Affinity Photo 1.7.0.367 / 1.7.0.380 Beta

Affinity Photo

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 Photo comes with a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and many more. Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time.

Other features include raw image processing, PSD import and export, colour management, accurate adjustments, high-end controls for channels and masks, advanced layer handling, batch processing, focus stacking, and much more.

What's new in Affinity Photo 1.7.0.367:

EDR

Added support for EDR displays to Photo. When editing a 32bit document.

Brushes

Photo 1.7 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush.
The brush engine in Photo has been improved.
Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring.
Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance.
Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control.
All brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request.
Fixed ABR brush import (would ignore "random" controllers).

RAW

The RAW processing engine in Photo has been rewritten - producing better results and improved performance.
RAW files now load much more quickly.
Reimplemented support for XTrans sensors.
The denoise algorithm has been rewritten. It produces better results and takes advantage of the new GPU architecture.
Hot pixel removal is now automatically performed by the Serif Labs engine.
Profiled lens correction are more stable, apply more quickly, and can be toggled in the Develop UI.
The histogram in the Develop persona is now presented in the output colour space - as opposed to always being linear.
Develop now respects the output profile when previewing.
Show which autofocus rectangles were in focus and which were selected by the camera (yellow, green respectively).
A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development (we will provide a list of the new supported cameras as soon as possible!).

Filters

New “Procedural Texture” filter with advanced presets support.
New “Voronoi” filter.
Denoise, Clarity and Shadows / Highlights filters have been rewritten (using technology from the Develop Persona).
More filters are now available as Live Filters - including the new Procedural Texture filter.
Live filters have been rewritten to improve performance - especially when multiple filters are used in a document.
Improved Polar to Rectangular and Rectangular to Polar filters.
Added round dot type to the halftone filter.
New “Lens Correction” filter - apply lens correction from the built-in lens database.
Bilateral blur accuracy improvements. [full release notes]

Changes in Affinity Photo 1.7.0.380 Beta: