Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.10.0.251 - RC2)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: Release Candidate

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 fifth build of Affinity Photo 1.10.0 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 changes in the 1.9.4 betas have been rolled into 1.10.

Affinity Photo Team  

 

Changes Since Previous Beta

 

- Fixed blend mode issues in the compositor.
- Fixed star alignment in astro stacking.
- Fixed issues with merge down / visible / selected.
- Fixed adjustment panel histogram issues.
- Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats.
- Fixed curves / levels / channel mixer adjustments which affect alpha when placed as an enclosure.
- Assorted other tiny fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.

 

Changes Since 1.9.3

 

- Allow OCIO display path to use EDR capability.
- Further patch tool fixes in LAB colour mode.
- Obey the document colour space when putting PDF data on the pasteboard.
- Show a message box on astro stacking completion, reporting light frames which could not be aligned.
- Fixed a sporadic deadlock issue when hardware acceleration is enabled.

- Fixed potential crash when typing text.
- Fixed potential crash when rendering large panoramas.
- Fixed issues when loading small documents into separated mode (documents were rotated).
- Fixed live defringe bug when zooming.
- Improved defringe performance and increased maximum radius.
- Improve performance when multiple Info page samplers are placed on the document.
- Improve adjustment layer performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.

- Added CR3 support for Canon EOS 850D.
- Emoji improvements and fixes.
- Improved gradient fill noise rendering.
- Lens correction improvements for Canon / Tamron / Sigma lenses.

- Fixed crash when using monochrome FITS bayer pattern.
- Fixed issues when refining a selection and outputting as a new layer with mask.
- Fixed mesh warp issues.
- Fixed issue which was preventing accurate selection of pixel layers.
- Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape.
- Fixed Apply Image when used on masks.
- Fixed TIFF DPI issues.
- Fixed numerous sharpen brush tool issues.
- Fixed crash when rearranging swatches.
- Fixed issues when pasting pixel layers into larger documents.

- Added support for emoji 😃👌😻.
- Added the ability to load ACM lens profiles.
- Assorted improvements to astro stacking, including the ability to edit the names of stacked images and the ability to stack images for different filters simultaneously. 
- Fixed issues opening some DNG files.

- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Assorted astro stacking improvements and fixes.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Attempted fix for occasional flickering of rendered document.
- Fixed crash when deleting a procedural texture constant while the cursor is still in the description text field.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed missing controls when procedural texture dialog is in non-English.
- Fixed crash when macro recording selected layer change in Japanese UI.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Added the ability to open FITS files directly, with control over demosaicing.

- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Significant performance improvements in low memory situations.

- Fixed small visual issues when switching back to templates from presets in the new document panel.
- Fixed gradient map adjustment rendering issues.
- Fixed expression input issues with decimal separators other than ".".
- Fixed issue whereby ISO speed was incorrectly reported for some images.

- Help improvements.

- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.

- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.

- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.

- 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.

[velarde]

Hello

 

The Gradient bug is still there. One of your main tools is not working properly....

This has been happening since the 1.9 release; about (4-5) months ago.

I would consider it a priority bug...  Please don't release 1.10 without fixing this.

 

 

 

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, velarde said:

The Gradient bug is still there. One of your main tools is not working properly....

 

Still here with OS 10.14.6

[Florida]

Despite my now having 32GB, even with the RC build, you are still losing track of memory (or just not bothering to clean up). I did some modest work with 9000x9000 layers, closed all the documents completely, and yet AP is still consuming 3.84GB of real memory. If I create a couple of documents with a few layers now, the memory shows 4.5GB. If I close the docs without saving the memory only goes down to 4.44GB.

If this was my team and my code I would want to know why memory is not being returned to the OS. Note that this is not VM but Real ram in use, and is not available to the other apps on the system; on low ram system it will eventually cause swapping (which is what I previously saw when I had only 16GB). I would never ship an app with such a cavalier approach to memory use. If you are using some kind of memory allocator that never returns any pages to the OS you might need to revisit that design. I can't believe this would be difficult to debug, even in C++. Maybe most users have 32GB and don't notice. It's still a bad idea to hog people's memory for no reason.

[nwhit]

4 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Still here with OS 10.14.6

...and on 11.4

[velarde]

We've had the Gradient Bug since Photo 1.9 was introduced in Feb 4.

I reported it in March.... It's been a while. Please tell the developers to put it up in the bug list.

This bug has happened before and they didn't take that long to fix it with an .01 update....

 

thanks