Suetonius Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Good morning All When using Photoshop, I used PhotoZoom Pro as a plugin; worked very well. It was unusual in that, instead of behaving like other plugins, it used to appear as a menu item under File>Automate. When I tried to get A. Photo interested in it, it completely ignored it, even though I placed it in the default plugin folder. Didn't list it at all, even as "Unknown". I can use it as a stand-alone program, but it's a lot more convenient as a plug-in. Does anyone have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suetonius Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 Ooops! Sorry. Further to my question, I should have said I'm using Windows 10 (and likely to do so for some time ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted April 8, 2022 Staff Share Posted April 8, 2022 It is not possible to use PhotoZoom Pro as a plugin with Affinity Photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suetonius Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 4 hours ago, DWright said: It is not possible to use PhotoZoom Pro as a plugin with Affinity Photo H'mm! Have to say, thought that might be the answer. PZ advertises its plugins as being compatible with 'most' programs that use PS plugins, but I really don't see that. Thanks for your input, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 14 minutes ago, Suetonius said: PZ advertises its plugins as being compatible with 'most' programs that use PS plugins, but I really don't see that. That's something to discuss with the developers of PZ Affinity Photo does not support plug-ins that appear in PS under File > Automate. ashf 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suetonius Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: That's something to discuss with the developers of PZ Affinity Photo does not support plug-ins that appear in PS under File > Automate. Yup. Already dropped them a line, but no reply so far ... although it only was this am. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Affinity Photo does not support plug-ins that appear in PS under File > Automate. In fact, AP only supports some but far from all PS filter plugins. PS filter plugins have a Windows extension of 8bf; on Macs they have the 8BFM type code. As explained here, most host apps other than those from Adobe support filter plugins only, & like AP often support only a limited subset of that plugin type. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 With regards Photoshop, the word plugins is a bit of an umbrella term that encompasses... Plugins: These appear in the Filters Menu and some but not all will work with Affinity Photo, JixiPix being an excellent example of what will work. Extensions: These can have panels and show up on the Windows menu of PS. These will NOT work with Affinity Photo. Panels: Also called extensions, they group functions and automate some processes in a single panel for a particular workflow, such as colour work, retouching, astrophotography etc. These will NOT work with Affinity Photo. Scripts and Automates: Run sets of instructions, these are more powerful than actions/macros. These will NOT work with Affinity Photo. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suetonius Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 Thanks for the information, all ... much appreciated. I'm afraid I was originally of the opinion that a plug-in was a plug-in and should work. Since then, I've done a bit of digging and realise my thoughts were naïve in the extreme. In fact there are three files involved with my problem - an 8bf (the 'standard' filter plug-in ... but with 'Automation' in the title), an 8li Automation file and an 8be Export file, so I can now understand the problem. I well appreciate that the Affinity suite of programs is still coming up to speed as far as matching the likes of PS and I think they are doing a pretty darn good job. I hope that, in the fulness of time and devlopment, these problems might be addressed and overcome, but, in the meantime, I shall be using PZ in its stand alone mode ... a small inconvenience. Thanks again for all your help and thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 46 minutes ago, Suetonius said: In fact there are three files involved with my problem - an 8bf (the 'standard' filter plug-in ... but with 'Automation' in the title), an 8li Automation file and an 8be Export file, so I can now understand the problem. I well appreciate that the Affinity suite of programs is still coming up to speed as far as matching the likes of PS and I think they are doing a pretty darn good job. I wouldn’t get your hopes up! Serif PhotoPlus was in development for about twenty-five years but it only ever supported Effects (*.8bf) plugins. emmrecs01 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 It's not because of Serif. Many extensions use programme interfaces and functions that are only available in the Adobe programmes. If Serif were to try to copy these, they would certainly have patent lawsuits on their hands in no time. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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