bill hansen Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 I'm hoping to move completely away from Photo Shop CC to Affiniti Photo (AP) for editing still photo images. I've been working with AP for a couple of weeks, and so far I like it a lot, but I haven't been as happy with the sharpening and noise removal tools. So - two questions - (1) is there a way to install Topaz Denoise 6 into Affiniti (I know the entire Topaz Studio can be installed, but I'll only use DeNoise and I don't want the whole Studio) and (2) Is there a plug-in sharpener tool which is more flexible and powerful than the basic tool in Affiniti? My favorite sharpener has been "Smart Sharpen" from Photo Shop. The sharpener tool in Affiniti seems to be quite basic. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HVDB Photography Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 Nik Collection > Dfine 2 does a pretty good job .. Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 AFAIK Topaz also offers a sharpening tool among their suite, further the NIK plugins (best use the free older Google release here) also offer denoise and sharpening plugins. - See: Affinity Photo: Plug-ins Support: Affinity Photo Plugins Support (Mac)Affinity Photo Plugins Support (Win) Plugins Installing Nik Plugins (macOS) Installing Nik Plugins (Windows) Installing & Using Nik Dfine Cecil 1 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...
Staff DWright Posted November 20, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 20, 2018 To use the Topaz DeNoise plugin within Affinity Photo please use the following settings in Preferences>>Plugin Saijin_Naib 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 On 11/20/2018 at 3:16 PM, bill hansen said: I'm hoping to move completely away from Photo Shop CC to Affiniti Photo (AP) for editing still photo images. I've been working with AP for a couple of weeks, and so far I like it a lot, but I haven't been as happy with the sharpening and noise removal tools. So - two questions - (1) is there a way to install Topaz Denoise 6 into Affiniti (I know the entire Topaz Studio can be installed, but I'll only use DeNoise and I don't want the whole Studio) and (2) Is there a plug-in sharpener tool which is more flexible and powerful than the basic tool in Affiniti? My favorite sharpener has been "Smart Sharpen" from Photo Shop. The sharpener tool in Affiniti seems to be quite basic. Smart Sharpen is probably my most frequently used tool for photo editing. The combined noise reduction and clever sharpening delivers excellent results with an organic look with just a few adjustments. I just cant remember when I used reqular unsharp mask and high pass sharpening in Photoshop. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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