Archangel Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Affinity Photo is a very good application indeed. It would be nice if it allowed the support of extensions to third party software which would complement its functionality. In particular the GMIC extension which is supported on Paint.Net, GIMP, Digikam. This provides a library of ready made features which could assist in creative work. It would be nice if Photo could interface with Fotosketcher too. A very useful tool for creating art out of photographs. These are only suggestions which may be of use to photographers and digital artists alike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Affinity Photo's plugin support is limited to filters in .8bf format. These are programs which affect the pixels of an existing image. It requires that the software developer provides an .8bf file (commonly called Photoshop plugins). Looking at what FotoSketcher does, it would guess that it should work as a plugin provided that the developer provided an .8bf version. From what I can see of GMIC, this utilises a different interface to Photoshop, and would not work as an .8bf plugin. You could try contacting the software developers asking them to provide .8bf plugin versions. This has been known to work. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 Quote Affinity Photo's plugin support is limited to filters in .8bf format. These are programs which affect the pixels of an existing image. It requires that the software developer provides an .8bf file (commonly called Photoshop plugins). Looking at what FotoSketcher does, it would guess that it should work as a plugin provided that the developer provided an .8bf version. From what I can see of GMIC, this utilises a different interface to Photoshop, and would not work as an .8bf plugin. You could try contacting the software developers asking them to provide .8bf plugin versions. This has been known to work. Well GMIC may be a problem. However I contacted the author of Fotosketcher and he would be willing to provide a plugin but he requires an sdk to be available for him to develop one. He doesn't know how to do it otherwise. He tried looking at doing a plugin for Adobe Photoshop but he wasn't able to for the same reason. GMIC does use the QT interface method and is supported by certain open source applications including Krita and GIMP. John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McNeil Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Good news: G'MIC now proposes a 8bf plug-in, which works quite well on Affinity Photo (tested it yesterday on Windows 10). They already added the link to the 8bf plug-in from their download page: https://gmic.eu/download.html (scroll down until the 'Photoshop/Affinity' download section). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 I suppose this does not work in mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted February 13, 2022 Author Share Posted February 13, 2022 On 12/2/2020 at 2:27 PM, Fixx said: I suppose this does not work in mac? Not officially, but there is a link for locating the resource for Macintosh users. It says use at your own risk. Or if you can download the sources and build it yourself then you might be on to a winner. https://gmic.eu/download.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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