(wanting all my plugins to work but accepting that I must be patient :( ) But they are getting there! I suspect the road will be long and final success may well be several weeks, or even months, (hopefully not years) away. I personally am "annoyed" by the fact that I have at least two plugins, Photo Toolbox "PT Portrait" and "Skin Finer", listed in the Filters menu but open in AP with blank screens!īottom line: there is still much for the AP developers to do to "improve" plugin availability, compatibility and usage. Similarly, only one Topaz plugin is listed as "Not compatible" I don't have that one but all others I do have do work. I'm not sure which Akvis plugins you have but I can tell you that one, NatureArt, listed as "Not compatible" on MEB's page, actually DOES work in AP. Indeed, those sales staff may not even have known that (i) AP was imminent for release, or (ii) which plugins would/would not work with it. However, I think RC-R's basic tenet that there could be no guarantee from Serif sales staff about possible compatibility with AP is reasonable, however close to beta release AP might be. It is annoying (very) that some plugins "work" in AP for Windows and some do not. I think we all understand "where you are coming from". If, as seems likely as no firm dates are being given, that most of these plug-ins will continue to be only suitable for use with PhotoPlus then PhotoPlus should not be classed as a no-longer supported 'Legacy' product, at least until the plug-ins 'problems' are sorted out. They could then have given more thought to the amount of money Serif's loyal "Valued Customers" had contributed towards the development of Affinity by the purchase of these plug-ins, and therefore given more thought to the suitability of their usage. My point is that Serif must have obviously known that they were/had been selling (by phone) these plug-ins and others by Topaz to their "Valued Customers" over the years and therefore hopefully the Affinity team would have been made aware of this. The same sales dept, the same person, contacted me regarding the purchase of both Affinity products. Serif did not indicate that all/any of the plug-ins they sold for use with PhotoPlus would work with AffinityPhoto and I was not implying that they did.īUT they were not purchased via their website, which would have made their purchases solely my choice, not knowing that AffinityPhoto was very near release - they were sold during a "Valued Customer" phone call, initiated by Serif sales dept, as I said only a month before AffinityPhoto was officially released and when they would/should have known how imminent AffinityPhoto was. If this is correct, all they can do is work with the actual developers to see if or when they can be made compatible with Photo, the same as with any other plugins that are not currently compatible (both for Windows & Mac versions of the app & for the plugin versions for each of them). It is my understanding that Serif is not the developer of any of these plugins that they only sold them through their web site. I do greatly appreciate the ever increasing demands on your time that this forum is placing but have you any idea when you, or possibly some other equally qualified person, could do more testing of the plug-ins still in doubt, and the Affinity team doing something about those not (yet) supported?ĭid Serif ever indicate to you that the plugins it sold for use with PhotoPlus would work with the retail (or any other) version of Affinity Photo? Now it appears that these, along with 7 other AKVIS and Vertus Fluid Mask plug-ins, also purchased from Serif will not be usable with AffintyP for an unknown period of time and therefore if I want to see a return for my money I will have to continue using my now 'unsupported' PhotoPlus X8.Īs Serif are/were selling these non-operative plug-in products to their loyal customers I feel that there should have been more thought given to support for them in the development of AffinityP. I must admit that I am 'slightly steaming' because Serif sold me 5 AKVIS plug-ins, 3 FRANZIS, plus FilterForge 5 Pro, only a month before the issue of 'finalised' AffinityP version 1.5.0.45 Thank you for the link to 'tested' plug-ins for Windows, which I have been searching for. Here's the correct link for the main Photoshop plugins support page. I believe you have checked the Mac page instead. I have not tested Vertus Fluid Mask on Windows yet.
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