Staff Andy Somerfield Posted July 29, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 29, 2017 Status: Beta Release Purpose: New features, fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Here This is the third 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 that may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 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. Thanks, Affinity Photo Team Changes this release Selection refinement performance improvements. Show progress when committing a refined selection. Handle layers with 0 width / height more correctly. Improved PDF / vector export. Remember Align To settings between sessions. Opening and saving document will now support macOS filesystem tags correctly. Export panel also support tags correctly. Improved RAW support - more cameras etc. Further efforts to reduce the size of the application binary. Improved TIFF loading correctness. Fixed some “Effects” brushes looking wrong on masks / adjustments. Prevent Tone Map being macro recorded (proper support for it will be reintroduced later). The “Undo” brush should do nothing on masks / adjustments. Fixed crash when using File -> New Batch Job in light UI mode. Fixed crash when loading a document with an OCIO space which is no longer available. Support malformed 8bit grayscale TIFFs (which were loading as sRGB). Fixed some scroll bar panel issues in light UI. Fixed Ctrl-reset startup crash in light UI. Fixed some flickering issues with sliders. Removed “Set as Default” for Pantone palettes. Improved drag & drop in the Library page. Numerous other small fixes. Localisation improvements (especially Russian). Changes since last App Store release Metal compute acceleration. Significant improvements to light UI. Metal display acceleration. Custom brush wet edges. Outlier stacking mode. Fixed Export LUT Red/Blue swapping bug. Fixed inability to hold shift and click in brush tools to create a straight line. Improved Photoshop Plugin support. Fixed bad / crashing macros cause by recording a 32bit preview mode change. Fixed B&C macro arguments issues. Fixed info panel samplers not being drawn. Fixed artefacts with Live Filters. Improved Live Filters performance Pasting pixel data should always past pixel-aligned. Fixed inability to load Procreate PSD files. Localisation improvements. Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface) Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader Improved performance with large documents New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites New Glyph browser Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools Align to key items (first/last selected) Text frame vertical alignment options Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle). Transform panel uses the rotation centre Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements paolo.limoncelli and Patrick Connor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 It's not a bug, but ... the localization could be revised. The english version is ok. And there are still grid lines when using live vignette filter and live shadows/highlights filer. And the app crashes when saving. iMac, El Capitan. Best wishes Puck Mr. Doodlezz 1 iMac 2017, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB, MacOS Ventura 13.6.6 (22G630) - Affinity V2-Universallizenz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Count me in on the crashes … can’t save in any format via ⌘+⌥+S, regular saving works though. Puck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruus Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I have also on High Sierra crashes. I made a new item with crashreport etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malte Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Crashes every time I try to export an image. Mac OS X 10.12.6. Grotesker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I have been able to export by selecting an alternative Preset for .jpeg. As well as with .png 8 setting. Probably, the default Preset(s) is/are a little bit corrupt. Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliottRo Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Thanks RNKLN. It fixed my crashing, simply tweaking size or was it compression quality (I did both at once) and export to .jpg no longer crashes it RNKLN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ.carpenter Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I am also experiencing crashes when I export files. Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 Onretih 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laverda3c Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I also can't export without it crashing using Sierra 10.12.6. I resize then change the quality to 77, it crashes on the final save to screen. Have to resort to 1.5 Onretih 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I like the new approach to simplistic UI (still perspective crash) AP next level? furtonb and KipV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarkalo Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 On 7/29/2017 at 3:51 AM, malte said: Crashes every time I try to export an image. Mac OS X 10.12.6. I'm experiencing the exact same issues in Designer Beta 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 31, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 31, 2017 The export crashes are all caused by one unfortunate mistake. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing and will try to rectify it as soon as possible. Thanks again, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 @Andy Somerfield Man... 5 minutes speaking together... Boom. I'm in love The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 hour ago, paolo.limoncelli said: @Andy Somerfield Man... 5 minutes speaking together... Boom. I'm in love what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 On 7/29/2017 at 11:51 AM, malte said: Crashes every time I try to export an image. Mac OS X 10.12.6. I'm having the same problem on 10.11.6 tried .png and .jpeg bombs every time. Seems ok saving page as a slice in export persona - Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 18 hours ago, MBd said: what? Custom brush wet edges The magic behind the video I showed above. anon1 1 The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Jonen Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 A bit of a list for the current beta (3). Bug 32-bit features When stitching 32-bit images the colour / gamma information gets messed up. Also there is no OCIO support in the stitcher, so it'd be hard to see what you're looking at once the colour flattening bug is solved. Wishlist 16-bit half-float It's one of the cornerstones of the ACES spec that some facilities require. So an input / output would be great. For input it should be recognised as 16-bit half-float and be treated as such, not as 32-bit float. It would still be in a 32-bit float space inside of Affinity but properly imported and exported. I'm coming across this now more often with ACES work. Some game texture artists use this format in their pipeline as well. So it's a broader group that has a need for it. OCIO implementation An option to read the colour space from the EXR would be great and more reliable than do it by filename. Also have an option to set it during file export. This could be simplified with the OCIO settings file I suggested before. Setup once, fire and forget. It would also solve the current issue with EXR export crashes when a space isn't specified in the filename. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad2k Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 I was amazed that the iPad version had a stacking mode (Outlier) that version 1.5.2 of the Mac Desktop didn't yet have! I created a 7 image stack in beta 1.6.4 (Beta 3) and it crashed when I exported to jpg format using the same root name as the original file. However when I added .jpg to the root file name (e.g. Filename.jpg) it did not crash. Shouldnt the app be able to distinguish between an existing .afphoto file and a .jpg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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