory leak in Export dialog Fixed crash when changing export options then attempting to export on a new document Fixed sporadic crash when panning a document Fixed crash when drag re-ordering macros Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to open files via Explorer Fixed crash when the user right clicks in the open file dialog, when they have bad shell extensions installed (e.g. AMD drivers) Fixed some objects failing to invalidate properly Fixed more Russian UI issues Fixed untranslated Hintline items Fixed pressing the X on the close dialog closing the document without saving Fixed clipped Macro names in the Library Fixed crash loading EPS files Fixed black rectangle around shape when exporting due to Outline FX Fixed Exposure increasing with RAW files in stack Added guides to the Raster Crop tool Fixed double push rotation contribution in Liquify Fixed crash with massive filter nodes Fixed selection brush size not being remembered Fixed sporadic crash when editing memory intensive images

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed Gradient flyout incorrectly showing previously applied gradient Added keyline added around main window and dialogs Added Radial Controller support option into preferences Fixed ghost text objects shown in the view after creating text and moving it Fixed lines shooting out when drawing with the Surface Pen Changed pen tilt to be mirrored around vertical Fixed selection refinement in CMYK documents Fixed vector export of corner tool and filter effects on vector clips Changed Path Text to use the same icon as Artistic Text Added blacklisting of broken colour profiles (if loading them causes a crash, the next time the application runs, it will skip that profile) Changed Find in Layers Panel to switch to the Layers Panel if it's not visible Fixed FX Symbol failing to show on clipped objects Fixed being unable to change font of multi-font selection Fixed ICC profile combo boxes being too wide Fixed more Light UI issues Fixed missing Arrow Ends icons on context toolbar Fixed Assets category text size is too small Fixed a number of the fields in Adjustments are clipped Fixed HSL Adjust able to enter invalid values for Hue Shift Fixed exporting of clipped text frames Fixed OpenType MarkToLigature rule, which fixes accents on certain font glyphs Fixed import of Russian RTF text with "Language for non-Unicode programs" in Windows set to Russian Fixed SVG export to export radial and elliptical fills as vector regardless of transform Fixed PDF export to export radial and elliptical gradients as vector even if sheared Fixed uncommitted nudge transforms getting reverted when the user hits Escape Fixed crash when closing document Fixed blank documents prompting to save on close Fixed memory leak in Export dialog Fixed crash when changing export options then attempting to export on a new document Fixed sporadic crash when panning a document Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to open files via Explorer Fixed crash when the user right clicks in the open file dialog, when they have bad shell extensions installed (e.g. AMD drivers) Fixed some objects failing to invalidate properly Fixed more Russian UI issues Fixed untranslated Hintline items Fixed pressing the X on the close dialog closing the document without saving Fixed crash loading EPS files Fixed black rectangle around shape when exporting due to Outline FX Fixed crash with massive filter nodes Fixed Path Text handle dragging Fixed selection brush size not being remembered Fixed sporadic crash when editing memory intensive images

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed startup crashes Fixed application hangs (Not Responding) Improved performance of document render when dragging out a new object Fixed hang when dragging by frame text with snapping enabled Fixed crash reporter failing to generate crash reports Fixed failure to edit a Global Colour Fill that is not already applied Fixed being unable to change matte colour on export Fixed Export Preset not being remembered Fixed setting blend mode for bevel and emboss preventing file from saving Fixed Global Colours importing to Application Palettes incorrectly Fixed Colour well incorrectly showing colour when using Greyscale Added missing boolean operation menu in the Layers panel Fixed EPS load crash Added rotation of nodes in NodeTool Fixed occasional failure to finish loading files Performance improvements to Inpainting Fixed PDF import never completing when they contain tile patterns Further improvements to stroke expansion Improved error reporting in installer Improved the way we load ICC and WCS profiles so WCS profiles give a better description Fixed DNG files failing to load properly Fixed PDF import crash Disabled Radial Controller support (i.e. Dial) unless the --radial-controller flag is passed on the command line

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed startup crashes Fixed application hangs (Not Responding) Improved performance of document render when dragging out a new object Fixed hang when dragging by frame text with snapping enabled Fixed crash reporter failing to generate crash reports Fixed failure to edit a Global Colour Fill that is not already applied Fixed being unable to change matte colour on export Fixed Export Preset not being remembered Fixed setting blend mode for bevel and emboss preventing file from saving Fixed Global Colours importing to Application Palettes incorrectly Fixed Colour well incorrectly showing colour when using Greyscale Added missing boolean operation menu in the Layers panel Fixed EPS load crash Added rotation of nodes in NodeTool Fixed occasional failure to finish loading files Fixed PDF import never completing when they contain tile patterns Further improvements to stroke expansion Improved error reporting in installer Fixed Path text to support changing baseline for multiple lines Improved the way we load ICC and WCS profiles so WCS profiles give a better description Fixed PDF import crash Disabled Radial Controller support (i.e. Dial) unless the --radial-controller flag is passed on the command line

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed drag and drop of files into Application Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out Changed text to always render at full quality when typing Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it Fixed black window border on some dialogs Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden Fixed Halftone filter slider values to match macOS version Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle) Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid) Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed drag and drop of files into Application Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion Fixed Glyph Browser fails to show the selected font Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out Improved stroke expansion Changed text to always render at full quality when typing Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it Fixed black window border on some dialogs Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle) Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid) Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Added new Font Family control to match macOS version Added support for Dials Fixed colour profile loading to ensure all profiles are loaded despite earlier errors Fixed crash when the GPU device is lost (this can happen when drivers are updated, or GPUs are switched, with technology such as NVIDIA Optimus) Fixed failure to export as PDF when a document contains very small objects Improved performance of UI elements on dialogs Fixed printing colour profile conversion Detect whether the application will crash due to applications such as RivaTuner injecting code into our application (and display a warning) Fixed rulers not drawing correctly in light UI Fixed Text Style panel text being aliased Added support for planar CMYK TIFF Fixed exporting a multi-selection of overlapping objects with background, drawing with artefacts Fixed slice matting reverting to None Added progress when committing a refined selection Improvements to Selection Refinement Fixed crash when reading malformed TIFF files Fixed white flash on start-up Fixed Tab Stop values and Show Text in points Removed matting of 'None' from jpeg slices Fixed SVG import to work with scaled drawing Added missing 'Make Global' option to Swatches panel Changed Zoom panel appearance to match macOS version Fixed alignment of colour swatches on Tools panel Fixed crash expanding a symbol that contains an image inside a vector layer Fixed cancelling the creation of an adjustment preset adding it regardless Fixed crash when resizing documents or canvas to very small sizes Fixed crash when attempting to zoom to a node which has zero size Fixed crash when the highlighted blend mode is unhighlighted Fixed crash when attempting to load any EPS file that will fail to load Fixed crash when copying symbols with frame text Fixed slices not drawing correctly after zoom Added missing Print dialog buttons Fixed crash when dragging a compound layer Fixed odd pixel rounding in the document view with some display scales Added Hide Layer / Show Layer menu items Fixed duplicating artboards with symbols

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is the third beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed document draw for display scales other than 100% and 200% Changed Colour Picker "Presets" to "Radius" text Fixed crash when attempting to open documents which we don’t understand Reduced memory usage during selection refinement Fixed stabiliser context bar options not updating when switching modes (thanks Aammppaa) Fixed transforming objects leaving part of the original object position visible Fixed crash when attempting to re-open a document which had failed to autosave Added "Show All" and "Unlock All" Added Russian translations Fixed failure to load multiple image files at the same time Fixed auto slices not moving when the parent objects move Fixed Artboards to stop them adding their grids and guides if they are part of the selection that is to be transformed Fixed snapping relative to Artboards Added support for tablets being plugged/unplugged while the app is running Fixed Print dialog has truncated text and list control Fixed CMYK values being able to exceed 100% Fixed Path text baseline control having wrong ranges Fixed Character panel font type dropdown is not remembered when docked Fixed files saved with selections are not reflected correctly when reopened Improved line breaks for Chinese text Fixed PDF import of clipped groups containing a single line of text Fixed PDF import of vector clips Fixed preview brush nozzles not representing the current tablet rotation/tilt/angle

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is the third beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes since last beta Fixed incorrect colours when performing document to screen colour conversion Fixed Select All on artboards not working as expected Allow Paste between Artboards to retain artboard-relative object positions More light UI fixes Fixed pasting images into artboards not being pixel aligned Reduced size of mitre output in SVG Fixed crash when working with transformed pixel layers in symbols Differences over Public Release Version 1.5.3.69 First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents New Glyph browser Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Added option to use High Precision input from WinTab (Wacom and compatible) devices (off by default) Fixed Select All on artboards not working as expected Allow Paste between Artboards to retain artboard-relative object positions Fixed pasting images into artboards not being pixel aligned Reduced size of mitre output in SVG Fixed crash when working with transformed pixel layers in symbols Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Improved UI responsiveness when panning or zooming during complex operations Fixed right clicking thumbnails in the Layers panel deselects multiple-selected objects Fixed colour chooser dialog failing to show waterfall after applying gradient Fixed panel resizing behaved differently to macOS version Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed object moves in Layers panel when attempting to select it when scrollbar is visible Fixed text justification when a line-break is on the last line Fixed Transform & Navigator Panels overlapping when detached Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is the fourth beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes (since last beta build 74) Further improved RAW loading times Fixed incorrect colours when performing document to screen colour conversion More Light UI fixes Reduced size of mitre output in SVG Differences over Public Release Version 1.5.3.69 First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) New Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools New Glyph browser Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements Added option to use High Precision input from WinTab (Wacom and compatible) devices (off by default) Improved load time of RAW files Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Improved Inpainting seam healing Improved Inpainting memory usage Improved UI responsiveness when panning or zooming during complex operations Fixed right clicking thumbnails in the Layers panel deselects multiple-selected objects Fixed colour chooser dialog failing to show waterfall after applying gradient Fixed panel resizing behaves differently to macOS version Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed object moves in Layers panel when attempting to select it when scrollbar is visible Fixed text justification when a line-break is on the last line Reduced size of mitre output in SVG

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is the third beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes More light UI fixes Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Fixed no input being received from some Huion tablet devices Improved UI responsiveness when panning or zooming during complex operations Fixed right clicking thumbnails in the Layers panel deselects multiple-selected objects Fixed colour chooser dialog failing to show waterfall after applying gradient Fixed panel resizing behaves differently to macOS version Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed cursor not being visible over UI when using brush stabiliser Fixed object moves in Layers panel when attempting to select it when scrollbar is visible Fixed text justification when a line-break is on the last line Fixed Transform & Navigator Panels overlapping when detached

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is the third beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Improved load time of RAW files More light UI fixes Fixed failure to hit rotation centre if the object had a transform Fixed no input being received from some Huion tablet devices Improved Inpainting seam healing Improved Inpainting memory usage Improved UI responsiveness when panning or zooming during complex operations Fixed right clicking thumbnails in the Layers panel deselects multiple-selected objects Fixed colour chooser dialog failing to show waterfall after applying gradient Fixed panel resizing behaves differently to macOS version Fixed Lighting filter dialog at 150% display scale at minimum supported resolution appears cut off Fixed Brush Dynamic profiles not drawing correctly when first node is above zero Fixed cursor not being visible over UI when using brush stabiliser Fixed object moves in Layers panel when attempting to select it when scrollbar is visible Fixed text justification when a line-break is on the last line Fixed Transform & Navigator Panels overlapping when detached

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is the second beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed rendering problems with Windows Display Scale set to something other than 100% or 200% Fixed a variety of Light UI bugs Added option to use High Precision input from WinTab (Wacom and compatible) devices (off by default) Known Issues Huion tablets are failing to provide input

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. This is the first beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites (Not available in Windows version yet) New Glyph browser Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet) Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet) Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: New features Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. This is the first beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites (Not available in Windows version yet) New Glyph browser Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet) Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet) Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

The 1.5.2 Photo customer beta has finished, please read this post https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/40094-affinity-photo-customer-beta-15269/&p=201007 Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that could be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Removed new Wacom implementation, and reverted to original implementation. This will hopefully return improved in a future version.

The 1.5.3 Desinger customer beta has finished, please read this post https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/40093-affinity-designer-customer-beta-15369/?p=201003 Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that could be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Removed new Wacom implementation, and reverted to original implementation. This will hopefully return improved in a future version.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Completely re-wrote Wacom pen input! Fixed dragging an image into Affinity will cause an 'Error Importing Brushes' dialog Fixed images pasting upside down

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Completely re-wrote Wacom pen input! Fixed dragging an image into Affinity will cause an 'Error Importing Brushes' dialog Fixed images pasting upside down

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed Export allows decimal point pixel sizes Fixed can't reset specific text style values Fixed moving asset sub category is slow with lots of assets Fixed unable to drag and drop .abr brushes to import them Fixed images copied from MS paint appear flipped in Affinity Fixed text blend gamma default set at 1 Fixed typing a value for Vibrance Adjustment doesn't always apply that value Fixed tooltip typo on the Character Panel Fixed blend modes cannot be changed in any Layer Effects Fixed some Pantone Palettes showing spot icon

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed Export allows decimal point pixel sizes Fixed can't reset specific text style values Fixed unable to drag and drop .abr brushes to import them Fixed Equations aren't flagged red if they are not complete and correct Fixed Coarse Histogram warning doesn't have a tooltip Fixed images copied from MS paint appear flipped in Affinity Fixed input fields are clipped on the right edge in Live Filter Layers Fixed text blend gamma default set at 1 Fixed Tone Mapping clipped text field Fixed Tone Mapping moving a preset doesn't work and causes it to be lost Fixed Ctrl start doesn't restore deleted Tone Mapping presets Fixed undo set brush source missing tooltip Fixed Channel Image Icons not constrained by width Fixed typing a value for Vibrance Adjustment doesn't always apply that value Fixed tooltip typo on the Character Panel Fixed macros set effect colour control not appearing for macros Fixed blend modes cannot be changed in any Layer Effects Fixed some Pantone Palettes showing spot icon

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed incorrect colour transform between document and screen for non-RGBA 8-bit documents Approximately 200 other fixes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased. As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed incorrect colour transform between document and screen for non-RGBA 8-bit documents Approximately 200 other fixes