OrlandoMergal Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted July 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 16, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slotcar Bob Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 I tried this, restarted, hit the Filters/Plugins flyout menu. Nothing there. Am I wrong? They are .atn plugins. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 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. 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, 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...
Slotcar Bob Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 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. 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, 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...
Slotcar Bob Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 You are right Walt. Sorry for the confusion. Darn. Still getting my feet on the ground with Photo, after dumping PS. I'll get there with all this great help. So, It's actions that I really want. I'll search a bit for that. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 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. 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, 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...
John Rostron Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 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 Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niphotos Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 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 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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