Affinity Photo for macOS - 1.9.1

[Patrick Connor]

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.1

The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.0 are as follows:

Fixes & Improvements:

• Updated lens data (see here).
• My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes.
• This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps
• Fixed numerous brush management issues.
• Fixed toolbar height in separated mode.
• Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only.
• Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped.
• Fixed shadows & highlights rendering bug.
• Astrophotography bad pixel tool improvements.
• Added ability to load FITS files with .fts extensions.
• TIFF loading fixes.
• Further TGA fixes for large files.
• Assets improvements and fixes.
• Fixed crash exporting LUTs.
• Fixed some icons being very small.
• Fixed incorrect/missing cursor issues.
• Fixed crash loading large TGA files.
• Fixed bug when erasing from a panorama source mask.
• Fixed CR3 bugs.
• Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working.
• Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool.
• Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices.
• Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF.
• Fixed assorted live filter issues.
• Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents.
• Fixed live stack with live perspective issues when the source images have differing orientations.
• New samples.
• Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes.
• Help and Localisation improvements.

Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo macOS update announcement 

The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video

UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)

The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About).

If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available.

If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

[Patrick Connor]

All Readers

This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement.

Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Photo Bugs on MacOS section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.