Staff Andy Somerfield Posted April 15, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 15, 2021 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, improvements and 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 first build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 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 1.9.3 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. The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know. Affinity Photo Team Changes Since 1.9.3 - Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter. - The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation. - Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920. - Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document. - Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file. - Panorama stitching performance improvements. - Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible). - Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1. - Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others). - Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description. - Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard. - Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled. - Assorted small fixes. - Localisation improvements. IPv6, MEB, dcarvalho84 and 7 others 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Is there some reason this is not listed in the below topic, the one I normally follow to get notifications of new Mac beta builds? Patrick Connor and Paul Mudditt 1 1 All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.3 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 17 hours ago, R C-R said: Is there some reason this is not listed in the below topic, the one I normally follow to get notifications of new Mac beta builds? I see that it is now listed in that topic. All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.3 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftemplate Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 The prayer node ui workflow appears in 2.0 R C-R, garrettm30 and affinityfan 1 2 The more restricted you put on the program, the closer you program is to idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarvalho84 Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 For me, on M1 Mac the overall performance is worse than 1.9.3. I've tested with the same file and the thumbnails have taken a lot of time to appear, moving one image seems that we are doing with some lag. In the 1.9.3 doing the same is fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csp Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 THANKS, great you added median for FS ! I use median since I have learn to use it from earth Oliver for product images and it works impressive well. he suggests to run the median filter twice to get rid of the artefacts you get with just one pass in the lower frequency layer so I wonder if this artefacts as in your implementation can have an negative impact or if you could implement it in the oliver way so that the settings are applied 2 times in the background ? https://www.adobe.com/de/max/2020/sessions/frequency-separation-20-part-1-photoshop-fs20-reto-l6153a.html Aftemplate and ronnyb 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csp Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 hm, really no one can answer my question ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted April 21, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted April 21, 2021 Hi dcarvalho84, We spotted this behaviour too - it is a side-effect of the new performance changes. We have fixed it and a new build will be up later this evening. Thanks, A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted April 21, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted April 21, 2021 csp, I will check if our implementation requires what is described - thanks for the info. A csp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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