[Too long to save. Lost work.]

I was following the instructions at this site: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Coloring-Book/

I was merging down layers as I did each step and that seemed to take a really long time once I had a few artboards. Then, saving after that took an extremely long time. I did 16 images and the file is over 400 MB and fails to upload. Seems like the file is way too large for that. 

[Scroll Performance of Import Photos]

Here is a video displaying the issue. 

[Too long to save. Lost work.]

I was making a document with 11 artboards of images. I added 5 more with changes and then when I got out of the document it was taking multiple minutes to save. So, I quit the app and relaunched and all my 5 artboards are gone. What is taking so long to save? Is it trying to upload it to iCloud? If so, it should save it locally first so I don’t lose it and upload to iCloud in the background. I shouldn’t have to wait that long just to not lose my work. 

[Performance of merging layers]

I’m following the steps in this article to make changes to a photo: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Coloring-Book/

I’m doing it one at a time to about 12 photos. After I apply the black and white adjustment, I select the layers and tap merge selected. This was fast when I was working on just 1 photo but once I had a few artboards with photos, it started taking numerous seconds which seems odd to me. Also, the canvas doesn’t show the right thing sometimes. It starts getting very buggy when I have numerous artboards.

[Scroll Performance of Import Photos]

When trying to place an image from my photos library, the scroll performance the view to select an album, completely unusable. As I’m scrolling, the entire UI will completely freeze and start moving again about 1 second or more later. This is exacerbated by the fact that recent albums I’ve made have been pushed all the way to the bottom of the list. The organization of this view really need to be redone. My albums I’ve created should be separate from the old albums that came over as the events from an iPhoto migration. You can see how other apps deal with this. 

[[Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like?]

Personally, I’m just went back to using Aperture, because I love it’s features and I was very dissatisfied with Lightroom. Of course, it’s a dead product. But I’d love to see Affinity tackle this, because I’ve been very impressed with Affinity Designer so far. 

The things I love from Aperture are the ability to select multiple images and easily compare them quickly to sort through multiple shots. Also, the loop tool is great for inspecting photos for detail.