Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.5.0 - Beta 9)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: Beta Release

Purpose: Fixes, improvements

Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo

Mac App Store: Not Submitted

Download: 1.5 Beta 9 Here

 

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it should be considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity in which you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity Photo 1.5 cannot be opened in Photo 1.4 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.5 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.4 version.

 

To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.

 

It's also worth noting that this beta is completely file-format compatible with the recently released Affinity Designer 1.5.1 in the Mac App Store - although the above disclaimer still applies!

 

Improvements & Fixes

 

- OpenEXR import / export improvements - including pass-through of unsupported data.

- New “Polar” mode for equations distortion filter.

- Denoise improvements in all document formats.

- More robust reading of sensor focus regions in Develop Persona.

- Denoise works properly in 32-bit documents.

- Macro page cosmetic improvements (partial, only tooltips).

- Small improvements to Mesh Warp tool.

- Equations filter cosmetic improvements.

- Small hintline improvements in some tools.

- OCIO / ICC improvements for 32bit documents.

- Fixed more Apply Image crashes.

- Improvements to stack alignment performance.

- Fixed leaked memory issue with panoramas.

- Avoid upside-down panoramas.

- Fixed inability to delete some Crop tool presets.

- Improved help.

- Localisation updates.

- Numerous other small cosmetic and stability fixes.

 

We are working on the Linked Layers functionality at the moment - it will be released soon. At that point, we will enter the release candidate phase for Photo 1.5.

 

Thanks again for taking the time to use this beta!

 

Affinity Photo Team     :ph34r:

[rui_mac]

What is the function to get an integer value?

I tried:

 

int(x/10)

round(x/10)

ceil(x/10)

floor(x/10)

 

but none works.

And, still no mod function?

[rui_mac]

Please, add the option to CLIP (as it is now) or to WRAP the x and y values.
Or, at least add the mod function so that we can make a calculated wrap.

[Andy Somerfield]

rui_mac,

 

Many more functions are coming soon :) For now, use this hack:

 

idiv(x/10,1)

 

Here is a list of current functions:

 

"abs"

"idiv"

"irem"

"sq"

"sqrt"

"sin"

"cos"

"tan"

"min"

"max"

"mid"

"average"

"lerp"

"clamp"

 

Thanks,

 

Andy.

[rui_mac]

Nice!! I managed to recreate some filters with this new knowledge about the available functions :)

Please, do add a way to access the information about the available functions and variable.
And PLEASE add a way to save expressions for later use.

[kirkt]

[beta 9] Apply Image starts to apply, but the progress bar freezes and the application becomes unresponsive.  CMD-OPT-Esc to force quit shows Affinity Photo in the list, but there is no indication that it is not responding.

 

Apply Image works as expected when you apply image from an external image file.

 

kirk

[paolo.limoncelli]

 

 

- New “Polar” mode for equations distortion filter.

 

Ok now we're getting somewhere...  :P

[anon1]

Selecting multiple layers in a macro still not working :x

Hope curve and other color correction and workflow improvements are coming in 1.5 after more than half a year past the last release :o

[Ben]

I'm updating the function list, as follows:

 

abs(n)

idiv(num,denom)     

irem(num,denom) or mod(num,denom)  

sq(n)      

sqrt(n)     

sin(angle)      

cos(angle)      

tan(angle)     

asin(n)     

acos(n)     

atan(n)     

atan2(a,b )    

round(n)    

roundup(n) or ceil(n)  

rounddown(n) or floor(n)

truncate(n) 

min(n1,n2,...nX)      

max(n1,n2,...nX)      

mid(n1,n2)      

average(n1,n2,...nX)  

lerp(a,b,t)     

clamp(n)

clamp(n,min,max) 

clampmin(n,min)

clampmax(n,max)

 

 

Note that some functions have two names (just for those who are less familiar with C).

[paolo.limoncelli]

It seems that multiplication has to be explicit, am I wrong?

[Ben]

It seems that multiplication has to be explicit, am I wrong?

 

 

How do you mean?

[p_mac]

kirkt, if you turn on Info from View → Studio before you Apply Image, you can see your AP working.  I do this when I am doing something that may take some time so that I know that AP is still working.  

[Frank Jonen]

Following the custom filter stuff with interest. Does that mean we're getting a GLSL layer too?

[Andy Somerfield]

These things are platform specific Frank, but I won't rule it out..

 

For 1.6, we may consider a Metal Compute Kernel Filter and an HLSL filter for Windows..

 

Thanks,

 

Andy.

[kirkt]

kirkt, if you turn on Info from View → Studio before you Apply Image, you can see your AP working.  I do this when I am doing something that may take some time so that I know that AP is still working.  

 

@p_mac - Thank you for the suggestion - however, even if I simply do a channel replacement (like DR = SG), it shows the Apply Image progress bar as full, but the entire application is unresponsive waiting for the Apply Image to finish and return control to the user.  The actual processing is depicted in the preview of the operation, but making it a permanent change by clicking the Apply button triggers the problem.

 

kirk

[p_mac]

Kiki, sorry to hear that my suggestion did not solve your problem. I played with Apply Image for a bit today and got some.very interesting masks and results from it. I used everything from a simple jpg to a very large complex pano.

And it did not crash once. Awesome.

[p_mac]

To the Affinity Team;

 

your software ROCKS.

 

With thanks.

 

So much to learn.

[Nana]

Hi Andy,

 

Any chance that hiding the left and right studio panels independently will be implemented in 1.5 release of Photo?  I report the issue sometime ago here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/24259-affinity-photo-customer-beta-15-beta-4/?p=114718

 

Cheers,

 

Nana

[Andy Somerfield]

Nana, 

 

We hope to make that available very soon!

 

Thanks,

 

Andy.

[Nana]

Hi Andy,

 

Thanks so much.  That will make me really really happy.

 

I will watch out for it.

 

Thanks.

 

Nana

[kirkt]

Kiki, sorry to hear that my suggestion did not solve your problem. I played with Apply Image for a bit today and got some.very interesting masks and results from it. I used everything from a simple jpg to a very large complex pano.

And it did not crash once. Awesome.

 

No problem - I'm sure it will get sorted, just noting it here for the Devs.

 

kirk

[paolo.limoncelli]

How do you mean?

 

Which one is the correct notation among these?

 

1. y = 4x
2. y = 4*x

 

Because the result is different

[rui_mac]

y=4x does nothing.

The 4x notation if for humans only. Computers need explicit operators.

[Andy Somerfield]

Yes - rui_mac is correct..

 

The problem here though is that Photo does not tell you if your equation is incorrect / malformed.. it just secretly reverts to the default "x = x" in this instance..

 

We hope to improve this before we ship 1.5..

 

Thanks,

 

Andy.

[rui_mac]

Maybe tint the equation in red when it is not correct.