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If this means affinity (im just used to calling them that) or SERIF opens up affinity photo to what could become a huge catalogue of filters like filter forge, then all i cay say is GOD BLESS THEM! That would be fantastic.

These look cool, thanks. I wish affinity spent time replicating the artistic filters from photoshop though and maybe added some more more general purpose artistic filters, then filter forge could do what they want with mac compatibility, i wouldnt need them. But yes, things like this makes affinity better for graphics creation.

eh yes for photoshop, not affinity. Guess i shuld have written that. Photoshop isnt interesting to me, who cares about them, i dont RENT software. But thats why it somewhat works in affinity too.

How many coders would it take to make it compatible you think? 3? 4? And with 16% of global markets using macs, which is like 100 million computers or so, if 1% is interested in buying filter forge, thats 1 million sales they miss out on. Even the fact that theres a lack of for example gmic support for mac, should make filter forge even more interested in getting into that market. Dont tell me theres not money to earn here.

Its not really about that though. I think my cheap windows laptop is great for what it is, you get windows laptops for a fraction of the price of a mac laptop that does almost the same. I dont use it that much though so its not important for me that its stable. But the home computer i do serious work on and which is on 24/7 is a mac.

Looks about right, at the same time macos buyers often have more money and are more oriented towards creative work than windows users. Im not just saying that, i see that, people that want stable machines that are not in the way of their work, go for mac. We used only macs when i took graphical design course about 25 years ago. If you have a machine to display graphics to a huge audience for example, you also go for mac for the stability. You dont buy an expensive mac if you primiarily want to game. If you view it this way i think the two groups are not far from eachother regarding customer base in actual numbers. And with apple silicon, you get much more for your money in terms of raw computing power compared to what you used to get when mac ran on intel machines aswell, when macs now are much better purchase i cant see other than it tipping the balance in favour of mac when customers realize this.

Is it the apple silicon switch they made? it kind of ruins it regarding graphics creation for me, which is what i used to do on photoshop, it would be fun if i could continue using the old tricks in affinity, but i guess not. But im going to be focusing more on photo work ahead anyway so i still have use for affinity without the filters and the ability to make graphics i could have had if these filters worked. doubt ill be using it online since i spend alot of time on filters adjusting, seeing how it looks with other layers, maybe re-applying many times over until it looks good. plus its slow doing it online. But thanks for the tip, it might come handy.

I guess, if someone, even say affinity, helped develop support for gmic on mac that could maybe make filterforge realize they are losing their mac customer base and maybe do something about it. Going back to windows isnt an option for me. I started to get a hunch its time to change platform when i got dad to move from windows to mac after all the computersupport i had to do for him for free, windows was almost unusable, but now after 2018 that he got his mac mini i rarely ever hear anything except for a few details like hes looking for a file i have to search up and things like that. I get why mac is the OS for designers etc that want to focus on creative work instead of being bothered by annoying upkeep on windows, i just want my computers to work and finally i have the os that does that. And linux? i tried to install it on my old intel nuc a year or so ago, it worked a couple of months and then it broke and wouldnt boot, that was supposedly the extremely userfriendly linux mint on very standard intel hardware which should be well supported. Its been even worse than windows for me. I think an update did it.

Well yes, but it doesnt help since half the point is applying this to layers instead of the whole image, which means it needs to be a plugin launched from affinity photo on mac. Gmic is one of those sets of tools id wish i could get for affinity.

Well, mac is THE platform for serious graphics designers and creative people, i find it strange mac of all platforms are not priority. Im so glad i changed from windows after the instability and bugs i had there and i cant imagine going back to that, compared to windows mac runs smooth as butter and m2 pro which i have is some serious computing power, cost vs effect i think it actually beats or atleast are around the same as a comparable pc for the price. That wasnt the case a few years ago, that means mac has to increase in percentage of users and if they dont support it, they will fall behind.

Too bad the same issue as with filter forge, its not officially supported for affinity photo on mac... i find no download for it.

I have. Its outrageous they dont officially support mac (other than photoshop).

Sure but heres the catch: You need to know quite a bit of how to use advanced features in affinity for this. How many 10 year olds that want a program where they can make an impressive invite to their birthday party know how to do this? But with a nice set of artistic filters they could. That means dad needs to buy affinity, because he knows from his friends thats easy to do there, plus its popular among professionals too and he wants his kid to learn something useful for later in life. Thats part of the reason photoshop got to where they are now. Many pirated them though, with the price of affinity, its cost is low enough so people like that would rather just buy it.

No, this is also not the same. Apriciate you trying to help but ive been unable to find any that are able to replicate the way photoshops plastic wrap filter works over text etc. Let me remind you i have filterforge with several plastic wrap plugins, while a few do a fairly descent job none of them works as well as photoshops either. Frozen filter there works better, and the fire filters works great. But filter forge is buggy on mac and the problem seems to be at their side. Affinity could dent their sales and force them to start developing better support for mac if they got their own cathegory of artistic filters like ive explained here since we would be covered with the basic tools which makes people like me go and pay for filter force despite their crappy support for mac. Lightrays is another interesting filter affinity team could look at btw, you can make a figure or text and it "shines" lightrays out in a specified direction, you can adjust spread etc. Would be amazing to have this shipped with affinity as standard and it would do miracles for graphics designers. Luminar neo has some impressive sets of tools aswell which would lift affinity to a higher level, like changing skies, moving for example sunlight behind trees in a picture of a forest and sunrays etc shines where they should etc using AI, extremely impressive. But this is probably hard to do, the filters i mentioned over here would be easy.

It looks similar but its not the same effect.