Affinity Photo Public Beta - 1.5.0.38 (Windows)

[Mark Ingram]

Thread Locked 1.5.0.39 is now available.

 

Click here to download the latest beta

Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None

As this is a beta release, it is 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 that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Photo 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store version of Affinity Photo, and instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes

• Fixed Info panel point sampling not working
• Fixed Live Lighting Filter colour shows as None instead of white
• Fixed pressing the Character / Paragraph button on the context toolbar not expanding collapsed panels
• Fixed right clicking a node in a Curve Adjustment doesn't update the preview
• Updated more icons to look better on a dark background at 100% zoom
• Added missing Gradient Tool context bar
• Added support for 32bit TIFF
• Use higher precision pointer position for new Pointer API (Windows 8.1 and higher, Surface type devices)
• Use higher precision pointer position for Wacom devices
• Fixed 3D and Bevel Emboss filter effects
• Fixed angle dial displaying decimals
• Added missing menu items to Tone Mapping Persona
• Fixed Zoom Blur Filter slider incorrectly going to 1024
• Fixed Field Blur Filter Global Radius Input Box has no min or max value
• Fixed Maximum and Maximum Blur Filter slider incorrectly going to 1024
• Added missing Panorama persona shortcut keys
• Fixed Text > Character Traits > Underline will tick both Underline and Strikeout
• Fixed Pinch / Punch Filter slider is incorrectly labelled and has the wrong units
• Fixed being able to launch multiple Add File dialogs from the new document dialogs
• Added missing Colour Picker Tool from the default set of tools in the toolbar
• Fixed document colour profile not shown correctly
• Fixed some fonts incorrectly appearing as Segoe UI in the dropdown
• Added extra preferences for EXR colour handling
• Fixed layered EXR loading upside down
• Fixed EXR to load onto a transparent document
• Fixed brushing onto multiple layers at once
• Make clone brush tool show source marker more often
• Added alpha values on Info panel
• Fixed Sigma X3F focus pixel issues
• Fixed crash when changing Persona with the keyboard focus in the EXIF description box
• Fixed New Batch Job crash
• Fixed crash when dragging a Bevel/Emboss Profile node via FX dialog
• Fixed Continuous Export being re-enabled after creating a slice
• Fixed Equations dialog to allow tabbing through fields in a sensible order
• Fixed Perspective Filter not initialising with 'Autoclip' disabled
• Fixed Twirl filter angle input box has no minimum or maximum value
• Fixed saved macros not immediately appearing in Library
• Fixed Levels adjustment using alt modifier not working
• Added ability to move macros between categories
• Added missing context bar items to Sponge Tool
• Fixed Crop Tool context bar not updating when a second document is opened
• Fixed View not updating when the quick mask type is changed
• Fixed Resize Document crash if any value is zero
• Fixed greyness slider using 8bit values instead of defaulting to percentage
• Fixed Curves Adjustment resets after switching document 

[Petar Petrenko]

Nice, nice. Many errors resolved. Hope we can buy it this year.  :)

[Patrick Connor]

Nice, nice. Many errors resolved. Hope we can buy it this year.  :)

As do many other if you follow us on facebook...

• when windows?
• When for Windows?
• When can I buy for Windows?
• When available on windows?
• .....

;)

[verysame]

Thanks for the update!

 

I was trying the samples, after removing a few of them, it crashed:

 

[Chen ye]

1.The names of "液化收缩工具(Liquefied contraction tool)" 和 "液化膨胀工具(Liquefied expansion tool)" in the Chinese version of this software were reversed.

 

2.The "角色" in this software should be translated into "对象"， which is better.

 

3.I can't use "shift + O" to rotate the "Golden Spiral"

[janndk]

Affinity Photo has the same problem with wagging Line Style buttons as in Affinity Design: Capture 09.wmv

 

[SrPx]

Thanks !!

[Ken Cope]

You've been busy over the weekend! Thanks for the update, a lot of great fixes - well done :)

[MaxHecks]

Use higher precision pointer position for Wacom devices

 

Works great :)

[Mark Ingram]

Affinity Photo has the same problem with wagging Line Style buttons as in Affinity Design:

 

Hah! That's strange! Thanks for the video. We'll investigate.

[GARoss]

I got this error after the file downloaded;  Not sure what it means. Probably best to download & try again.

 

[wumpabill]

Thank Thank you this fixed the New Batch area

[Petar Petrenko]

As do many other if you follow us on facebook...

• when windows?
• When for Windows?
• When can I buy for Windows?
• When available on windows?
• .....

;)

 

I'm not asking "when", I just hope it will be out this year.  :)

And as addition to my hope -- Publisher to be introduced at same time for Win and Mac.  :)

[Balm]

Great update but still cannot work out how to access the panorama persona to edit an existing 360 pano.

 

[GARoss]

I got this error after the file downloaded;  Not sure what it means. Probably best to download & try again.

 

Capture.jpg

I downloaded a second time & it AFP installed without an issue. I have DSL internet which can get very slow at times. I think the first download stalled & restarted which must have caused a glitch. Working fine now. :)

[Wargasmic]

Thanks for the update.

 

I'm going to give my feedback on painting in the new update as it's the only thing I've tested as of yet.

 

Painting with my tablet is MUCH more responsive now. Before this update the cursor would lag way behind when making quick strokes. The latency now seems on par with Photoshop.

 

Pressure sensitivity is MUCH better now, there is a nice flow between line thickness when changing pressure as you draw. However, I can only seem to get line thickness working with pressure. I can't get any fade at all. Not sure if this is down to the app or if there's a setting for it.

 

The jitter for brush strokes seems to be gone, just the aliasing letting it down atm. EDIT: On closer inspection there seems to be a lot of interpolation creating straight edges when drawing a circle or curved line quickly.

 

Brush strokes still have a lot of aliasing which looks better when zooming the canvas out. I guess this is a rendering problem and not to do with the lines produced by the brush. EDIT: I'm wrong. If i save the image and open it anywhere else, the aliasing is still there.

 

Cheers!

[Wargasmic]

Noticed something that seems to be a bug.

 

Pressure sensitivity seems to be getting messed up while having multiple documents open.

 

If i open AP and create a new document, pressure works fine but after creating a second and third document pressure wont work in these documents but will continue to work in the first document.

[Angie M A]

Brush strokes with basic brushes especially are still not looking good on my wacom cintiq companion. Since it is painting that I am mainly interested in I am still unable to review the software properly as it is just not useful to me like this. The strokes may be less jagged but they are far from smooth and have an unpleasant almost marching ant look to them when drawing full screen. I hope this can be fixed soon and maybe stabilisation options added for brush strokes as the rest of the software looks promising.

[brianandcamera]

 

 

• Fixed Sigma X3F focus pixel issues

 

Oh man, if this fixes the SD Quattro problems I've been seeing, I will be a happy photographer! 

 

Now to fix the DP2 Merrill issue(colour cast) I posted and I'm off to the races! 

 

 

edit: the AF dots are indeed fixed, however, the images from the sd quattro are still looking very muddy/noisy (whereas a TIFF out of spp renders fine in affinity)

[File Not Found]

Hello! For me, pressure still not working. I'm using a Wacom Intuos CTL-480, I configured the dynamics to "Pressure" but it doesn't work.

[SrPx]

Pressure sensitivity seems to be getting messed up while having multiple documents open.

 

 

This had been detected by some user, indeed (i'm just not finding now the thread which it was...) . And is exactly as you describe it: It looses pressure sensitivity in the following files other than the first. Still, am not sure if am remembering well, but it would loose it only if you have the files opened as windows. But if you have them like embedded, opened in tabs, like you can do in PS, then it does not looses them. Is just that it makes like different process or something when they are in windows like that. I believe they did read it and must be on the fix-pending list  :)

[Wargasmic]

Hello! For me, pressure still not working. I'm using a Wacom Intuos CTL-480, I configured the dynamics to "Pressure" but it doesn't work.

Did you enable the force pressure button in the context menu?

[File Not Found]

Did you enable the force pressure button in the context menu?

I enabled the pressure options in the brush settings (take a look at the attached image) Is there other option that I need enable?

[FERRI LUCA]

I hope there ll be the possibility of printing all opened document at once and not only one by one 

 

[KiheiMan]

It's getting better for sure, but I would like to bring to Affinity developers a plugin issue.

 

I use Alien Skin Eye Candy quite extensively (as do millions of other users). After installing their plugins directly in to the Affinity Plugins folder (but you can install anywhere), AP see's it. You then must raterize anything you will use in Eye Candy 7 (in PS they do it for you!). Then trying to use it I get an error about needing editable transparency (screenshot #1) which I don't understand - nothing is locked, no other filters active and then followed by an unhandled exception (screenshot #2).

 

When I re-start AP, I get a noticed that a report is being sent (screenshot#3).

 

I had submitted a ticket with Alien Skin and their results are the same. It would be so cool if you and Alien Skin got together to solve the problem. There is no doubt I will buy AP when it is available, but the icing on the cake would be to have Eye Candy working so that I don't have to resort to my PS Extended 5.5 to use it and then import in to AP (and a terrible workflow to boot!).