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What's new in this version: 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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