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On the iPad version of Affinity Photo I noticed a recent issue with highpass. I didn’t notice it turning my picture gray like it normally did. I tried multiple things to see what the problem was, but none worked. I tried undoing highpass and recreating the duplicate, but it didn’t work. I restarted Affinity Photo, opened the afphoto again, and redid my first attempt to fix it, but it didn’t work, I restarted my iPad then, opened Affinity Photo, opened the picture to work on, created a duplicate, and then tried highpass again. I still saw that the picture wasn’t gray. I went ahead and tried to see if the blends would work and they did, but not as normal. All the blends except for erase made the picture darker in different ways, such as, shadows, highlights, or even the whole picture. Highpass is to help make the picture look sharper not darker. I also noticed after finding the best blend mode I could find that nothing else I did to help the dark shadows of the blend I used worked. Not shadows/highlights, not contrast/brightness, not even exposure worked on neither duplicate or the original picture. Please help me find the solution to my problem or bug Serif, thanks.

Hello, I am having severe lockup issues with AP 1.8.3 on Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4. I have a Mac Pro 2013 12-core 64RAM 2TB SSD with plenty of free space. Today alone I have had to force quit 4 times, I send crash reports every time. In Preferences under Performance dialogue, I changed a couple from Auto to Low in hopes that will help resolve at least a little bit, but not sure is changing disk space will help. I do work with multi-layer, large files for compositing and manipulating images. Sometimes, but not always, I will save with history, but this is happening on most all that have more than 4-5 layers, to some degree. The larger the file, the worse the issue. EDIT: If I may update this post, please. I have gone through and cleaned out my background processes reducing them down to the 50% range of CPU usage, which is about normal. I tried again to work in AP and had the same lockups and in my Activity Monitor, it was using 250% of the CPU. I was just trying to transform a layer group of about 4-5 layers, and I did send another crash report. Please advise. Thank you and have a great day.