Staff Andy Somerfield Posted March 11, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2021 Status: Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download ZIP: Download Auto-update: Available Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the third build of Affinity Photo 1.9.2 for macOS. 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 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). 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 Since 1.9.2.228 - Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as “.afluts” files. - Added ability to drag / drop all adjustment presets to reorder them. - Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions. - Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.). - Typography panel performance improvements. - Minor improvements to Gaussian Blur performance when GPU is enabled. - Assorted visual fixes in the adjustments panel. - Further fixes for deadlocks with multiple GPUs. - Restored ability to plug an eGPU in while the app is running. - Assorted other small fixes. - Help improvements, - Localisation improvements. Changes Since 1.9.1 - Fixed issues introduced in build 227 for users with multiple GPUs. - Fixed occasional screen corruption introduced in build 227. - Fixed potential deadlock issue when loading large files. - Fixed assorted small registration page issues. - Fixed the size of the “General” section in preferences. - Fixed localisation issues in preferences. - Fixed inability to add / rename / delete export presets. - Fixed issue where UI would remain hidden when a studio page was enabled from the menu. - Assorted small fixes. - Hardware acceleration has been improved to better make use of Metal (specifically to batch commands together into chunks, which gives the driver a better chance to optimise commands and provides a higher degree of abortability). The benchmark has also been tweaked to use multiple command queues for the Single GPU test, which makes it more representative of “real world” use. This change affects both real-world performance and benchmark score. The benchmark version has been changed to 1920 - this means that results from this build should not be compared to results from previous builds with benchmark version 1900 (other than to measure the improvements which these changes yield). Once the iPad and Windows builds have been validated with these changes and new beta builds produced, a new forum thread will be created for 1920 benchmark results. - Assorted performance improvements for assets. - Assorted content download improvements and fixes. - Added ability to optionally sort brushes by name. - Improved performance of export and merge visible, especially in documents with Live Filters. - Fixed a crash when using File -> Share after File -> Export. - Fixed a bug where some Live Filters would appear to move after save / load. - Fixed a crash when opening a brush category context menu with no selection. - Fixed a bug which caused adjustment to fail to apply easily when clicking with a stylus. - Assorted other small fixes. - Localisation improvements. Chris B, Aftemplate, pruus and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Cuervo Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I am trying to use Affinity Photo1.9.1 and even the beta 1.9.2.229 with PortraitPro 21.4 Studio version (also tried with the 19) but it does not open the software, nothing happens. I have try with an MacBook Pro M1 and a 2012 iMac Pro (2.5 Gh, 480 SSD, 10gb RAM) it is just not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 11 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said: - Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.). As I ran into a lot of problems with assets in Designer in the latest version, I hope this improvement will be in the Designer Beta too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted March 12, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted March 12, 2021 postmadesign, If the assets in question had many / big pixel layers or image layers then this change will help a lot. I would expect it to be included in the next beta of Designer. Cheers, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesC Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 8 hours ago, Jose Cuervo said: I am trying to use Affinity Photo1.9.1 and even the beta 1.9.2.229 whit PortraitPro 21.4 Studio version (also tried with the 19) but it does not open the software, nothing happens. I have try with an MacBook Pro M1 and a 2012 iMac Pro (2.5 Gh, 480 SSD, 10gb RAM) it is just not working. Not sure if this is the right place for your observation, but as far as I know, PortraitPro (I'm still on v.19) has never worked with Affinity Photo. Trying to do so on my Mac results in a crash. Jose Cuervo and Patrick Connor 2 CANON cameras (7D, G9), lenses ranging from 10 to 400mm, and Speedlite 580EX II - iMac (24", M1, 2021) running Ventura MacOS 13.4.1(c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonkudin Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 BUG: When scrolling layer's Effects panel up-down using trackpad and cursor comes across an angle UI element (drop shadow or gradient angle, etc.), scrolling stops and angle starts to change. Not sure that's good UX, probably only change angle if scrolling gesture started ON the angle element. Patrick Connor and IPv6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maz42 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I have valid 1.9.1 from mac app store. This beta asks for product key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Cuervo Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 9 hours ago, LesC said: Not sure if this is the right place for your observation, but as far as I know, PortraitPro (I'm still on v.19) has never worked with Affinity Photo. Trying to do so on my Mac results in a crash. Hi, I have posted in several forums, I just posted in because I think that maybe they will be a little more prone to read it here, and tested with the beta version. To answer the other part, yes, it use to work I have been using both for a few years and it was compatible with version 1.7 of Affinity Photo and Portrait Pro 19. LesC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesC Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 On 3/12/2021 at 6:59 PM, Jose Cuervo said: To answer the other part, yes, it use to work I have been using both for a few years and it was compatible with version 1.7 of Affinity Photo and Portrait Pro 19. Wow! I have never got it to work on my Mac. Affinity Photo always crashed when I tried to launch PortraitPro from AP's filters/plugins. CANON cameras (7D, G9), lenses ranging from 10 to 400mm, and Speedlite 580EX II - iMac (24", M1, 2021) running Ventura MacOS 13.4.1(c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonkudin Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Getting random freezes. I'd be drawing some pixelart, doc with multiple layers, effects, embeds. Then BAM, infinite beachball. Don't even know how to report this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 On 3/11/2021 at 8:58 PM, Andy Somerfield said: - Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as “.afluts” files. I still find the implementation not entirely convincing. For example, how do I select multiple LUTs in the Adjustment panel? From what I've found, it's not possible. So I can add multiple LUTs at once but have to remove them one by one – or delete the entire category, which seems equally desparate. Moving LUTs between categories can also be done only one file at a time. In addition, I don't like that Affinity Photo doesn't prompt for a name when creating a new category. These are simply named "LUTs [index]" by default, and renaming them always involves an extra step. Granted, this is at least consistent with Photo's behavior in other places of the UI where categories are used. Do you plan do address these issues as the beta progresses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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