Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Beta Requirements: None Mac App Store: Not submitted New beta sign-ups: https://affinity.serif.com/photo Update: Run the app to get the link Features - Colour balance adjustment. - Cmd-Click a layer to turn it into a selection. - Shift-Cmd-Click a layer to turn it into a selection based on luminosity. - Support for Wacom Airbrush Wheel. - Support for monochrome RAW formats - including Leica. - Flip support for clone / heal brushes. - Use number keys to set layer / brush opacity. - A basic picker tool for the Curves adjustment panel - more to come. - Imported ICC profiles will persist when Photo is closed. Improvements - Median sampler performance improvement in 16bit mode. - Pressing 'b' cycles through brush tools in a more sensible way. - PSD import improvements. - Plugin improvements - more to come. - Preferences option to control how aspect constrain works in the Move Tool. - Emboss, Clarity filter improvements. - Added grid and ruler capabilities to Develop Persona. - Numerous other small improvements in tools / filters. Fixes - Numerous crash fixes. Peter Werner, MEB, paolo.limoncelli and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Direk Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thank you, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 Two new betas on the same day is insane (in a good way!)... Paekke 1 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 23, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 Yes MEB, the teams are busy - but that's how we like it ;) Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudioDorgs Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thank you, thank you for Cmd-Click a layer to turn it into a selection. :) MattP and penwiper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 Feels like in the beginning of Affinity Designer public beta when every Tuesday there was a new beta out. It was always exciting. Now it's on Mondays :) A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Wonderful, thanks! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegaman Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Great work guys. 2009: 27 inch iMac / Intel Core i5 / 2.66 GHz / 16 GB Memory / System: Yosemite 10.10.3 – PRINCIPAL DESIGN SOFTWARE: QuarkXpress 9.5.1, 10.5 and 2015 / Pinegrow Web Designer / Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo / Acorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paekke Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I used to hate mondays, now I don't :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 23, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted February 23, 2015 Yes, the Designer guys used to ship updates on Tuesday - we do Monday here in Photo - it's just because we're a little bit better ;) :P Andy. 000 and ronnyb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Downloading now! Looking forward to playing soon :) Thanks guys! Keep up the awesome work! 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paekke Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Now I can't get the ⌘click layer to work, anyone having the same issue?.. But ⌘click layer works in the new Affinity Designer Beta this makes an selection. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 24, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted February 24, 2015 Paekke - got to hit the layer icon with Cmd down - not the text - does this help? Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Thanks Andy! Now I can't get the ⌘click layer to work, anyone having the same issue?.. But ⌘click layer works in the new Affinity Designer Beta this makes an selection. :) Good morning Paekke! Did you sleep well? :P The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike2000 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Thank you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psaldari Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I love Affinity Photo, unfortunately the three plugins that I use wont works... (PostworkShop, Mister Retro Machine Wash Deluxe and Tonality Pro). However, work with Affinity Photo is a pleasure. Paolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcoWolf Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I am seeing UI anomalies and things like the Brush outline disappear randomly. The whole visual side seems less stable with blocking and stuttering. I have noticed that my iMac is ramping up the fans quite a bit more too. Not sure what that means?I am loving working with AffinityPhoto apart from that. I think it will finally replace PhtotShop as my main editor for work. It takes so much less time to achieve the same results. Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcoWolf Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hey Guys, sorry to say this but the more I am using this beta the more I am finding thats is unstable or just doesn't work. HSL is very patchy as to whether is affects as it should and nearly all the tool outlines disappear after a couple of seconds. regards NJW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted February 24, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hi EcoWolf, Can you let us know what machine you have, the OS X version you have installed, and any Wacom device attached? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRScott Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Thanks Andy for the update. Gregg OS X Version 10.14.6 iMac 27" 3.2 GHz i5- 32 GB Huion Kamvas Pro 20 iPad Pro 12.9" IOS 13 AD = OS IOS, AP = OS IOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paekke Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Paekke - got to hit the layer icon with Cmd down - not the text - does this help? Andy. After the new update today it works, didn't work last night. Thanks Andy! Good morning Paekke! Did you sleep well? :P Yup I slept well as always. Still not sure why I didn't notice I was using the wrong brush.. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeFromMesa Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Save and Load Selection implemented. Thank you. And photoFXLab now works on my machine and, if I use it, all of my Topaz plugins work. Thank you again. I am still getting some crashes using the Topaz plugins directly, but not as many as before and, thanks to above, I can now use them through photoFXLab. Much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Minor detail I just caught, doesn't even deserve it's own post, just an FYI for when you release the MAS versions of AD and AP: the © info in the Finder's Info window reads © 2014... 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcoWolf Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Hi Andy,Attached is the spec of my machine and OS and I have a new Intuos Pen & Touch attached. Again I've attached the driver spec. I hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 25, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 25, 2015 Hi EcoWolf, This is very strange - your machine is much higher-specced than my 2.0GHz i7 MacBook Pro and has a significantly better GPU than my built-in one that's trying to power my retina screen - yet, everything seems lovely and smooth for me? :( I've also got the same Wacom driver as you... I know I'm going to sound ridiculous, but would you possibly just try rebooting your machine and telling me if it's still as bad? (And no, I don't believe that should be necessary - my iMac hasn't been restarted in months and is solid and smooth, but just for the purposes of testing, could you entertain me?) :) Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts