AITCH Posted December 23, 2020 Posted December 23, 2020 Is it possible to get Eye Candy 7 working properly in Affinity Photo? I can only do it in Photoshop but don't want to use Photoshop Thanks in advance Quote
Staff DWright Posted December 30, 2020 Staff Posted December 30, 2020 The Eye Candy 7 plugin is not is a format that Affinity Photo can detect for us to be able to use this plugin the makers AleinSkin will nee to add support for Affinity Photo. Quote
v_kyr Posted December 30, 2020 Posted December 30, 2020 59 minutes ago, DWright said: ...to use this plugin the makers AleinSkin will nee to add support for Affinity Photo. Well, maybe you should define in an official paper and some example project what is at all concreate used and needed from the PS API here, in order for third party plugin makers/developers to support APh too then. Without such official informations probably no third party developer will spend his precious time with own & vague time consuming try & error attemps here. - Overall that is badly needed in order to have a wider third party plugin support for Affinity Photo and the general pressure to act here is IMO more on your side than with possibly willing third-party providers! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
firstdefence Posted December 30, 2020 Posted December 30, 2020 I know It will work in Affinity Photo 1.9.206 (Mac version) albeit a bit visually glitchy but the effect will be applied correctly. This is one of the glitchy looks, notice in the preview the cyan cat is upside-down and the wispy smoke displays black with regards to the upside-down display this can happen in the main eye candy display area but clicking on the preset seems to toggle the glitch on and off! This is how the effect is applied... Same effect from Adobe Photoshop 2020. ...and again how it's applied Glitch demo. Eye Candy Glitch display.mp4 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 4, 2021 Author Posted January 4, 2021 Message received today from Exposure after I said it's such a shame their plugins aren't automatically compatible with Affinity Photo and in order to get it working you really have to piss about which isn't what I want to be doing with a product I've paid for........... (if it's a bent copy I wouldn't complain) Over to you Serif Quote
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 In my experience it's 99% there and it does work well in so much as it applies the effects correctly, I'm sure it's just a bit of tweaking and the Affinity Photo it's working in is a beta version, I did this for another post on making extrusions in Affinity Photo. Without Eye Candy this would have been a lot of work. AITCH 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 4, 2021 Author Posted January 4, 2021 That's excellent, how have you managed to do this please? When I download my Eye Candy 7 it only allows me to load into Photoshop (there's actually no option for me to tick Affinity Photo) Any and all instructions would be so much appreciated - For the record I use Windows not Mac, I was thinking it could have been another reason I was having problems with getting Eye Candy working in AP Quote
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 Hi Aitch, I'm on Mac so generally things are easier to step up but windows users usually fair better with plugin compatibility. I'm just pointing to the Photoshop plugin folder, nothing convoluted, very simple. It's the Affinity Photo version that sealed the deal, so whatever they have done in v1.9.0.206 it's making some plugins work better. I have a photographer mate who is a windows user with photoshop and affinity, so I might see what I can do at his, I know he likes his plugins and panels so he may have Eye Candy. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 Ok just got back from my mates, On his Sony laptop (Windows 10) we installed Affinity Photo 1.9.0.876 Beta and under Preferences > Plugins we linked to: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-ins It worked out of the box and unlike Mac there were no display glitches when using Eye Candy but there were glitches to show the effect, I had to move the document up and down for it to display properly. AITCH 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 4, 2021 Author Posted January 4, 2021 Righty ho firstdefence I will have to give the beta version of Affinity Photo a try first and attempt what you've said, many thanks (and no doubt I will be back ha ha) Quote
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 33 minutes ago, AITCH said: Righty ho firstdefence I will have to give the beta version of Affinity Photo a try first and attempt what you've said, many thanks (and no doubt I will be back ha ha) Just got a text from him and he used the same link in Affinity Photo 1.8.5 and it works for him. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 4, 2021 Author Posted January 4, 2021 I tried C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-in first defence and still can't get it working unfortunately I tried it on the 1.8.5 version too. Could it gave anything to do with me using CS6? Quote
firstdefence Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 57 minutes ago, AITCH said: I tried C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-in first defence and still can't get it working unfortunately I tried it on the 1.8.5 version too. Could it gave anything to do with me using CS6? I'd say that is highly likely, If I have time tomorrow I'll do some testing to that end. AITCH 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 5, 2021 Author Posted January 5, 2021 Appreciating your help firstdefence I use Photoshop CS6 (out of preference, it does everything I want) and Eye Candy 7 is working fine in there. Quote
firstdefence Posted January 5, 2021 Posted January 5, 2021 AlienSkin say from Photoshop CS5+ is ok with Eye Candy so that's good and yes I'd expect Eye Candy to work well with CS6 64bit. The Eye Candy installer won't see the 32bit CS6 as a viable host app. Ok, I have, again, successfully got Eye Candy to run from Affinity Photo 1.8.5 using CS6 as the host app, the path I used in Affinity Photo was C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-ins\CS6 this is the path to the 64bit version of CS6 not the 32bit version. Don't forget to check the box that allows unknown plugins to run. AITCH 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
AITCH Posted January 5, 2021 Author Posted January 5, 2021 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-ins\CS6 Hi firstdefence, yeah this is the path I am using buddy I am gonna try something and will get back to you soon, many thanks again Quote
AITCH Posted January 5, 2021 Author Posted January 5, 2021 Sorted mate ...had to take CS6 off first and go from there Your link will be helpful for others I'm sure pal but I figured out another way - once again I really appreciate you jumping on this one for me in the first place Quote
firstdefence Posted January 5, 2021 Posted January 5, 2021 13 minutes ago, AITCH said: Sorted mate ...had to take CS6 off first and go from there Your link will be helpful for others I'm sure pal but I figured out another way - once again I really appreciate you jumping on this one for me in the first place No probs glad you resolved the issue.😀 AITCH 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
firstdefence Posted January 5, 2021 Posted January 5, 2021 Awesome lol! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
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