Staff Andy Somerfield Posted July 24, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 24, 2015 Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Beta (Stable) Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Here Good morning! I'm pleased to announce that we have started the customer beta up and the first build is available right now :) This week it's mainly stability improvements - but a couple of new features are present. More coming next week! This beta is considered stable and it's use is recommended over the App Store version. To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. - New “Lens Filter” adjustment, and ability to import them from PSD files (export coming soon!). - WEBP import support (export coming soon!) - Improved tool UI drawing speed by up to 5000% in OS X 10.8 and above (note that this is just tool UI - not everything!). - Added a blemish width control to the Develop context toolbar, and associated keyboard shortcuts. - Fixed GIF export (bad permissions were set on the resulting file). - Fixed Split Toning when image contains transparency. - Fixed artefacts when using Live Depth Of Field Blur. - Fixed bug which caused Live Filter layers to go crazy when printing. - Attempt to recover when the default system fonts are not available. - Fixed issue where user could become stuck in Develop Persona. - Minor translation UI improvements. - Fixed issue where 3D LUT would produce weird colours if the cube contained negative values. - Fixed numerous issues in Develop Persona where the developed image would be very dark / light. - Prevent crashes when users mistakenly try to open folders instead of files. - Fixed issues where Develop Persona would fail to load DNG files where lossy compression had been used. - Minor performance improvements when editing 16bit RGB files. - Fixed issue where pressing Delete in Develop / Liquify would cause havoc. - Fixed small issue where changing tone curves in Develop would generate two undo entries. - Numerous vector export / import improvements. - Fixed issue which caused path text to be inaccurately positioned. - Fixed issue with Edit -> Fill not applying colour noise. - Improved behaviour of Select All. - Fixed issue where Shadows / Highlights adjustment slider had a different range to the accompanying text field. - Fixed issue where Document -> Flatten would go crazy when used on a document which had been started in Affinity Designer. - Fixed sporadic issues with Open -> Recent and other MRU things. - Attempt to resolve file association issues, so Photo files open with Photo and Designer files with Designer! - Fixed issue where feathering a selection by a large radius would produce weird results. - Fixed issues where growing / shrinking / smoothing / feathering a “Select All” marquee would not work properly. billtils, A_B_C, Doc Stuart and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coranda Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Many thanks for the opportunity to test this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmoo Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 anon1, Andy Somerfield, Dale and 2 others 5 Hardware Mac mini (late-2014), 2.6GHz, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris 5100 Graphics iPad Air 16GB WhiteSoftware I love, and you should get :wink:Affinity Desinger - Affinity Photo - Sketch - Coda - CodeKit - iA Writer - Dropbox - 1Password Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photog Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Customize toolbar does not work for me (MB pro retina). - Oryk (MBpro 12" Retina) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorsemenZ Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 really hope you guys worked out the freezing crashing problems with this one as I had just experienced another one with the I guess first Beta. Will give this a try hopefully I won't have to keep force quitting my affinity program. I like it a lot though. The program, not the crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuller Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Hi, Just tried this beta and my Mac App Store copy; I have a couple of observations from some PSD's I've been working on today: Photo doesn't respect PSD Shape rotations on opening. Photo doesn't retain Smart Objects - they get rasterised into a single layer These are probably known issues but I'm new here and thought I'd make a note just in case... Regards & thanks for the opportunity to free myself! Not quite yet but hopefully soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuller Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Also, probably been requested but could Photo become aware of the image in the clipboard and use its dimensions on creating a 'New' document - one of my favourite features from a variety of image editing apps and it's missing here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 @mmuller The feature is available from the File menu - New From Clipboard. Alternatively just use the key combination, alt-shift-cmd-N. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 - New “Lens Filter” adjustment, and ability to import them from PSD files (export coming soon!). Wonderful! Thanks! The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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