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This thread is locked, if you have any installation queries please make a new thread in the Questions forum During the installation of the Affinity range on Windows, the following issues can be flagged. Please see below the descriptions and possible mitigations available. Unable to upgrade applications - "There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package." This is a known issue with MSI based installers on Windows. Microsoft have a tool to repair corrupted install databases - Please see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17588/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed How do I know if my PC is running a 64-bit or 32-bit Operating system Affinity on Windows requires a 64-bit Operating System. Some PCs and laptops run 32-bit OS. - Please see https://support.microsoft.com/help/13443 Which Windows operating system am I running? Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or higher not found Affinity requires Windows 7 Service pack 1 - this can be installed through Windows Update. DirectX 11 not found Affinity uses DirectX 11 acceleration to achieve smooth panning and zooming of the design canvas. - Please see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/179113 for how to install DirectX 11. Platform Update for Windows 7 not found Affinity requires the platform update for Windows 7. - Please see www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36805 64-bit CPU not found Your PC only has a 32-bit CPU. Unfortunately Affinity will not run on your PC unless it has a 64-bit CPU. 64-bit Windows not found (but CPU is 64-bit) Your PC has a 64-bit CPU but you are currently running a 32-bit version of Windows. - Please install a 64-bit version of Windows. Aero requirement to run the Software We require Desktop Windows Management Composition, rather than native Graphics drivers. This is natively on for Windows 8 and 10, but on Windows 7 this is most easily achieved by turning Aero ON. If you are not willing to turn the Aero theme on there is a work around described in this post, but any issues when running the software won't be logged unless they've been verified as still occurring with DWM Composition enabled. A more general FAQ regarding the Affinity range including Affinity Designer can be found here in the Questions forum. This thread is locked, if you have any installation queries please make a new thread in the Questions forum -
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Hey all, The Photo for Windows beta has proven incredibly popular, and I appreciate that, like with any software, there's a learning curve and the requirement to invest time in understanding the software's functionality and idiosyncrasies. With no firm commitment to delivering them consistently (that bit is important to note ;) ) I'd like to share some example editing/workflow videos. My aim is to demonstrate Photo's feature set and, hopefully, help viewers understand how the tools and features they're accustomed to using in other software can translate to Photo's implementations. If you haven't caught them already, it's also worth noting that there's a huge set of video tutorials for Photo available at http://affin.co/PhotoTuts - around 165 at last count. Here they are: Hadrian's Wall Link: https://vimeo.com/191642138 This video focuses on: Raw noise reduction and dithering Marquee selections from tonal ranges Layer masking Blend modes Blend ranges Channel duplication/loading to alpha mask Live filter layers Configurable layer behaviour Tiled Building Link: https://vimeo.com/191981432 This video focuses on: Accurate selections using selection brush tool Saving selections to spare channels Loading channel information into a layer's alpha mask Live brush previews Creative painting with blend modes Dynamic brush resizing on the fly Live Lighting filter Live filter layer mask painting Fast history scrubbing Portrait Retouching Link: https://vimeo.com/194985128 This video focuses on: Automated Frequency Separation Healing Brush and Clone Brush Merging visible layers Live filter layers Live brush previews and blend modes Changing/adding colour tones Changeable workflow behaviours via Assistant dialog Live scrubbing History panel Monochromatic Architecture Link: https://vimeo.com/194986066 This video focuses on: Adjustment Layers Live brush work with live previews Painting & Erasing Live filter layers Non-destructive noise/grain addition Canary Wharf Link: https://vimeo.com/203283705 This video focuses on: RAW development Tone Curve option Apply Image with channel equations Black & White adjustment with Multiply blend mode to knock out sky colour Pixel painting to enhance colours Curves tonal adjustment Live Unsharp Mask filter for final sharpening Banded Demoiselle Link: https://vimeo.com/203294769 This video focuses on: Creating selections with the Selection Brush Inverting a selection Masking an adjustment using a selection Tweaking layer opacity Live Lighting filter with blend mode Live High Pass filter with masking White Balance for tinting I'll keep you posted as further videos appear. Hope they prove helpful to you!- 18 replies
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Why isn't there a download-thread with the latest release of Windows Affinity Photo Beta like for Windows Affinity Designer Beta?
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Hi, On PS I have the Tools toolbar moved to the right of the UI near to layers and other panels for ease of use. Will the function to move the toolbar be included in Windows version? cheers, Paul -
Hi, I note that Affinity Mac has Location Panel with map function. I cannot see this in the Windows beta? I have over 100,000 images with GPS Lon/Lat/Alt in the exif. Will the Map/Location function be included soon? cheers, Paul
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Hi, Affinity designer as the ability to preview it's file in windows explorer. Is it possible to add image preview to supported RAW files? Or is there any other way to show a grid of pictures? I made a lot of RAW images. How can I view them easily? Kind regards, Andreas -
Absolutely gutted that Affinity doesn't support Windows 32 bit. There a many photo enthusiasts (as opposed to professionals) who can't easily justify (to their partners!) endless expense on gear and it is often forgotten that the computer is just another item in a fairly long list that must be funded. I run a quad Xeon that is plenty fast enough for my needs, but manufacturers keep forcing me upgrade (which I can't afford) or I must forget about the most recent software, which seems to be all 64 bit. My question: Can Affinity be compiled for 32 bit or does it use hardware/OS features that 32 bit machines/OS don't have? If the former, then please do it! If the latter, can you consider a 32 bit version? Here's hoping, because I used Serif years ago and quite like the company ethos. I ran with Photoshop for several years then swapped to Corel but to be honest I dislike them both and have been looking for a viable alternative for a long time.
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Existence of Windows version of Affinity programs makes running them on Linux theoretically possible. While installers refuse to work under both Wine and Mono, it's no big deal as it's possible to just copy the installation from another PC or virtual machine with Windows. However, after copying files the problem is usage of .NET and WPF while being 64 bit applications. Both Wine and Mono behave as if .NET is not installed. Support for 64-bit .NET on Wine and Mono is almost non-existent, however 32bit apps usually work. Therefore, 32bit build would be super useful, as it may mean finally getting professional graphic editor on Linux (of course there will be a lot of "fun" getting DX10 to work so nothing is warranted). By the way, the only thing that made Designer go over 2GB of RAM usage was .psd exporting. -
When I try to install Affinity for Windows I get a message telling me that it can't find "Platform Update". I have been onto the Microsoft site and downloaded what is supposed to be this update. when I run this update I am told that it is a standalone installer and is looking for updates on my computer. It then appears to go round and round in ever diminishing circles until I get fed up with waiting. The cancel button doesn't work so I have to use Task Manager to stop this nonsense. I have never had this problem with any other programme - why is Affinity such a pain on my computer? I am running Win7 with SP1 and all the latest updates. -
Hi. On a 24" 4K monitor with 200% UI scaling factor set in Windows 10, the edited picture is shown 1:1 (one pixel in the picture equals one pixel on the monitor) when zoom is set to 50% and not when set to 100% as I would expect. Please see attached screenshot for reference.
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When attempting to export a design that has inner shadow on text. the shadow does not appear where it is supposed to. Latest AD for windows.
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Hi I just downloaded Affinity Photo Public Beta for Windows, and im running Windows 10 Pro x64! So, when i double click to open the app, shows the Affinity's Photo splash screen and then the cursor freezes, my other monitor becomes half blue, and the system hangs until i hard reset it with the reset button. System info: OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393 Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Processor: Intel® Core i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. 2501, 2/9/2014 RAM: 2 x 8GB DDR3 Geil Snapdragon PC3-12800 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Hard Disks: SSDs [ 2 x 180GB Kingston SV300S37A120G | 1 x 80GB Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC ] HDDs [ 1 x 120GB Fujitsu MHZ2120BH G2 | 1 x 240GB Hitachi HTS543225L9A300 | 1 x 80GB Seagate ST980811AS ] Power Supply: Corsair 750Watts CX750M
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Hey all, The Windows beta of Photo is now available to try for free! Grab it here: https://affinity.serif.com/blog/affinity-photo-for-windows-is-available-now/ Here's a short (8 minute) video that just runs through a few of the basics for the Photo Windows beta and will hopefully answer some questions you may have: Direct link if you can't fullscreen the video: https://vimeo.com/190854361 It covers the concept of personas, opening images, panels, raw file development and exporting. I'd also just like to point out that we have over 120 video tutorials for Photo available in the In-house Affinity Photo Video Tutorials thread (currently at 130 and counting ;)). They are all macOS-based, but you will find that both the interface and functionality translate to the Windows version, and so I hope you'll find them useful. If you have any questions please ask. All the best, James
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I downloaded the Windows Affinity Designer beta trial -- I think within the last 2 weeks. (?) I tried it out a couple days ago, then got an email that there was an update, tried to load the update - but the link from the email to the update led to a page that offered it for $49.99. Seems that must have been the Mac version; since the Windows version is in beta. I have been unable to run the beta at all. A message comes up that says the program has expired. Nor can I buy it, since it's in beta. This seems strange. Does the Windows Beta version have a fairly short use period? Or did I somehow trip a wire and get linked in as a Mac user, ... ?? -
Wow! Surface Studio seems to be giving its competition, Wacom and Apple, a run for their money. There's a lot of arguments out there, but i wish Apple could design an iMac and macOS to accept touchscreen input in the manner Studio does. I remember Craig demonstrating drawing on an iPad Pro and then copying the drawn map to a Mac at WWDC2016. This was supposed to showcase the brilliance of the new Universal Clipboard feature that binds iOS and macOS devices closer together. Comparing to Studio now, that copy-paste feature really looks like a desperate workaround more than anything else. When it comes to productivity, Microsoft certainly has trumped Apple, at least for now. This makes me consider switching allegiances. Apple needs to address this quickly! Right now, I strongly feel that their adamant decision to not sort of merge iOS and macOS, is more of an egotistical stance and a cruel business strategy to generate more profits. I'll reserve more comments for now, until at least after 27th October when Apple will be announcing new Mac hardware. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3135370/computers/hands-on-microsofts-surface-studio-is-a-windows-pc-for-the-mac-crowd.html Will Affinity on Windows be "tweaked" to take advantage of the Surface Dial? -
Click here to download the latest beta Status: Release Candidate 3 Purpose: Stability Requirements: None 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. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta. 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 Clone Brush tool toast message saying |TERTIARY| instead of ALT Fixed Export Persona Revert to Auto Sized (and it's indicator) being broken on resize Fixed Export Persona Slice Presets not updating on remove Fixed Global colour not being recoloured using sliders Fixed Noise slider/Colour Wheel being slow when adjusting swatch fill Fixed Ctrl runup not resetting the marquee Mode Changed Export Slices 'Select Folder' button name to 'Export' Fixed Toggling 'Show Grid' with Ctrl + ' not toggling the checkbox in the Grid and Snapping Axis Manager Fixed Reset Selection Box not updating the values in the Transform Panel Fixed Hex colour codes not copied to the clipboard correctly Fixed Text Styles: 'Show in both panels' option not remaining enabled/applied Fixed keyboard preferences, changing Persona doesn't update category Fixed clicking 'Reset' in the Preferences, keyboard Shortcuts only works per session Fixed being unable to select a font by typing more than the first character Fixed Export Persona Layers Panel 'Make item visible in export' option not hiding the page Fixed floating panels getting resizing incorrectly Fixed Character Panel resizing incorrectly Fixed Character and Paragraph panels becoming stretched after starting app with panels open Fixed switching Persona's when you have floating docked panels causes minor UI problems Fixed Selection Brush size can't be bigger than 1024 px Fixed Export Persona 'Export Slices' button doesn't disable/enable until selection changes Improved 32bit support (now has a dedicated 32bit colour profile) Fixed crash when using Refine Selection, New Layer with Mask on a Vector Cropped object Fixed some font names not displaying correctly (e.g. Pe-icon-7-stroke) Fixed missing string for OCIO Adjustment name in Layer menu- 41 replies
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Hi. I've been experimenting with the latest (.26) Affinity Designer RC the past few days and have a recurring issue where AD crashes while I am drawing complex curves with the pen. It seems to usually happen after I've drawn and copied a curve several times, and then try to draw another one connected to those. Situations like in the image below. I didn't notice this happening on the previous RC but I also didn't use it nearly as much as this one. I'm using: Win 10 64 bit core i5-4690S with integrated intel GPU 16 gb ram ssd Love the program, can't wait for the final release! -
I recently bought the Affinity Designer Work book. In the pages there are resources that I'm supposedly allowed to access and it is written such as: example.afdesign Does anyone know where I'm supposed to get access to this? I'm on windows also and I have the Windows beta version for Affinity. Would really appreciate it! Thanks! -
Click here to download the latest beta Status: Release Candidate 2 Purpose: Stability Requirements: None 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. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta. 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 IME support Fixed crash when selecting masks or adjustment layers with "Show Selection in Layers Panel" enabled Tweaked Keyboard Preferences UI to more closely match the macOS version Fixed Export Persona shortcuts not saving Fixed new 32bit documents not automatically choosing Linear sRGB as their colour profile Fixed exporting to PDF no longer exporting artboards as pages Added better warning when attempting to open non-Affinity files Fixed sporadic crash when creating new documents Fixed being unable to create new documents while an existing document is being opened Improved font matching when importing PDFs Fixed Export Persona Arrange icons being too big Fixed brush rotation allowing a maximum of 50% Fixed being unable to delete multiple export presets Fixed Export Presets not saving the 'Use DPI Value' for vector formats Fixed focus remaining on input dialogs after interacting with them Fixed Export Persona export options missing preferences context menu Added improvements to distance measurements
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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Release Candidate 1 Purpose: Stability Requirements: None 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. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta. 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 sporadic crash when closing the application Fixed left click and drag on popup sliders so they automatically close (same as macOS version) Fixed changing a slice output from raster to vector not re-adding the name or initialising the dialog correctly Fixed User Variables not exporting making it possible to create files from Export Persona with no filename Fixed Export Persona Path Components dialog containing text that should not be present Fixed right clicking the brushes list to not select the brush Fixed floating document windows remaining on top after switching to another application Fixed being able to edit registration colour swatch Fixed sporadic crash when starting a second instance, if the first instance had crashed Fixed sporadic crash when launching URLs when Windows can't find a suitable application to use Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to show a panel context menu for panels that shouldn't have a menu Fixed context bar not updating for marquee selection Fixed sporadic crash when closing documents Fixed crash on Windows 7 & 8 when scrolling the mouse wheel during the splash screen Fixed PSD import of grey colours Changed multi-page PDF export to be for whole documents, and selections of only artboards (if there is anything else in the selection, it will create a single page PDF of the selected area) Fixed slices with invalid filenames failing to export Fixed Show Selection in Layers Panel not expanding groups when individual object is selected Fixed file extensions not getting stripped from file names when using Save As Fixed Corner types to be disabled until a node is selected Fixed double clicking an already applied Text Style will re-apply it before displaying the Edit Text Style dialog Fixed being unable to apply black/grey/white/none swatch if already highlighted Fixed opening program after toggling UI bringing panels back, but leaving the toggle in unusable state Fixed being unable to create snapshots Fixed Preferences > Performance not saving Fixed Cog shape to allow more than 48 teeth Improved performance of non-OpenType fonts
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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: None 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. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest macOS beta. 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 crash when pressing ALT+Spacebar on a floating window Fixed crash using Wacom Bamboo on external display (thanks federix) Fixed middle mouse button panning becoming stuck Fixed PDF import of default widths for Japanese fonts Fixed printers marks smaller borders when bleeds are unequal Added publisher details to Add/Remove Programs Added keyboard support to text styles combobox on the context toolbar Fixed crash when exporting to an SMB share from Export Persona Fixed PDF export failing when adding negative value to Phase for a dashed stroke Fixed embedded documents incorrectly displaying their path when they are edited Fixed 'PDF Information' font changes Fixed crash when making no selection with the 'Show selection in layer panel' option enabled Added document loading message Fixed being able to edit a registration colour by double clicking Fixed crash when clicking on swatch panel after editing a swatch Fixed swatches saved with non-default Opacity/Noise values not being applied to objects correctly Added reporting of warnings when loading PSD files Fixed loading of PSD files with noise gradients (but will just ignore the noise gradients as we can't reproduce them) Fixed measuring between siblings inside groups and containers (can also measure immediate children of a container, and between the selected object and it's ancestors) Fixed preview of masks in Layers panel Fixed Customise Toolbar context menu being available during customisation Fixed Asset panel category changing when the panel is docked/undocked Fixed Character panel not disabling controls when no document is available
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Hello, Since I try Designer on Windows I allways notice a "bug" but everytime i'm saying "Don't worry it will be fixed next update !" But since It isn't fixe so maybe I'm the only one to have this problem. When I use the magnetisme tool and I put 2 polygone side by side well .... they doesn't realy look side by side. I don't think it's very clear what i'm saying but i send 2 picture and I'm sur you will understand my probleme (I hope) There you can see the probleme (and the magnetisme was active) the dark circle is visble between the two red rectangle but it shouldn't happend There you have the outline mode and no probleme in this view mode Thank's, I really hope you've understand my probleme
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Hello, I am requesting these two features 1 - The ability to scale shapes that are using corner tool without losing their actual shape. see this post for more details. 2- Having brushes fill the whole shape's stroke without a gap at the beginning. see this post for more details and thank you :) -
I need to work across Mac and PC and am really looking forward to a full suite of Affinity products that I can use across multiple platforms. Has Serif worked out a licencing for people like me who need to move files from one platform to the other and still work on them?- 3 replies
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I just discovered the program and I gotta say it looks pretty awesome. I would buy this when it comes out for Windows. Will the Designer be offered at a 20% discount + UI Grade Kit for free as well?
