Staff Andy Somerfield Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Status: GM Seed Purpose: Fixes / Improvements Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo Mac App Store: Submitted Download: 1.5 GM Seed That's all folks - 1.5 is in the can :) I've listed the final fixes which made it in below. Stay tuned for news on what we are hoping to achieve in 1.6 in the coming weeks.. Thanks one last time for all your help :D Fixes / Improvements: - Final localisations. - Final help, help localisations. - Final Touch Bar tweaks. - Final Tone Mapping presets. - Improved HDR merge noise reduction. - Fixed RAW issues with Panasonic DMC-GX80/85 and Sony DSLR-A450/500/550/580. - Fixed further OnOne TIFF issues. - Fixed a Tone Map UI crash. - Fixed a PDF overprint issue. - Fixed some PSD import issues. - Updated licenses.rtf. Affinity Photo Team :ph34r: Here's a recap of the new features in Photo 1.5, along with beta versions of the (excellent, in my opinion) tutorial videos which will accompany the features... Focus Merge Support Focus merging allows you to generate a detailed composite image from a number of images focused at differing lengths. Use File -> New Focus Merge to get started. Video tutorials: Focus Merging Focus Merge Retouching Focus Merging Bracketed Images HDR Merge Support HDR merging lets you create a deep, unbounded 32-bit image from a number of exposure bracketed source images. Use File -> New HDR Merge to get started. Video tutorials: HDR: Merging and Tone Mapping HDR: Tone Map Presets HDR: Panoramas HDR: Preprocessing HDR: Advanced Editing HDR: Ghosts Removal New 32bit RGB Editing Mode Photo now offers a full compositing / editing environment for 32bit unbounded images. Video tutorials: HDR: 32-bit Editing 32bit Develop Photo can now Develop RAW files directly into a 32bit document - so all highlights / shadows are preserved and recoverable at any time. Video tutorials: 32-bit Raw Development OCIO (OpenColorIO) Support Photo now support end-to-end OCIO colour workflows. Video tutorials: OpenColorIO Setup OpenColorIO Adjustment Tone Mapping Persona Full tone mapping Persona for both HDR and LDR images. This is obviously best used with an image merged by HDR merge - although you can use it on any image. Video tutorials: Regular Tone Mapping OpenEXR / HDR (Radiance) / 32bit TIFF Import / Export Photo can now import and export .hdr (Radiance, RGBE) and .exr (OpenEXR) images. It correctly deals with 0-alpha cases (as per the OpenEXR spec) and generally operates in linear space. It support multi-layer EXR files and offers control (through Preferences) over alpha association and premultiplication. Video tutorials: OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export OpenEXR Import Options Macros Using the View -> Studio -> Macro and View -> Studio -> Library menu items, you can access new panels which will allow you to record actions, save them, then play them back later. You can also store them in a handy gallery. Video tutorials: Macros Macros: Equations Batch Processing Using File -> New Batch job, you can queue up processing on a large number of files. You can resize, convert format and apply any number of macros to each file. The batch processing happens in the background - so you can continue working whilst the jobs are processed. Video tutorials: Batch Processing Live Projections Photo 1.5 contains a new mechanism which allows you to edit an image in different spatial domains - we currently support the “Equirectangular” domain (360 pano - Ricoh Theta, etc.). You can use all tools when editing - and you can convert back once you have edited. This is especially useful for cleaning up stitching artefacts, or artefacts at the zenith / nadir of the image. Use the options in Layer -> Live Projection to get started. Video tutorials: 360 Live Editing 360 Advanced Editing 360 Retouching 360 Multiple Views Live Perspective Projection Improved Pixel Tool The pixel tool is improved in 1.5 - you can hold shift when dragging to constrain the direction of painting (sorry we did not get this working sooner!). You can also select what happens when you hold Alt and drag - erase to transparent, erase to background colour, or erase to whatever the nominated snapshot / history location is (like in the Clone tool). New “Pixel Art” Document Resizing Photo now contains an alternative way to resize a document - using well known pixel-art resampling algorithms. If you work with pixel art and want to use this feature, it’s located under the Document menu. Video tutorials: Pixel Art Resize New “Accumulation” Brush Dynamics Many users have asked for “Opacity Jitter”. For us, opacity is a constant thing and will remain constant. However, we have added a new property to brushes - “Accumulation” - which should allow you to get what you need :) Text Styles Affinity Photo now has the same Text Styles support as Designer - it’s all shared code so it should work right out of the box :) New Marquee Modes (Polygonal, Magnetic) Photo now has 3 modes for the freehand selection tool - Freehand, Polygonal and Magnetic. Video tutorials: Freehand Selection Tool Even more RAW cameras supported Over 70 new RAW cameras are supported. Improved Metadata Mining Our detection of RAW / JPEG / etc. metadata has been upgraded and some serious bugs have been fixed. Massive Improvements to Export Persona Our Export Persona has seen huge upgrades in this cycle - you now have total control of exactly what resolution sets get exported. You can also use our handy batch export builders to quickly generate content for external consumption - ie. Xcode .assets - even Spline compatible metadata can be generated! Layered TIFF Interop Users have constantly asked us to support “Layered TIFF”. Layered TIFF is not a thing. TIFF with embedded data is a thing - and I’m happy to report that we now import embedded PSD / Affinity data and can write TIFF with embedded Affinity data. Halftone Filter We have a marvellous new halftone pattern filter in 1.5 - it can approximate monochrome, colour, circular and line halftones. Video tutorials: Halftone Scanlines Effect Improved Apply Image Filter Users can how use the current layer as the source for Apply Image - or drag any layer from the layers tab into the dialog to use that as thr source. We also offer handy equations in the filter to control how channels are transferred - in an arbitrary colour source. Video tutorials: Apply Image Apply Image: Equations Improved Select Sampled Colour Filter You can now select by intensity in the select sampled colour tool. Equations Filter A new Equations Distortion filter allows users to create custom spatial filters. Video tutorials: Equations filter Macros: Equations Dust & Scratches Filter Many user have asked us for a “Dust & Scratches” filter - so we have made one. It’s extremely useful for removing sporadic small defects in images. Please let us know if it works for you. Video tutorials: Dust & Scratches Filter “Edit in Affinity Photo” Photos extension This is something which we didn’t think we could do - a Photos extension for Mac OS 10.9 and above which simply allows you to use the full Photo app to edit your images - and stores the changes you have made as a layered document. New Colour Picker Tool After literally thousands of requests, we have implemented a dedicated picker tool for colours. New Clone Sources Panel We now have a new studio panel which allows you to store up an unlimited number of global sources for the Clone / Healing brush - it even works across multiple documents. Video tutorials: Clone Sources Clone Sources: Texture Creation Direct PSD Write-Back One of the most requested features - direct write-back to PSD. A number of 3rd party DAM applications will happily deal in PSD - but until now, Photo required you to File -> Export for PSD. No longer! You can now just hit File -> Save! You will need to turn this on - in File -> Preferences - please read the warning there carefully! Video tutorials: Direct PSD write-back (round tripping) No Thumbnails Option This is more a Designer feature, but I promised it some time ago so here it is - you can choose (in Preferences) not to write out a thumbnail with your documents. This has the advantage of making your documents use less space - but obviously you won’t get Finder thumbnails, etc. Improved Vectorscope Our old HSL vectorscope is no more - replaced by a vastly more appropriate Rec.709 YUV scope with an improved graticule :) Improved Photoshop Plugin Support We have found a significant bug with our plugin code - it has been fixed :) We are now finding the majority of plugins work properly. Multi-monitor Colour Profile Support Sorry it took so long to get this fixed - we now can profile different on different monitors. Adjustment Performance Improvements Found and fixed a simple issue which made changing adjustment parameters appear to be slow. Fixed. Automatic Lens Corrections Automatic lens corrections (distortion and vignetting) are now supported for a wide array of lens profiles. This option is available in the Develop Assistant (enabled by default). Video tutorials: Automatic Lens Corrections Improved RAW Colour Handling The way colour operations are handled in the Develop persona has been improved - the difference is most noticeable in images with intense, saturated colours (think low light photography with lots of artificial lighting). Video tutorials: Raw Colour Quality This update also includes literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements, some of which are listed below: - User control over two pass rendering on Retina devices. - PSD import / export improvements. - PDF import / export improvements. - Snapping improvements - candidate-free snapping, gaps-and-spans (Alt key in Move Tool), so much more! - Performance and stability improvements for macOS Sierra. Download: 1.5 GM Seed bendito33, LilleG, Chris B and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafdancing Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I hope you get to sleep in tomorrow, Andy! Thanks for all your amazing work :) bendito33 and CekariYH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefan_eb Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Thank you so much for your incredible efforts. What a great program and update! I can confirm Panasonic LUMIX GX80/85 now opens RAW files correctly, even when the Serif Labs Engine is selected by default in the Photo Persona Develop Assistant :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONSO Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 As I always say—Thank you! We're truly grateful. 15"-inch MacBook Pro, 2017, 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 | 16Gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Rotating a Placed AP doc within an AP doc crashes my system. 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balor Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 This is insane how much work and caring We get from the Affinity Photo Team <3 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruus Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Rotating a Placed AP doc within an AP doc crashes my system. Not here: Sierra iMac 6th beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Rotating a Placed AP doc within an AP doc crashes my system. I'm not getting it either. Can you attach the rotated document you are using so we can try and reproduce it? How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakk Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Good job guys ! Get some rest :) OS X 10.12 - AP 1.6.6 - AD 1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMac Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Wow ....... daily updates! You guys are astonishing! A beta a day keeps Adobe away ......... B) LilleG, KipV and CekariYH 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsweep Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Seriously excellent work guys, 'av been following the development of 1.5 with severe interest. Any ideas of when this update will reach the Mac App Store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi lightsweep, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) This is variable and depends entirely on Apple but shouldn't take much time (hopefully). lightsweep 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsweep Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi lightsweep, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) This is variable and depends entirely on Apple but shouldn't take much time (hopefully). Thank you and thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Markus- Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I found one more issue, or at least I think it should not be like this... When creating a gradient, normally I create a new pixel layer above my photo, and then I create the gradient (on the new pixel layer) using the gradient tool. This all works fine, but once I leave the new pixel layer (by clicking on an other layer for example), I cannot use the gradient tool anymore (when I click on the new pixel layer with the created gradient again) to make any adjustments, because the gradient tool will not show up anymore. I have to delete the pixel layer and create it (with the gradient) again... Maybe that's a feature, but I guess it's a bug. When I go another way, and use a rectangle instead of a new pixel layer (on what I create the gradient), the gradient tool shows up (after leaving the layer/rectangle) again, and changes ARE possible. This method is shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Ztfe5wmHQ&feature=youtu.be But, when using the rectangle instead of a new pixel layer, it's unfortunately not possible using the undo brush (or eraser or white/black brush) to make any adjustments ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi -Markus-, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Use a Fill Layer instead of a regular Pixel later (menu Layer ▸ New Fill Layer). It will keep the gradient editable. -Markus- and geronimo 2 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentín Benavente Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Bug: Uploaded raw photos into AP, edited them, tried to export as JPG. When clicking on 'save' the export window hangs, not saving the document and not allowing to hit cancel button. Only force-quitting makes it dissapear. Using Mac Os Sierra. Regards; Val [edit] it happens with any export format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi Valentín Benavente, Is this happening with any file or just a specific one? Where are you trying to save/export the file? A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I want to point out the Fill Layer behaviour as still unconsistent: If you have the Move tool or Fill tool active you can always change its colour using the Colour Studio. If you switch tool (eg Paintbrush) and then select Fill Layer from Layers Studio you cannot change its colour anymore, even if the Colour Studio switches correctly its contextual colour selection mode (single Swatch). To change its colour you have to select Fill Tool or Move Tool again, I think this is a bit difficult to understand. The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 It's a big file will I upload n send download link via PM Chris I'm not getting it either. Can you attach the rotated document you are using so we can try and reproduce it? Chris B 1 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffin Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Well done all you guys, we appreciate the effort and hard work you have put in, a big thank you cheers. paolo.limoncelli 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmscmoreira Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 a very big thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Markus- Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi -Markus-, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Use a Fill Layer instead of a regular Pixel later (menu Layer ▸ New Fill Layer). It will keep the gradient editable. Hi MEB, this works fine, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Crashing when i want to play with these images I downloaded to make an HDR stack. Crashes every time. An earlier version of the beta did not, not sure what version though. These are the pics: Download the archive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hi evtonic3, This is being processed correctly for me. Which settings are you using? A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geronimo Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 HAIL! Well done team Affinity Photo. Hope it brings you lots of success! I started using AP because a hardware fault on my macbook kept freeing certain apps that used the discrete GPU. I upgraded my Macbook a few days ago bI'mi'm still sticking with AP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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