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What's new in this version: Affinity Photo 1.9.0
- RAW improvements and support for the latest cameras
- Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks
- Linked images and resource manager
- Path text capabilities and improvements
- Edit spare channels as layers
- Divide blend mode
- PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed
- Snap to pixel selection bounds
- Create brushes from current pixel selection
- Elliptical marquee automatically creates from center
- Configurable margin guide colors
- 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 1.8.6
- Fully compatible with Big Sur and fully optimised for Apple M1
Affinity Photo 1.8.4
- Various stability and performance improvements
Affinity Photo 1.8.3
- Various stability and performance improvements
Affinity Photo 1.8.2
- Template support: save documents as template files to re-use time and time again. Share templates across all Affinity apps
- New document dialog: it’s now simpler than ever to find, create and manage document presets with customised, saveable presets and thumbnail previews
- Unified toolbar: thanks to the integration of window controls and the app’s main toolbar, Mac users (Mojave and above) can now enjoy more usable document space
- Updated PANTONE© library: work with a seemingly endless range of colours, including updated PANTONE© Color Bridge and PANTONE© Formula Guide solid palettes (coated and uncoated)
- Lens correction improvements: benefit from manual lens correction override in the Develop Persona, take advantage of the newly added ‘recently used’ and ‘favourites’ lists, and enjoy improved lens correction of RAW files coming from fixed focal length lenses
- Big plugin support improvements: experience the power of a range of plugins in the app, including Nik collection by DxO
- Better metadata handling: new support for user-editable fields in image metadata, including the IPTC standard for copyright and other information, plus, save and import metadata files (XMP), batch whole folders of images and tag with appropriate ownership info, and more
- PSD smart object support: any smart objects included in PSD files can now be imported into Affinity Photo as embedded documents, letting you easily edit layers within any smart object and maintain a non-destructive workflow.
- Canon CR3 RAW support: open and edit your highest quality photographs in Affinity Photo
- Apple keyboard shortcuts for text editing: use Apple default keyboard shortcuts for text editing and entry for an even more streamlined workflow
- Many other improvements and fixes
Affinity Photo 1.8.1
- Template support: save documents as template files to re-use time and time again. Share templates across all Affinity apps
- New document dialog: it’s now simpler than ever to find, create and manage document presets with customised, saveable presets and thumbnail previews
- Unified toolbar: thanks to the integration of window controls and the app’s main toolbar, Mac users (Mojave and above) can now enjoy more usable document space
- Updated PANTONE© library: work with a seemingly endless range of colours, including updated PANTONE© Color Bridge and PANTONE© Formula Guide solid palettes (coated and uncoated)
- Lens correction improvements: benefit from manual lens correction override in the Develop Persona, take advantage of the newly added ‘recently used’ and ‘favourites’ lists, and enjoy improved lens correction of RAW files coming from fixed focal length lenses
- Big plugin support improvements: experience the power of a range of plugins in the app, including Nik collection by DxO
- Better metadata handling: new support for user-editable fields in image metadata, including the IPTC standard for copyright and other information, plus, save and import metadata files (XMP), batch whole folders of images and tag with appropriate ownership info, and more
- PSD smart object support: any smart objects included in PSD files can now be imported into Affinity Photo as embedded documents, letting you easily edit layers within any smart object and maintain a non-destructive workflow.
- Canon CR3 RAW support: open and edit your highest quality photographs in Affinity Photo
- Apple keyboard shortcuts for text editing: use Apple default keyboard shortcuts for text editing and entry for an even more streamlined workflow
- Many other improvements and fixes
Affinity Photo 1.7.3
- Optimised for Sidecar
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
Affinity Photo 1.7.2
- Performance and stability improvements.
- Added TGA export.
- Added “Remove Black Matte” and “Remove White Matte” filters.
- Shadows and highlights filter can now use either the 1.6 or 1.7 method.
- Live filter improvements.
- Flood select now works on placed images, and can sample from all layers.
- Flood fill too can now sample from layers beneath - also supports blend modes.
- “D” key resets fills to black & white.
- Japanese IME improvements.
- Numerous bug fixes and small improvements.
Affinity Photo 1.7.1
- Support for multi-page Affinity Publisher documents
- Various stability and performance improvements
- Massive performance increases with full end-to-end metal acceleration
- eGPU compatible - performance scales with additional GPUs attached
- HDR / EDR monitor support
- At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
- More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development.
- New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring
- On the fly nozzle rotation now available with left and right arrow keys
- New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
- Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
- HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls
- Many PSD import / export improvements
- Layers studio now includes options for transparent backgrounds, different thumbnail sizes and colour tagging.
- Significant improvements to selection refinement
- Alternate futures for document history have been added. If you undo a lot of steps and start on a different path, you can always branch back to your original position
- HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
- Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
- New Assets Studio available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
- Huge macro and batch processing improvements
- 100s of other bug fixes and improvements - too many to list!
Affinity Photo 1.7.0
- Massive performance increases with full end-to-end metal acceleration
- eGPU compatible - performance scales with additional GPUs attached
- HDR / EDR monitor support
- At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
- More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development.
- New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring
- On the fly nozzle rotation now available with left and right arrow keys
- New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
- Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
- HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls
- Many PSD import / export improvements
- Layers studio now includes options for transparent backgrounds, different thumbnail sizes and colour tagging.
- Significant improvements to selection refinement
- Alternate futures for document history have been added. If you undo a lot of steps and start on a different path, you can always branch back to our original position
- HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
- Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
- New Assets Studio available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
- Huge macro and batch processing improvements
- 100s of other bug fixes and improvements - too many to list!
Affinity Photo 1.6.7
- All new shadows / highlights algorithm for Develop
- Develop clarity improvements
- Improved input smoothing for all tools
- Improved Perlin Noise filter
- Transparent TGA import support
- Many improvements to batch processing
- PSD, PDF import / export improvements
- Significant Photoshop plugin support improvements
- Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc.
- Fixed slow Lens Blur, Depth of Field blur issues
- Fixed Depth of Field blur progress / slowness issues
- Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once
- Restored ability of marquee tools to snap
- Fixed crashing bug when exporting certain large PSDs
- Fixed a number of UI memory leaks
- Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!)
- Fixed UI labels on macOS versions prior to Mavericks
- Numerous other fixes and stability improvements
Affinity Photo 1.6.6
- New light user interface option
- New stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
- New "Edit In" integration with Apple Photos
- Metal 2 accelerated view optimised for macOS High Sierra
- Improved view pan/zoom performance and
- Improved performance with large documents
- New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites
- New Glyph browser
- Align to key items
- Text frame vertical alignment options
- Fit frame to text
- Custom brush wet edges
- Outlier stacking mode
- Improved Photoshop Plugin support
- Improved Live Filters performance
- Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
- Numerous bug fixes and other improvements
Affinity Photo 1.5.2
- Stability and bug fixes
Affinity Photo 1.5.1
Additional Features
- Added support for the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
- Focus Merge enables you to generate a detailed composite image from a number of images focused at differing lengths
- HDR Merge lets you create a deep, unbounded 32-bit image from a number of exposure bracketed source images
- Tone Mapping Persona for both HDR and LDR images
- Macros enable you to record actions, save them, then play them back later. You can also store them in a handy gallery
- Batch Processing for queueing up and processing large number of files
- Live Projections allows you to edit an image in different spatial domains including “Equirectangular” (360 pano) and perspective
- Improved RAW develop persona
- Text Styles
- Halftone Filter supporting monochrome, color, circular and line halftones
- Equations Distortion filter allows users to create custom spatial filters
- Dust & Scratches Filter
- “Edit in Affinity Photo” Photos extension
- New Color Picker Tool
- New Clone Sources panel for the Clone / Healing brush - it even works across multiple documents
- Multi-Monitor Color Profile Support
32Bit per channel color
- New 32bit RGB Editing Mode
- Photo now offers a full compositing / editing environment for 32bit unbounded images
- Photo can now Develop RAW files directly into a 32bit document - so all highlights / shadows are preserved and recoverable at any time.
- Photo now supports end-to-end OCIO color workflows.
Addition File Formats
- OpenEXR including multi-layer EXR files with control over alpha association and pre-multiplication
- HDR (Radiance, RGBE)
- 32bit TIFF Import / Export
- Layered TIFF Interop
- Direct PSD Write-Back
- Over 70 new RAW cameras are supported
Improvements
- The Improved Pixel Tool adds the ability to constrain the direction of painting and control erasing mode
- New “Accumulation” Brush Dynamics to offer Opacity Jitter.
- Added New Marquee Modes (Polygonal, Magnetic) to the freehand selection tool
- Improved Metadata Mining for RAW / JPEG / etc
- Improved Export Persona
- Improved Apply Image including the new ability use equations in the filter to control how channels are transferred
- Improved Select Sampled Color Filter
- Improved Vectorscope
- Improved Photoshop Plugin Support
- Adjustment Performance Improvements
- Snapping improvements - candidate-free snapping, gaps-and-spans (Alt key in Move Tool)
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