Anyone updated Affinity photo 2 yesterday and having problems?

[skullfunkerry]

Morning folks. Just thought I'd pop this in here, as I can't see it being mentioned anywhere else... I updated Affinity Photo 2 yesterday, to version 2.6.3, on an M1 Mac Mini.

My usual workflow is to look through my photos in a Finder window, and drag the ones that I think are worth keeping into Affinity, where I will tweak them as needed and then export to a hard drive. Until yesterday, each time I dragged in a new image it opened in a new tab in Affinity. Since yesterday's update though, each new image I drag in gets added as a layer to the first image I dragged in. It's not the end of the world, it just means I need to edit each image before I look at the next one, but it's a little bit slower this way. This only happens with jpegs; if I do it with RAW files then it still adds each image to a new tab.

I can't see anything online about this, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in Affinity's forums. There doesn't seem to be a setting in the application that controls it either.

Any thoughts?

 

[Box Brownie]

Morning folks. Just thought I'd pop this in here, as I can't see it being mentioned anywhere else... I updated Affinity Photo 2 yesterday, to version 2.6.3, on an M1 Mac Mini.

My usual workflow is to look through my photos in a Finder window, and drag the ones that I think are worth keeping into Affinity, where I will tweak them as needed and then export to a hard drive. Until yesterday, each time I dragged in a new image it opened in a new tab in Affinity. Since yesterday's update though, each new image I drag in gets added as a layer to the first image I dragged in. It's not the end of the world, it just means I need to edit each image before I look at the next one, but it's a little bit slower this way. This only happens with jpegs; if I do it with RAW files then it still adds each image to a new tab.

I can't see anything online about this, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in Affinity's forums. There doesn't seem to be a setting in the application that controls it either.

Any thoughts?

What version did you update from?

If the effect is unique to v2.6 3 but not 2.6 then surely it is a bug? I suggest you report it.

 

[skullfunkerry]

What version did you update from?

If the effect is unique to v2.6 3 but not 2.6 then surely it is a bug? I suggest you report it.

I don't know the version, but it was whatever the previous automatic update put me on. You're right, I'll log it.

 

[Gav.]

I've updated, I'm running Windows, dragging in a group of images opens as separate image windows, drag and dropping individual images does add as a new layer... BUT I think this has always been normal? (unless using open with..)

 

[skullfunkerry]

I've updated, I'm running Windows, dragging in a group of images opens as separate image windows, drag and dropping individual images does add as a new layer... BUT I think this has always been normal? (unless using open with..)

That's the behaviour I'm getting now. It used to be that you could drag a new image in and it would add a new layer if you dropped it onto an image that was already open, but if you dropped it in the blank space around the image then it would open in a new tab.

Dragging a group of images in still opens them all in separate tabs.

 

[Gav.]

I think you can 'roll back' to the previous release, may be worth doing if it's affecting your work flow.

 

[Box Brownie]

That's the behaviour I'm getting now. It used to be that you could drag a new image in and it would add a new layer if you dropped it onto an image that was already open, but if you dropped it in the blank space around the image then it would open in a new tab.

Dragging a group of images in still opens them all in separate tabs.

Could the single image dropping behaviour that you saw and was used to, was the bug i.e. the intended usage was that so moving a single image was perceived by the developers as 'to be used as a layer....'

 

[skullfunkerry]

I've found that if I drag a new image to where the tabs would be, rather than the main part of the screen, it still opens in a new tab. I suspect that rather than a bug, it's either a new piece of design, or as @Box Brownie suggested, a fix to a pre-existing bug that I just happened to find worked for me

I'll keep an eye on the Affinity forums and see if it comes up on there before I raise a bug report.

 

[dizzyjc]

I concur, if I drag and drop multiple images onto the opened image, it adds them as layers but if I drop them on the tab area it adds them as separate.