Affinity Photo

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Affinity Photo 2.1.0
- Change log not available for this version


Affinity Photo 2.0.4
- Develop Persona: Enabling White Balance on non RAW files crashes Affinity Photo
- Fixed: "Register your licence" prompt appears on every run up when a Mac App Store user doesn't register the license on the Affinity Store
- App crash upon startup caused by a deleted "Recently Used" file on Catalina
- Fix gradual slow down after changing tools many times
- ‘Help’->’Visit Support Forums’ menu item goes to the forums again
- Fix for non-primary Persona menus having broken ‘Help’->’Tutorials’ links
- Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was originally used to insert them
- Fixed tint value in CR3 files
- Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4
- Improved timezone handling in Metadata panel
- Colour space selection not correctly represented in curves adjustments
- Saving files may reduce file size in some circumstances (example was a 2gb file with no embedded data)
- Editing an embedded PDF does not create a History step, meaning changes are lost when closing as no save prompt is shown
- Assorted stability fixes
- Help and Localisation updates
- Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements


Affinity Photo 2.0.3
- New Document: Custom Document Preset order is now retained between app sessions
- Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances
- Update for HEIF importer
- Export Panel UI fixes
- Pen tool tweaks and fixes
- Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient
- Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text
- OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks
- Resource Manager updates
- Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files
- Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly
- Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes
- Ensure global colour edits update live
- Fixed straighten in the develop persona
- Fixed exclusion blend mode in 16bit RGB
- Fixed adjustment parameters undo
- Fixed sync before / after in develop
- Fixed image place recording in macros
- Fixed outline layer effect
- RAW loading speed improvements
- Assorted assets panel fixes
- Assorted other fixes
- Localisation updates


Affinity Photo 2.0.0.1670
- New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions
- Placed documents with bleed fail to render the top and left side correctly
- Quotes can be incorrectly put on newlines and cause text to render differently compared to V1
- Can't place image when recording a macro in Photo V2
- V2 opens raw files slower than V1
- Running a V1 Macro that uses 'Add Image' (Place) crashes app - also applies to Batch Processing
- Importing .JPG and .TIFF files with Keywords only displays the last keyword in the Metadata panel
- Straightening in the Develop Persona offsets the image from the canvas entirely, until developed or crashes
- Exclusion blend mode causing unexpected results on 16bit file layers with blown highlights
- Transform Panel- Differences in panel size when switching between Curve strokes and expanded objects
- Tone Mapping Preset options missing.
- Blemish Tool failing after developing image.
- Develop Persona 'Sync Before' no longer functions
- Lens Correction Mis-Centered for Portrait Orientation Raw Files
- Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S not identified
- Phase One IIQ files are being rendered all black
- Mesh Warp doesn't work with multiple Outline FX.
- Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z isn't working in V2 apps for adjustments
- Incorrect AF region display for Canon PowerShot G1X Mark III
- White Balance Tool giving different results for Infrared processing.
- Outline Layer Effect is making the anti-aliased edges transparent, rather than blending with the shapes colour
- Crop Tool displays checkerboard when rotating image in Develop Persona.
- The Patch Tool doesn't work with Global Sources & 'Set Global Source' remains greyed out
- Unable to Undo crop after pressing Enter key in Develop Persona.
- Blemish Tool lag in Develop Persona
- Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node (Windows)
- Fixed spurious "future version" error under certain circumstances
- Improvements with PDF Import and Layers
- Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes
- Update for HEIF importer
- DWG Import scaling improvements
- Export Panel UI fixes
- Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc
- Pen tool tweaks and fixes
- Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text
- OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks
- Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect
- Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient
- Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation
- Resource Manager updates
- Light UI Improvements
- Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes
- Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added
- Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames
- More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames
- Ensure global colour edits update live
- Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names
- New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align)
- Localisation updates


Affinity Photo 2.0.0.1640
- Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card)
- RAW improvements and support for the latest cameras
- Studio presets for the UI layout
- Linked images and resource manager
- Path text capabilities and improvements
- Edit spare channels as layers
- Divide blend mode
- PDF passthrough
- Snap to pixel selection bounds
- Create brushes from current pixel selection
- Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre
- Configurable bleed and margin guide colours
- Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100%
- Curves numeric field controls
- Blend modes for mask layers
- Add live liquify layer
- Linked layers
- Pattern layers
- Stacking improvements for astrophotography
- Content sync of store purchases
- Benchmarking option to measure speed of your device
- Use filters on masks
- Many other improvements and fixes


Affinity Photo 1.10.5.1342
Fixed:
- sporadic issue with images incorrectly rendering depending on their alpha outline
- crash in export of EPS and WMF when there were missing resources


Affinity Photo 1.10.4.1198
Fixed:
- Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards
- Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools
- document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer
- vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size
- PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply
- some occasionally fonts failing to be recognized at startup
- Borderless printing having a border
- 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click
- hang on My Account page
- crash when closing the application
- potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font
- 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc
- Vector import (SVG etc) can be created at incorrect size

- Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops
- App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem
- Help & localisation improvements


Affinity Photo 1.10.3.1191
Fixes & Improvements:
- Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards
- Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools
- Fixed Live Filters with Radius or Distance spuriously changing the Azimuth anticlockwise
- Fixed Toggling 'Quick Mask' not updating until you toggle the mask off and on again
- Fixed 'Overlay Paint' and 'Overlay Erase' tools in Develop Persona not painting with correct spacing
- Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer
- Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size
- Fixed 16-bit 'Saturation blend mode' displaying white pixels
- Fixed crash painting on empty pattern layer
- Fixed 'Levels' > 'Output black and white' using the same values when changing channels
- Fixed files losing quality after a merge or export
- Fixed potential crash opening an EXR document
- Fixed crash opening multiple FITS files at once
- Fixed DNG files not being displayed in Develop Persona with Hardware Acceleration enabled
- Fixed Astrophotography to cope with Unicode file paths
- Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply
- Fixed some occasionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup
- Fixed Borderless printing having a border
- Improved 'Uninstall Pack' flow to auto-select the pack
- Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click
- Fixed hang on My Account page
- Fixed 'Defringe' > 'Also remove complementary colour'
- Fixed crash when closing the application
- Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font
- Fixed document pixel resolution being stored in the wrong format within XMP metadata (breaks later parsing of the same data; hides the values from the metadata panel's 'Detail' view)
- Increased maximum defringe radius
- Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.
- Fixed Astrophotography Stack failing on some DNG's with no warning
- Improved Astrophotography 'Make Align Layers By Stars' to work for layers in transformed groups
- Help & localisation improvements


Affinity Photo 1.10.1.1142
Fixes and Improvements:
- Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash
- Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the application
- Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial
- Fixed the "Failed to save" error in documents containing duplicated picture frames
- Unsplash removed from the stock pane
- Help and localisation improvements


Affinity Photo 1.10.0.1127
Fixes & Improvements:
- Improved GPU rendering
- Improved Serif Labs RAW engine
- Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages
- Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses
- Improved PDF import/export
- Raw CR3 support (for Canon EOS 850D)
- Median Blur mode for Frequency Separation filter
- Added hardware acceleration to Gradient Map adjustment
- Added support for most emoji
- Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles
- Added additional file drag drop options when holding Alt key
- Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes
- Help and localisation improvement

Astrophotography:
- Edit stacked image names for better organisation
- Stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups (auto-alignment avoids resampling)
- Open FITS files directly in Photo Persona (control over demosaicing)
- Support for FUJIFILM X-Trans sensor images

Improved performance with:
- Panorama stitching
- Defringing and increased maximum radius
- Multiple placed Info page samplers
- Adjustment layers when hardware acceleration is disabled
- Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow)
- Placed images
- Embedded documents
- Low-memory situations (including Windows OpenCL preventing fall-back from hardware to software)
- Converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats
- Documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible)

Resource Manager:
- New Relink option for missing resources
- New File Type column
- EPS files can be linked


Affinity Photo 1.9.2.1035
- Change log not available for this version


Affinity Photo 1.9.1.979
- Fixed Develop Shadows and Highlights rendering slightly different to software (was causing sporadic artefacts on certain hardware)
- Fixed placed PDFs scaling incorrectly


Affinity Photo 1.9.0.932
New Features:
- Live liquify layers
- Linked layers
- Pattern layers
- Stacking for astrophotography (see tutorials 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)
- Divide blend mode
- Path text added
- Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card)
- Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more)
- Create brushes from current pixel selection
- Linked images and Resource Manager
- Use filters on masks
- Edit spare channels as layers
- Added per-layer antialiasing controls in the advanced blending menu
- Added export preview panel (for raster types)
- Support PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed
- Benchmarking option to measure speed of your device
- Content sync of store purchases (requires registration)

Fixes & Improvements:
- Improved “Serif Labs” RAW engine including native CR3 support
- Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre
- Hierarchical view
- Configurable bleed and margin guide colours
- Import multiple LUTS
- Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100%
- Snap to pixel selection bounds
- Added curves adjustment to the tone mapping persona
- Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.)
- Added support for 12bit grayscale TIFF files
- Added “Duplicate spare channel” to right click menu
- Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.)
- Gradient map adjustments now support global colours
- Filter effects now work properly with global colours
- The Curves adjustment now has numeric field controls for precise positioning
- Unable to use CMYK/LAB/GREY equations in a Live Procedural Texture
- More filters now work on masks / adjustments / spare channels (Add Noise, Perlin Noise, etc.)
- LUT adjustments can be exported directly from the adjustments panel, and batch imported from files
- Added Canvas Rotation option to Preferences
- Fixed Changing between RGB and CMYK sliders in Colour Chooser panel gives incorrect values
- Fixed Moving a mask from a layer to the live stack group crashes the app
- Unable to open .heic if there is a special character in the file path
- Original file name no longer saved as "Title" in PDF, after renaming the file
- TIFF file handling improvements
- Fixed Tools getting stuck in the hand tool cursor after using spacebar + alt and click to zoom out
- Hue shift slider background should not move with the slider
- Creating or adding pixel selections from other layers to a selection also selects the respective layers
- Various stability improvements
- Help and Localisation improvements


Affinity Photo 1.8.5.703
Fixes & Improvements:
- Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3)
- Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
- (NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored)
- Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool
- Fixed raster Crop Tool units multiplying incorrectly on the context toolbar


Affinity Photo 1.8.4.693
Fixes & Improvements:
- Fixed import of PSD files with extended blend modes
- Fixed crash when making some selections
- Changed mask thumbnails to use black, not transparent
- Fixed OCIO transform being removed when the window is moved or minimised
- Fixed Character Panel's Decorations colour box displaying in RGB
- Fixed Layer Effects Gradient Overlay sliders not working correctly
- Fixed flickering brush preview with tablet input
- Fixed spurious lines being drawn with tablet input
- Fixed Alt+Drag colour picker getting stuck when using tablet input
- Added user preference for whether to try to keep selections after deleting
- Fixed expand stroke failure on strokes that use velocity as a controller
- Fixed gradients not changing when Global Colour is modified
- [Installer] Prevent installation into non-empty directory
- Fixed setting artboard/spread origin from panel not accounting for artboard spread position
- Fixed various issues with guide positions and artboard origins
- Allow closing of curves for special case selection
- Removed "Windows Ink" option, and replaced with high precision WinTab support
- Fixed AI import incorrectly identifying as EPS when it was actually a PDF with extra data at the front
- Fixed PDF import for documents with extra data at the front
- Fixed PDF export for some Asian fonts that support many glyphs
- Fixed Layers panel dropping of items of right of thumbnail in expanded parents
- Fixed right-click context menu to disable Merge Down when attempting to merge a Pixel Layer into a shape
- Fixed PDF import crash due to infinitely searching for fonts
- Fixed HSL ring displaying incorrectly when returning to the adjustment
- Fixed being unable to drag afassets into the app
- Changed PDFs to open as restricted if we don't have permission to edit, copy or print them
- Fixed PDF export accidentally outputting all RGB images at 16-bit
- Fixed Guide positions to be displayed relative to current Artboard
- Fixed layer blend modes not scrolling with arrow keys
- Improved performance of font loading (and tried to improve behaviour with font managers)
- Improved PDF export support for 16-bit and 32-bit images
- Fixed SVG import of elements with closepath not followed by move
- Fixed SVG export of curves with large bounds
- Fixed incorrect sheet colour in PSD export (following import)
- Fixed incorrectly enabled control on Text Style decorations
- Fixed click to select items with group crops
- Fixed locked layers being selectable via Marquee selection
- Fixed PDF import of certain unicode characters producing the wrong character
- Fixed SVG import to ignore spurious quote marks in "url('#identifier')" references
- Fixed SVG import to treat gradients with one stop as solid fills
- Fixed SVG import having wrong default for gradientUnits
- Fixed crash when importing an invalid SVG due to negative heights or widths
- Fixed hand cursor getting stuck after panning
- Fixed crash when pressing V with Alignment flyout open
- Fixed font names always displaying their English names
- Fixed PDF export with embedded ICC profiles
- Fixed SVG import of booleans
- Fixed SVG import of documents with multiple elements
- Fixed fill aspect ratio for Radial and Conical to be maintained unless the correction handle is visible
- Fixed text edit handles to allow auto pan ability
- Fixed changing tool while the Align Panel is open (if the next tool supports the alignment options, it will remain open, else it will close)
- Fixed crash when dragging items in the Layers control
- Improved performance of PDF import
- Improved performance of text when rendering text
- Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters
- Fixed crash when closing floating document
- Fixed New Document dialog previous document selection highlight not being remembered
- Fixed Ctrl+M with nodes selected to not bring up the curves dialog
- Fixed crash when docking a panel with the Brushes panel
- Fixed crash with Appearance panel after using Ctrl+Z on vector brush input
- Fixed PNG export not displaying the size warning if the export dialog was previously closed with a different preset
- Help and Localisation improvements


Affinity Photo 1.8.3.641
Fixes and improvements:
- Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
- Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS
- Further boolean operation improvements
- Tweaks to Alignment
- Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera
- Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
- Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
- Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
- Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as "Pemtax"
- Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents
- Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
- Fixed autosave failing to work
- Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files
- Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document
- Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space
- Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip
- Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask
- Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool
- Fixed sporadic PSD import crash
- Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed
- Help and Localisation improvements.


Affinity Photo 1.8.2.620
Fixes and improvements:
- Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup
- Added "Use Windows Ink for tablet input" preference (enabled by default, disable to use WinTab)
- Fixed artefacts when rasterising a group with live filters
- Fixed Layer Effects to smart objects
- Fixed flat EXR export to honour layer blend mode
- Fixed selection problems with clipped groups
- Fixed failure to export to vector formats when a document contains a flipped object with line style and scale to object enabled
- Fixed PDF export outputting some 1-bit masks as inverted, leaving them mostly transparent
- Fixed crash reordering layers via drag/drop when Layers panel is floating
- Added missing 'Repeat Filter' keyboard shortcut
- Fixed Canon 5D MK II images not loading correctly
- Fixed sporadic RAW load crash
- Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets
- Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters
- Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects
- Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus
- Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed
- Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text
- Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink
- Improved text responsiveness
- Added missing Procedural Texture degrees/radians toggle
- Fixed being unable to move Info targets in Develop Persona
- Improved precision of Defringe
- Fixed Focus Merge throwing away images
- Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts
- Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush
- Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Aligment option is set
- Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enlosure nodes non-icon area
- Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool
- Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repsitioned to the top level
- Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row
- Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set
- Help and Localisation improvements.