allfive Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I installed Nik Collection 2 by DxO but couldn't connect the plugin during installation. Is there a post-install way to connect Nik to Affinity Photo? (Nik support is not up to par on this, sad to say.) Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 My system is MacOS High Sierra. I'm reading thru the other threads now to see if they can be of help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 Found the DxO folder under Library>Preferences. Added it, to Plugin Search Folders. Added it to Plugin Support Folders, Authorized Global, ticked Allow Unknown plugins, Restarted. Nothing. I tried adding the plugins individually. No go. Will take a breather. Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Are the Nik plugins contained directly within the DxO folder, or within a subfolder. You do need to specify the folder that contains the plugins directly. Did you restart Affinity Photo after completing the Photoshop Plugins dialogue? The Nik collection 2 works OK for me in Photo 1.8 on Windows 10. 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...
allfive Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 (edited) Quote Are the Nik plugins contained directly within the DxO folder, or within a subfolder Thank you, John. The Nik plugins themselves are in (Hard drive)/ User>Library>Preferences>DxO, which I specified in the screen cap. However, I discovered another DxO folder in the root Library>Preferences that contains empty folders for all the plugins and a Nik Collection folder containing NikCollection.cfg. Edited June 3, 2020 by allfive missing word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 Am I missing a key point here? My original question was about connecting Nik to Affinity after an installation where the plugin step was not done - IOW, special folder not created. Watching James' video, am I to understand the ONLY way Affinity can access the Nik plugins is during the initial Nik installation? Therefore, I need to do a reinstall. Yes?? If so, I assume I should do an uninstall so as not to orphan the reference files and the original plugins folder? Has anyone done the uninstall? I still have the original 32-bit Google plugins from a decade ago connected to my Aperture install, and don't want to lose them by chance just yet. (Soon I will switch over to another library app but until then….) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikerofoto Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Check there: there’s also many other threads related to installing Nik with AP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 Thanks, mikerofoto. Nik support could have outright told me to do an uninstall / reinstall, which they finally got around to saying. Parenthetically, it's quite easy to add DxO's Nik to CaptureOne without any pre-install steps. I hope the workaround needed for Affinity doesn't kill that connectivity ease my Nik plugins have with CaptureOne. I'm not casting aspersions on Affinity, which I love, and will gladly go thru the hoops to hook it up with Nik. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikerofoto Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 People forget or don’t click the “+” button and create a folder for it, maybe its time for to add more than Ps and Lr as only option. you didn’t really had to uninstall, just re-install leave the software in same folder but plugin in your specific folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfive Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 Many thanks! That I will do. With regard to it confusing Capture One, I think the new install will redirect to the correct plugins folder and C1 will be able to find it, if need be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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