Mark Ingram Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer BetaPurpose: StabilityRequirements: A valid product key, (issued if Affinity Photo was purchased from Affinity Store).As this is a beta 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, including the total loss of any documents. 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 Pixelmator PSD text import Added transparent TGA import support Attempt to support fonts with truncated type 4 tables (e.g. Serpentine) Fixed text frame auto-resizing not working with a single character Added support for fonts that substitute spaces, eg Nyala Fixed Liquify Brush panel size slider limited to 1024px Fixed brush selection is not retained after duplicating brush Fixed changing brush tip is not always initially accepted Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc Fixed Fill Noise not applied when filling with Custom colour, Primary and Secondary colours etc Fixed Colour Chooser not correctly switching to match the selected colour Improved curve fitting for raster brushes Fixed tool shortcuts ignore modifier keys Fixed Text Styles showing wrong units for Justification options Fixed Tab Stop units not auto updating with document units Fixed Text Style dialog missing the [No Change] behaviour for the Tab Stop table Fixed drag and drop from IrfanView not accepting file items into the document as new layers Fixed exporting multiple documents Fixed crash using Pen tool (* see known issues) Fixed when a colour is removed, the Opacity/Noise slider is not disabled Fixed floating windows starting off-screen when monitor is disconnected Fixed layer folder icon not initially updating Fixed floating windows appearing on the incorrect taskbar Fixed text not being drawn after power duplicate Fixed rare instances of being unable to select text Fixed a couple of instances where the colour wheel wouldn't update properly Fixed unable to select a second swatch for bevel and emboss highlight and shadows Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment Fixed unusable transparent area left after cropping with New View Known issues Using the Pen Tool can result in high memory usage cowbungus, TEcHNOpls, Hofnaar and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Hello! Do i need to uninstall the old version to install the new version? If I need to return to the old version, do I need to delete a new version? Thanks Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 19 minutes ago, telemax said: Do i need to uninstall the old version to install the new version? If I need to return to the old version, do I need to delete a new version? The installer will uninstall the old version automatically. If you want to be able to return to the old version, you should save the installer for the new version under a different name so that it doesn't overwrite the old installer. telemax 1 Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 I assume by old version @telemax means the retail version. If so, the beta and the retail version can be installed alongside each other. telemax and PaulAffinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 1 minute ago, Mark Ingram said: I assume by old version @telemax means the retail version. If so, the beta and the retail version can be installed alongside each other. Yes, old version is the retail. Thanks. Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Quote Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc Confirmed for PNGs Affinity Designer 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Affinity Photo 2.2.2075 beta 2.3.1.2212Affinity Publisher 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.1928 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 23 minutes ago, telemax said: 26 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said: I assume by old version @telemax means the retail version. If so, the beta and the retail version can be installed alongside each other. Yes, old version is the retail. Thanks. Ah, OK. I thought you were referring to the previous beta version! Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrym Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 In truth not a lot of that affects my workflow but it's fantastic to see the continuing work and commitment, great stuff guys! Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
km.au Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I don't even use the betas but it's so nice to see the changelogs. Thanks devs... Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedge Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 9 hours ago, Mark Ingram said: Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment Someone might want to give this feature another look see. I created a square, duplicated it 4 times and then selected all 5 instances on the layer panel. I opened the arrange panel and chose space horiz. I then unchecked auto dispersal and entered 100 pixels. The 5 squares were immediately spaced as requested. However....Clicking OK re-stacks all 5 squares atop each other. The spacing is not applied. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Kott Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 And the slow opening of RAW files in Windows version? Hofnaar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lai Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Perspective tool - every time i drag and release a corner of a photo, the point snap back to its original position. The Perspective tool is unusable in this beta. Or maybe it is only me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manofjesus Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Lai, i report similar bug, but for Ipad version. Now i test this issue in WIN version - so i am confirming - this bug is actual for both versions - Beta 3 iPad and 1.6.3.99 WIN version. Patrick Connor and Dave Quail 2 Win10 x64 1907, 16G RAM, Core i7 + Wacom Cintiq 12WX Interactive Pen Display - Affinity Photo 1.7.3.481 + Beta 1.8.0.526, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Corel Draw X7, ArtCAM 2015 R2 iOS 13.1.0, iPad Pro 10.5, 64GB + Apple Pencil - Procreate 5.0.2, Affinity Photo 1.7.3, Affinity Designer 1.7.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lai Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hi Manofjesus, thanks for confirming the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Quail Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Thanks Mark, Will be testing tonight! Asus ROG Strix G17 Notebook: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 3.80 GHz with Radeon Vega Graphics | 32GB DDR4 3200mHz RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Gfx | 2x 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 3x4 | Windows 11 Version 22H2 Build 22623.870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2018 3 hours ago, Lai said: Perspective tool - every time i drag and release a corner of a photo, the point snap back to its original position. The Perspective tool is unusable in this beta. Or maybe it is only me? This has been fixed in the latest iPad beta release, so in theory it should be fixed in the next Windows beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Stahle Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I still do not use Affinity Photo with my favourite camera, the small pocket size Canon PowerShot GX7 mark II, since the files are not fully supported in the RAW file data that AP use. There is slow loading, heavy vignetting, no lens correction on the wide angle and more problems. When I open the same file in my PSE Camera Raw, the file is treated right as you can se below. The same in DxO optics Pro and Canon DPP 4, CameraBag Photo and even Windows Photo. Hofnaar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikinger Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Good morning. DxO Photo Lab, supports the Canon PowerShot GX7 mark II. You could open your files and export them to AP in DNG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Henry Stahle said: I still do not use Affinity Photo with my favourite camera, the small pocket size Canon PowerShot GX7 mark II, since the files are not fully supported in the RAW file data that AP use. There is slow loading, heavy vignetting, no lens correction on the wide angle and more problems. When I open the same file in my PSE Camera Raw, the file is treated right as you can se below. The same in DxO optics Pro and Canon DPP 4, CameraBag Photo and even Windows Photo. We're currently using LensFun for obtaining camera lens vignetting, unfortunately they don't support your camera yet (you can see the list of supported lenses here http://lensfun.sourceforge.net/lenslist/). Henry Stahle and PaulAffinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 8 hours ago, Cedge said: Someone might want to give this feature another look see. I created a square, duplicated it 4 times and then selected all 5 instances on the layer panel. I opened the arrange panel and chose space horiz. I then unchecked auto dispersal and entered 100 pixels. The 5 squares were immediately spaced as requested. However....Clicking OK re-stacks all 5 squares atop each other. The spacing is not applied. Steve I see the same 'behaviour' but only after I deselect the five squares. As long as they are selected they remain 100px apart. d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 4 hours ago, haakoo said: Yes I can confirm this too, And when trying to create a perspective through Layer>NewLiveFilterLayer>Perspective it just closes Photo all together. _Hans Confirmed here Affinity Designer 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Affinity Photo 2.2.2075 beta 2.3.1.2212Affinity Publisher 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.1928 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlainP Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Thanks to the whole team for your hard work! Confirmed that the Live Filter Perspective Tool shuts downs AP immediately. None of the perspective tools work anymore. From the "Tools" or from the "Filters" menu, as soon as you release the mouse button everything goes back to its original place. -- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 -- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1 -- Macbook Air 15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, AlainP said: Thanks to the whole team for your hard work! Confirmed that the Live Filter Perspective Tool shuts downs AP immediately. None of the perspective tools work anymore. From the "Tools" or from the "Filters" menu, as soon as you release the mouse button everything goes back to its original place. These are both known about issues. The crash has already been reported to development and the other that keeps snapping back has been fixed in the iPad so should trickle over to Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAffinity Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 So refreshing to see a community and Software company working together to get this product improved. So much more responsive and exciting to feel a part of a revolution.. Thanks folks, Paul Move Along People 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovi Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I bought my copy of AP from the MS App store, so don't have a product key. How can I get the beta version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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