3/5/2023 0 Comments Alien xenofex 2![]() Personally, over the years, I have spent thousands of dollars on Photoshop and Photoshop-compatible plugins. If that is the case, then as I have said before, they are going to lose a huge number of potential Affinity Photo users who depend heavily on Adobe-compatible plugins to do their daily graphic work. Perhaps I am wrong, but the impression I am getting on this forum is that perhaps Serif may not have that same level of motivation when it comes to making Affinity Photo compatible with Adobe-style plugins. The reason why all of my current plugins - Eye Candy 7, Xenofex 2, Filter Forge, more than a dozen Flaming Pear plugins, Topaz Labs Glow plugin, and SuperPNG - work with Adobe Photoshop CS6, is because their developers did the hard work, and figured out how to make them work with Photoshop. Isn't this what creative software developers do? In fact, I would dare say that it is a dishonest selling point to even make such a claim. As I said, it is a very nice program, but in my view, it is just too early for the Affinity Photo development team to be making the claim - as they do - that Affinity Photo is Photoshop plugins compatible, when it is clearly not. So, while I could save $200/year by switching to Affinity Photo, at this point, switching would seriously cripple my daily graphic work. None of them work fully or completely in Affinity Photo, if at all. I use Eye Candy 7, Xenofex 2, Filter Forge, more than a dozen Flaming Pear plugins, Topaz Labs Glow plugin, and SuperPNG on a regular basis in Adobe Photoshop. The bottom line for me at least, is that I cannot seriously consider switching to Affinity Photo until the Affinity Photo development team seriously addresses this issue. Well, as far as I can tell, there is not much that Alien Skin can do about it as long as Affinity Photo does not fully adhere to Adobe's plugin SDK standard. I have received the same boilerplate reply from alien skin about Eyecandy. ![]() If I select an element in one of my layers, and then apply a Filter Forge effect, the effect is applied to the entire layer, and not just to the element I have selected with the "Flood Select" tool. I hope so, because I use the plugin heavily.įilter Forge also has some issues with Affinity Photo. I wrote to Alien Skin this morning to see if they plan on making Eye Candy 7 completely compatible with Affinity Photo. In short, if you don't like the effect, then you have to use the "undo plugin" option under Affinity Photo's "Edit" menu. ![]() Furthermore, it applies the effects destructively on the same layer, unlike in Photoshop where a new separate layer is created. ![]() As a result, because the element you are working on is black, and the effect you apply also shows up as black, you can't tell what it is going to look like until after you close the Eye Candy window. While it will apply affects, in the actual Eye Candy editor window, everything is black, and there are other interface problems. I can indeed confirm that Eye Candy 7 has some serious issues with Affinity Photo. Eye Candy 7 is one of the plugins that I use in Photoshop. I just started trying out Affinity Photo this morning on my 27" iMac running Mojave 10.14.6, after having used Adobe Photoshop for many years. ![]()
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