Affinity Photo Customer Beta - 1.6.0.80

[Mark Ingram]

Click here to download the latest beta

 

Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 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.

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 drag and drop of files into Application
• Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu
• Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion
• Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out
• Changed text to always render at full quality when typing
• Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive
• Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it
• Fixed black window border on some dialogs
• Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar
• Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden
• Fixed Halftone filter slider values to match macOS version
• Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle)
• Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid)
• Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch

[AlainP]

Thanks to all the team members !

When first started the Artistic Text tool behave weird, and the Frame text tool freezes Photo. You have to clear everything by holding "Ctrl" while starting the app. These tools then work as expected. Same has to be done in Designer.

[Scott Williams]

Very nice.

Glad to report that the odd green splotches I reported in the previous version are gone.

And also glad to report that after a neighbour saw what I could do with affinity photo, and the price, he bought it. There really is nothing to touch affinity for the dosh.

Keep up the good work guys

[Gnobelix]

thanks to the development team, for the new BETA
the picker in the curves-adjustment, still does not work properly.
Please, fix soon in the next Beta

see screenshot

best regards

Gnobelix

[harrym]

Great stuff!

In truth previous beta was the first I didn't update to, back on track

[Alfred]

I did update to the previous beta, but I scarcely used it.

 

I notice that the installers for this APh beta build and the new AD beta build are both about 12 MB smaller than previous builds. I wonder whether there has been some new optimization, or whether something has simply been left out!

[harrym]

good point, that'd be a fair ol' lump of code if so!! maybe it's the code for the picker in the curves adjustment dialogue

[Tschens]

Does the image brush work now?

[Rafal]

Can you tell when we can expect improvements/fix for some of wacom tables which don't work correctly now ?

[Tschens]

11 minutes ago, Tschens said:

Does the image brush work now?

 

Just tested. Image brush working again, and also the crop tool now works correctly. Great job, thanks to the dev team!

[Dreyko]

Reporting an error

[verysame]

Thanks, guys, this beta works fine.

 

Minor thing: after closing the help, I get this error:

Edited August 17, 2017 by verysame

[affwin]

The same message with me.

[TEcHNOpls]

Problems with layers/gradients not working on Enchance and Shadow/highlight tabs in Develop persona. I think it's not working since 2 betas before.

[Dave Quail]

4 hours ago, TEcHNOpls said:

Problems with layers/gradients not working on Enchance and Shadow/highlight tabs in Develop persona. I think it's not working since 2 betas before.

Shadows/Highlights in Develop working for me on CR2's. Maybe I am missing something?

[myclay]

Its not possible on a german keyboard to type symbols with strg+alt, it seems that Affinity photo wants the user to use Alt Gr instead. Any chances this could get fixed?

[AlainP]

I just noticed that I can't get the "Inpainting Brush Tool" to work if I use it in first place. I have to use the "Healing Brush Tool" an then reselect the "Inpainting Brush Tool" to make it work.

[TEcHNOpls]

16 hours ago, Dave Quail said:

Shadows/Highlights in Develop working for me on CR2's. Maybe I am missing something?

Try suing this on a layer in develop persona, first check how it works on global then try applying it locally.

[Sean P]

4 hours ago, TEcHNOpls said:

Try suing this on a layer in develop persona, first check how it works on global then try applying it locally.

I've also tried this using both a JPG entering into Develop Persona and also a RAW going directly into Develop Persona and both work correctly. I've used both Gradient and Brush Overlays trying with the Exposure Slider. Are you able to do a screen recording showing the issue?

[TEcHNOpls]

57 minutes ago, Sean P said:

I've also tried this using both a JPG entering into Develop Persona and also a RAW going directly into Develop Persona and both work correctly. I've used both Gradient and Brush Overlays trying with the Exposure Slider. Are you able to do a screen recording showing the issue?

As I said before, this affects Shadows/Highlight.

[Dave Quail]

3 hours ago, Sean P said:

I've also tried this using both a JPG entering into Develop Persona and also a RAW going directly into Develop Persona and both work correctly. I've used both Gradient and Brush Overlays trying with the Exposure Slider. Are you able to do a screen recording showing the issue?

I have tried the same approache...Raw with Gradient Overlay and Brush Overlay and then Shadows/Highlights. Working fine for me.

[TEcHNOpls]

Here's how it does not work sometimes.

test.mp4

[iiggoorr]

Are there any plans to fix bug with histogram in develop persona in V 1.6 ?

This bug was already mentioned in few topics, for instance.

In this topic it is also mentioned that this bug is related to sensor type and that particularly affects fuji x-trans sensor.

If you can't repair this bug then please just remove every FujiFilm x camera from supported list because with this histogram error developing for x-trans sensor is unusable, since I think that nobody develop raw files without consulting histogram.

 

Also I was said to see that there isn't any advancement maid in regards to shadow recovery in develop persona. Lifting shadows still suffers form muddy look and over saturated colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hofnaar]

thanks iigoorr, I mentioned this few times before incl. examples

[Sean P]

On 8/18/2017 at 8:47 PM, TEcHNOpls said:

Here's how it does not work sometimes.

test.mp4

Would you be able to redo the video but showing the full screen please - particularly the Develop tools on the right as they are quite important to seeing what you're doing!