Mark Ingram Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta - Release CandidatePurpose: New features, performance, fixesRequirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft StoreAs 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. Changes Fixed crash undoing Flatten Layers 1.9.0.927 (RC5) release notes Gregory St. Laurent, Jock Thomson, Uwe367 and 12 others 11 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Wow, thanks for the Pattern Layer! Pattern Layer allows you to create complex seamless textures with a brush! Pattern_Layer.mp4 mykee and Takudzwa Nyoni 2 Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCAB Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Ive noticed that when I try to export JPEG or Tiff files the export dialog shows as affinity file not JPEG or Tiff. The resulting export is unaffected and the file format is either a JPEG or a Tiff just the dialog is incorrect under save as type while exporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 2 hours ago, DBCAB said: Ive noticed that when I try to export JPEG or Tiff files the export dialog shows as affinity file not JPEG or Tiff. The resulting export is unaffected and the file format is either a JPEG or a Tiff just the dialog is incorrect under save as type while exporting. This is caused by a Windows setting that hides or shows file extensions - that is turned on/off somewhere in Windows. When Windows is configured to show file extensions, it will look like this: I happily forgot all about where this setting can be changed. 😕 Mark Ingram 1 "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCAB Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Jowday said: This is caused by a Windows setting that hides or shows file extensions - that is turned on/off somewhere in Windows. When Windows is configured to show file extensions, it will look like this: I happily forgot all about where this setting can be changed. 😕 The setting you are referring to in windows ten is under view on the top toolbar, the export dialog usually looks like this picture Ive attached regardless of the hide file extensions being enabled or not, and is only showing this way on jpeg and tiff export its a minor thing doesn't affect much other than I thought I accidentally hit save as and not export lol. Just thought Id post since I noticed it on export several times. Jowday and Mark Ingram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aji Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 The pressure parameter of brush flow does not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linslusen Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Hi Mark, sorry to trouble you with this issue again, but today I dowloaded the latest versions of the Affinity Photo for Windows as well as the Beta version. The Affinity Photo download took about 4 minutes, while the Beta download lasted more than an hour. Surely there is someting wrong with the beta download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 26 minutes ago, Linslusen said: The Affinity Photo download took about 4 minutes, while the Beta download lasted more than an hour. Surely there is someting wrong with the beta download. The retail versions are served from cloudfront.net, which is a large provider of web-caching services and which has (I believe) server locations around the world which can be used to speed up the delivery. The beta versions are served from an Amazon AWS server, with one location on the East Coast, I believe. Additionally, cloudfront may provide a faster connection to the network. Both the server location and the server network speed would impact the download speed, and that probably explains the difference you see. Not something "wrong" with the download. Linslusen 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelnt Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 i do not know if is normal . . . But if i make a selection in a pixel layer, and put an effect like gaussian blur... the effect go to all layer, not the selection. moi.cool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 I think that's the way it should be. But you can use Gaussian Blur Filter or Gaussian Blur Live Filter. You can also copy the selection to a separate layer and then apply Gaussian Blur FX. Abelnt 1 Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 45 minutes ago, Abelnt said: the effect go to all layer, not the selection. They are called "Layer effects", aren't they? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linslusen Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: The retail versions are served from cloudfront.net, which is a large provider of web-caching services and which has (I believe) server locations around the world which can be used to speed up the delivery. The beta versions are served from an Amazon AWS server, with one location on the East Coast, I believe. Additionally, cloudfront may provide a faster connection to the network. Both the server location and the server network speed would impact the download speed, and that probably explains the difference you see. Not something "wrong" with the download. Hi Walt, thanks for the explanation. A quicker download of the beta would anyway be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 You're welcome. Only someone from Serif would be able to comment on the rationale and tradeoffs between using one service or the other for the betas. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEcHNOpls Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 There is not Batch LUT importing cog icon in this RC. For reasons unknown its visible now. "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, I sleep all night, and I work all day..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 1.9.1.943 is now available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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