Plugins with V2

[mach49]

Also; MBA, Ventura 13.0.1, M1, AP2, all plugins updated.

[mach49]

19 hours ago, RichardMH said:

Todays Topaz update 1.0.10  fixed the Photo AI plug in problem.

Update; Photo AI 1.0.10 doesn't crash AP2 now.

[HFNotts]

I still don't find DeNoise and Sharpen working as plugins although Mask now does.

No DXO stuff yet works as a plugin for me either.

[HFNotts]

My DXO showed as normal from plugins, i.e. not greyed oud but just don 't open, regardless of which background or layer, rasterized or not, I am using.

Standalones are a pain by increasing workflow moves and times but are the only way I can move forward with V2 at present.

[Print Monkey]

Another related question: What's the criteria for marking a plugin as "known" rather than "unknown"? Topaz plugins seem rather popular these days (certainly known to people if not known to work properly) so it would be aWeSoMe if theres anything Serif could do to help maximize compatibility. (Of course it looks like 99% of the issues right now are on the Topaz side so there may be nothing for Serif to do.....)

[Abovo]

I also have the problem that the TOpaz sharpen and Topaz noise are grayed out. I have installed the plugins in the right way and can sse them in the filter dropdown menu. Only when I develop a raw-file and subsequently in the photo persona want to use the Topaz plugins they are grey. When I load a jpg-file I can use the Topaz plugins! Also in the old version (1) of affinity photo the plugins still work fine. What's going on here?

[RichardMH]

2 hours ago, Abovo said:

I also have the problem that the TOpaz sharpen and Topaz noise are grayed out. I have installed the plugins in the right way and can sse them in the filter dropdown menu. Only when I develop a raw-file and subsequently in the photo persona want to use the Topaz plugins they are grey. When I load a jpg-file I can use the Topaz plugins! Also in the old version (1) of affinity photo the plugins still work fine. What's going on here?

You are applying it to a pixel layer? Try Merge Visible first.

[Komatös]

@Abovo

The reason why the plugins are greyed out is that the image layer, after developing, was developed embedded or linked as RAW and is still treated as a RAW file by Affinity Photo. The settings in the Develop Persona are temporary until the RAW layer is rasterised. This is the non-destructive concept of the Affinity programmes. 

The RAW layer must therefore first be rasterised in order to apply plug-ins to it. But this is because the plugins are developed for Photoshop, where non-destructive editing does not exist.

[walt.farrell]

@Abovo: You could be using a RAW layer rather than a Pixel layer, as @Komatös suggests. Or you could have Developed to a 32-bit pixel format, which most plugins won't support.

[Abovo]

10 hours ago, RichardMH said:

You are applying it to a pixel layer? Try Merge Visible first.

Don that, well, ther eis nothing to merge but sure, did it to no avail alsso rasterizing did not help.

[Abovo]

9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

@Abovo: You could be using a RAW layer rather than a Pixel layer, as @Komatös suggests. Or you could have Developed to a 32-bit pixel format, which most plugins won't support.

Good suggestion, I thought of that too. would be the logical thing. I made the dedevelopment so that I used the conversion to pixel layer, also tryed the otehr options (linked to raw and the inclusion of the raw) non of them worked.

The 32 -bit pixelformat I did not check yet. Gona do that and will report the outcome. Thanks.

 

[Abovo]

17 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Or you could have Developed to a 32-bit pixel format, which most plugins won't support.

This was it1 I had the output in the development at 32-bit. Apparently this does not work with the plugins. didn't know that.
So, I learned. Many thanks!