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I am doing a clean install on one of my Macs and I would like to install the plugins straight into Affinity Photo.

On my other Machine I have Adobe Photoshop and Affinity draws from the Adobe plugins folder.  However, my intention is to get rid of Photoshop altogether, so I'm not going to install it on my clean install.  How can I use Affinity Photo with my plugins but without Photoshop?

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Hi OrlandoMergal,

You can install the Plugins directly into the Plugin folder located here: ‎⁨Users⁩ ▸ ⁨YOUR MAC USERNAME ▸ ⁨Library⁩ ▸ ⁨Application Support⁩ ▸ Affinity Photo▸Plugins

Where YOUR MAC USERNAME is that would be your username :) 

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10 minutes ago, Slotcar Bob said:

I tried this, restarted, hit the Filters/Plugins flyout menu. Nothing there. Am I wrong? They are .atn plugins. Thank you.

Affinity Photo only supports .8BF plugins, Bob.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Affinity Photo only supports .8BF plugins, Bob.

 

I know I saw in the documentation that it took the plugins from PS. The "Help" files even has a segment on it. The ones I have didn't come from Adobe, nor were tey in PS, but they are atn's. No mention of renaming or changing the extension.

 

Thank you 

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5 minutes ago, Slotcar Bob said:

I know I saw in the documentation that it took the plugins from PS. The "Help" files even has a segment on it. The ones I have didn't come from Adobe, nor were tey in PS, but they are atn's. No mention of renaming or changing the extension.

But a .atn file is not a Photoshop Plugin. It is a Photoshop Action.

Affinity Photo does not support Photoshop Actions, and have seen no documentation to say that it does.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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12 minutes ago, Slotcar Bob said:

So, It's actions that I really want. I'll search a bit for that. 

You're welcome.

Your PS actions cannot be used in Photo. The Photo equivalent is macros, but I think you'll find that they have fewer capabilities than PS actions.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You're welcome.

Your PS actions cannot be used in Photo. The Photo equivalent is macros, but I think you'll find that they have fewer capabilities than PS actions.

@Slotcar Bob, what Walt says is true. For a fairly simple PS action, if you can work out what it is is doing, then it might be possible to replicate it with an Affinity Photo macro. Remember that AP balks at Smart Objects which many PS actions use. This does not mean that you cannot replicate an action, just that you have to do it that Affinity way.

John

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

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I have been using the plugins Efex etc for the past year withiout any probs but when i now scroll down to Plugins via  "Filter" the plugins have disappeared , this is despite uninstalling them and reinstalling them in to Affinity application at the " Plugins" , i am using an imac . any help advice appreciated ..

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