Third party plugins

[BrianFW Lees]

Is there any way to get Affinity to recognise third party plugins. I have ticked the accept third party plugin box but so far it hasnt actually recognised any plugin, even my nik plugins, now I know they are version 2 rather than 2.5 so I accept there maybe an issue there, but it wont accept ANY photoshop plugins. I have just bought abstract paint FX but again no joy with it, has anyone else had any plugins worked ok for them, are there any workarounds for third party plugins, or any plans to make them work in Affinity? 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome the the Serif Affinity forums.

The only plugins that exist are third-party, and many users run them successfully.

Issues that might occur:

1. You haven't installed them correctly, which includes pointing Affinity Photo at them correctly.

2. Plugin incompatibility with Photo, including .8bf plugins that simply don't work, or plugins that are not in .8bf format.

3. Trying to use the wrong kind of image for the plugin you're trying to use, including trying to use RGB/32 images with a plugin that requires RGB/8 or RGB/16.

4. Having a non-pixel layer selected.

But again, many plugins are known to work.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, BrianFW Lees said:

I have just bought abstract paint FX but again no joy with it

Abstract Paint FX is a set of plugins that requires Adobe Photoshop CS6 or higher. The set includes a JSX (JavaScript code plugin) file and other file types that Affinity Photo doesn’t understand.

[BrianFW Lees]

OK THANKS ,so the only way forward with this would be if serif/affinity programmers wrote some sort of interface for it , at least it stops me trying everything i can think of to make it work lol

[BrianFW Lees]

Hi walt, so far none of the photoshop plugins have worked, that said ,i dont have all that many so it could be that the ones I happen to have are simply incompatible...thanks for the info nevertheless...

[Old Bruce]

A lot of people have had the "plug-ins don't work" problem and it is down to them trying to use 8 bit plugs for 16 or 32 bit images or 16 bit plugs for 32 bit images.

[John Rostron]

You mentioned the Nik plug inside, which do work on 8-bit and 16-it images. What other plugins have you tried? Could you provide a screenshot of your Photoshop Plugins dialogue box?

John

[AlejandroJ]

17 hours ago, BrianFW Lees said:

Is there any way to get Affinity to recognise third party plugins. I have ticked the accept third party plugin box but so far it hasnt actually recognised any plugin, even my nik plugins, now I know they are version 2 rather than 2.5 so I accept there maybe an issue there, but it wont accept ANY photoshop plugins. I have just bought abstract paint FX but again no joy with it, has anyone else had any plugins worked ok for them, are there any workarounds for third party plugins, or any plans to make them work in Affinity? 

All the plugins from Topaz Labs that I have work OK in Affinity Photo for 16 bits Tiff files (I have eight of the older ones and one of the AI new ones which I was given for having its predecessor, plus Topaz Studio Classic which I got for free because I had PhotoFXlab plugin, which also works). They all work.
DxO FilmPack 3 works as well.
And PTLens, which is still around and I have from the time that I had just a compact camera and most photo editing programs did not have automatic correction of optical distortion of lenses, works too.

[BrianFW Lees]

Thanks for that AlejandroJ I will have a look at Topaz