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In fact, after deleting the autosave file Photo takes even longer to open and close. Minutes even.

Hey DWright, thank you for your answer. There was indeed quite a large file in the folder. However, deleting it did not do the trick. Affinity Photo immediately tries to reconnect to the server during launch. Do you reckon there's something different that's trying to connect to the server? Could Photo have saved something, e.g. options or anything alike, that it's trying to load?

Hey guys, lately I've been having a strange issue and my attempts to fix it haven't worked out so far. My brother is hosting a server in his office to which I connect via VPN and the usual Finder Cmd+K shortcut. However, whenever I am not connected to the network device, Affinity Photo severely slows down, takes ages to load or close and shows the attached finder prompt(*). It tries to connect to my brothers server somehow. I tried clearing the last used items tab, since usually I open up images on the network device. That didn't solve the issue though. So, it seems to me, like it's trying to load something else which I cannot seem to find. All the brushes I use are local and there's little more I can think off. Any ideas? (* Rough translation: An error occured while trying to connect to the Server. Ask your sys admin for more info.)

The panorama merge function is one of my most beloved tool in Affinity Photo and I use it regularly to stitch together all kinds of photos. However, the source brush still needs some improving. The precision is rather poor at times. It will produce a line sometimes 60 or more pixels away from the brush stroke rendering the whole idea of a manual selection irrelevant. Also, it's unreliable in it's selection, too. Changing the source at say the top left corner of one image makes the whole panorama rerender, causing to delete / overwrite previous brush strokes. In general, I feel like the tool ought to "listen" more precisely to the user's input. Maybe adding the option to define lines in the panorama it should stick to (e.g. roads, rivers, horizon, etc.) would be a helpful addition, too. It's just such a pain to be working on that huge panorama for hours, seeing all your changes reverted or deleted every few moments. Also, adding the option to go back to panorama source selection might be an interesting idea. I'd rather have a 3gb work-in-progress file for a day than to render the panorama thrice and redo everything again.

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This might be a tough one for some smaller computers. Anyway, I've been thinking: Is there a way to combine both the HDR as well as the panorama function of Affinity Photo into a single one? Basically, load up a 7x5 frames to be merged into an HDR panorama. It'd be great if you could select images, assign each frame to an individual/supposed HDR shot and let Photo finally put all the merges together into a panorama. That function would save a lot of time on the project, I'm currently working on which involves a lot of shots straight against the sun. Thanks for reading!

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