Nik collection plugin

[PaulC79]

This might not be a bug it might be just my lack of knowledge. 

 

I have a canon R7 the Raw CR3 file loads into Affinity photo 2.2.1 and I develop it.

However my Nik collection 6.5 plugins are greyed out and they stay greyed out unless I rasterise the orignal raw.cr3 layer at which point the Nik Collection plugins work.

 

Why do I need to rasterise the orginal Raw.cr3 layer for the plugins to work? I thought developing the raw image made it a pixel layer in the first place?

 

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, PaulC79 said:

Why do I need to rasterise the orginal Raw.cr3 layer for the plugins to work? I thought developing the raw image made it a pixel layer in the first place?

?

 

P.S. "Why":

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Raw/raw.html

Edited November 11, 2023 by Pšenda

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, PaulC79 said:

This might not be a bug it might be just my lack of knowledge. 

If you are not sure that it is a bug, it is better to post a question in the Question forum. If it turns out that it really is an bug, the moderators will move the post to the Bug forum.

[DWright]

If your developed RAW file is in the RGB/32 (HDR) colour format then the Nik collection plugins will not work within Affinity Photo 2 and you will need to convert the image to  the RGB/16 colour format and the plugin will then be available within Photo 2.