Alan9940 Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Hello All, Has plugin support totally broken with the latest 1.4 release? I tried to get my Topaz plugins working following the instructions in a recent post on this board, but they don't even begin to run and the attached is what I see in Preferences. Maybe I'm pointing AP to the wrong folder? I know I had 'em working at one point... :) Thanks for any help provided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlauerClaus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 My Topaz Denoise 5 runs as expected. Here is what you could do: - Add a second path to the plugin search folders: "/". - To do this, press "Add" and then select the "Macintosh HD" hard disk root. Then press ok. - This adds a second path "/". - Then restart Affinity Photos and try it out. Best regards BlauerClaus zeichner42 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan9940 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 Thanks, BlauerClaus, not sure why that worked but it did! That said, however, I see that nothing has really changed since the beginning. The two Topaz plugins that I use the most--Adjust and B&W Effects--are still problematic. The preview once the image opens into Adjust looks nothing like the preview in AP; it seems that there is some sort of color management hand-shaking issue between AP and this plugin. This has been the same issue since Day 1, btw. The B&W Effects plugin just crashes! How long has AP been out? Wasn't it a Mac App Store app of the year for 2015? All I can think is that AP must not be as popular as we're led to believe, otherwise these issues with plugin support would get worked out. Anyway, thanks, again... Kind regards, Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Alan9940... I have Topaz B&W Effects 2.0 and it seems to work for me with out crashing. I have not used it much but I can call it from AP, apply an effect and return to AP without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Cartwright Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 I had my Topaz plugins working. Then erased AP and re-loaded due to a different issue, but I have not been successful getting them active again in 1.4. Anyone care to break down all the steps necessary to get them working? Cheers, Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan9940 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 jmac - Thanks, because ya got me to thinking...maybe I should try to simply re-install the product. Re-installed the latest B&W Effects 2 plugin (even though I already had the latest version) and now it works fine! Bill - I'm running AP 1.4 and, though I haven't tried all the plugins I own, the ones I use the most are working as expected. Try setting up your Preferences plugin area like the attached screenshot. This is what finally worked for me. Good luck! As a side note, though, I still have the issue with the preview in Adjust as noted above. Kind regards, Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Cartwright Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Cheers Alan, I did get the Topaz filters running. It took many tries, and I'm not sure which move did the trick, but they are recognized. It remains to be seen how stable they will be. Thank you and all the best. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeichner42 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 My Topaz Denoise 5 runs as expected. Here is what you could do: - Add a second path to the plugin search folders: "/". - To do this, press "Add" and then select the "Macintosh HD" hard disk root. Then press ok. - This adds a second path "/". - Then restart Affinity Photos and try it out. Best regards BlauerClaus I did this, plus clicking the checkbox "Allow Unknown plugins to be used. (I also clicked the button for "Open Default Folder in Finder" and copied my Topaz deJpeg plugin from my Photoshop plugins to the AP plugins folder.) When I restarted AP, the plugin was working. I had to re-register the first time I used it, but otherwise, it worked perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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