Affinity 1.8

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Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.

1.8.5

Affinity Photo 1.8 can open and edit Smart Objects in layered Photoshop PSD files. It's already adept at creating re-editable effects thanks to its innovative Life Filters. (Image credit: James Abbott) Interface. Download Affinity Designer 1.8.6 for macOS full version program setup free. Affinity Designer is a popular vector graphic design application that offers latest tools for creating, designing and sharing marketing materials, concept art and other design elements effortlessly.

Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.

Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

Affinity Photo 1.8.5 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 Designer 1.8.5 new features & 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.

Affinity Publisher 1.8.5 new features & 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

Download page: Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher (10 Days free trial)
View: Affinity Homepage | Release Announcement

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Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.

Affinity 1.8.2

Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.

Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

Affinity Photo 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:

Affinity Designer 1.8.5

  • 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 Designer 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:

  • Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped
  • Further boolean operation improvements
  • Tweaks to Alignment
  • Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded
  • Fixed loss of selection scope when deleting objects
  • Improved boolean operations on large shapes
  • Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly
  • Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects
  • Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space
  • Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
  • Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) 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 Publisher 1.8.3.641 new features & improvements:

General

1.8.2
  • Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
  • Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear
  • Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels
  • Fix for crash and incorrect placement moving a group into or out of a Picture Frame
  • Boolean Operation fixes
  • Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch
  • Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file
  • Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken
  • Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image
  • (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder
  • (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager
  • (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table
  • (Win) Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files
  • (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content
  • (Win) Create artboard missing from New Document dialog in Designer Persona

Page Management

  • Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split

  • Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized

Text

  • Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as ''

  • Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly

  • Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool

  • Fixed changing text capitalization without a selection causing a crash.

  • Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case

  • Copy-paste Arabic text from .docx comes as Chinese in Publisher

  • (Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent

Import

  • Empty (0 Kb) files could crash the import process

Export

  • PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space
  • PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances
  • PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace
  • PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space
  • PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths

Affinity 1.8.3

Download page: Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher (10 Days free trial)
View: Affinity Homepage | Release Announcement

Affinity Photo 1.8.5 Update

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