Affinity Photo for iPad - 1.6.3 (Beta 5)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: Beta Release

Purpose: Fixes, improvements, new features.
Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance.
Mac App Store: Released

 

Hi Guys,

The fifth (and hopefully last) beta of 1.6.3 has been deployed on TestFlight. The changes are detailed below.

You can download the App Store version at any time to stop using the beta - and download the TestFlight build at any time to go back to the beta.

 

As this build is going to the App Store soon, we would like to take this opportunity to say a massive "Thanks!" to everyone who has taken the time to be a part of this beta so far - we genuinely could not do this without you..

 

That said, we are not done :) 1.6.3 will go to the App Store, probably tomorrow - but we will be back in beta within a week. For the next 1.6.4 release, we are hoping to add Macros, non-destructive RAW support, improved Adjustment / Filter UI, improved compositing performance, full iOS11 support and much, much more. We hope you guys will stick around for that ride :)

 

Thanks once again for your help..

 

Affinity Photo Team  :ph34r:

Changes this version

 

- Run in native resolution on iPad Pro 10.5” device (yay!).

- Fixed panorama crash after using transform tool.

- Fixed crashes when adding many items from Photos library at once.

- Wet edges setting now works properly in the brush editor.

- Fixed a selection brush crash in 32bit RGB colour mode.

- Stopped the refine selection tool post-processing twice.

- Help improvements.

- Localisation tweaks.

- Improved icons and images in the welcome screen.

- A new sample (“The Hotel” by Neil Ladkin).

- General performance improvements.

- Numerous small bug fixes.

 

Additional changes since last App Store version

 

- Improve performance with complicated documents.

- Improve selection brush stability.

- Improve selection refinement stability.

- Don’t allow HDR merge with less than 2 images.

- Made studios more useful when the software keyboard is showing.

- Fixed tooltip positioning in left handed mode.

- Fixed issue when starting a new document whilst another document is still saving.

- Small PDF import tweaks.

- Make adding multiple files from Photos more reliable and show progress.

- Numerous other small improvements / fixes.

 

- Improved brush performance on large layers.
- Canvas rotation will snap to 90 degree increments if within 5 degrees.
- Improved help - including new FR, DE, EN-US localisations. More to come!
- Improved RAW metadata support and reliability.
- Further HDR stability improvements.
- Fixed incorrect zoom level readout in navigator studio when canvas is rotated.
- Fixed inability to correctly disable colour overlay layer effect.
- Fixed issue whereby using Pencil would make canvas rotation available in all tools (!)
- Fixed issue where the “RAW” logo would appear randomly on Photo library images in the new chooser.
- Fixed crash when using the Interactive Introduction.
- Fixed portrait issues with the keyboard toolbar.
- Fixed weird red artefacts when using inpainting tool.
- Localisation tweaks.

- Portrait mode implementation.
- New chooser for Photos - supports multi selection, indicates RAW.
- Improved pencil / gestures support.
- Undo / redo buttons available in full-screen mode.
- Support pasting of images from other applications.
- Ability to duplicate open documents from the home screen.
- Panoramas can now be created from RAW files.
- HDR Merge can now be performed on RAW files.
- Panorama stability improvements.
- Can now choose font face - not just family.
- Inpainting improvements and stability fixes.
- Improved iCloud folder support.
- Improved performance in documents with lots of masks / adjustments.
- Fixed export crashes.
- Cancel split screen preview when converting filters to live filters.
- Develop UI improvements / fixes.
- Fixed “Date Shot” metadata issue with RAW.
- Font stability improvements.
- Fixed Post-Crop Vignette in develop.
- Fixed weird highlights issue in develop.
- Ability to turn off spelling red underlines.
- Some pretty animations in the document manager.
- Fixed failure to obey RAW tone curve, output depth preferences.
- Numerous other small stability fixes.
- Improved help.
- Improved localisations.

- Transformed / portrait develop fixes.
- Selections persona should have canvas rotation tool.
- Fix share button
- Fix panorama-from-photos stitch bug.
- Fixed share to Flickr, AirDrop, etc.
- Better text for Place menu items.
- Fixed “Save Affinity Layers” in TIFF export.
- Pixel tool improvements - erase and other alternate modes.
- Show the build number in the preferences panel.
- Fixed flip document flipping in the wrong axis.
- Fixed HSV mode of HSL adjustment.
- Fixed shadows, clarity sliders being dodgy in develop persona.
- Fixed problems loading PSD files made by Procreate.
- Curves tool should refresh the channels list if the colour space changes.
- Fixed adjustments which can be applied in any colour space.
- Shear filter fixes and improvements.
- Fixed failure to load anything if photo library contains RAW but user has “Optimise iPad storage” enabled.
- Preference option to limit touch to gestures.
- Fixed some broken LAB blend modes.
- Further efforts to make inpainting, panorama more stable.
- Improved layers studio - you can now see / select unto 2 masks / adjustments without expanding a layer.
- Attempts to mitigate crashes with weird fonts.
- Fixed issues where documents would become “Unable to load” until an app restart.
- More tutorials!
- Numerous other small improvements and fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

[anon1]

Has anyone mentioned the interactive tutorials yet?

I mean, they are really awesome, I think/ hope they help many people and they do not even need to come to this forum because

 

based on how nice it is I would have expected much more positiv feedback about it in the forum :)

 

Cheers

[My Strawberry Monkey]

Hey Andy,

 

Working on the next composite, although it feels a lot more stable and no crashes, so far. I still face some similar issues.

 

When I click refine after my selection, there is no progress bar. The blue outline in the 2nd image is the space shuttle, it just moved a few seconds later. Multiple layers, cut-outs and effects seems to make it really slow....

[yusha]

Issue since 1.6.2, present in this beta:

Whenever using two-finger panning, the marquee/marching ants would sporadically disappear.
Zooming in/out would restore it.

See attached video.

 

##Update##

It's the case when using the Pen tool as well.

 

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Also,

 

When converting a curve to a selection, if the curve has been hidden in the layers panel, it doesn't produce a selection at all!

I doubt this is the intended behaviour.

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[Tschens]

What does "Run in native resolution on iPad Pro 10.5” device" mean exactly?

What is the solution now, what was it before?

[donka]

What does "Run in native resolution on iPad Pro 10.5” device" mean exactly?

What is the solution now, what was it before?

 

Previously it was scaling the 9.7" screen resolution up to fill the 10.5" screen resolution.

Now, we should have a slightly clearer/finer UI and more space in the edit viewport to work on an image i.e. you will see a little bit more of an image at the same zoom level when working on it.

[donka]

Excellent turn around in the betas Andy with a lot of issues quickly resolved. Looking forward to the next.

 

Cheers, Andy.