GarethCallan Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I'm sure this has been requested before.. but +1 for enabling plugins to be used as Live Filter layers please. I love Nik Collection but I do not love using it destructively in Affinity Photo where adjustments cannot be made subsequently. Live Filter seems to be the best way to achieve similar functionality as Smart Filter/Smart Object in PS. Oh... and sort out the colour render in Viveza please as well Thank you, Serif! craigleeus and bdz_af 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroiman Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 I would seriously love to see this too. To be able to apply Nik filters, and then come back the next day, and do minor tweaks. That is really something I miss from PS. Please!!! bdz_af and craigleeus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigleeus Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 I was searching the feature requests for this very topic. Adding plug-ins to the live filters is something AF really needs to do. How hard can it be? As it is now, applying a plug-in to a layer is destructive; and further the plug-in cannot be re-edited without undoing everything done since applying the plug-in. I really like Affinity Photo, but this one issue is important for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 8 hours ago, craigleeus said: How hard can it be? Consider that plugins are an unknown quantity when it comes to performance and to availability. If a plugin is used as a live filter and the document is then opened on a computer where the plugin is not installed, it will not be possible to render any changes to the document that would be impacted by the algorithm in the plugin. If the plugin is available, but is very slow and takes a long time to render, then every small change in the document could lead to unusable levels of performance. Node-based compositing software used in video production is generally designed with this in mind, but the nature of how the Affinity products work might make supporting arbitrary plugins as live filters impractical unless they could be sufficiently isolated from the main application to deal with plugin crashes, lags in rendering performance, etc. This may not be insurmountable, but it may not be as simple as you think either, particularly with so many filters not working well if at all on the software. Personally I would rather they got them working with greater consistency and stability first, then add in the bells and whistles like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinG Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 And in the meantime I shall stick with Ps. Such a shame but such is life 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikado73 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 And in the meantime I shall stick with Ps. Such a shame but such is life 🙂.... Same for me... 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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