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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed masks failing to show correct preview Fixed crash at startup Old documents with white balance, hsl, selective colour and vibrance adjustments should now render the same as before (in a legacy compatibility mode) Improved layout of Float All Fixed Layers panel to allow scroll while click-dragging to move layers Fixed potential crash when adding a HSL Layer adjustment Removed excess space after raster format descriptions in open dialog filter Removed EIP from supported filetypes (because it isn't) Fixed import of ABR brushes with random controllers Added Rasterise to Mask to context menus Updated Combine Operation's tooltip Fixed crash when dragging Stroke on Appearance panel Changed Appearance panel add Stroke/Fill and Delete buttons to be disabled with multiple selections 1.7.0.331 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Added support for HDR monitors (new HDR options in 32-bit Preview panel, now visible by default in Photo) Fixed stroke phase failing to work when adjusting dashed line Fixed creating palette from CMYK images imports as RGB Fixed brush body option not reflecting the correct value Fixed Flip/Rotate toolbar icons not correctly reflecting the state they're in Updated Welcome Screen Fixed 'Open folder in Explorer' not working with special characters Fixed Expression trig functions to use degrees by default (same as 1.6) - in previous 1.7 patches, angles had become radians Fixed failure to report errors when exporting single items Improved handling of non-displayable characters (control and formatting characters could be presented due to copy+paste from web pages, etc.) Fixed drag and drop not honouring the insertion target Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression Fixed colour picker clamping values in 32-bit documents Fixed crash when converting documents to 32-bit Select tool will share common options with related tools Added option for continuing the selection when adding new curves in Pen tool Renamed "Show Rotation Centre" => "Enable Transform Origin" Added User Rotation Centre to Node tool transform mode Changed "Add to Curves" mode, to clear other selected objects when closing a curve Fixed Colour panel's Lab opponent sliders to go from 0 to 32768 rather than 32896 Fixed inability to create unbounded colour values on advanced colour dialog Fixed Character Variants failing to show up in Typography panel Changed default shortcuts for Precise Increase/Decrease Leading (to avoid conflicting with Windows default text editing shortcuts) Fixed ability to switch to a tool in a different Persona by cycling tool shortcuts Fixed poor quality app logo in menu bar Use cornered curves for snapping bounds calculations Point Transform tool now ignores logical groups for snapping purposes Added support for 16-bit CMYK TIFF Improved handling of document save failure during close (previously a failure to save during close would be ignored) Removed Delete key from list of available keys for shortcuts (Delete is always delete) Fixed Grid colours not being saved correctly Fixed thumbnail viewer (thumbnail previews should now work again in Windows Explorer) Fixed grid system failing to work in anything other than pixels Fixed Add swatch from Fill as Global only works once Renamed "Create Colour Chord" => "Add Chord to Swatch" Fixed crash if paragraph panel undocked in non English and DPI is scaled Fixed crash on Reset Studio with no document open Fixed Layers panel drag indicator when not using small thumbnail sizes Fixed crash converting colours of embedded document Fixed crash opening a RAW file Fixed Erase, Blur and Sharpen Brushes are missing Symmetry, Mirror and Lock options Changed Lock Colourspace on the Colour Panel to be on by default Fixed Shape preset thumbnails being clipped in Light UI Improved Transform handle hit testing Fixed errors caused by attempting to save a file to a destination with no available space Fixed Develop Basic panel Output Profiles listing 16-bit profiles when developing to 32-bit Removed Twirl radius limit when using textbox Fixed Filters don't render until you move any of the sliders Added Rasterise & Trim to Layers panel context menu Fixed some inconsistencies in the Procedural Texture dialog Updated image metadata support Fixed Load LUT button can be pressed again while the Load LUT File Dialog is still open Fixed error when renaming a Macro category to an existing name Updated LUT Adjustment to support additional file types Fixed context toolbar shuffling when dragging Crop area in Crop tool Improved the Bilateral filter (should help to preserve edges and reduce colour distortion) Improved noise reduction of 32-bit images (should avoid bleeding across very high contrast edges) Fixed Export Persona to render vectors as raster Fixed Remove Lens Vignette crash with specific DNG Fixed Panasonic GH5S loading as pink Updated Stock panel Fixed crash creating a panorama Fixed Crop Tool Absolute Size Units are reset when entering a value Fixed ORF files opening in black and white Added progress to Merge Visible 1.7.0.293 release note

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed masks failing to show correct preview Fixed crash at startup Old documents with white balance, hsl, selective colour and vibrance adjustments should now render the same as before (in a legacy compatibility mode) Improved layout of Float All Fixed Layers panel to allow scroll while click-dragging to move layers Fixed potential crash when adding a HSL Layer adjustment Removed excess space after raster format descriptions in open dialog filter Removed EIP from supported filetypes (because it isn't) Fixed import of ABR brushes with random controllers Added Rasterise to Mask to context menus Fixed incorrect state when leaving certain personas (e.g. ToneMap) Added support for ICC profiles in Photoshop plugins Fixed crashes with batch processing 1.7.0.331 release notes

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10 (>=1607) Please note: We're only releasing the 293 build on Windows, in order to fix the saving crash that was introduced in 292 (which doesn't appear to affect macOS). Normal service will be resumed soon... We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 293 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcment thread As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread. Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. Many thanks for your continued feedback. Fixes Added crosshair and ability to constraint in X (using SHIFT modifier) in Curves Adjustment Fixed Group thumbnails to stay small size regardless of Small, Medium, Large settings Renamed Blend mode "Pass Through" to "Passthrough" (to match macOS) Fixed Live filter blend modes don't clear previews on mouse exit Fixed tabbing to the BlendMode combo with they keyboard on the Unsharp Mask filter and then using the down arrow key selects an invalid separator blend mode entry Fixed Adjustments/Filter dialogs tab to next input box loses focus Fixed highlight index marks in the index panel when you move the caret next to them Fixed drag below master in layers view Fixed double clicking index mark places the caret rather than selecting Fixed crash during save of large document 1.7.0.292 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Added Transform panel "relative" mode for Point Transform tool Fixed setting arrow heads to None Fixed several Appearance panel UI issues Fixed Draw Behind/Draw In Front stroke options not working correctly with Appearance panel Added support for resetting adjustment sliders via double click Documents are no longer closed when a network drive disconnects (prevents loss of work on transient connection errors) Fixed rendering error with compound curve nodes with multiple lines/fills Added 'Touch for Gestures Only' option in Preferences Fixed sporadic hang (and 100% CPU usage) Fixed assistant manager being disabled with no documents open Added Paint Mixer Brush tool setting serialisation Fixed closing application during Customise Toolbar, resulting in application being stuck in Customise Toolbar mode Added missing shortcuts for move inside/move outside Fixed sporadically being unable to add Styles to the Styles panel Added Asset panel drag and drop from Explorer Fixed Layer Blend Modes failing to display after deselecting a Group or Layer object Fixed Appearance Panel unable to use Cap, Join, Align and Mitre stroke options Fixed Layers panel mask thumbnails to draw without checkerboard Fixed sporadic crash when viewing history panel Tweaked layout of some Preferences options Layers control has now been re-written to improve performance and stability Fixed some crashes due to parsing image metadata Added 'Image Info' drop down for placed images (allows DPI/scaling to be changed) Fixed Advanced History showing timestamps in UTC Disabled Swatches panel when a document isn't open Fixed asset search Added option for TIFF export compression 1.7.0.258 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcment thread 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 colour flyout button on the context toolbar for gradient nodes Fixed crash when embedding documents (or placing images) Fixed colour picker showing object bounding box Fixed Cycle Grid Planes not immediately updating the view Fixed HSL Layer adjustment crash Fixed Channel Mixer double clicking the red channel slider resets the value to 0% instead of 100% Fixed clicking Reset in most Adjustment dialogs changes Opacity to 0% Fixed Brightness / Contrast Adjustment, double clicking Contrast slider resets to 1% instead of 0% Fixed crash when doing File | Open when the last path is no longer valid (e.g. pulling out a USB stick or network drop) Fixed create in plane now works with create-along-axis Fixed create in plane with create-about-centre Fixed Keyboard Shortcuts Decrease/Increase Brush Size shortcuts only affecting the selected tool Fixed Customise Tools fails to drop tools in certain areas Fixed Imported Styles don't appear until you restart or add a new category Fixed temporary files not being cleared properly on shutdown (causing prompts to save or discard on subsequent app runs) Fixed duplicate history items when nudging objects Fixed raster brushes not resetting in brush edit window Fixed clipping in the Print dialog when set to Italian Added slight padding on right of Layers panel checkbox Changed file recovery dialog to let you quit the app, and added a 'No' option Fixed translation failures when strings contain line breaks Fixed TIFF compression option Fixed Clear all shortcuts clears the Backspace button and prevents it being re-assigned Fixed colour picker for Pencil, VectorBrush, Fill and Shape tools (now also correctly applies the colour to the selection fill) Fixed Assets panel new category when empty causing sub-category duplication issues Fixed Assets panel creating a new category with existing categories does not show the sub-category until it is reselected Fixed Assets panel sub-categories are not removed if final remaining parent category is removed Added crosshair and ability to constraint in X (using SHIFT modifier) in Curves Adjustment Fixed Group thumbnails to stay small size regardless of Small, Medium, Large settings Renamed Blend mode "Pass Through" to "Passthrough" (to match macOS) Fixed Live filter blend modes don't clear previews on mouse exit Fixed tabbing to the BlendMode combo with they keyboard on the Unsharp Mask filter and then using the down arrow key selects an invalid separator blend mode entry Fixed Adjustments/Filter dialogs tab to next input box loses focus 1.7.0.284 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed lens profile distortion checkbox label being empty instead of "(none)" Fixed reset button on Develop Lens page setting the 'use profile' option even if it's disabled Fixed clone brush from "Layers beneath" or "Current layer and below" when the destination layer is transformed Fixed scrolling in the Crop Preset dialog not being smooth Resizing document now scales filters properly Added missing keyboard shortcut for 'Toggle Assets Panel' Added lens correction import directory for overriding/augmenting lens database Added lens profile name in Develop Added support for resetting adjustment sliders via double click Documents are no longer closed when a network drive disconnects (prevents loss of work on transient connection errors) Fixed rendering error with compound curve nodes with multiple lines/fills Added 'Touch for Gestures Only' option in Preferences Fixed sporadic hang (and 100% CPU usage) Fixed assistant manager being disabled with no documents open Added Paint Mixer Brush tool setting serialisation Fixed closing application during Customise Toolbar, resulting in application being stuck in Customise Toolbar mode Added missing shortcuts for move inside/move outside Fixed sporadically being unable to add Styles to the Styles panel Added Asset panel drag and drop from Explorer Fixed Layer Blend Modes failing to display after deselecting a Group or Layer object Fixed Appearance Panel unable to use Cap, Join, Align and Mitre stroke options Fixed Layers panel mask thumbnails to draw without checkerboard Fixed sporadic crash when viewing history panel Tweaked layout of some Preferences options Layers control has now been re-written to improve performance and stability Fixed some crashes due to parsing image metadata Added 'Image Info' drop down for placed images (allows DPI/scaling to be changed) Fixed Advanced History showing timestamps in UTC Disabled Swatches panel when a document isn't open Fixed asset search Added option for TIFF export compression 1.7.0.258 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcment thread 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 crosshair and ability to constraint in X (using SHIFT modifier) in Curves Adjustment Fixed Group thumbnails to stay small size regardless of Small, Medium, Large settings Renamed Blend mode "Pass Through" to "Passthrough" (to match macOS) Fixed Live filter blend modes don't clear previews on mouse exit Fixed tabbing to the BlendMode combo with they keyboard on the Unsharp Mask filter and then using the down arrow key selects an invalid separator blend mode entry Improved smoothness of Develop tools Fixed Live Denoise adding filter through Layers panel adds old implementation (with extreme checkboxes) Added last path for LUT export Fixed Adjustments/Filter dialogs tab to next input box loses focus Fixed temporary files not being cleared properly on shutdown (causing prompts to save or discard on subsequent app runs) Fixed duplicate history items when nudging objects Fixed raster brushes not resetting in brush edit window Fixed clipping in the Print dialog when set to Italian Fixed Reset Studio causing Histogram panel to clip badly Added slight padding on right of Layers panel checkbox Changed file recovery dialog to let you quit the app, and added a 'No' option Fixed WhiteBalance Adjustment Tint slider is the opposite way around to ToneMap and Develop Fixed translation failures when strings contain line breaks Fixed TIFF compression option Fixed Clear all shortcuts clears the "Delete" button and prevents it being re-assigned Fixed EXIF Modifed Date is not updated when saved/exported Fixed colour picker for Pencil, VectorBrush, Fill and Shape tools (now also correctly applies the colour to the selection fill) Added colour flyout button on the context toolbar for gradient nodes Fixed crash when embedding documents (or placing images) Fixed colour picker showing object bounding box Fixed HSL Layer adjustment crash Fixed Channel Mixer double clicking the red channel slider resets the value to 0% instead of 100% Fixed clicking Reset in most Adjustment dialogs changes Opacity to 0% Fixed Brightness / Contrast Adjustment, double clicking Contrast slider resets to 1% instead of 0% Fixed crash loading multiple documents with metadata Fixed crash when doing File | Open when the last path is no longer valid (e.g. pulling out a USB stick or network drop) Fixed Keyboard Shortcuts Decrease/Increase Brush Size shortcuts only affecting the selected tool Fixed Customise Tools fails to drop tools in certain areas Changed 32-bit brightness / contrast to be linear Fixed clicking Reveal with Golden Spiral crop locks you in Develop Persona and/or crashes Fixed Russian Macro panel being untranslated 1.7.0.284 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Increased hit box area around Layers visibility checkbox Removed Fill flyout 'None' tab, and replaced with a 'None' button Added support for import and export of PSD layer colour Fixed moving the mouse away from a blend mode doesn't change the preview back to Normal Fixed Arrowhead preview menu in light UI Fixed dragging a slider in an Adjustment dialog resets the Blend Mode 1.7.0.256 Fixes You're never going to believe it... ARROWHEADS! Added ability to have multiple fills and lines on objects (Appearance panel) Fixed crash at startup when only .NET 4.6.2 is installed (due to Microsoft bug - we now require .NET 4.7.2 which prevents installation on Windows 10 1507 and 1511) Reverted change to Layers panel font size Fixed crash printing constraint group node with multiple lines/fills Fixed PDF import bug preventing layers from being imported Fixed CMYK printer profiles not appearing in print dialog Improved consistency in hot key assignment (CTRL + Numpad + 1 will do the same as CTRL + 1 now, assuming Numlock is on) Fixed Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed Open / Save dialog file extensions list being too long 1.7.0.251 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Removed assert when parsing metadata (errors will now crash, enabling us to receive crash reports) Increased hit box area around Layers visilblity checkbox Removed Fill flyout 'None' tab, and replaced with a 'None' button Added support for import and export of PSD layer colour Fixed moving the mouse away from a blend mode doesn't change the preview back to Normal Fixed dragging a slider in an Adjustment dialog resets the Blend Mode 1.7.0.256 Fixes Improved performance of loading images (no longer using exiftool for metadata) Added missing Show Assets menu item Fixed problems parsing DNG images as TIFF (DNG appearing as small thumbnails) Added 'Advanced' (thumbnail) History panel view (via burger menu) Fixed crash at startup when only .NET 4.6.2 is installed (due to Microsoft bug - we now require .NET 4.7.2 which prevents installation on Windows 10 1507 and 1511) Reverted change to Layers panel font size Fixed crash printing constraint group node with multiple lines/fills Fixed PDF import bug preventing layers from being imported Fixed CMYK printer profiles not appearing in print dialog Improved consistency in hot key assignment (CTRL + Numpad + 1 will do the same as CTRL + 1 now, assuming Numlock is on) Fixed Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed Open / Save dialog file extensions list being too long 1.7.0.251 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes You're never going to believe it... ARROWHEADS! Added ability to have multiple fills and lines on objects (Appearance panel) Fixed crash at startup when only .NET 4.6.2 is installed (due to Microsoft bug - we now require .NET 4.7.2 which prevents installation on Windows 10 1507 and 1511) Reverted change to Layers panel font size Fixed crash printing constraint group node with multiple lines/fills Fixed PDF import bug preventing layers from being imported Fixed CMYK printer profiles not appearing in print dialog Improved consistency in hot key assignment (CTRL + Numpad + 1 will do the same as CTRL + 1 now, assuming Numlock is on) Fixed Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed Open / Save dialog file extensions list being too long 1.7.0.251 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Improved performance of loading images (no longer using exiftool for metadata) Added missing Show Assets menu item Fixed problems parsing DNG images as TIFF (DNG appearing as small thumbnails) Added 'Advanced' (thumbnail) History panel view (via burger menu) Fixed crash at startup when only .NET 4.6.2 is installed (due to Microsoft bug - we now require .NET 4.7.2 which prevents installation on Windows 10 1507 and 1511) Reverted change to Layers panel font size Fixed crash printing constraint group node with multiple lines/fills Fixed PDF import bug preventing layers from being imported Fixed CMYK printer profiles not appearing in print dialog Improved consistency in hot key assignment (CTRL + Numpad + 1 will do the same as CTRL + 1 now, assuming Numlock is on) Fixed Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Fixed Open / Save dialog file extensions list being too long 1.7.0.251 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed memory leak when changing workspace or closing views Added option to tag a layer with a colour (for visual reference) Added option to change layer thumbnail size (small, medium, large) Added option for showing layer thumbnail on checkerboard background Added ability to drag and drop styles and assets from Explorer Improved look of Layers panel to more closely match the macOS version Fixed erroneous spell check warning when languages switch within text Fixed Paragraph panel Paragraph Leading not using localised decimal seperator Improved OpenType to accept newer version of GSUB/GPOS tables Fixed Faux italics printing wrongly Fixed difficulties in renaming a layer Fixed update of opacity and blend mode on adjustments panel not updating properly Fixed being unable to delete mask/adjustment 1.7.0.243 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed memory leak when changing workspace or closing views Added option to tag a layer with a colour (for visual reference) Added option to change layer thumbnail size (small, medium, large) Added option for showing layer thumbnail on checkerboard background Added ability to drag and drop styles and assets from Explorer Improved look of Layers panel to more closely match the macOS version Fixed erroneous spell check warning when languages switch within text Fixed Paragraph panel Paragraph Leading not using localised decimal seperator Improved OpenType to accept newer version of GSUB/GPOS tables Fixed Faux italics printing wrongly Fixed difficulties in renaming a layer Fixed update of opacity and blend mode on adjustments panel not updating properly Fixed being unable to delete mask/adjustment Added symmetry lock toggle Reduced peak memory usage during noise reduction Fixed new stack with perspective alignment Fixed new stack with live similarity alignment Fixed rendering panoramas that use arbitrary perspective transforms Added reveal canvas checkbox to the crop tool Added ability to reset Tone map white balance sliders on double click Added live Voronoi filter Added Rasterise & Trim to various context menus Fixed live perspective 1.7.0.243 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Significant performance improvements Hopefully fixes issues related to performance degradation over time Fixed RGBA-32bit colour dodge Fixed Colour Wheel pointer rendering Fixed Linear Burn Added subtract blend mode in LAB Fixed export of PDF after Inpainting continuing to use old data Fixed application hang when using Noise slider in Layer Effects Added ability to drag and drop palette files into the application Added ability to drag brushes into sub-brushes list during brush editing Fixed Artboard constants when document dimensions change Fixed crash when using Corner tool

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed memory leak Fixed PSD import of mask groups (groups still import, but aren't visible by default) 1.7.0.240 release notes.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Significant performance improvements Hopefully fixes issues related to performance degradation over time Tone Mapping a 20MP image is now 10x faster Opening ten 20MP CR2 files is now 3x faster Developing a 20MP image is now 2x faster Complicated documents are much more responsive Fixed RGBA-32bit colour dodge Fixed Colour Wheel pointer rendering Fixed Linear Burn Added subtract blend mode in LAB Fixed export of PDF after Inpainting continuing to use old data Fixed application hang when using Noise slider in Layer Effects Added ability to drag and drop palette files into the application Added ability to drag brushes into sub-brushes list during brush editing Fixed dragging raster crop tool Fixed paint mixer brush failing to macro record Added Duplicate Selection menu item (with the old behaviour), and Duplicate now ignores pixel selection so it is the same as Duplicate in Layers panel Added persistence to Develop Tool settings Clipped Shadows, Highlights, and Tones Fixed Levels histogram showing black lines in light UI mode Fixed setting clone brush to Current Layer & Below will cause hard edges if the paint brush is over source point Fixed Clone Origin fails to follow cursor when using Aligned Fixed Layer Mask resize and Filter Effect scaling undo / redo Fixed copying a selection on a rotated document doesn't paste the selected area Changed Crop tool to use global snapping status Fixed moving selections with Move tool not showing correct bounding box Fixed rotating a raw image cuts part of the image off when you Develop Fixed switching from polygonal selection to freehand gets stuck on mouse down Allow custom crop tool history initial state for use in Develop Fixed New Stack creating a blank document with align images disabled Fixed Develop Persona spacebar panning doesn't change cursor Fixed White balance sample rectangle is detached from cursor on cropped or rotated images Added deterministic progress Flatten, Merge Down, Rasterise Allow creation of empty groups in Layers panel Fixed Raster Flood Fill tool to add a raster layer when the selection is empty Added Fill Primary / Fill Secondary to Edit menu Please let us know your experiences with regards to the performance improvements. Initial testing suggestions that the performance improvements should scale linearly across device hardware (e.g. slower machines should benefit the same as faster machines).

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed memory leak Fixed Develop applying the wrong colour profile Fixed PSD import of mask groups (groups still import, but aren't visible by default) 1.7.0.240 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools) Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet) Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading Added K-only option for Grayscale images Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator Added missing rotate icons in Develop Persona Fixed Inpainting issues when using RGB32 Tweaked Rasterise menu item order Added missing extend modes in Edit > Inpaint Make tone mapping preset thumbnails have the correct orientation Added a new dot type to the Halftone filter Fixed Inpainting with transparency applied causing the application to hang Fixed crash when using fill inpainting mode, and respect opacity and blend mode again Improved reading of Fuji X-T3 RAW Changed Liquify tool to remember brush settings per document Fixed previews not clearing when switching to / from Quickmask mode Fixed Patch tool displaying temporary artifacts on cropped and rotated images Fixed Inpainting Panorama with no missing areas results in a blank image Fixed Focus Merge ignoring colour profile when using JPEGs Fixed crash when Refining Edges on merged HDR Fixed rendering a Panorama then using Inpainting resulting in a transparent canvas Changed Develop to preview the output profile Stopped clipping to sRGB gamut on developing to ProPhoto RGBA16

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer Fixed snapping to guides and page edges Fixed importing of user items in correct order Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid Fixed incorrect curve printing Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950 Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools) Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight Fixed print copies limited to 99 Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common Fixed sporadic PSD export crash Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager Fixed being unable to select a crop preset Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog) Prevent dragging of locked layers Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG Added Hide/Show to Photo main menu Fixed Panorama orientation resulting in upside down images Improved selection refinement Fixed macro recording of document properties, and mixer brush Fixed incorrect treatment of filter effects when resizing a document containing pixel layers Fixed smoothing to curve tangent to take into account coincidental curve points (can now smooth to 'cusp' to allow for points with incidental handle points) Fixed auto-committing error in Liquify Fixed SoftLight blend mode on negative values Fixed levels alerts not appearing Fixed Flood Fill tool to allow transparent colours Fixed Voronoi alpha transform Fixed adjustment LUT export Fixed Red Eye Removal tool in Develop persona removing image Fixed Develop preview doing noise reduction twice Fixed Adjustment panels not closing when adding a filter from the menus Fixed crash opening a document with 32-bit preview tab open Fixed Gaussian blur crash when changing the blue value using the mouse wheel Fixed some lens identification issues Fixed adding a macro not adding to the default category Fixed sub-brush tab missing 'Edit' button Fixed orientation of HDR merge of portrait RAW images Fixed scale, rotate and translate not working when stacking Reduced memory usage when multiple RAW files are open at once Improved Develop performance by not performing chromatic aberration correction twice Changed Threshold histogram to show intensity Added Rasterise & Trim menu option, to trim rasterised item to spread boundary Improved Selective Colour's handling of CMYK images Show focused and selected Auto-Focus regions (in yellow and green, respectively) Fixed Auto-Focus rects to always draw in the right location Fixed LUT export of RGB cubes being interpretted in wrong channel order

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer Fixed snapping to guides and page edges Fixed importing of user items in correct order Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid Fixed incorrect curve printing Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950 Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools) Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight Fixed print copies limited to 99 Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common Fixed sporadic PSD export crash Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager Fixed being unable to select a crop preset Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog) Prevent dragging of locked layers Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG Fixed Document Zoom Level changing to 'Fit' when a Symbol is dragged out Fixed textured vector brushes failing to show correctly in Brush Editor Fixed crash when adding to a symbol after deleting all the children in one detached instance Fixed Asset sub-category order not remembered after closing app Remember Create Artboard checkbox state

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post 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 tool not drawing Allow raster brush size / rotation keys while dragging Fixed Batch dialog not parsing literal expressions properly Fixed render artifacts in split screen views Fixed Isometric panel 'Edit in plane' not working Fixed New shadows and highlights slider ranges Fixed Procedural Texture light UI icons not loading Fixed missing tool icons for Clarity, Shadows and Noise Reduction Fixed tool flicker during edits Fixed switching Personas does not retain current zoom settings when using non pixel units Fixed loading of huge JPEG files Fixed sporadic crash on shutdown Fixed crash loading old workspace files Fixed rendering of live filters Fixed Procedural Texture missing tooltips for the buttons Fixed Procedural Texture real number input delete button Changed TIFF compression to be slightly more efficient The 1.7.0 feature list is in the first 1.7 download announcement here

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post 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 tool not drawing Allow raster brush size / rotation keys while dragging Fixed Isometric panel 'Edit in plane' not working Fixed artboard preset names with slashes creating subdirectories on export Fixed tool flicker during edits Fixed switching Personas does not retain current zoom settings when using non pixel units Fixed loading of huge JPEG files Fixed sporadic crash on shutdown Fixed crash loading old workspace files Changed TIFF compression to be slightly more efficient The 1.7.0 feature list is in the first 1.7 download announcement here

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post 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 file type icons using low resolution images Fixed clipped Grid Settings button Added missing Voronoi filter Fixed Construction Snapping buttons not showing correctly Fixed View modes (Pixel, Retina and Outline) buttons Added missing Isometric panel Fixed crash when closing application in Export Persona with multiple documents open Fixed crash at startup when loading existing workspaces Fixed sporadic crash when opening Edit menu after copying document items to clipboard Fixed Installer to not specify the text for 'Open' shell entry Improved Freehand import by allowing some unknown tags to be ignored, rather than failing the import Fixed Colour panel Colour Picker being offset for some multiple monitor configurations Fixed modifier keys not being shown for tool shortcut in tooltips Improved HSL Add and Subtract modes The 1.7.0 feature list is in the first 1.7 download announcement here