Serif released beta versions of affinity Photo and Affinity Designer software. New versions focus on improvements and stability fixes. Affinity Photo received the option to change the UI to lighter version.
Current customers can download the latest betas from Affinity Forum.. This is the first beta of a substantial change to codebase and as much as Serif have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.
Affinity Photo 1.6 Customer Beta:
Click here to download the latest beta
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.
Fixes
- First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface)
- Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader
- Improved performance with large documents
- New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites (Not available in Windows version yet)
- New Glyph browser
- Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
- Align to key items (first/last selected)
- Text frame vertical alignment options
- Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle).
- Transform panel uses the rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet)
- Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet)
- Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles
- Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
- Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements
Affinity Designer 1.6 Customer Beta:
Click here to download the latest beta
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.
Fixes
- First and foremost, the 1.6 version is mainly about: Light UI! (go to Preferences->User Interface)
- Improved view pan/zoom performance and new pixel-differencing pixel shader
- Improved performance with large documents
- New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites (Not available in Windows version yet)
- New Glyph browser
- Stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
- Align to key items (first/last selected)
- Text frame vertical alignment options
- Fit frame to text (double-click on bottom centre handle).
- Transform panel uses the rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet)
- Scale/shear can now be performed about rotation centre (Not available in Windows version yet)
- Double-click now resets shape handles and rotate/shear handles
- Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
- Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements
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