Affinity Photo 1.5 has launched!

[TonyB]

For more information about the launch and how to buy go here. 

 

Here's a recap of the new features in Photo 1.5, along with tutorial videos which will accompany the features...

 

Focus Merge Support

 

Focus merging allows you to generate a detailed composite image from a number of images focused at differing lengths. Use File -> New Focus Merge to get started.

 

Video tutorials:

• Focus Merging
• Focus Merge Retouching
• Focus Merging Bracketed Images

 

HDR Merge Support

 

HDR merging lets you create a deep, unbounded 32-bit image from a number of exposure bracketed source images. Use File -> New HDR Merge to get started.

 

Video tutorials:

• HDR: Merging and Tone Mapping
• HDR: Tone Map Presets
• HDR: Panoramas
• HDR: Preprocessing
• HDR: Advanced Editing
• HDR: Ghosts Removal

 

New 32bit RGB Editing Mode

 

Photo now offers a full compositing / editing environment for 32bit unbounded images.

 

Video tutorials:

• HDR: 32-bit Editing

 

32bit Develop

 

Photo can now Develop RAW files directly into a 32bit document - so all highlights / shadows are preserved and recoverable at any time.

 

Video tutorials:

• 32-bit Raw Development

 

OCIO (OpenColorIO) Support

 

Photo now support end-to-end OCIO colour workflows.

 

Video tutorials:

• OpenColorIO Setup
• OpenColorIO Adjustment

 

Tone Mapping Persona

 

Full tone mapping Persona for both HDR and LDR images. This is obviously best used with an image merged by HDR merge - although you can use it on any image.

 

Video tutorials:

• Regular Tone Mapping

 

OpenEXR / HDR (Radiance) / 32bit TIFF Import / Export

 

Photo can now import and export .hdr (Radiance, RGBE) and .exr (OpenEXR) images. It correctly deals with 0-alpha cases (as per the OpenEXR spec) and generally operates in linear space. It support multi-layer EXR files and offers control (through Preferences) over alpha association and premultiplication.

 

Video tutorials:

• OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export
• OpenEXR Import Options

 

Macros

 

Using the View -> Studio -> Macro and View -> Studio -> Library menu items, you can access new panels which will allow you to record actions, save them, then play them back later. You can also store them in a handy gallery.

 

Video tutorials:

• Macros
• Macros: Equations

 

Batch Processing

 

Using File -> New Batch job, you can queue up processing on a large number of files. You can resize, convert format and apply any number of macros to each file. The batch processing happens in the background - so you can continue working whilst the jobs are processed.

 

Video tutorials:

• Batch Processing

 

Live Projections

 

Photo 1.5 contains a new mechanism which allows you to edit an image in different spatial domains - we currently support the “Equirectangular” domain (360 pano - Ricoh Theta, etc.). You can use all tools when editing - and you can convert back once you have edited. This is especially useful for cleaning up stitching artefacts, or artefacts at the zenith / nadir of the image. Use the options in Layer -> Live Projection to get started.

 

Video tutorials:

• 360 Live Editing
• 360 Advanced Editing
• 360 Retouching
• 360 Multiple Views
• Live Perspective Projection

  

Improved Pixel Tool

 

The pixel tool is improved in 1.5 - you can hold shift when dragging to constrain the direction of painting (sorry we did not get this working sooner!). You can also select what happens when you hold Alt and drag - erase to transparent, erase to background colour, or erase to whatever the nominated snapshot / history location is (like in the Clone tool).

 

New “Pixel Art” Document Resizing

 

Photo now contains an alternative way to resize a document - using well known pixel-art resampling algorithms. If you work with pixel art and want to use this feature, it’s located under the Document menu.

 

Video tutorials:

• Pixel Art Resize

  

New “Accumulation” Brush Dynamics

 

Many users have asked for “Opacity Jitter”. For us, opacity is a constant thing and will remain constant. However, we have added a new property to brushes - “Accumulation” - which should allow you to get what you need      

 

Text Styles

 

Affinity Photo now has the same Text Styles support as Designer - it’s all shared code so it should work right out of the box      

 

New Marquee Modes (Polygonal, Magnetic)

 

Photo now has 3 modes for the freehand selection tool - Freehand, Polygonal and Magnetic.

 

Video tutorials:

• Freehand Selection Tool

 

Even more RAW cameras supported

 

Over 70 new RAW cameras are supported.

 

Improved Metadata Mining

 

Our detection of RAW / JPEG / etc. metadata has been upgraded and some serious bugs have been fixed.

 

Massive Improvements to Export Persona

 

Our Export Persona has seen huge upgrades in this cycle - you now have total control of exactly what resolution sets get exported. You can also use our handy batch export builders to quickly generate content for external consumption - ie. Xcode .assets - even Spline compatible metadata can be generated!

 

Layered TIFF Interop

 

Users have constantly asked us to support “Layered TIFF”. Layered TIFF is not a thing. TIFF with embedded data is a thing - and I’m happy to report that we now import embedded PSD / Affinity data and can write TIFF with embedded Affinity data.

 

Halftone Filter

 

We have a marvellous new halftone pattern filter in 1.5 - it can approximate monochrome, colour, circular and line halftones.

 

Video tutorials:

• Halftone Scanlines Effect

 

Improved Apply Image Filter

 

Users can how use the current layer as the source for Apply Image - or drag any layer from the layers tab into the dialog to use that as thr source. We also offer handy equations in the filter to control how channels are transferred - in an arbitrary colour source.

 

Video tutorials:

• Apply Image
• Apply Image: Equations

 

Improved Select Sampled Colour Filter

 

You can now select by intensity in the select sampled colour tool.

 

Equations Filter

 

A new Equations Distortion filter allows users to create custom spatial filters.

 

Video tutorials:

• Equations filter
• Macros: Equations

 

Dust & Scratches Filter

 

Many user have asked us for a “Dust & Scratches” filter - so we have made one. It’s extremely useful for removing sporadic small defects in images. Please let us know if it works for you.

 

Video tutorials:

• Dust & Scratches Filter

  

“Edit in Affinity Photo” Photos extension

 

This is something which we didn’t think we could do - a Photos extension for Mac OS 10.9 and above which simply allows you to use the full Photo app to edit your images - and stores the changes you have made as a layered document.

 

New Colour Picker Tool

 

After literally thousands of requests, we have implemented a dedicated picker tool for colours.

 

New Clone Sources Panel

 

We now have a new studio panel which allows you to store up an unlimited number of global sources for the Clone / Healing brush - it even works across multiple documents.

 

Video tutorials:

• Clone Sources
• Clone Sources: Texture Creation

 

Direct PSD Write-Back

 

One of the most requested features - direct write-back to PSD. A number of 3rd party DAM applications will happily deal in PSD - but until now, Photo required you to File -> Export for PSD. No longer! You can now just hit File -> Save! You will need to turn this on - in File -> Preferences - please read the warning there carefully!

 

Video tutorials:

• Direct PSD write-back (round tripping)

 

No Thumbnails Option

 

This is more a Designer feature, but I promised it some time ago so here it is - you can choose (in Preferences) not to write out a thumbnail with your documents. This has the advantage of making your documents use less space - but obviously you won’t get Finder thumbnails, etc.

 

Improved Vectorscope

 

Our old HSL vectorscope is no more - replaced by a vastly more appropriate Rec.709 YUV scope with an improved graticule      

 

Improved Photoshop Plugin Support

 

We have found a significant bug with our plugin code - it has been fixed       :) We are now finding the majority of plugins work properly.

 

Multi-monitor Colour Profile Support

 

Sorry it took so long to get this fixed - we now can profile different on different monitors.

 

Adjustment Performance Improvements

 

Found and fixed a simple issue which made changing adjustment parameters appear to be slow. Fixed.

 

Automatic Lens Corrections

 

Automatic lens corrections (distortion and vignetting) are now supported for a wide array of lens profiles. This option is available in the Develop Assistant (enabled by default).

 

Video tutorials:

• Automatic Lens Corrections

 

Improved RAW Colour Handling

 

The way colour operations are handled in the Develop persona has been improved - the difference is most noticeable in images with intense, saturated colours (think low light photography with lots of artificial lighting).

 

Video tutorials:

• Raw Colour Quality

 

 

This update also includes literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements, some of which are listed below:

 

- User control over two pass rendering on Retina devices.

- PSD import / export improvements.

- PDF import / export improvements.

- Snapping improvements - candidate-free snapping, gaps-and-spans (Alt key in Move Tool), so much more!

- Performance and stability improvements for macOS Sierra.

[Jonas14]

Hi TonyB,

Perhaps there is also such a simple solution for this problem:

I try to open an existing tiff and AP 1.5 crashes steadily.

The same thing happens in the Mediabrowser

 

Joachim

[Mithferion]

This was quick! Buying it right now.

 

Also, is there any info about a Workbook for Photo?

 

Thanks a lot and hope you the best, guys!

[fabrica]

well done to all! ...only just seen macros= brilliant!

[eejits]

Excellent stuff, congrats on all your hard work! Look forward to having a play about with it.

 

Does this mean there's parity between the file versions of AP & AD?

 

Cheers,

 

George

[enrique.monzo]

I just bought it  :)

[TonyB]

Excellent stuff, congrats on all your hard work! Look forward to having a play about with it.

 

Does this mean there's parity between the file versions of AP & AD?

 

Cheers,

 

George

 

Yes.

[Brian D]

Is auto lens correction only supported on Micro 4/3 cameras? None of the lenses for my A6000 seem to be supported, but Sony e mount cameras also embed lens correction data in the raw files.

 

Edit: sorry I didn't think this question had posted (didn't appear) so I created a thread in Questions/Feedback with the same question.

[higgssinglet]

I have AP 1.4.3 installed on my iMac and cannot find any information how to upgrade it to AP 1.5, went into Apple App Store and there is no upgrade/Buy option, it only has the open option.  So how do I upgrade to AP 1.5?

[Petar Petrenko]

I've just bought it and installed it. Thank you very much for such an excelent products.

[Rigger73]

Will be home tomorrow, but will downloading 1.5 as soon as possible.

 

Well done on the hard work guys.

 

Now to give arrogant Adobe that bloody nose they deserve.

[livetheshot]

Downloading the update now.

 

Great job everyone!

[TonyB]

I have AP 1.4.3 installed on my iMac and cannot find any information how to upgrade it to AP 1.5, went into Apple App Store and there is no upgrade/Buy option, it only has the open option.  So how do I upgrade to AP 1.5?

 

The App Store will offer the update for free. Sometimes you just need to refresh the store or wait a bit.

[Smitty]

Is it still not linking the path to resave files sent to Affinity Photo from Lightroom?   There have been numerous (I've counted 4 individual bug request threads alone) requests for this to be resolved.

 

 

 

Update:  The latest version _45 does indeed remember the path from LR to AP and back to LR.  I just tested it again. 

 

In Lightroom:

Edit In>Affinity Photo (photo.exe)

 

In Affinity photo:

(make edits to image)

Click File>Save

 

voila, when I go back to LR, I see the changes to the TIFF I just edited in AP now.

 

Thank you!

[BertD]

Well done everyone! 

 

Every day it's a joy to use both Designer and Photo. Keep up the good work.

 

 

Bert

[KoBu]

I like Designer and Photo. It's really a joy to work with these programs.

Now I'm waiting for Affinity Photo for my IPad!

[HEC404]

Great job guys/girls!

 

Purchased!

[JonathonCuff]

Another 1.4.3 user who is unable to download 1.5 and cannot see an auto update offering.

[mchansy]

Is a trial version available (Windows Version)?

[TonyB]

Is a trial version available (Windows Version)?

 Not yet but there will be a trial in a few weeks.

[TonyB]

Another 1.4.3 user who is unable to download 1.5 and cannot see an auto update offering.

 

You can try going to update tab in the App Store and refresh with CMD+R. It is working in most territories but sometimes it take awhile.

[RobNJ]

How long will the latest Beta be usable? Can't buy it until next week  :blink:

[Stevie T]

You can try going to update tab in the App Store and refresh with CMD+R. It is working in most territories but sometimes it take awhile.

 

Simple solution is to restart you Mac.

[Loes]

Love it. Especially the many tutorial videos!

 

Loes

[sDuccio]

Purchased! Thanks!