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Hi, When testing the v1.10 beta, I reported that FITs were imported in grayscale when creating a 'normal' stack, but were imported as RGB when creating a Astrophotography stack. I've just upgraded to the full v1.10 release, and notice that now it doesnt allow you to import FITs at all if you want to create normal stack. This is really important for astrophotography work for aligning planetary images - you often want to import the stacks WITHOUT aligning them because planets rotate and you often want to preserve the rotation, or for example when aligning images of an eclipse, you want to create the stack and align the images manually because the object changes with every frame, Affinity just can't align them. You COULD import FITs into normal stack in the v1.10 beta, although the FITs imported as grayscale - meaning you needed to use another app to convert them to TIFF first - tedious and unnecessary - I can do this in Photoshop. 1. Why has the ability to import FITS into a normal stack been dropped in the full version of v1.10 ? 2. What can't I import FITS now when I could in the beta 3. Will you reinstate the ability to import FITS into a normal stack - with support for colour ? Gary

HI, I've been looking forward to experimenting with Affinity Photo v1.10 beta, because it lets you import FITS into a 'normal' stack - as opposed to an 'Astronomy' stack. This is really helpful when you want to align images without stacking them, such as aligning a sequence of images of an eclipse, then assembling them into an animation. But - I've realised that using 'File/New Stack ...' always imports FITs as grayscale - it ignores the colour component of the FITS file. There doesn't appear to be any Pref or other settings that applies to the way FITs files are imported ... Unless I'm missing something ? Many thanks, Gary