Affinity Photo Windows Customer Beta - 1.8.0.514

Mark Ingram · December 4, 2019

Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: 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

Disabled WinTab by default (tablet users must now check Windows Ink is enabled in their tablet settings)
Improved points delivered from Windows Ink (process point history)
Fixed 32-bit Colour Chooser dialog
Improved embedded document bounding boxes
Improved error messages when running out of disk space
Fixed Expression Parser incorrect optimisation of subtract op sequence
Fixed deletion of brushes / styles / etc to actually remove the raster data (to reduce file size)
Fixed PSD export to include checks for empty rasterised layers
Fixed PSD export of hidden layers
Fixed angle cursors when the view has been rotated
Fixed Layer Effects not handling changes to document DPI when the dialog is open (using Points as a unit would continue to use the old DPI)
Fixed crash on vector export for specific arrangement of composites and clips
Fixed renaming a colour on the swatches panel not updating correctly
Fixed inconsistencies between font family ordering on macOS and Windows
Changed copied Global Colour names to have a "copy" suffix to prevent accidental editing of the original
Added Remove Columns button on the context toolbar for Designer and Photo for text frames with columns for documents created in Publisher
Fixed crash dragging fill layer to bottom of layer stack
Improvemented memory use with branching undo history and with replacing image nodes
Fixed crash editing colour via double click in swatches tab
Fixed failure to open older documents in 1.8 beta
Fixed failure to apply "Touch for gestures only" to open documents
Fixed "Make a copy" and "Continue" buttons when opening a non-beta project file being reversed
Fixed Print dialog not removing the red overlay on a scaled image
Updated PANTONE Solid and Bridge Palettes
Fixed Create Palette from CMYK images results in RGB colours
Fixed inconsistent document tabbing order
Improved performance of operations with large selections
Fixed sporadic crash when drawing text
Fixed crash after closing document with artistic text tool active
Added Stock Page to Studio menu
Updated EXIF panel (added user-editable fields, inc. IPTC)
Fixed "8/1s" exposure time string in RAW readout
Fixed Live Perspective Filter doesn't line up with images
Fixed crash with Quick Mask and Move Tool
Fixed Pixel Selection appears incorrectly when started near page edge
Improved unsharp mask threshold
Fixed crash in Batch Job with destructive Denoise filter
Improved selection refinement performance so that we can do it at a higher resolution without a significant performance penalty (versus 1.7.3)
Improved the destructive noise reduction filter to be more effective on jpegs
Added lens profile selector to Develop
Fixed CR3 import errors with certain cameras
Fixed lens lookup failing when the use of decimal suffix for integers in aperture range strings differs
Fixed placing an image whilst recording a macro adds an entry labelled Set text stylesheet
Fixed rasterising a fill layer goes wrong after changing document size
Improved precision of gaussian algorithm (to reduce banding)
Fixed Marquee Selection not constraining to a square if you drag across the right diagonal