Aftemplate

this is all.
https://www.sgo.es/doc/workflows/index.html?introduction.html
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/cop2/cornerramp.html
http://pixaflux.com/history.php
https://www.dl-c.com/Products-PWP8.html
https://github.com/Keavon/Graphite
https://github.com/alexge50/gie
https://github.com/santaclose/noose
https://github.com/VISNode/VISNode
https://github.com/sysrpl/ImageShop/tree/master
https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhotoFlow
https://github.com/dan335/nimp
https://github.com/Correct-Syntax/Gimel-Studio
https://secure.flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/
https://www.thebloomapp.com/download/?ChangeList
https://phoduit.com/blog/
https://github.com/Laidout/laidout
https://github.com/nodebox/nodebox
https://github.com/hodefoting/mrg/
Please insist on your persistence of the node photo editor. Whip makes people travel. good luck.

it still can't read " layer beneath" as displace input for a warp I described in my original post.  You have to export that layer as a separate image  and re-save the filter.
Well. in the version I have . not the current one. Can it in current version?

I'd love something like Filter forge, even simpler.   Too bad  Filter forge have to be rasterized into a layer, cant stay live  providing dynamically adjusting masks  through APoto layer stack.    That rasterizing kills the whole purpose of staying live. 
Another issue it's CPU bound . Some old version of Xara  worked with Filter forge  in more live manner,  re-rasterizing  evry time you scale or move a host object  and it was slow as hell.
Would Filter forge has an ability to access a layer beneath linked to something   and auto updating if something is changing it would be all I need  even being super slow.  I.e "live" filter forge.         Sadly it can't work that way.  
You have to re-open Filter forge  , re-save and reload all the outside files/resources . then save and render .   It's a  huge pain in a...  Working as a plugin  doesn't make it easier at all. 
Thanks for interesting links. it's new one for me.    I still need/dream of  a kind of hybrid . Both layers and brushes for manual touches  and nodes for filters.     
 
 

AE is out. It is not a node.
Node picture editing. It is still a vacancy so far.
There are some immature projects:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233680/Black_Ink/ (The developer is a turtle, the ancient DX11, no hope
https://github.com/ttddee/Cascade (Just born, I don't know how long it can survive.
For our dream of our node editor. cheers.
Sadly, we don't know how to write code.

Yeah. $10k soft is great for sure . The only issue I need just an image editor for static images. not video sequences.     And one where I could use traditional art tools aka brushes.     
So why for anything just a little bit more advanced  involving  CG  images  or just depth /impasto channel  and simple image compositing  we all have to use  those monstrously  complex tools  focused on totally different area.   Especially when APhoto  needs only a few simple tweaks to be perfectly capable .  Especially in its 32 bit mode.
I understand Adobe. They want people to buy After effects  so we wouldn't ever see anything  beyond silly toys in Photoshop  probably.  And After effect is still a video editor mostly .   So IMO it would be a great opportunity for Serif  to fill a market void  for those who need  to compose photo and CG  but doesn't need video output

Nuke is king.

Would be super useful if we could  construct our own live filters in a kind of node based interface working in floating point math .    Maybe Something simple at first .   Something using  5 of CMYKA   or 4 of RGBA channels of a layer beneath the    host / target one  or some specifically appointed layer as inputs and doing  basic  distance, blur , displace , kernel, hipass and levels   things.   Plus some repeating, loop capabilities with gradual fading. 
Like pixel processor in Substance Designer maybe.  
  Could be a kind of live mesh warp for example without mesh .  With host layer to warp  and beneath layer giving its R and G channels   for warp direction  vector  and Blue  for warp distance/ strength.
Working together with super cool  linkng  system would skyrocket APhoto to totally another level  way beyond  Photoshop.
 

In the stock panel we list a selection of stock image providers for the convenience of our customers on the basis of it being a free service. Unfortunately in the case of Unsplash they have begun demanding license fees for their API which is the reason they have been removed.
The good news is this  only affects Unsplash, the other options of Pixbay and Pexels continue to be available.
Of course should you wish to use Unsplash images you can download directly from their website using a browser and then import into your Affinity apps by drag & drop or File -> Place, as you would with any other stock library not listed in the panel.

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the fifth build of Affinity Photo 1.10.0 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The changes in the 1.9.4 betas have been rolled into 1.10.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Previous Beta
 
- Fixed blend mode issues in the compositor.
- Fixed star alignment in astro stacking.
- Fixed issues with merge down / visible / selected.
- Fixed adjustment panel histogram issues.
- Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats.
- Fixed curves / levels / channel mixer adjustments which affect alpha when placed as an enclosure.
- Assorted other tiny fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Allow OCIO display path to use EDR capability.
- Further patch tool fixes in LAB colour mode.
- Obey the document colour space when putting PDF data on the pasteboard.
- Show a message box on astro stacking completion, reporting light frames which could not be aligned.
- Fixed a sporadic deadlock issue when hardware acceleration is enabled.
- Fixed potential crash when typing text.
- Fixed potential crash when rendering large panoramas.
- Fixed issues when loading small documents into separated mode (documents were rotated).
- Fixed live defringe bug when zooming.
- Improved defringe performance and increased maximum radius.
- Improve performance when multiple Info page samplers are placed on the document.
- Improve adjustment layer performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.
- Added CR3 support for Canon EOS 850D.
- Emoji improvements and fixes.
- Improved gradient fill noise rendering.
- Lens correction improvements for Canon / Tamron / Sigma lenses.
- Fixed crash when using monochrome FITS bayer pattern.
- Fixed issues when refining a selection and outputting as a new layer with mask.
- Fixed mesh warp issues.
- Fixed issue which was preventing accurate selection of pixel layers.
- Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape.
- Fixed Apply Image when used on masks.
- Fixed TIFF DPI issues.
- Fixed numerous sharpen brush tool issues.
- Fixed crash when rearranging swatches.
- Fixed issues when pasting pixel layers into larger documents.
- Added support for emoji 😃👌😻.
- Added the ability to load ACM lens profiles.
- Assorted improvements to astro stacking, including the ability to edit the names of stacked images and the ability to stack images for different filters simultaneously. 
- Fixed issues opening some DNG files.

- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Assorted astro stacking improvements and fixes.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Attempted fix for occasional flickering of rendered document.
- Fixed crash when deleting a procedural texture constant while the cursor is still in the description text field.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed missing controls when procedural texture dialog is in non-English.
- Fixed crash when macro recording selected layer change in Japanese UI.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Added the ability to open FITS files directly, with control over demosaicing.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Significant performance improvements in low memory situations.
- Fixed small visual issues when switching back to templates from presets in the new document panel.
- Fixed gradient map adjustment rendering issues.
- Fixed expression input issues with decimal separators other than ".".
- Fixed issue whereby ISO speed was incorrectly reported for some images.
- Help improvements.
- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.
- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the fourth build of Affinity Photo 1.10.0 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The changes in the 1.9.4 betas have been rolled into 1.10.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Previous Beta
 
- Allow OCIO display path to use EDR capability.
- Further patch tool fixes in LAB colour mode.
- Obey the document colour space when putting PDF data on the pasteboard.
- Show a message box on astro stacking completion, reporting light frames which could not be aligned.
- Fixed a sporadic deadlock issue when hardware acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Fixed potential crash when typing text.
- Fixed potential crash when rendering large panoramas.
- Fixed issues when loading small documents into separated mode (documents were rotated).
- Fixed live defringe bug when zooming.
- Improved defringe performance and increased maximum radius.
- Improve performance when multiple Info page samplers are placed on the document.
- Improve adjustment layer performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.
- Added CR3 support for Canon EOS 850D.
- Emoji improvements and fixes.
- Improved gradient fill noise rendering.
- Lens correction improvements for Canon / Tamron / Sigma lenses.
- Fixed crash when using monochrome FITS bayer pattern.
- Fixed issues when refining a selection and outputting as a new layer with mask.
- Fixed mesh warp issues.
- Fixed issue which was preventing accurate selection of pixel layers.
- Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape.
- Fixed Apply Image when used on masks.
- Fixed TIFF DPI issues.
- Fixed numerous sharpen brush tool issues.
- Fixed crash when rearranging swatches.
- Fixed issues when pasting pixel layers into larger documents.
- Added support for emoji 😃👌😻.
- Added the ability to load ACM lens profiles.
- Assorted improvements to astro stacking, including the ability to edit the names of stacked images and the ability to stack images for different filters simultaneously. 
- Fixed issues opening some DNG files.

- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Assorted astro stacking improvements and fixes.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Attempted fix for occasional flickering of rendered document.
- Fixed crash when deleting a procedural texture constant while the cursor is still in the description text field.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed missing controls when procedural texture dialog is in non-English.
- Fixed crash when macro recording selected layer change in Japanese UI.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Added the ability to open FITS files directly, with control over demosaicing.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Significant performance improvements in low memory situations.
- Fixed small visual issues when switching back to templates from presets in the new document panel.
- Fixed gradient map adjustment rendering issues.
- Fixed expression input issues with decimal separators other than ".".
- Fixed issue whereby ISO speed was incorrectly reported for some images.
- Help improvements.
- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.
- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the fourth build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Previous Beta

- Serif Labs RAW engine improvements.
- Assorted astro stacking improvements and fixes.
- Fixed Nikon D780 Raw loading when using Serif Labs engine.
- Attempted fix for occasional flickering of rendered document.
- Fixed crash when deleting a procedural texture constant while the cursor is still in the description text field.
- Fixed erratic behaviour with placed images.
- Fixed missing controls when procedural texture dialog is in non-English.
- Fixed crash when macro recording selected layer change in Japanese UI.
- Fixed lockups when loading certain PSD documents with smart objects enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Help improvements.
 
Additional Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Added the ability to open FITS files directly, with control over demosaicing.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Significant performance improvements in low memory situations.
- Fixed small visual issues when switching back to templates from presets in the new document panel.
- Fixed gradient map adjustment rendering issues.
- Fixed expression input issues with decimal separators other than ".".
- Fixed issue whereby ISO speed was incorrectly reported for some images.
- Help improvements.
- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.
- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the third build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Previous Beta
 
- Added the ability to open FITS files directly, with control over demosaicing.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images.
- Performance and memory usage improvements when using embedded documents.
- PDF import and export improvements.
- Significant performance improvements in low memory situations.
- Fixed small visual issues when switching back to templates from presets in the new document panel.
- Fixed gradient map adjustment rendering issues.
- Fixed expression input issues with decimal separators other than ".".
- Fixed issue whereby ISO speed was incorrectly reported for some images.
- Assorted other small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
- Help improvements.
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.
- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the second build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since Previous Beta
 
- Added support for Xtrans sensor images in astro stacking.
- Added GPU acceleration for blending ranges (in Advanced Blending).
- Further, significant, performance improvements for documents with many layers.
- Significant performance improvements when converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats.
- Fixed performance issues with previous build with certain GPUs.
- Fixed spare channel / mask editing.
- Assorted metadata panel tweaks.
- Further panorama stitching performance tweaks.
- Assorted bug fixes.
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

The prayer node ui workflow appears in 2.0

THANKS, great you added median for FS  !
I use median since I have learn to use it from earth Oliver for product images and it works impressive well.  he suggests to run the median filter twice to get rid of the artefacts you get with just one pass in the lower frequency layer so I wonder if this artefacts as in your implementation can have an negative  impact  or if you could implement it in the oliver way so that the settings are applied 2 times in the background ? 
https://www.adobe.com/de/max/2020/sessions/frequency-separation-20-part-1-photoshop-fs20-reto-l6153a.html

The prayer node ui workflow appears in 2.0

The prayer node ui workflow appears in 2.0

Hi,
I would love such tool in Affinity : 
 
Is there any alternative here or just need to wait for such thing?
Thanks

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, improvements and fixes.
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first build of Affinity Photo 1.9.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
The 1.9.4 beta will have a performance focus as we circle back to clean up some inefficiencies which have crept in over time. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.3, or if you notice rendering bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since 1.9.3
 
- Added a new "median" mode to the frequency separation filter.
- The gradient map adjustment now has a GPU implementation.
- Restored the GPU rendering improvements which were dropped towards the end of the 1.9.2 beta. The benchmark version is once again set to 1920.
- Improve performance when manipulating the selected layer immediately after loading a document.
- Significant performance improvements in low-memory situations, reducing use of the swap file.
- Panorama stitching performance improvements.
- Significant performance improvements for documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible).
- Render EXIF exposure time as decimal if above 1.
- Fixed F-number always showing as "f/0" for Leica M-series cameras (and others).
- Fixed issue whereby LUTs would incorrectly report "Identity" as the description.
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard.
- Fixed performance issues with CMYK documents when GPU acceleration is enabled.
- Assorted small fixes.
- Localisation improvements.
 

What leads you to think it's coming sometime soon?
We might see 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, etc. before we ever get to 2.0.

These Affinity forums will be unavailable from around 6:00 am GMT on 15th April 2021.
The Affinity forums are being updated to the latest release version if Invision forums software 4.5.4.2, which has many fixes and some improvements over the existing (4.4.9.2) version.
The maintenance is expected to take up to 4 hours hours so we would expect them to be available again around 10:00 am 15th April. There will be significant visual differences this time, and you will certainly need to log back into the forums when they return.
The Affinity Team

Hi,
in this discussion everyone should be aware of two separate possible reasons for high CPU/GPU load:
Using all available CPU/GPU resources to provide fastest and most exact rendering of you images Waisting resources due to software bugs As Dan C pointed out, most high CPU usage in Affinity is intentionally. It is the same use case like video editing, game play, audio transcoding. So it is no bug, it is a feature. Games try to saturate CPU/GPU usage to get as many as possible frames per second (at least 60-120). Affinity falls in this category, too. Rendering multiple pixel layers, filters, masks etc is very intensive, so Photo uses several tricks like showing an approximation first (to be fast) and a more precise results a bit later. Even if you only move the curser, Affinity may need to re-render the image, e.g. for immediate preview of brushes.
Have you noticed that GIMP does not provide instant preview for many effects? This is the reason why GIMP need less power, in contrast to Affinity where most effects are instant.
This feature was my main reason to switch to Affinity. And I‘m happy that Affinity is able to utilize the expensive CPU and GPU i dedicatedly purchased.
So your criticism to cpu fan noise is mainly  inappropriate. It shows Affinity- as a rare example- could actually use your expensive PC. 
 
On the other side, Photo still has some bugs which could lead to Photo freezes with 100% CPU. 
Only if you observe fan noise in combination with actuals rendering issues or App freezing, you have a reason to file a bug report.  Again, the issue is not the fan noise itself, it is the rendering issue or app stopping to response.
As Photo 1.9. started to utilize OpenCL GPU acceleration on Windows, unfortunately multiple issues came into light with GPU driver issues. Most of these issues must be blamed to the issuer of the GPU driver (or even users who never updated  drivers). Affinity might have its own share, but since 1.9.2.1035 OpenCL runs quite stable on my PC.
To summarize my point:
High CPU/GPU load and fan noise is actually the unavoidable side effect of a desired feature to deliver snappy performance by instantly rendering all your edits. I‘m glad that Affinity finally makes use of all available PC resources. It’s similar to buying a fast cabriolet to be directed connected with the air outside and complaining about wind nose above 250km/h. 
Please take my post as intended to explain, and not to offend anybody.
 

Definitely no offense taken NotMyFault, at the time I made my post I was running 1.8.5 and I was concerned over what seemed to be excessive CPU usage compared to Photoshop, especially when doing things like dragging layers around the canvas or zooming.
I'm happy to say that since 1.9.x my CPU usage and fan noise has been much better and more comparable to Photoshop, and I didn't fully understand the role of OpenCL rendering at the time of my last post; I personally haven't run into too many stability problems either with 1.9.2.1035 (Radeon RX580 GPU with recent AMD drivers), and overall I'm happy with how the program performs.
I hope everyone gets a chance to read through and update to the latest version to see if that resolves their CPU usage problems.

I have similar issues of 100% usage causing multi-tasking issues, itunes to sound like a bad DJ, to occur system wide. Very out of my mojo flow stuff.
The solution I could find was to limit the CPU cores affinity can use to 75% of available CPU power and my issues are now resolved.  
This is done on Windows by:
Task Manager > Details > Right Click Designer(or Photo/Publisher).exe > Set Affinity > Uncheck Desired Cores
Serif Affinity Suite is amazing, yes there are features that are not yet made, but for a single-purchase software (Thank GOD!), it is to the moon awesome value and performance that is really just remarkable. Publisher is a dream come true with the personas... anyway nuff my promotion, hope this helps.

I can't understand Design without measurement. The designs will be applied in the real world and so the dimensions come from there also. SoftLogic Pagestream, although a desktop publishing program, was able to supply drawings and designs that satisfied theatre set builders, surveyors, government offices and home buyers. AD offers far more Ilustration power but it's not much help for drawing plans without providing the built-in math in a readout 
That sqrt(w^2+h^2) is going to be a very British kludge! ( I love English Motorcycles therefor I can build one )