Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Posted February 19, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: TestFlight Access App Store: Not submitted Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the second beta of Affinity Photo 1.8 for iPad. Photo 1.8 is a significant change to the currently shipping 1.7 version, so, as ever, I would strongly urge users to avoid the 1.8 beta for critical work. This is a pre-release build of 1.8 - we will release more builds before 1.8 ships. Things will be broken in this build - please use it to explore the new features and not for real work. If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry. It’s also worth noting that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs from previous releases and hope to fix as many as possible before the final release of 1.8. With all that said, we hope that you will enjoy the new capabilities introduced in this release and we look forward to any and all feedback you give to us. Many thanks (as always), Affinity Photo Team Changes This Build - Significant memory management improvements. - Further stability improvements for 3GB iPads. - Develop performance improvements. - Fixed batch dialog. - New samples. - Assorted small fixes. Changes Since 1.7 - PSD smart object import support (enable in preferences). - Customisable keyboard shortcuts. - New stock brushes (your custom brushes will not be lost). - Improved handling of RAW files when using batch processing. - Improved channels panel behaviour when disabling alpha. - Updated PANTONE palettes to include new Solid and Bridge sets. - Added support for user-editable metadata fields, including IPTC). - Improved quality & file size of results when exporting JPEG. - Improved unsharp mask “threshold” slider. - Improved selection refinement performance & quality. - Improved the noise reduction filter result when applied to JPEGs. - Improved precision of Gaussian algorithm (to reduce banding). - Improved performance of operations with large selections. - Improved memory use with alternate futures and when replacing image layers. - Embedded document fixes. - Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible. - Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data). - Fixed deletion of brushes / styles / etc. not reducing disk usage correctly. - Fixed PSD export of hidden layers. - Fixed Pixel Selection appears incorrectly when started near page edge. - Fixed rasterising a fill layer goes wrong after changing document size. - Fixed Marquee Selection not constraining to a square if you drag across the right diagonal. - Fixed failure to load some PSB files (and failing to report errors). - Fixed missing EXIF data for CRWs. - Fixed crash importing PSD files containing embedded colour profiles with unicode characters in their names. - Assorted other small fixes and improvements. - Localisation improvements. Chris B 1
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