Affinity Photo for macOS - 1.9.2

[Patrick Connor]

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.2

The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows:

Fixes & Improvements:

• 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.
• Fixed potential deadlock issue when loading large files.
• Fixed assorted small registration page issues.
• Fixed the size of the “General” section in preferences.
• Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads.
• Fixed inability to add / rename / delete export presets.
• Fixed issue where UI would remain hidden when a studio page was enabled from the menu.
• 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.
• Enforce ISO country code character limit.
• Fixed crashes with malformed ICC profiles.
• Improved the reliability of panorama stitching.
• Fixed bugs which were preventing Unsplash stock page items from working.
• Improved PSD import from recent versions of PS.
• Output levels (in the levels adjustment layer) are now correctly exported to / imported from PSD.
• Fixed missing EXIF data for EOS 300D RAW.
• Fixed a HEIC crash.
• Localisation improvements.
• 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 

 

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.

[j3rry]

I am very pleased that unsplash is working again, along with other quirks. Thanks to the developers for the effort. I wish you all a happy Easter and stay healthy.

[drjmetz]

What are the minimum system requirements for this release?

Thank you.

[Old Bruce]

20 minutes ago, drjmetz said:

What are the minimum system requirements for this release?

Thank you.

They are listed in the individual application's Tech Specs sections on the Affinity website.

[Imaginarius]

A very welcome update! Thank you.

I am still sorely missing proper support for large files though (PSB). Please consider that option.