What Photoshop Plugins will work with Affinity Photo Beta

[Mike Hardisty 11]

Just downloaded the beta and I was wondering what plugins will work? Also will any Photoshop Extensions work?

[MEB 8,864]

Hi Mike Hardisty,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Photoshop plugin support is still being worked on (for both platforms) so there's still issues with some of them.

Photoshop Extensions will not work since they rely on Photoshop specific features to function.

[Mark Ingram 4,818]

During the beta we're going to expand the supported list based on customer feedback. Currently we only have some filters from the Google Nik Collection in the whitelist.

[Vicks 6]

Just tried out nik color efex pro 4, pre sharpener and utput sharpener, define, silver efex, analog afex and they all work, dxo filmpack 5 doesn't though

[Mr Pingu 1]

Just tried out nik color efex pro 4, pre sharpener and utput sharpener, define, silver efex, analog afex and they all work, dxo filmpack 5 doesn't though

How did you get the nik Collection in Infinity Photo?

[ReinhardK 7]

hi, so great its out cant wait to get rid of PS...
though i really really need 1 plugin

http://www.randomcontrol.com/arionfx-for-photoshop

which is really awesome btw...
so hopefully this will be working soon, thanks in advance

[Vicks 6]

How did you get the nik Collection in Infinity Photo?

in preference select photoshop plug-in folder and restart, just be carefull that when applying a filter it gets applied on your current layer, affinity does not create a new layer

[ReinhardK 7]

ok, got it working at least for .jpg so far - would be awesome if it will work with .exr ... but now time for me to explore this gem :-)

[wumpabill 8]

Were do you get the NIK collection?

[Mike Hardisty 11]

Well it seems like I have two of the NIK Plugins which are supposed to be working but I can't use them. Seems to be greyed out. Is it because I'm in 16 bit mode. If so how do I change it?

 

 

 

[Mark Ingram 4,818]

You can convert your document to RGBA8 by going to Document > Colour Format > RGB (8 bit).

The plugins enable and disable themselves, so in this instance, it seems some filters in the Nik Collection don't support 16 bit images.

[emmrecs01 306]

Just to take this topic a little further...!

 

I have a number of plugins, including NeatImage, PhotoWiz collection, Topaz, etc., etc. working in PhotoPlus X8 and I simply added their current folder location to the screen in AP preferences and they all became available in AP.  I have not yet had opportunity to test them - quite a number are listed as "unknown" - but so far all seem to work as expected, even at least some of the "unknowns", and considerably faster than they do in PhP X8 64 bit.

[SandraC 1]

So far, once I figured out that they wouldn't work on CR2/ORF/RAW or other raw files, I exported image as a JPG.  So far, I have gotten good results with Nik Viveza 2, Define 2, Color Efex Pro 4, HDR Efex Pro 2, Silver Efex Pro 2, Topaz Labs, and Focus Magic.  Alien Skin plugins have issues with Pixel transparency, Piccure and Piccure Plus just don't start, and neither do Redfield plugins.

 

Now I know that many of these haven't been tested by Affinity programmers, but I thought I would give them a try.

 

Overall, I am rather impressed.

 

 

[SandraC 1]

Tested some other plugins - PTLens Correction by PaperPress, causes the program to shut down without an error message. Same applies to DxO ViewPoint2 and FilmPack. Anthropics Tech Portrait Professional works.

 

A few follow ups about NIK software;  Yes, it does work, with a few caveats.  You lose the Brush features with Viveza and Define.  You also can't 'save recipes' with ColorEfex Pro 4.  Also, with Viveza 2,  the colors of your image in the 'preview' window won't look correct on the entire image, unless you zoom to at least 33%, but are correct in the 'thumbnail' window.  There are known 'glitches' when NIK is used with other 'non-Adobe' photo editors.

[verysame 238]

Were do you get the NIK collection?

 

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=nik+collection

 

;)

[AiDon 95]

The major problem here is that Photo doesn't seem to allow RGB 16bit to be passed to Photoshop Plugins but, to add to the list of Plugins working, all plugins from Topaz Labs work with the exception of ReMask.

[Mark Ingram 4,818]

We ask the plugins whether they accept the format of the document, and don't do any conversion on the fly. I'll have to double check, but I assume the plugins you're referring to only work with RGBA 8bit data.

[Hofnaar 62]

Well it seems like I have two of the NIK Plugins which are supposed to be working but I can't use them. Seems to be greyed out. Is it because I'm in 16 bit mode. If so how do I change it?

 

same here on my german windows 10 x64 :)

[ReinhardK 7]

ArionFX is definitely built to work with 32-bit HDR data - would be awesome if it will be 100% compatible at some point
and again thanks for building intuitive and outstanding software
 

[jorismak 25]

In the (my) other thread it was thought (by a developer I believe from Affinity) that the 16bit thing is a bug. Only some plugins work, but none seem to work in 16bit for now (even the whitelisted stuff like Color Effex). They're surely working on it.

 

Note that you need to add your plugins folder to the preferences (edit -> preferences -> photoshop plugins) and then restart Affinity for Photoshop plugins to appear in the filter->plugins menu.

No plugins folder was added during installation so none appeared out-of-the-box, needed to add the plugins folder by hand.

[laurentia 31]

You can convert your document to RGBA8 by going to Document > Colour Format > RGB (8 bit).

The plugins enable and disable themselves, so in this instance, it seems some filters in the Nik Collection don't support 16 bit images.

 

Hi,

it seems to be a problem with this beta of Photo. All filters of Nik Collection work fine with a 16 bits image. Its correct with the mac beta 1.5.0.10 and under Windows, its correct with other bitmap editors like Photoshop CS6.

 

 

ColorEfex with the Mac beta version.

[Mark Ingram 4,818]

Yes, we've identified a bug here, a fix will be available soon.

[pdophoto 4]

HI,

 

I have these errors when I try Topaz Adjust5:

 

The first time I try I get "Error: cannot read common runtime path registry."

The second it is "IPC memory in use or image size is too big for the system."

 

I certainly hope you can make it work.

 

Pierre

[Mike Hardisty 11]

These are the plugins that I have found to work so far with Affinity Photo. The image must be in 8 bit mode

​From the Google NIK Collection

​Analog Efex
Color Efex
​Dfine 2
Sharpener Pro
​Silver Efex
HDR Efex

​Viveza crashes Affinity Photo as soon as you add a Control Point.

​From the Topaz Collection

​DeNoise

Glow
​Impression
Texture Effects

Adjust

B+W Effects
​Clarity
Clean
​Detail
Lens Effects
​ReStyle
Simplify
​Star Effects

​ReMask gives a message about unlocking transparency first so I need to investigate that more.

[Barnimblende 0]

Hi all,

I would like to add to the plugin discussion (German version of Affinitiy installed on W7x64).

 

Besides the Nik collection and Topaz Adjust and Clarity I have installed Athentech's 'Perfectly Clear Complete'. It's working fine with PhotoPlus X8 - as well as with PSE14 and PSP X9 -, but it doesn't with Affinity. On starting Perfectly Clear, the Plugin window opens but doesn't show the photo I'm working on. Instead it shows a blank, single-coloured area. The colour of that area will change with the photo that I'm just working on.

 

Any other experience with this plugin ?