[Please bzip2 or compress your .affinityphoto files]

Tried using Affinity Photo for some retouch and found the initial file size w/ just two layers is 200MB :-O

When I did a search for this, I found out this is a known problem since 2015 (or at least people have posted about it then)...was hoping it was fixed w/ the latest version which I have purchased because I like a lot of what you're doing.

 

A similar image saved w/ gimp is only 36MB (bzip2'd which it automatically does if you save it to the gmp.bz2 extension).  You folks should look into doing something like this.  A finished edit w/ about 6 layers in Gimp is only about 80MB for me (though more destructive).

 

Or when saving, save layers as diffs...

 

Would make a nice program much better and more usable for me...as it is, I''m going to drop stuff into Affinity Photo as needed for using some of its tools, but will continue w/ Gimp until this file format size issue is solved...