RPC2020 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 I have been trying to use Affinity to stack and process star trails and am not having any luck. No matter what file type (TIFF, RAW or JPG) I try to use when I create a new stack, Affinity either takes hours to create the stack, hangs or crashes. When I try with just a with just a few images (less than 10), the stack is created and when I try to work with the image Affinity is slow, clunky and eventually crashes. Looking on the web I found a number or videos and guides that explain how to create star trail images with Affinity, but none of them seem to work for me. When I finally managed to create a stack with all my images as JPG and tried to use "Merge Visible" it takes hours to complete the process. I heard and read a lot of good things about Affinity and although the photo editing features may be awesome, my limited experience in trying to use them to do star trails is very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted May 26, 2020 Staff Share Posted May 26, 2020 Hi RPC2020 and Welcome to the Forums, Could you attach the images you are stacking? Also are you using Affinity on Mac or Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Are you using File > New Stack or stacking your images manually? I think the problem with Astro Images is that the contrast is low and does not offer nice edges for the alignment process. If you are aiming at star trails then you want the low-contrast background to be aligned, but the low-contrast stars not to be aligned. This might be the reason for the slow progress and for the crashing. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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