swmcl-affinity Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 One of the reasons I thought I'd try Affinity Photo was because it was supposed to accept Photoshop plugins - Nik software in particular. I paid lots for my Nik software and I can't get it to run with Affinity Photo. I'd hate to buy it again so can I ask where things are at with regard to this software ? I saw a site somewhere that spoke of the plugin compatiblities and Nik at least seemed to be in the same state of compatibility 3 years ago (2015) I thought. Has there been a bunch of work gone into this that I haven't seen ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souacz Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 I have Nik Collection by Google installed and plugins work very well Quote Dell Precision T7910, 2x Xeon E5-2630v3, 128 GB RAM DDR4, Quadro K6000, Dell UP2716D, Huion Inspiroy Q11K V2 Pen Tablet, WIN 10 PRO Dell Precision T3640, Xeon W1290, 128 GB RAM DDR4, Quadro RTX 5000, Eizo CG319X, Huion Inspiroy Q11K V2 Pen Tablet, WIN 10 PRO FWS -----Graphic software: Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher - Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat - Zoner Photo Studio - Topaz Gigapixel Ai, Denoise Ai, Sharpen Ai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 9, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 9, 2018 Hi @swmcl-affinity, The old NIK should work just fine: Plugins Installing Nik Plugins (macOS) Installing Nik Plugins (Windows) Installing & Using Nik Dfine The new ones, not really: Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curio Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Has anything changed? Last time I checked, color space and bit depth issues were still rampant with the “old” Nik suite, especially with Viveza and Color Efex, the two tools I mainly use, rendering AP's alleged support useless for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 Thanks for the support I do appreciate it. I ran through the video and I ended up with only one plugin showing, that being Analog Efex Pro 2 and I believe the version is 1.2.11. Have I got a version of the Nik software that is too new ? If so, I'll need to get an older version somehow. Cheers, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 If it is the case that I cannot run the Nik suite, is there a replacement ? Bearing in mind I am using very large files (up to 11.2Gb per image) at full 16bit per channel (large format - 8x10 - photography). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 I have managed to find some different NIK software that was released for free and also have managed to get this working with Affinity Photo. However, AP has crashed the moment it was required to open a 4.2Gb tiff file ... So to me, AP doesn't seem to be able to load or process bigger image files ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 12, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2018 What are your PC specs? Can you upload the tiff file on our Dropbox account? https://www.dropbox.com/request/ZjZj0YTx5C9mKGvizPGy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 Hi, The PC is an Intel i7 3770K @3.5GHz Win 7 64bit with 16Gb RAM. Uploading now... Cheers, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 Hmm... The uploading is just sitting at 0% with a little whirly thing going round.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 12, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2018 That would really depend on your upload speed. Bear in mind that the file is quite big, and it might take some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 On 11/9/2018 at 8:45 PM, swmcl-affinity said: If it is the case that I cannot run the Nik suite, is there a replacement ? Bearing in mind I am using very large files (up to 11.2Gb per image) at full 16bit per channel (large format - 8x10 - photography). I believe the (old) Nik plugins only work with 8-bit images. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 I've tried to compress it. It won't compress. I've tried sending from a different disk. Each time, there is a long period of waiting at 0% and then it times-out. So it would seem the file is too large for a number of processes. Is there another way ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 13, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 13, 2018 I'm afraid no. That's the only way we can request files. Unless you can upload it to the platform of your choice and give us access to the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 Unless I am mistaken I am being asked to pay for a Dropbox account and allow access to the team at Affinity. Hmmm. I'm not sure I should be responsible for your R&D costs. I think Affinity could afford to pay for or setup a similar account and give temporary permissions to the guinea pigs who test the software for you for free. Not reasonable?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 15 hours ago, swmcl-affinity said: Unless I am mistaken I am being asked to pay for a Dropbox account and allow access to the team at Affinity. Where are you being asked to pay for a Dropbox account? You must have used Dropbox if you have tried to upload a file, even if it failed. Dropbox (or something similar) is almost always always the best way of transferring very large files, even ones of 11Gb. I can only suggest that you contact Dropbox, since that is where your problem seems to lie. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 15 hours ago, swmcl-affinity said: Unless I am mistaken I am being asked to pay for a Dropbox account and allow access to the team at Affinity. Huh? Have forgotten about this earlier post by @GabrielM? You were asked to upload your tiff file to Affinity's Dropbox account, not one you have to pay for. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 16 hours ago, swmcl-affinity said: Unless I am mistaken I am being asked to pay for a Dropbox account and allow access to the team at Affinity. You are mistaken. You were being asked — six months ago! — to upload your file to any file-sharing service of your choice. Many file-sharing sites (including Dropbox) offer basic services for free. Take a look, for example, at WeTransfer.com and Filebin.net. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmcl-affinity Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 A single file is larger than a number of the services mentioned will allow. My Internet account is rather tight also. I don't live in a world of infinite usage nor speed. I would willingly send a USB flash device to an address anywhere in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, swmcl-affinity said: A single file is larger than a number of the services mentioned will allow. My Internet account is rather tight also. I don't live in a world of infinite usage nor speed. Understood, but 6 months ago you were just being asked if you could upload a sample file to the Dropbox account Serif is paying for. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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