new laptop, install affinity photo, where is it so I can use it as an editor from LR

[Patrick Bell]

I installed Affinity on my new laptop but where is it? I need to find the exe I guess because I want to Edit using it from Lightroom. Topaz just installes itself but I cannot find any LR Affinity plugin

[emmrecs01]

Which version of APh, and which OS do you have?

[NathanC]

Hi @Patrick Bell,

Assuming you're on Windows since you've referred to an .EXE file it's likely you have installed Photo via the default MSIX installer, this is a sandboxed app and requires linking the third party app to the 'Aflaunch.exe' execution alias file found in the forum post below to get Lightroom to launch the app.

Although, I'd recommend removing the MSIX version of the app and instead installing the .EXE version (also referred to as the .MSI installer) of the app, this version isn't sandboxed and allows you to designate a custom installation folder, which third party apps such as Lightroom can then be linked directly to the app's .EXE file without the need of the aflaunch.exe file, you can find instructions for downloading the .EXE version linked below