Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.9.0.211)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: Beta

Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo for iPad From App Store

App Store:  Not submitted

Download link: Download

 

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the fifth build of Affinity Photo 1.9.0 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 significantly different from the 1.8.4 version available for purchase - we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Photo.

 

Thanks again for your continued support!

 

Affinity Photo Team  

 

Changes Since 1.9.0.210

 

- Added support for live liquify filter layers.
- Fixed issue with high pass live filter compositing.
- Fixed assorted compositor alpha issues.
- Fixed assorted compositor crashes.
- Added a preferences option to disable external displays.
- Added support for snapping to the pixel selection bounds.
- Fixed layout issues for the convert document controls on small iPads.
- Fixed crazy transform page bugs.
- Help improvements.

 

Changes Since 1.8

 

- Added export preview button (for raster types).
- Added Linked Layers - the ability to duplicate a layer and keep the contents of the layers linked. At present, only layer duplication is supported - UI to unlink and relink attributes of the layer will be made available in a subsequent beta.
- Added “Pattern Layers” - a fixed size bitmap layer which repeats across the entire document. You can paint on pattern layers and use all filters to manipulate them and see the resulting pattern in real time. They can be transformed non-destructively. After a pattern is added and a tool selected, a faint grey box indicates the "real" area of the pattern which can be edited.
- Added “Export Timelapse” - the ability to export a document which has undo steps as a video. Numerous options exist to control how the video is generated.
- Added a new “Combined” result to the benchmark - to test performance contexts where vector and raster content is used together. The benchmark version is still 1900 - so existing vector and raster scores from previous builds are still valid and comparable.
- Added per-layer antialiasing controls in the layer options window (it’s also hierarchical, which is nice).
- Added a registration page to the app - this allows users to login and auto-install content.
- Added support for 12bit grayscale TIFF files.
- Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.)
- Added new splash screen.

- Improved appearance of popup dialogs.
- Reduced binary size.
- Default to black-to-white gradients in the gradient tool (more gradient tool improvements are coming for 1.9, at last).
- Filter effects now work properly with global colours.

- Added noise reduction and tone mapping options into the HDR merge dialog.
- Added curves adjustment to the tone mapping persona.
- Added “Duplicate spare channel” to right click menu.
- Merged assorted iOS14 fixes from 1.8.6.
- Fixed numerous bugs with brushes, introduced in the 1.9.0 betas.
- Fixed “Infer LUT”.
- Fixed assorted other GPU acceleration issues introduced in the 1.9.0 betas.

- Text on a path is now available in Photo.
- Assistant options are now available from preferences (so there is no need to open a document to access them).
- More filters now work on masks / adjustments / spare channels (Add Noise, Perlin Noise, etc.).
- Improved experience when editing a spare channel (view artefacts, histogram and navigator).
- Setting a blend mode on a sub-brush will now work properly - paving the way for import of PSD dual-brushes in a future build.
- Fixed issues when attempting to add layers to a spare channel (!).

- The “Serif Labs” RAW engine is now available on iPad.
- Added external display support for iPad (in the navigator panel, once the external display is connected).
- You can now single tap a spare channel in the Channels panel to edit it like a layer.
- A benchmarking tool has been added in the preferences dialog.
- Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.).
- Added a new “Divide” blend mode.
- Added “Create from centre” for the elliptical marquee tool.
- Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection.
- Added ability to create brushes from the current pixel selection with one click.

[Powerhorse]

As a reminder, so that it is not forgotten

[p_mac]

Long Press needs to be reconsidered.  It still requires that the Move tool be active prior to being able to use it.

Edited January 8, 2021 by p_mac

[p_mac]

Thank you for relocating ‘Lock Children’ back to it’s original place.  Much appreciated.

[Nana]

Photo consistently crashes when you select an image and click on the “Tone Mapping” persona.

[p_mac]

4 hours ago, Nana said:

Photo consistently crashes when you select an image and click on the “Tone Mapping” persona.

Nana if you want some action on your problem you should start a new topic in the general beta bug section and give them all the information.  Stating only what you have will not help.  For example, what kind of image were you applying the tone map on, etc.  Locate the bug report or send it through Apple.  Did you get a msg on the screen when it crashed?  
I haven't had any problems with Tone Mapping myself. 
I have posted in here because of missing actions and inconvenient ones that I don't consider bugs.  

[DM1]

@Andy Somerfield Hi Andy not sure if this is a bug or by design, but when the applying the High Pass Live filter, touching anywhere on the screen 'resets' the previous settings to zero.  Similar to fx studio?