Richard Liu Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi, I took advantage of Black Friday sales to purchase DxO's Nik collection. I followed the installation instructions for installing the plugins into Affinity Photo. They show up Preferences > Photoshop Plugins, "Allow 'Unknown' plugins to be used" is checked, "/" is in Plugin Support Folders and "Authorize Global" is greyed out. When I select a pixel layer in the Photo Persona I can select only one of the plugins that appears in Filters > Plugins > Nik Collection, "HDR Efex Pro 2". All the others are greyed out and cannot be clicked, not even the two that have status "Working." HDR Efex Pro 2 did run when I clicked it. I am running Affinity Photo 1.6.7 on macOS 10.13.6 on a 2018 MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar & Touch ID. The pixel layer is "Background," generated by the Develop Persona. The file that was developed was a Nikon RAW (NEF) created on a D7200 using Adobe RGB. The Develop Persona uses the ROMM RGB profile for output. Neither Lightroom nor Photoshop is installed on the machine. Quote Richard Liu MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Max | macOS 12.3.1 | BenQ SW271 | Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hello @Richard Liu, I think you opened the image in 32 bit. The Nik Collection can only handle 16 bit or 8 bit, except HDR Efex Pro 2. Convert the image to 16 bit, then NIK Collectin should work well. Cheers Quote Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3296) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi Richard Liu You have your document color format set to 32 bit. The other plugins only work with 8/16 bit. Go to menu Document ▸ Colour Format to change the format. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Liu Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 Thanks to both of you, @Gnobelix and @MEB. Yes, that's undoubtedly the problem. Quote Richard Liu MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Max | macOS 12.3.1 | BenQ SW271 | Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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