Affinity Photo Windows Customer Beta - 1.8.0.526

Mark Ingram · December 18, 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

Improved lens correction of RAW files coming from lenses with fixed focal length
Added Macro library file import on drag and drop
Added 'Source' and 'Blend Mode' to flood fill context toolbar
Added 'Source' and 'Refine' to flood select context toolbar
Fixed crash in Procedural Texture when scrolling up/down in the value field
Improved Halftone panel to be less cramped
Fixed Metadata panel rating being offset by 1
Added support for Canon EOS 90D
Fixed Metadata panel to prevent further input when reaching the character limit for a field
Fixed Metadata panel Description field under File not working with Enter key
Fixed Lens Profile Detection icon (i) disappearing after opening the Lens list, even if the lens isn't changed
Renamed View > Studio > EXIF menu item to Metadata
Fixed stroke mitre
Reduced Asset panel default icon size slightly to fit 4 columns
Fixed inability to drag objects into Assets panel
Disabled Windows Ink feedback ripples when clicking with a pointer device
Improved geometric add to allow a single shape so we can unite shapes to remove overlapping areas
Improved SVG export to not simplify structure, as some people require the original structure
Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible
Fixed cursor jumping when autopanning with pointer device
Fixed selection of artboards and / or contents
Added right and middle button support for pointer devices
Fixed tool cursors when using pointer device
Fixed Wacom Tablet starts drawing straight line after changing focus
Fixed Stock panel search being cleared when switching image providers
Fixed Global Colour dialog colour picker always uses RGB
Fixed EPS import sporadically failing to load objects
Fixed PDF export so embedding colour profile always converts image colour spaces to match the profile
Fixed Colour Picker failing to average when click dragging
Added missing tooltip on Brushes panel
Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data)