tonyt Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi Some of my filters crash in AP. Any ideas what to do? They have all started to ask for their registration key for some reason too??? Cheers...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 28, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi Tonyt, Please could you uninstall your Topaz plugins and then reinstall them but follow this guide. C Besli 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyt Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi Thanks for swift reply. Link says I don't have permission to view? Cheers..... Besli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 28, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi tonyt Sorry about that I will Paste the entire post below. Hi, I'd just like to take a few minutes to explain how PS 64bit "8BFM" plugins work in Affinity Photo, and maybe answer a few commonly asked questions in the process. Here goes.. 1.) Set up the "Plugin Search Folders" list in Preferences - this just means "tell Photo where the .plugin files are". You can add as many folders as you like, but usually, if you currently own Photoshop, you should be pointing it to "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Plug-ins" (or similar, depending on your PS version and install location). 2.) The next part is more complicated. Photo is a Sandboxed application. This is the necessary for us to be able to ship on the App Store. A Sandboxed app is restricted - it can only look at files which the user tells it it is allowed to look at. Many plugins require more files than the .plugin itself to operate - but because of the Sandbox restriction, most plugins panic when they load because they cannot access files which they need to operate.. so.. You have two options here - you could figure out which folders are required for your plugin to work - they usually install their things in /Applications, or /Library/Application Support - but if they are trial versions, then they could need to access other folders, and all bets are off.. so.. There is an easier way to set up plugin support folders. You can make Photo behave like a non-Sandboxed app by telling it that it is able to access any file it wants - just like Photoshop etc. If you want to do this, the recipe is: a.) Affinity Photo -> Preferences -> Photoshop Plugins. b.) Plugin Support Folders -> Add Folder. c.) Shift+Cmd+G to bring up "Go to the folder" text input. d.) Type "/" (in other words, root, everything). Press "Ok" a few times. e.) Photo should show just "/" in the plugin support list. f.) Restart Photo. Eventually, we will establish exactly which folders each plugin needs, and put that information into the topics in the "Plugin Support" forum here - but until that point, adding the "/" support folder will allow you to "see what we see" when testing plugins. Hope this helps, Andy. Besli 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyt Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi Inhave set up the / and I can see all my plugins, but why do they crash. As I have set up the /, do I just uninstall and reinstall? Cant see quite why unless you have the answer. Cheers..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyt Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Bump!...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 29, 2015 Hi tonyt, Yes, some Topaz plug-ins crash. Photoshop plug-in support is being worked on and still may take a while until some plug-ins work reliably. This is due to Mac App Store sandboxing and plug-in developers support. From my tests Topaz Simplify, Detail, DeJpeg should work without issues. ReMask and Infocus don't work. Still have to test the rest. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyt Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Using the MAS version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiPhotoArts Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Hi, I’ve followed your directions regarding Topaz (and other) plugins, and almost all worked for my 1.3.5 install. I just installed the brand-new 1.4, and everything transferred over, but 1 plugin does not work: Topaz Textures. I asked Topaz Labs, but they didn’t want to give me an answer: (Topaz Labs) Dec 9, 2:36 PM weiphotoarts, Thank you for contacting Topaz Labs! At the moment, our plugins are not supported with Serif Affinity Photo. However, I will add your name to the list of customers that have requested this feature. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns, and I will be happy to assist! Respectfully, Joe Fedric Customer Happiness Specialist Topaz Labs ==== So here is my question regarding the new Topaz Textures plug-in for Affinity Photo: I’ve an extremely technical question about Topaz Textures. All Topaz programs work for my softwares of choice, Lightroom 6, Photoshop CS5. However, I’m porting from CS5 to Affinity Photo. All Topaz programs except Textures, work fine in Affinity Photo as plugins. In Affinity Photo the Textures plugins do not have any Textured Effects, unlike my LR6 and CS5 installations. I believe the problem may be that Textures has a fairly weird installation, where the plug-ins used by Affinity Photo are in the Applications folder CS5, but the Textured Effects are in another folder, my MacIntosh HD/Users/wei/Library/Applications Support/Topaz Labs/Topaz Texture Effects subdirectory. In this Topaz Texture Effect are 2 subdirectory structures, QML and tgrc. In tgrc, subdirectory there are 1.81 gb of jpg’s (used for the collections, comprising 623 jpgs). Please review my Affinity Photo Preference Screen for Plugins, below. Preferences_and_Affinity_Photo.jpg Question 1: Why can’t Affinity Photo find the Texture Effects? See my attached jpg on how Topazlabs’ Textures appears when porting from Affinity Photo. Notice there are no Effects on the right-hand side, and none of the dropdown list, Featured, My Effects, etc, have any possibilities. Question 2: What can I do to get Affinity Photo to recognize the 623 Textures Effects? Topaz Textures Screen of no Effects: Preferences_and_Affinity_Photo.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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