Affinity Photo for iPad - 1.6.4

[Patrick Connor]

Hi,

We are pleased to announce the App Store release of Affinity Photo for iPad, version 1.6.4.

The change-list is as follows:

- New “Macro studio” (import / playback).
- Added "Export LUT" to document menu.
- Allow “Focus Merge” to use RAW sources.
- The “Curves” adjustment spline editor now presents an intensity histogram.
- Increased the maximum size of the liquify brush tools.
- Wet edges can now have a custom interpolation spline.
- New pinch gesture support for grouping / ungrouping layers.
- “Passthrough” blending is now supported for groups.
- Develop now has the same crop tool options as the main crop tool.
- Efforts to reduce the size of the application binary.
- Significant improvements in performance for large / complex documents.
- Photo library now shows all user albums / folders.

- ABR import improvements.
- The “Curves” adjustment now responds properly to dragging on the document to set node positions.
- Show adjustment groups, mask groups properly in the layers page.
- Significant memory handling improvements when using Core Image RAW.
- Photo library chooser will reload when external changes occur.
- Switch between button menus now only requires one press.
- Allow “Place Image” to place original images from Photos.
- When creating a document from the camera, metadata is now available.
- Added "Convert to Curves" to command menu.
- Selection refinement stability / performance improvements.
- Improved HDR merge of RAW images.
- Move tool transform nodes can now be hit more reliably.
- Selection marquee tools support extra-finger-constrain.
- 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.
- Adjustments / filters preview react to changes in canvas size.

- Fixed HDR merge of portrait images.
- Fixed some brushes looking wrong on masks / adjustments.
- Fixed rendering of adjustment layers with blend modes.
- Fixed some Live Filter drawing artefacts.
- Fixed some LUT R/B channel swap issues.
- 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.
- Fixed crashes when a font has no traits.
- Fixed issue where a document failing to load would prevent subsequent loads.
- Fixed painting onto masks / adjustments.
- Fixed pasteboard issues.
- Fixed vignette artefacts.
- Fixed selection “marching ants” flickering on zoom.
- Fixed the grid becoming less visible on light areas of the document.
- Fixed issues where the text tool would cause the document to pan to a silly position.
- Fixed snapping dialog oddities .
- Fixed black screen when opening documents in OCIO colour spaces.
- Fixed mixer brush introducing too much black.

- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
- Numerous other small fixes and improvements.

 

 

[Stanley]

A great update. Many thanks.

[Le Minh Thanh]

Thanks 1000 times. It's the best new today.

[pbass]

You guys are well-oiled machine. Every time I forget about updates, one turns up – usually an excellent, meaty one, like this.

I hope you're proud of your team! There aren't many devs so creative and productive.

 

I'm really excited to see what you come up with as Designer for iPad!

 

cheers, 

 

- pbass

[Five Photos]

Thanks for the big update! Great work!

 

Unfortunately the new version does neither resolve this bug nor add this feature we are so desperately waiting for.

 

Any timeline for that?

 

Thank you

Patrick

[paige4o4]

You guys are the best!! A+++++

[Five Photos]

On 8/21/2017 at 9:14 PM, Five said:

Thanks for the big update! Great work!

 

Unfortunately the new version does neither resolve this bug nor add this feature we are so desperately waiting for.

 

Any timeline for that?

 

Thank you

Patrick

 

I was hoping to have more luck with this my last post pointing out my issues and to get a response at last... Wishful thinking...

 

I wonder how/when I wronged you... :-(

 

Frustrated greetings

Patrick

[Patrick Connor]

On 28/08/2017 at 8:03 AM, Five said:

 

I was hoping to have more luck with this my last post pointing out my issues and to get a response at last... Wishful thinking...

 

I wonder how/when I wronged you... :-(

 

Frustrated greetings

Patrick

As I understand it, Photo library does not always pass us the image for us to interpret as RAW, it sometimes passes us a JPG. We ask for RAW in preference and sometimes get it, but Photos decides what to pass to us when we ask for RAW. We have to work with what Photos provides. I am sure we will look again at this is anything changes in Photos.

[FrankMartin]

Many many thanks for your great info.You know it is very attractive.

[mkdm]

Hi Affinity team!

 

When do you will publish thew announced 1.6 Affinity (Photo/Designer) update for Windows ?

 

Have a nice day.

 

Cheers.

 

Marco (mkdm)