rancefryar Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Hello, I recently purchased overlays for affinity photo mac edition, on a website called LuxLens. Which in the details of the overlays they stated the overlays were for affinity photo and lightroom. My question is how exactly do I install them to the app? I tried going to view>library>macros>import macro but for some odd reason it does not let me install the zip files to affinity. Though I can select the files and open them as a new document. The overlays being like fog, glitter, light leaks etc. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 When you unzip the files, what are the complete names, including the extension? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancefryar Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 Walt, Thanks for replying I opened the glitter bundle which has 20 overlays all having a name (#blowing glitter photooverlay.png) below I attached a picture of what I'm seeing.I also attached another picture when I tried to open the desktop.ini, it says I do not have a application to open this document. I'm not sure if that's the problem since I'm not really sure what that file even is. Thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 If, rather than LuxLens, you mean TheLuxeLens, which has overlays here, it looks like you would first unzip the files into some directory on your computer. They are designed to be used as layers on top of some photo of your own, so one method of using them would (I think) be to open your own photo, then use File > Place to select the overlay you want, and add it onto your photo as a layer. Then you will need to blend the two layers together to get the effect you want. (If you did not mean TheLuxeLens, then it would help to know the URL you purchased from. But their product may work the same way.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 10 hours ago, rancefryar said: I also attached another picture when I tried to open the desktop.ini, it says I do not have a application to open this document. I'm not sure if that's the problem since I'm not really sure what that file even is. The desktop.ini file is a hidden file used to store information about the arrangement of a Windows OS folder. Essentially, if the layout or settings for a folder are changed, a desktop.ini file is automatically generated to save those changes. - So it's just a Windows based config file, see also INI-file. In your case do as @walt.farrell told and reuse the contents of the ZIP-archive (the extracted PNG files) as overlay mount images for your own images. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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