Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.8.2.174 - GM Seed)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: GM Seed

Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance

App Store: Submitted

 

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the final beta build of Affinity Photo 1.8.2 for iPad.

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.

This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.0 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.

Affinity Photo Team  

 

Changes This Build

 

- Fixed artefacts when rasterising groups containing live filters.
- Fixed EXR export problems.
- Import layer effects on PSD smart objects.
- Fixed marquee layer selection including locked objects.
- Fix for PDF export not embedding fonts correctly.
- Fixed selective colour crashes.
- Fixed macro playback crashes.
- Improve PNG import when files are corrupt but contain enough image data to be useful.
- General performance improvements.
- Fix for crashes when saving documents started using an architectural preset.
- Help improvements.

 

Changes Since 1.8.0

 

- Fixed sporadic PDF load crash.
- Fixed RAW loading from Photos crash.
- Fixed refine selection crash.
- XMP pass through of unknown tags.
- Localisation tweaks.
- Help improvements.

- Fixed RAW loading from Photos.
- Fixed persona switching (again).
- Further live filter fixes (as reported).
- Boolean operation fixes.

- Significant quality improvements to live filter rendering.
- Fixed focus merge issues (some images would get ignored).
- Defringe improvements.
- Improved responsiveness when editing large blocks of text.
- Fixed occasional live perspective transform crash.
- Added customisable shortcuts for panorama persona.
- Fixed some non-functioning options when exporting PSD.
- Removed redundant “Add category” option in macros panel.
- Adjustment UI now updates correctly on undo / redo.
- Avoid crashes when trying to use the camera with no permission.
- Avoid halftone crash with specific document sizes.
- Fixed OCIO display transform.
- When switching personas and confirming commit from current persona, switch to the correct persona.
- Added remaining shape tools from desktop.
- Ordered shape tools same as desktop.
- Updated samples / tutorials graphics.
- Help improvements.