Affinity Photo for iPad - 1.6.4 (Beta 4)

[Andy Somerfield]

Status: Beta Release.

Purpose: Fixes, improvements, features.
Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance.
Mac App Store: Not Submitted

 

Hi Guys,

The fourth beta of 1.6.4 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.

 

Thanks,

 

Affinity Photo Team  

 

Changes this version

 

- Selection refinement performance improvements.
- Show progress when committing a refined selection.
- Fixed rendering of adjustment layers with blend modes.
- Further efforts to reduce the size of the application binary.
- Handle layers with 0 width / height more correctly.
- Improved PDF / vector export.
- Further efforts to reduce the size of the application binary.
- Improved TIFF loading correctness.
- Fixed some “Effects” brushes looking wrong on masks / adjustments.
- The “Undo” brush should do nothing on masks / adjustments.
- Support malformed 8bit grayscale TIFFs (which were loading as sRGB).
- Swap the liquify pinch / punch icons.
- When creating a document from the camera, metadata is now available.
- Fixed UI for macros with many arguments.
- Fixed tiny memory leaks. 
- Numerous other small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

 

Changes since last App Store release

 

- Added "Export LUT" to document menu.
- Added "Convert to Curves" to command menu.
- HEIF/HEIC import support for iOS11.
- Wet edges can now have a custom interpolation spline.
- New pinch gesture support for grouping / ungrouping layers in the layers studio.

- Passthrough blending is now supported for groups.
- Fixed some invalidation issues when moving layers.
- Fixed clone / heal brush tool origin marker issues.
- Fixed aperture / FNumber metadata parsing.
- Fixed pasteboard issues.
- Improved interactive macro playback when the macro has many arguments.
- Selection refinement stability / performance improvements.
- Fixed HDR merge of portrait images.
- Improved HDR merge of RAW images.
- Icon improvements, especially in text studio.
- Fixed numerous small memory leaks.
- Move tool transform nodes can now be hit more reliably.
- Fixed some Live Filter drawing artefacts.
- Fixed some LUT R/B channel swap issues.
- Styles page will remember list mode state correctly.
- Localisation improvements.
- Numerous other bug fixes.

 

- Macro studio (import / playback for now, recording coming soon. Supports interactive playback.).
- Significant improvements in performance for large / complex documents.
- Selection marquee tools support extra-finger-constrain.
- Improved reading of DPI from files.
- Exposure adjustment now operates in stops, not % and has wider range.
- Arrow tool has more options.
- Fixed B&C adjustment in CMYK, LAB.
- Lighting tool tweaks.
- Paragraph leading UI improvements.
- Improved loading of images from photo library.
- Fixed a couple of UI memory leaks.
- Fixed issue where a document failing to load would prevent subsequent loads (again).
- Fixed painting onto masks / adjustments.
- Numerous other small tweaks.

 

- Photo library now shows all user albums / folders.

- New option to dither gradients in preferences - defaults to “on”.

- Significant pan / zoom smoothness improvements.

- Directional lights in the lighting filter can now be directed using on-canvas handles.

- Further fixes for the inpainting tool occasionally leaving red marks.

- Fixes for liquify (and other tools) cancelling if you drag off the edge of the screen.

- Smart selection brush improvements.

- Selection refinement improvements.

- Fixed welcome screen not reloading sometimes.

- Avoided a (rare) deadlock case.

- Fixed crashes when a font has no traits.

- Adjustments / filters preview react to changes in canvas size.

- Avoid crashes on app exit (which nobody will ever have noticed!)

- Fixed issue where if a document fails to load it can prevent other documents from being opened in this session.

- Further memory management improvements.

- Localisation improvements.

- Numerous small stability improvements.

[Skilover]

FYI your downloads through Test Flight are extremely slow. Much slower than Ap store using same wifi. 

[Muffins]

11 hours ago, Skilover said:

FYI your downloads through Test Flight are extremely slow. Much slower than Ap store using same wifi. 

Maybe TestFlight is handled differently by the Apple servers? Some traffic shaping on the Apple side could be in the game.

 

Sometimes i have slow performance on the app store too changing with daytime and weekday differences.

[donka]

Regarding Testflight downloads, I believe they pull down the full image whereas normal app store updates only pull down the changed assets.Is this what you are noticing? E.g. everytime you update the AP beta via Testflight, you pull down ~ 1GB but if you just updated the normal version of the app via App Store, you may actually only pull down ~ 50MB depending on how much has been changed.

[Muffins]

39 minutes ago, donka said:

Regarding Testflight downloads, I believe they pull down the full image whereas normal app store updates only pull down the changed assets.Is this what you are noticing? E.g. everytime you update the AP beta via Testflight, you pull down ~ 1GB but if you just updated the normal version of the app via App Store, you may actually only pull down ~ 50MB depending on how much has been changed.

I don't believe that!

Differential updates are for iOS-Updates over the air only, afaik.

 

Don't be confused with device-specific app store downloads which are possible. Just a subset for the special device is downloaded, but the developer has to enable this. In case of an update the hole new package is downloaded.

[donka]

Yes, I'm referring to over the air updates. For App updates, I have apps several hundred MBs in size and have updated these in a few seconds but my ISP download speed maxes out ~ 8MB/s so it definitely isn't pulling down the full package.I don't know all the specifics about when this happens though.

[Muffins]

On 2.8.2017 at 5:28 PM, donka said:

Yes, I'm referring to over the air updates. For App updates, I have apps several hundred MBs in size and have updated these in a few seconds but my ISP download speed maxes out ~ 8MB/s so it definitely isn't pulling down the full package.I don't know all the specifics about when this happens though.

Yes, you are right and i‘m wrong. 

Delta updates over the App Store are possible. I found nothing about TestFlight regarding delta updates.