Canva heeft versie 3.1.0 van de Affinity uitgebracht. De Affinity Suite bestond voorheen uit de betaalde programma's Photo, Designer en Publisher, die als de tegenhanger werden beschouwd van Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator en InDesign. Vanaf versie 3.0.0 zijn alle applicaties samengevoegd in één enkele app, die gratis wordt aangeboden. Wel is er een gratis Canva-account nodig om de software te kunnen gebruiken. Voor enkele functies, waaronder generatieve AI, is wel een Canva Premium-abonnement nodig. Affinity is beschikbaar voor Windows en macOS; aan de iOS-uitvoering wordt nog gewerkt. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende verbeteringen aangebracht:
New Features
GeneralGraphic Design
- Document tabs offer a context menu
- Display color, file name and/or dimensions
- Close/Close All commands
- Float tabs as new window
- Control one-document tab visibility
- Light UI style
- View the user interface in a light appearance instead of dark
- Automatically assign Vector or Pixel view mode on document creation
Photo Editing
- Create curves from pixel selections
- Ideal for creating editable sharp-edged vector masks
- Any method for creating pixel selections is valid
- Edit gradient and hatch swatches directly in the Swatches panel
- Pen tool improvements
- While drawing with Pen Tool active:
- The P key cancels further drawing of the current curve
- Alt-clicking on any node converts it to a sharp node
- Alt-dragging on any node converts it to a sharp node and mirrors control handle length
- Shift-click on any node to add a sharp node
- Click on any node to delete it
- Rubber Band Mode, for previewing a new curve segment, is now enabled by default
- All Pen Tool General settings are remembered across documents and sessions
- Join Curves is now available on the Vector Menu
Page Layout
- Tone Brush Tool
- For smoother, more realistic blending of images in your composite
- Continuously samples the underlying layer content
- Blend, Inverse Blend or Dodge/Burn methods
- Creates independent tone layers
- Develop Studio: choice of tone curves
- Use for images with high-contrast dynamic ranges
- Compressed, Natural, High Contrast and Log options
- Live Tone Blend Groups
- Simple and realistic compositing
- Tonal and color integration
- Avoids time-consuming adjustment clipping
- Grouped layer content blends with underlying content
- Great for text, images and shapes
- Group-level control
- Non-destructive behaviour
- Easily access brush settings via right click
- Faster painting workflows
- Displays from the cursor position
- No transit time to context toolbar and panels
- Access full brush set as you paint
- Adjust brush properties
- Nozzle rotation control
- Glitch filter offers Data Blocks effect, more existing types variations and other enhancements
- Updated Affinity Raw Engine to 11th Feb 26 - new cameras supported include these popular models:
- Canon EOS R6 Mark III
- Sony ILCE-7M5 (A7 V) (Lossless compression only)
- FujiFilm X-T30 III
- Leica M EV1
- Sony DSC-RX100 VIIA
- Object captions
- Attach to objects as you edit
- Position on any edge, with adjustable offsets
- Autonumber with built-in or custom counters
- Insert image metadata fields
- Use captions as cross-reference targets
And some great improvements..
- Objects now copy to clipboard as SVG by default
- Assign accent colors to user interface (Windows only)
- Customize the Home screen’s tabs to reorder or hide
- Filters docked on the Tools panel can be made destructive using Alt-click
Improvements and fixes in Affinity March 2026 release
This article lists the key improvements and bug fixes included in this version.
Stability issuesAll platforms - stability fixes
- On opening documents (user specific)
- On exporting to PDF
- When adding a master page while Quick Export panel is open
- When autoflowing text from multiple linked master page text frames
- Duplicating page with pinned objects
- Opening or placing password-protected PDFs
- Relinking JSON file
- Importing ABR file
- During Data Merge (CSV performance related)
- Saving during panorama edit (on Windows this leads to later fault on open)
- When adding .af file as custom Studio Icon
- During object selection after app restart
Mac - stability fixes
- Turning off facing pages / deleting pages
- Using Frame Properties > Anchor to Centre
- Exporting floating window with preflight enabled
- Reflowable EPUB export when endnote position is at end of story
- Opening specific PDFs
- Deleting default Table Format (user specific)
- Updating TOC (user specific)
- Lockups when opening multiple PDFs simultaneously
- UI not fully updating when closing doc via red circle (can lock up)
- For Designer, Photo or Publisher V2 file, when clicking on the Next Spread icon (user specific)
- Opening Publisher V2 file with embedded resources (user specific)
- Exporting to PDF using SF Compact font
- Placing a JPG can cause a crash (user specific)
Windows - stability fixes
General issues (functions and workflows)
- Floating documents in different Studios to the already floating document
- Cancelling Develop Studio when sub-tools are disabled
- Opening panorama when previously saved after panorama edit
- On File > Close if embedded doc open
- Duplicating artboards in Layout Studio
- On PDF export (pressure profile issue)
- Opening an Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher V2 document
- Opening packages more than once (Windows)
All platforms
- Linked file layer visibility override is not honoured with placed linked files
- Using X-ray Wireframe view mode on an image traced layer causes strange lines
- Unable to place text files if an image is selected
- Path brushes with transparency have a white background when displayed in non-list view
- Equirectangular Projection is destructively baked in after merging layers
- Print fails to tile correctly when scaling and tiling is used
- Page duplication affects stacking order of pinned objects on duplicated page
- Symbol object colors are not correctly saved to Snapshots
- Gradients resize incorrectly when document resized
- Settings: Abbreviations should warn when Auto-Correct is disabled
- Credit refresh dates are not displayed on AI Usage messages
- Convert Object to Artboard should be disabled for spread-based documents
- First artboard not (re)selected when 2nd artboard deleted
- Instances of the Alt Text language in the Tags Panel are incorrectly shown
- Shutter speed being incorrectly displayed from Sony A9MK3 89
- Failure to display thumbnails for .affinity or .af files
Mac
- Pantone Swatches not displayed until reselected
- Embedded documents appear washed out in some files
- Switching layers while Image Trace dialog open traces the wrong layer
- Unable to resize application window, panels etc (macOS Tahoe 26.3 Beta only)
- Books Panel: Update TOC Before Output is ignored
- Numbering of footnotes across multiple book chapters doesn't work
- Brush Search is cleared after deleting or duplicating a brush
- Sentence and Title Case commands deselect unchanged words
- When inserting a cross-reference and filtering the targets list, the list may not fully refresh until clicked
- The Auto-correct Setting called Use Tab to Alter Paragraph Level doesn’t work correctly
Windows
- [OpenCL] HSL Adjustment (no change to sliders) on CMYK document affects document appearance
- [OpenCL] HSL Adjustment on CMYK document processed incorrectly by Export or Merge Visible
- 'Touch For Gestures only' is bound to 'Enable canvas rotation with Alt+Scroll wheel'
- Pixel Studio brush shortcut opens wrong tool
- Some Pixabay vector images won’t drag/drop
- Image pasted from Windows Photo is placed incorrectly
- Custom keyboard shortcuts can't be set for the Develop, Liquify or Tone Map Studios
- Revert studio to Master doesn't fully work until app restart
- New Document Shortcut doesn't work when the Welcome Screen is displayed
- In Pixel Studio, the brush shortcut B opens the Path Brush Tool
- Various path brush settings can't be changed when a stroke is selected
- Brushes panel’s search filter isn't cleared
- Adding layer states stops the document from being closed down
- Layer selection unexpectedly scrolls the Layers Panel
- Canceling a rename for a document preset deletes the preset's name
- Downloaded Learn videos don’t let you interact with accompanying Learn documents
- Layer color properties don't update unless layer name is changed
- Dragging a "Target" icon From the Info Panel onto the Canvas Works but the Icon is Invisible
- Deleting Studio in Icon Only or Auto Mode can offset the Studio Background
- Unsaved files export with no default "Untitled" name and extension
- Fixed the following vulnerabilities in Affinity's Windows desktop applications related to WMF/EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format) file processing.[ CVE-2025-66342 / CVE-2025-62500 / CVE-2025-61979 / CVE-2025-64733 / CVE-2025-66000 / CVE-2025-64301 / CVE-2025-64776 / CVE-2025-64735 / CVE-2025-66633 / CVE-2025-58427 / CVE-2025-66617 / CVE-2025-47873 / CVE-2025-61952 / CVE-2025-66503 / CVE-2025-66042 / CVE-2025-65119 / CVE-2025-62403 / CVE-2026-20726 / CVE-2026-22882 ]
Data Merge
- MailTo QR codes include incorrect Subject parameter
- Slow CSV processing
- Memory usage excessive with image merges
- Underscores missing in Insert pop-up menu in Data Merge Panel (Windows)
Resource Manager
- Reordering images when switching Embed/Linked
- Missing Relink button for text files (Mac only)
- Status missing for some resources (user specific)
- Collect: Choose Folder for Collection dialog is missing New Folder button (Mac only)
- JPEG XL files show as Type “plugin”
- Placed files cannot be replaced with JPEG XL
- Issues with updating multiple instances of the same resource
- Text files get automatically updated from Modified when a file is reopened despite Auto-update Setting being disabled
- Entries disappear when minimizing and maximizing the app from the taskbar (Windows only)
Text / Styles
UI issues
- Text style attributes lost during save/reopen gives duplicate styles
- Character style weight applied as override
- Notes inherit last character style incorrectly and ignores no style attribute
- Compound text doesn’t refresh when edited
- Preflight doesn’t report missing bullet glyphs
- Text ruler display inconsistency (Mac only)
- RegEx not sticking in Find & Replace (Mac only)
- Find button not enabled after selecting previous search (Mac only)
- Can’t change the character outline opacity using the Decoration "Outline Color" pop-up dialog (Windows only)
All platforms
- Export dialog settings not sticky (including when exporting books)
- URL hyperlinks should default to HTTPS
- Add icon changed accidentally in panels
- Studio character count limit
- Select Same>Fill Color ignores opacity differences across layers
- Tags panel control order + alt text duplication issue
- Auto Colors via the Quick Adjustment panel output differs from the same option via the context toolbar
- Margins show zero in the Margins and Guides dialog when margins are from master
- Guides don't anchor correctly when resizing multiple spread document
- On Vector Flood Fill's context toolbar, Set Bitmap Fill is missing its icon/tooltip
- Incorrect Add icon used in Section Manager, Guides, and Sources
Mac
- Studios are slow to switch when the Swatches panel is visible
- Switching between Studios won’t redisplay Pantone Swatch palettes until reselected
- Document rulers update only on mouse over
- Buttons too light in font weight
- Truncated text in Export dialog
- Search of File Format list in Export dialog is case-sensitive
- Multiple UI overlap issues (German, Italian, French)
- On Package Document dialog, the OK/Cancel buttons overlap
- Table panel link icons are partly obscured
- Reading Order panel flicker
- Glyph browser font family control doesn’t set font style
- The font weight on Cancel, Develop and Apply buttons is too light
- Switched-on panel contents are clipped by the panel being docked to
- Welcome screen’s Recents files don’t shown file path (Grid View only)
Windows
- UI jump when placing image
- Context toolbar disappearing
- Place context toolbar is too short and is jarring when docked
- Panels not scrollable (Table/Data Merge)
- Inconsistent thumbnail saturation
- Delay on tooltip hover-over is ignored (all tools)
- Invert command lacks default shortcut
- Live mask opacity range incorrect (0–10%)
- Column guide margins capped at 400px
- Welcome screen’s New document setting improvements
- Missing delete icon when hovering over user presets
- Improved DPI control
- Custom presets can’t be reordered
- Batch panel strips first underscore
- Lock file not cleared after saving and closing
- Layer effects: selecting a color swatch doesn't get applied when clicked
- Artboard documents scrollbars don't use background artboard color
- Invert command isn't bound to a default shortcut on Windows
- Tools panel docking issues
- The Tools Panel can't be undocked and docked by double-clicking it
- Tools panel context menu difficult to display on Windows
- Toggle UI command doesn’t switch Sub-tools back on
- Welcome screen’s Recents thumbnails show extreme saturation
- Applying the blend mode of the first selected object to multiple selected layers fails
- Panel-specific Window Menu items are missing in Settings>Shortcuts
- Create Studio has no visible scrollbar
- Studio overflow has a lot of blank space if there is only one studio overflowing
- Remove icon color doesn't function when using Edit Studio
- Status Bar: Toggle Pages Panel and Previously Viewed Page buttons overlap
- Customize dialog for Develop, Tone Mapping or Liquify Studios doesn't prevent users from adding panels they shouldn't
- Layers Panel’s Edit Within Current Container icon is virtually invisible
- Advanced view mode not showing a check mark when enabled
- In Welcome screen’s Document Settings, many field values can’t be adjusted by label dragging
Open and export issues
- 8-bit PNG (Rec.709 profle) opens as 32-bit HDR (BT-709 Linear)
- Procreate PNG opens as 32-bit
- 8-bit FFMPEG PNG misinterpreted as 32-bit HDR image
- When opening an image no initial snapshot is created automatically (Windows only)
- Artboard bleed is cropped on raster export
- Transparent images further edited with the Transparency Tool fail to export correctly to PDF
- Export area is not remembered between exports
- Quick Export inconsistencies
- Text after dots not reflected in export file name
- Export Dialog: Click dragging selects the format you land on
- Imported SVG that uses a path fill color and Fill color, incorrectly displays the path color and not the fill
PDF / EPUB
Internationalization
- PDF transparency/export corruption issues
- PDF export fails in specific conditions (adjacent Japanese characters, master page text frames, Esperanto region)
- PDF Password field remains populated when opening a password-protected PDF in the same document
- “All Pages” export introduces unwanted transparency
- Digital HQ PDF export fails if a text frame on a master page has a child text frame
- When exporting to EPUB, the control for selecting cover page differs between platforms
- Fixed Layout EPUB issues:
- list and bullet formatting errors
- landmarks ignored on export
- missing version number
- Reflowable EPUB issues:
- TOC hyperlinks navigates to incorrect headings/pages
- Cross-references links in footnotes/sidenotes incorrect
- Sidenotes not exported
- Cover image settings not retained
- Endnote position crash
- Text in grouped text frame text duplicated (Mac only)
- Some list styles produce incorrect formatting on export
- Exporting a pixel-based Affinity document with transparent background to EPUB will convert to JPG with black background
- Placed PDF screen resolution is lower than previous app versions
- Translation fixes
- Label truncation on Document Setup dialog (Spanish)
- Convert Notes text truncated
- Histogram panel shows button overlaps (Italian/French)
- Recolor Adjustment shows button overlaps (German)
- EPUB terminology inconsistency (“text flow” vs “story”)
- Redundant ISBN label in EPUB export
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