Fraenzken

I would very much like to see this impemented.

I would like to see this feature as well. Ideally, Affinity Photo would detect when more than one photo is dragged to it and ask what to with them (e.g. Stack, HDR, Focus Stack etc.). It would be great if it remembered and preselected the last selected option, so that the user could just hit "enter" when e.g. working with several different stacks in a row.

Another possibility would be to add a modified alignment algorithm that takes only bright spots (stars) into account. Thus it would be possible to import a dozen RAW files as a live stack, once without star alignment (for a smooth and noise-free foreground) and once with star alignment (for the background). Maybe it's asked a bit much, but I surely would love to see this. :)

The video is great. That said, it would be nice to have the possibility to invoke automatic alignment on masked layers as shown in the video. I sometimes have milkyway photos which include some landscape elements, e.g. trees or mountains. Auto alignment aligns the trees then instead of the stars. I'd like to be able to add a mask to each layer which maps out the landscape part and after that start auto alignment on these layers (which only show the sky then). At the moment this is only possible by exporing the masked layers to disk and re-import them into a new stack afaik.

Too bad :(. So there's not much hope for improvement?

One more thing: If I open two jpg images, activate one of them, press Strg-A/Strg-C to copy its content and try to go to the second image to insert it as a new layer, the interface freezes. I have to wait upto 10 seconds then before I can continue.

Hello! I'm trying the new Beta of Affinity Photo at the moment. All in all, I am impressed. Performance on my PC (i3225 + HD4000, 8 Gig RAM, Win 10) is very very slow though: startup: 14 secs open a 16 megapixel JPG: 4 secs open a 16 megapixel RAW: 16 (!) secs stitch a panorama from 6 photos with 16 megapixels each: 43 secs (stitching)/37 secs (rendering) For comparison: Serif PhotoPlus X8 takes 4 sec to startup, 2,5 secs to open a JPG, 7 secs to open a RAW; Microsoft ICE takes 20 secs to stitch and render the panorama (4x as fast as Affinity Photo). Capture One renders a RAW file on my machine typically in less then 8 seconds. Changing the render-engine from HD4000 to Warp in the preferences doesn't improve speed (on the contrary). Uninstall/reinstall or startup with "Strg" pressed to clear the buffer doesn't have any effect either. Any ideas what else I could try? Thanks! Frank