Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 15, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 15, 2017 NOTE This beta is now complete and 1.6.4 is now live on the App Store Status: Beta Release. Purpose: Fixes, improvements, features.Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance.App Store: Pending Hi Guys, The sixth 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. The next build of Photo will go to the App Store (we have found the odd issue with this build which means we must build again) - we believe that what we currently have is a worthwhile update for general users. Once this is done, we will switch to Xcode9 - so we can beta iOS11 specific features (including extensive drag & drop support). Thanks, Affinity Photo Team Changes this version - Allow Focus Merge to use RAW sources. - ABR import now works even if you have PS Sketch installed. - The “Curves” adjustment now responds properly to dragging on the document to set node positions. - The “Curves” adjustment spline editor now presents an intensity histogram. - Develop now has the same crop tool options as the main crop tool. - Show adjustment groups, mask groups properly in the layers page - just like the desktop version. - Significant memory handling improvements when using Core Image RAW. - Fixed full-colour brushes and brushes with HSL dynamics. - Fixed selection “marching ants” flickering on zoom. - Fixed the grid becoming less visible on light areas of the document. - Brush tools now have a more natural pressure falloff. - Fixed “Channel Mixer” UI bugs - context toolbar was too big on 9.7” devices. - Fixed embedded document update issues. - Fixed issues where the text tool would cause the document to pan to a silly position. - Fixed snapping dialog oddities (saying “Custom” when the setting matches a preset, etc.) - Fixed drawing issues with colour buttons. - Photo library chooser will reload when external changes occur. - Don’t get stuck when the user has no internet connection and uses Interactive Introduction. - Fixed some truncated localised labels. - OpenType improvements. - Improved Metal memory management. - Selection brush fixes & improvements. - PDF export / import tweaks. - Help update. - Localisation improvements. - Numerous other tiny fixes / tweaks. Changes since last App Store release - Implemented “on-screen modifiers” (enable in preferences - adds an extra context bar group to many tool, simulating modifier keys). - Increased the maximum size of the liquify brush tools. - Switch between button menus (document, command menus for example) now only requires one press. - Allow “Place Image” to place original images from Photos. - Fixed blend mode issues introduced in last beta. - Fixed issue where photo library appeared empty after initially giving permission to use it. - Font size chooser dismisses on pressing return. - Missing fonts are consistently shown with a “?” prefix. - Some radial sliders were showing numbers as ellipsis. - Fixed black screen when opening documents in OCIO colour spaces. - Fixed mixer brush introducing too much black. - Improved adjustment previews. - Fixed vignette artefacts. - Numerous other small fixes. - Improved localisation. - 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. - 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. 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anon1 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 " Improved Metal memory management." what on earth?macro which took 3min before now takes 25sek on OLD iPad Pro 12takes 3min on iMac i7 4GHz and 6min on MacBook i7 dual core... how is this even possible cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 15, 2017 Author Staff Share Posted August 15, 2017 I have not looked at that macro specifically, obviously - but does it look correct when it is done? If not, we might have broken it. If so, yes, it has got faster Cheers, A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 6 minutes ago, Andy Somerfield said: I have not looked at that macro specifically, obviously - but does it look correct when it is done? If not, we might have broken it. If so, yes, it has got faster Cheers, A Sure seems fine at first glance toggling on/ off layers with underlying live filter layers was just much more responsive as well hope this can be ported to mac as well where it is quite a pain as shown here in length Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 15, 2017 Author Staff Share Posted August 15, 2017 Interesting.. All changes for Metal are shared between iOS and macOS - build .50 / .51 will drop for macOS tomorrow (or Thursday if stuff goes wrong). Maybe we should re-run these metrics then? Cheers, A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacki3wrfsef Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 2 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said: Mac App Store: Pending It should say. App Store: Pending Andy Somerfield 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffins Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 I might be wrong, but he vast improvement for the Mac should come with High Sierra (Metal 2) as Craig Federighi said at WWDC 2017. AP for iPad 1.6.5.61 on (latest) iOS 11.0.3 on iPad Pro 12,9“ (2015) with Apple Pencil- AD Mac official - AP Mac official eagerly awaiting AD for iPad :-)I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacki3wrfsef Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Muffins said: I might be wrong, but he vast improvement for the Mac should come with High Sierra (Metal 2) as Craig Federighi said at WWDC 2017. Metal 2 will provide 10x performance improvements versus metal 1 "as mentioned in WWDC's 2017 keynote". Metal 2 will be available both on iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, affinity has to integrated into their apps, so that the in users will get to benefit from the massive performance improvement. https://developer.apple.com/metal/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donka Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Great work Andy and the team. I really appreciate all the work that is going into this app, as I'm sure the rest of us do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 On 15.8.2017 at 9:06 PM, Andy Somerfield said: Interesting.. All changes for Metal are shared between iOS and macOS - build .50 / .51 will drop for macOS tomorrow (or Thursday if stuff goes wrong). Maybe we should re-run these metrics then? Cheers, A sure I'll try later if available sadly the "more responsive feel" when toggling layers on the iPad was just because I was zoomed way in thus it is not yet fixed, hope you guys can take a serious stab at this issue cause it is a pain https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/44673-toggle-off-layers-lag/&page=2 congrats to the AppStore Update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 18, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 18, 2017 This beta is now complete and 1.6.4 is now live on the App Store Muffins and ronnyb 2 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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