Oscar1 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 I am developer of Reactor Player plugin http://www.mediachance.com/reactorplayer/index.html and it seems as if Affinity photo sends empty alpha channel to the plugin if nothing is selected. The plugin works fine everywhere else in Photoshop, Corel etc as it should - when nothing is selected then the plugin receives only 3 channels..., but in Affinity Photo if no selection is made, I am still receiving empty alpha channel (that is fully transparent). If selection is made then I receive the correct 4 channels with opaque pixels. I will patch this on my side, but I am curious why it is this way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Hi Oscar, we're making some fixes to plugins, so this should be fixed soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I'm confused .. I've been using NIK Plug-Ins on 16-bit images in CS6 for a long time now. I have read so many places that it is important to stay in 16-bit if you're doing any kind of serious editing of images. Here with Affinity I am told to just convert to 8-bit and it all works. I'm not making JPEGS for Facebook ... I'm making prints. This is a major stumbling block for me. I am seriously committed to converting to Affinity when this issue is cleared up, but for now I am back to CS6 for my workflow because it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorismak Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I'm confused .. I've been using NIK Plug-Ins on 16-bit images in CS6 for a long time now. I have read so many places that it is important to stay in 16-bit if you're doing any kind of serious editing of images. Here with Affinity I am told to just convert to 8-bit and it all works. I'm not making JPEGS for Facebook ... I'm making prints. This is a major stumbling block for me. I am seriously committed to converting to Affinity when this issue is cleared up, but for now I am back to CS6 for my workflow because it works. Where do you see to 'convert to 8 bit' ?? I never touched 8bit mode in Affinity since the very first Windows beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 You are correct .. I was wrong. My apologies. I was told that I had to convert to sRGB to get NIK to work and I think of it as 8-bit color. My mistake. I just don't work in sRGB. Thanks for pointing out my error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design punch Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Filter Forge 7 works fine with Affinity Photo. When installing Filter Forge, Filter Forge's installation program is recognizing Affinity Photo (tested on Win 64bit version). If Filter Forge is already installed before (e.g. Photoshop), you can: copy the files - Filter Forge 7 x64.8bf - Filter Forge.config from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\Filters\Filter Forge 7 to C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Photo\1.0\Plugins\Filter Forge 7 (create a new folder) Activate Filter Forge in Affinity Photo -> Plugins (allow unknown plug-ins) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willabong Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Filter Forge 5 doesn't work, but AP does recognise the (unknown) plug? The program generates an error message when you try to use it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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