Affinity Photo 1.6.4 out of beta, final version released

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.

Affinity Photo 1.6.4.104 changelog:

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.
Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!).
Fixed Text Styles panel to show the document defaults when no text is selected
Changed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers
Fixed document DPI showing a decimal place in some situations
Fixed reset of user workspace when new panels have been added
Fixed newly created Text Styles being applied twice to a text frame on creation
Fixed vector export (including PDF) taking a long time due to large clip areas
Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable does not fit to printer margins
Fixed 2nd Print has a zero size document in printer dialog
Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay
Fixed colour node appearing on the Colour panel
Fixed hit testing on floating window edges to make it easier to resize windows
Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closing the application (a side-effect of this change is that Alt+F4 on a floating window will now just close that window, not the app)
Fixed View Mode menu item incorrectly exposed in Affinity Photo Export Persona
Fixed double clicking View Tool is not consistent between Personas
Fixed crash when making a gradient document fill global
Improved performance when History and Layers panel are visible
Fixed PDF Export for some documents [full release notes]