Affinity V2, Plugins

[Bernard Tardif]

I have been trying to use DXO VP3, Luminar AI and Aurora HDR as a plugin for Affinity Photo.  They all show as active on my plugin bar but VP3 and Aurora do not open and no signs that they are trying to activate.  Luminar AI appears to load but jams and I need to Force  Quit the Affinity program and re sign in.  The Nik collection works fine except for Perspective.

Is this normal or am I doing something wrong in the settings of my plugins?

Thank you,

 

 

 

[stokerg]

Hi @Bernard Tardif,

Which operating system are you running Affinity on?  I don't have access to DXO VP3 but I just tried a trial of VP4 and while it did load on my Mac, I did get a warning from VP4 that it can't be used with this host application.  So I suspect that will be the same with VP3.

Aurora HDR i can't find a trial copy of as its been replaced now by Luminar Neo.  But it would be checking the advice on this post and just make sure your images matches those requirements.

Luminar AI, i get a message the plugin has started and then nothing else on screen and have to force quit. With is a similar issue we've seen with other plugins from Skylum and do have logged with the Developers to resolve. 

 

[Bernard Tardif]

Thank you very much for your reply.  I use the latest version of Sonoma 14.2.1 on M1 processor.  From your reply, I understand that you experience the same situation as me.  Although Skylum state that Aurora is replaced by a NEO Extension, it is only partly true. I continue using Aurora HDR over the NEO Extension cause I find NEO Extension too basic and I often need to do batch processing which NEO can not do.  I find that Affinity has excellent HDR Merge but is limited to one photo merge at the time.  I had asked Affinity about this Plugin issue 2 years ago when I had Affinity version 1 and I wish they would have added it on Version 2.  Thank you again for taking the time to help!