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Status: Release Candidate.

Purpose: Fixes.
Requirements: TestFlight Acceptance.
App Store: Not Submitted

 

Hi Guys,

The second release candidate build of 1.6.7 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  :ph34r:

 

Changes this version.

 

- Fix crashes loading certain RAW files.

- TIFF loading fixes and improvements.

- Live Filters redraw issue fix.

- Show artboards properly in the layers panel.

- Fix the delete button in the fill tool.

- Vector export improvements.

- Other small tweaks.

- Localisation improvements.

 

Changes since last App Store release.

 

- Fix for numerous input issues when “Allow canvas rotation in all tools” is enabled.

- Further tweaks to the tool tip (?) button.

- Fixed issues encountered when trying to use the numeric keypad from a colour flyout.

- Improved healing brush performance.

- Improved Tone Mapping stability.

- Help improvements.

 

- Further pencil input tweaks.

- Added the “Median Brush” tool.

- All colour flyouts now have a built in colour picker.

- Fixed inability to export liquify meshes.

- The “New from Camera” view now rotates correctly when device orientation changes.

- RAW camera support is disabled for iPads which cannot shoot RAW.

- Fixed crash when removing curve adjustment curve nodes.

- Increased the maximum undo stack size.

- Improved various aspects of “associated tool” brush features.

- Assorted other small tweaks.

 

- Fixed multiple touch / pencil issues.

- OpenType improvements.

- Fixed inability to save / load certain things from the Affinity Photo folder.

- Fix for ? (Tooltip) button not working properly.

- Fixed associated-tool issues with brush presets.

- Added “Undo” to the two-finger-tap context menu.

- Fixed perspective tool bugs.

- Fixed failure to load files developed from RAW after closing.

- Small performance improvements.

- Create the Affinity Photo folder on iPad storage if it does not already exist.

- Assorted small tweaks and improvements.

 

- Develop shadows / highlights improvements.
- Develop clarity improvements.
- Correctly discard cancelled RAW develops / panoramas etc.
- Improved input smoothing for all tools.
- Improved behaviour when trying to move small layers (ie. avoid inadvertent resizes).
- Improved filesystem integration (again).
- Improved text tool UI.
- Moved spelling suggestions to context menu.
- Removed superfluous OK / Cancel buttons from develop crop tool.
- Creating stacks from RAW files now works more correctly.
- Improved Perlin Noise filter.
- Transparent TGA import support.
- Numerous touch / pencil interaction improvements.
- Fixed colour picker appearing too easily in paint brush tool.
- Fixed long press being too short in some tools.
- Fixed HEIF import from Photos app.
- Fixed issue where stray colour picker loupe could remain after switching tools.
- Fixed incorrect DPI limit in resize tool.
- Numerous other small fixes.
- PSD, PDF import / export tweaks.
- Help improvements.

 

- Now fully supports open-in-place - including saving back directly to the original location.
- New “Import from Camera” - supporting RAW and automatic HDR bracketed merge. Has fancy histograms and scopes.
- New ability to install custom fonts in preferences (these will be shared with Designer iPad once it is released).
- New “Average Blur” filter.
- Added ability to export brushes.
- Added ability to both import and export styles.
- Added option in preferences to cache screen updates - you will see much less pixelation when painting etc. - but it uses more memory.
- Adjustments panel now has an option to show a simple list (by popular request).
- Overhaul of pencil / touch input mechanism - this enabled much needed functionality such as long pressing with Apple Pencil to pick colours in brush tools, etc.
- Fixed marching ants disappearing when canvas is rotated.
- Apple Pencil can now dismiss flyouts without passing a tap through.
- Fixed transform studio aspect ratio lock.
- Improved long-press behaviour in Liquify tool.
- Made the “Protect Alpha” mode of the paint brush tool more obvious.
- Further develop Clarity improvements - including negative clarity.
- Further develop shadows / highlights improvements.
- Improved software keyboard toolbar.
- Ask a better question when leaving a feature persona without committing changes.
- Further performance improvements in develop persona.
- Preferences option to choose default storage location.
- Improved support for the dropping of files into an open document.
- Bitmap fills are now available on vector objects.
- Numerous other small fixes and improvements.

 

- Brand new shadows / highlights algorithm in Develop.
- Brand new clarity algorithm in Develop.
- Can now open / edit files in place - directly from the Files app.
- New “Solo” layer option in layer properties panel.
- New preferences option to show touches - good for screen recording.
- Improved iOS11 drag & drop support.
- Can now rotate image in Develop.
- Pasting now keeps things in the right place.
- Maximum / minimum filters now obey the current channels properly.
- Brush scatter works properly when controller is “random”.
- Improved angle / tilt support for Apple Pencil.
- Handle vertical panoramas better.
- Fixed some HDR merge crashes.
- Fixed multiply blend mode in 32bit documents.
- Improved crop tool behaviour when using ratios.
- Improved retouching tools in 32bit mode.
- Fixed issues with “Direction” brush controller.
- Improvements to selection refinement.
- Improved TIFF support.
- PSD export improvements.
- Channels page improvements / fixes.
- “Save a copy” stability improvements.
- Ability to clear history (hopefully will help some people who encounter crashes when trying to return to the home screen).
- New “Constrain” modifier button for Depth of Field tool.
- Snapping candidates can now be selected by hovering over them whilst in a drag.
- All other relevant fixes from 1.6.6 desktop version.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.

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Colour picker now uses on screen modifier. The press and hold method which nearly worked seems to have gone. A shame as it just needed a little tweak to the delay before paintbrush autoswitched to colour pick mode.

 

Correction, seems to have gone from Apple Pencil, but still works with long finger press.

 

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Looking good to go Andy, my reported defects all working fine. Many thanks, great job.

 

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55 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Colour picker now uses on screen modifier. The press and hold method which nearly worked seems to have gone. A shame as it just needed a little tweak to the delay before paintbrush autoswitched to colour pick mode.

 

Correction, seems to have gone from Apple Pencil, but still works with long finger press.

I agree Paul, the pencil press and hold was pretty close to perfect. I did find that occasionally it did not work and the long finger press would have to be used instead. Maybe that's why it was canned?

 

Be nice too if the on screen modifiers for brushes included a palette toggle. That way it would be easy to swap primary and secondary colour palette eg. Black and White when Masking.

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On my Facebook Group Affinity for iPad Users, Linda asked

 

“I hope that they added the erase blend mode. In the help section it is mentioned on the list of blend modes. But it is not there.”

 

On checking the help section it is mentioned but doesn’t appear to be available. If it’s not planned, maybe revise the text?

 

 

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Paul, the Apple pencil colour picker works for me at the moment.

I suspect there may be an intermittent issue as I found it unresponsive on several occasions in the previous build.

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Vote4Appstore release. :) I found nothing really crashing. Opened several Multicomposure Tiffs around 100MB, speed is good. Nikon raw files open fast as well, no glitches. Affinity Designer file with several artboards looking good. ( symbols in an iPad app, so powerful)

tryed several live filters, still amazed by the speed. Looking forward for an Affinity Designer Beta *wink 

 

thanks for this awesome update guys, with the new splash screen feels a bit like 2.0 :)

 

cheers,

Lutz

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8 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

On my Facebook Group Affinity for iPad Users, Linda asked

 

“I hope that they added the erase blend mode. In the help section it is mentioned on the list of blend modes. But it is not there.”

 

On checking the help section it is mentioned but doesn’t appear to be available. If it’s not planned, maybe revise the text?

 

 

 

Hi Paul,

I believe Linda has already reported it to us, or it was a (coincidentally) different Linda! However this has been fixed by development and you should see Erase back in the next Release Candidate!

 

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I know I said everything was good to go, but I seem to be having problems with perspective projection tool. I keep getting into a state that my only way out of the projection is to undo everything I’ve done. Has anyone else had any problems with this?

 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

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No problems here. Perspective layer working as expected. :) 

Had an issue with the app crashing to springboard every time I used the gradient map in Develope persona, but it was restricted to the one file and hasn’t occurred in any other file I tested.

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Another strange one, open any photo, then place another photo inside it. Select that photo and make a quick selection on it. Make a duplicate as you would normally do. Instead of the selection only being duplicated, the whole placed photo is duplicated as if you had never made a selection. 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on  Windows 10 Pro.  (revived !)
Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

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Mud’s Macros Library:-

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Having a problem too with the inpainting brush. It seems unable to fill areas following straightening the photo with the Crop tool.

Video shows results after crop straightening.

 

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I was so surprised that duplicating a selection on a placed photo didn’t work so reverted to 1.6.5 and see same behaviour, so if it is a bug, it’s not a new one. Unless it is an IOS beta issue. The work around to create a mask layer to make a cutout still works however.

 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/

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I'm getting some strange behaviour with the Patch tool. Using it to fill sky in pic above (inpainting didn’t work at all!), the selection when dragged cuts a square out and rotates it slightly. Tapping screen somewhere completes the operation and the end result is as desired. But it certainly is not meant to behave as it is.

i am not on iOS beta so the placed image selection issue is not due to iOS beta.

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13 hours ago, DM1 said:

I'm getting some strange behaviour with the Patch tool. Using it to fill sky in pic above (inpainting didn’t work at all!), the selection when dragged cuts a square out and rotates it slightly. Tapping screen somewhere completes the operation and the end result is as desired. But it certainly is not meant to behave as it is.

i am not on iOS beta so the placed image selection issue is not due to iOS beta.

 

It seems to be something to do with brushes, I have the same inpainting issue. However, I have Jim Welsh’s inpaintcrop2 macro which automates this procedure and it works perfectly ! Need to get on my Mac and have a closer look at the steps Jim makes in the macro!

 

Try it from here

 

 

SelectionFromLayer - convert a layer into a pixel selection

SelectAllLayers - select all layers quickly

DeSelectAllLayers - de select all layers quickly

PencilPortrait - Convert Photo to pencil sketch (Credit: Alpha Sierra, YouTube)

InpaintCrop2 - fix edges after a straighten crop (Credit: Jim Welsh)

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ywn4s3a7o5ot6cf/Mud's Macros.afmacros?dl=0

 

 

 

 

 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

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Ha ha our bad, we missed the rasterise step out:D

 

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Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

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I think this issue dates back to the last Apple Store version, but when importing or opening a tiff (may also happen when going from RAW), saving out changes the file name case from capital initials to lower case. For example Sophia_Delicate_2_17_18 to sophia_delicate_2_17_18. I don’t run iOS betas, so that’s not the issue. Not a huge problem, but weird.

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The inpaint macro works every time. :D

I tried rasterising the image after cropping but the problem still exists with manual inpainting after clip.

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On 18/02/2018 at 8:17 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

Another strange one, open any photo, then place another photo inside it. Select that photo and make a quick selection on it. Make a duplicate as you would normally do. Instead of the selection only being duplicated, the whole placed photo is duplicated as if you had never made a selection. 

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This is not a bug, it is just something that is not possible to do with placed 'Image' layers - you need to first rasterise the layer to turn it to a 'Pixel' layer and then you'll be able to duplicate the selected areas. For example you cannot use brush strokes on these layers either - instead the software will convert the layer to a pixel layer (if using an assistant) or just not paint. This is the same behaviour as the desktop.

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23 hours ago, DM1 said:

I'm getting some strange behaviour with the Patch tool. Using it to fill sky in pic above (inpainting didn’t work at all!), the selection when dragged cuts a square out and rotates it slightly. Tapping screen somewhere completes the operation and the end result is as desired. But it certainly is not meant to behave as it is.

i am not on iOS beta so the placed image selection issue is not due to iOS beta.

Thanks for that - I've reproduced that here and will get it passed on to development. It is also reproducible on the desktop app as well.

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Sean, the macro that Paul provided (inpaint crop2), allows the inpainting to complete correctly. Perhaps it can offer some insight into the cause of the problem? :/

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47 minutes ago, Sean P said:

This is not a bug, it is just something that is not possible to do with placed 'Image' layers - you need to first rasterise the layer to turn it to a 'Pixel' layer and then you'll be able to duplicate the selected areas. For example you cannot use brush strokes on these layers either - instead the software will convert the layer to a pixel layer (if using an assistant) or just not paint. This is the same behaviour as the desktop.

Sean is there any way for AP to recognise actions that cannot be completed due to the need to 'rasterise' and do it automatically? It sure is a trap for us beginnersxD.

 

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8 minutes ago, DM1 said:

Sean, the macro that Paul provided (inpaint crop2), allows the inpainting to complete correctly. Perhaps it can offer some insight into the cause of the problem? :/

At a guess I think he might be using the Edit > Inpaint option on the Desktop release which works as you would expect. However I'm not entirely sure this option is not accessible outside of a Macro on the iPad. I'll take a look and pass it on to development to add it if so!

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