Squarelu Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hello, can I use external plugs-in like Akvis Sketch or Topaz Glow ? If not, do you prepare such improvement ? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hi Squarelu, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) If your plug-ins aren't working correctly it's probably because they are not supported yet. Soon we will publish a list of the plug-ins compatible with Affinity Photo. We will be adding support for more as we move forward. Curt and daisyok 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 A list of compatible plug-ins would be most welcome. I like many use Lightroom and Photoshop with a variety of plug-ins such as those provided by Topaz and Nik and to convince me that Affinity is a truly viable alternative to LR & PS as my "go to" app is the ability to use these plug-in; I say this having purchased Affinity and love it but do not without this ability feel confident to stop my LR & PS CC subscription. Plug-ins are the game changer for me. Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaxian Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Yup - me too. I have several Photoshop plugins, and I use Topaz plugins the most - I have all of theirs. But Affinity Photo doesn't find them, and when I add them manually after trawling through the Library/Application Support folder, they appear via the menu - but don't work. Error message is "Cannot Proceed - IPC Memory in use or Image size is too big for the system." That's on an iMac 27" with 32GB RAM and 3TB HD. Given that Affinity Photo has a pane for Photoshop Plugins in the Preferences, I assumed (silly me) that it would work with Photoshop-compatible plugins. Shouldn't you guys have at least been in touch with the major plugin makers such as Topaz first? Is this actually ready for prime time yet? I sure can't use it for working with photos instead of Photoshop yet. Also, the Welcome screen thingy offers me downloadable images to play with - but they don't download. A click on the image just produces a tiny red X in the little cloud icon. What's the story with that? Elf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted July 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 9, 2015 The images on the welcome screen will start downloading when you click them. The files are often very large as they usually include edit history so you can see how the image was created. Just click and wait for them to download, you should see a circular progress bar around the preview image. As for plugins then it's all about being a sandboxed app. We will have more information available soon about what directories you will need to include to get each set of plugins working. You are correct in that we do need to work with plugin developers but it's hard when you haven't released an app. All should be smoother soon. Pentaxian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 The images on the welcome screen will start downloading when you click them. The files are often very large as they usually include edit history so you can see how the image was created. Just click and wait for them to download, you should see a circular progress bar around the preview image. As for plugins then it's all about being a sandboxed app. We will have more information available soon about what directories you will need to include to get each set of plugins working. You are correct in that we do need to work with plugin developers but it's hard when you haven't released an app. All should be smoother soon. Re Plugin / Filters; after I purchased and installed the program I too was confused about the inability to load plugins of the Photoshop and Lightroom variety. Now that I know it's a work in progress I will be looking forward to further developments. It's a smooth running program and enjoyable to use. Affinity Designer is also terrific! InDesign is a program I've used for a long time, if anyone comes up with an alternative that would be a major achievement. Because I bought a Macbook Pro Retina recently I'm using Scribus. I have Photoshop on my PC Windows and have stopped using it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the explanations especially regarding the plug-ins, compatibility wwith LR & PS should be a priority and I look forward to this happening. Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msjh Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 How will we find out about plugins? Will an email be sent to those who have bought Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hi msjh, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Soon we will publish a list of the plug-ins compatible with Affinity Photo. Elf 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentaxian Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I suspect that the Affinity team have been caught with pants down on this - they may not have realised just how widespread the use of 3rd party plugins actually is. I'm loving Affinity Photo already, but I can't consider it as a serious replacement for Photoshop until most, if not all, of my plugins work with Affinity Photo. I have so many workflows that I do routinely that depend on the use of things like Topaz and many other plugins and can't achieve what I need to achieve without them. Maybe there are workarounds using the Affinity built-in effects, many of which I have yet to explore, but given that most of us will already have "muscle memory" for flipping out to a plugin or three, I think the compatibility issue needs to be number 1 on the priority list of things to do - pronto. However, given the perceived keenness of the Affinity team to support users and work with people to resolve issues, I am hoping that this will happen quickly now they have a released app to use with the plug-in developers. I think this should take precedence over things like adding new features, for example. It should be major bug-fixes first, then plug-in compatibility, especially for the major ones like Topaz, Nik, Noise Ninja, OnOne, Photomatix, etc. Until that happens, I'd suggest that Affinity refrain from submitting Photo for major reviews by photography magazines, blogs, etc - the plug-in problem would weigh heavily against the app. But once the compatibility problem is sorted, then they need to get the app out there to as many photographic sites as possible for review - it would stand up really well. Sorry for the unasked-for advice, but that's how I see the priorities at the moment. Allsop, StefanG and Elf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I agree wholeheartedly with Pentaxian especially when he says that this should take precedence over other things. This is so important to the ultimate success of this app. LilleG and Pentaxian 2 Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanG Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I agree totally with Pentaxian. Affinity has great potential. But if Affinity will not support plugins like Topaz. Then Affinity is just another Pixelmator. If Affinity fix this I am serious in to dumping photoshop, and just go for Affinity. But at it is for now - Photoshop is my tool. Allsop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppersbear Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 How do I use a QP Card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 How do I use a QP Card? What is a QP Card? Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppersbear Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 QP Card has 2.5 cm white, 2.5 cm grey, 2.5cm black on it. Place next to the object that you are photographing then open in the photo in Photoshop using the eye droper click on the grey and prestos you have the correct colour. Allsop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protoplasmia Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I've got some of the NIK plug-ins working ... others like Vivenza don't work (like other postings here ... it comes up with an error message when trying to invoke it). I also have Fisheye Hemi installed in Affinity Photo (works in Photoshop and Lightroom) ... but invoking it does nothing to the photo. Like others have said, only reason to finally abandon Photoshop and Lightroom is support for the major plug-ins out there. Elf and Allsop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Can you give more details please of which Nik plugins you have got working and how? Cheers. Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpnp Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Agree with all that has been said about plug-ins. Will not purchase AP until these problems are solved. After following the forums over the past few weeks,and seeing all the problems, I question weather AP is really ready for prime time. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Agree with all that has been said about plug-ins. Will not purchase AP until these problems are solved. After following the forums over the past few weeks,and seeing all the problems, I question weather AP is really ready for prime time. What do you think? Ideally I would like to have seen the plugin issue resolved before going prime time but as it has not then until it is I will only be using Affinity as second to Lightroom & Photoshop. Elf 1 Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted July 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 20, 2015 Outside of Adobe which application do you feel has the best Photoshop plugin support? We probably can't promise to be as good as Photoshop but we aim to be good and better than anyone else. Elf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Outside of Adobe which application do you feel has the best Photoshop plugin support? We probably can't promise to be as good as Photoshop but we aim to be good and better than anyone else. Well I do not have any experience of application other than Adobe so I can not help here, sorry. But I do think that you should at least aim to be as good as Photoshop—if you do not aim high you will not achieve high! Are you able to confirm , however, that you are working on adding plugin support for Nik and Topaz? Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted July 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 20, 2015 Well I do not have any experience of application other than Adobe so I can not help here, sorry. But I do think that you should at least aim to be as good as Photoshop—if you do not aim high you will not achieve high! Are you able to confirm , however, that you are working on adding plugin support for Nik and Topaz? Nik and Topaz should already manly work. Have you added the support directories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisyok Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Please do something to make my onone plugin usable. I have followed the directions, none of my plugins show up. I mainly use onone, but also might use topaz, and Nik. Once I can use them, I can forget about Photoshopo forever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardencat Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Agree with all that has been said about plug-ins. Will not purchase AP until these problems are solved. After following the forums over the past few weeks,and seeing all the problems, I question weather AP is really ready for prime time. What do you think? I hope I don't come off as being snarky but I think you are asking for a lot for $49. I use Photoshop and also use PerfectPhoto9...that is a good program that I find useful, but it costs more than triple what Affinity Photo does and it does not work with photoshop plug ins...it supposedly works as a plug in to Photoshop itself, which should make it easier to shift back and forth between those two but, in fact, I find that using it as a plug results in fequent crashes and has severe limits as to how things can be handled. I don't say this to put down Perfect Photo (it has it's strong points ) but just to say that, every program is likely to have some things it does better than other programs and I, personally, think that Affinity has made a great start. As far as being "ready for prime time" well, I think it is ready to be out there and offer quite a lot for its present price and add to that that the developers seem willing and eager to improve it. Maybe you will need to keep your Photoshop subscription for a little longer but then, (assuming you are one of those who signed on at the $9.99 per month deal and assuming that Adobe doesn't suddenly hike the price) you can have a program you own outright for just 5 months worth of Photoshop. There are still a lot of things I'd like to see added to Affinity but it already seems like a deal to me, even if it doesn't do quite everything Photoshop does in exactly the way Photoshop does it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsop Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Nik and Topaz should already manly work. Have you added the support directories? Could you please explain what you mean by and how to add the support directories? Thanks. Quote It is all part of the rich tapestry of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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