Now in the folder you will find Plug-ins folder. Go to folder of your version such as 2018, 2019, 2021. First of all, go to Program Files folder of C drive of your computer system. Once you click on this button a dialog box will open to assigning path for Photoshop filters’ folder. For adding path click on Add button of the ‘Plugin Search Folders’ option of this dialog box. Here we will add a path for Photoshop Plugins. Once you click on it a new dialog box will be open like this. Once you click on it Preference dialog box will be open. Choose Preferences option from drop down list of it or press Ctrl +, button of keyboard as it’s shortcut key. So for that go to Edit menu of menu bar and click on it. Here I will tell you how you can use Photoshop filters plugin in affinity photo. Now let us discuss how we can use external filters in the form of plugins. There are many more filters in this software which you can use by the same way. There is split-view option so you can change to this mode for seeing changing effect. Here you can increase or decrease effect of filters on image in the form of percentage. Once you choose this option a Fade dialog box will be open. Choose Fade Perspective option from the drop down list or you can press Ctrl + Shift + F as it’s short cut key. Now if you want to do any change in your applied filter then you can go to Layer menu of menu bar and click on it. Once you satisfy with your desired settings click on Apply button of this dialog box to apply all settings. You can also work with grids for better perspective view. Once you choose this option you will have anchor points like this. There is double plane option also for changing perspective from both side. You can change according to perspective of your photos. With Perspective filter we will have anchor point box around our selected image for making changes in perspective of image. Once we click on it we will have a parameter settings box of chosen filter. You can try any of the filter from the list. I will go with Distort filter and here in the new drop-down list we have other filters. Here in the list of menu bar we have Filters menu so click on it. Then go to Menu bar of this software which is at the top of working window. So go to layers’ panel which se right side of working screen and select your desired layer. Now you can select this layer and run the filters on it and preserve your original photo.Make sure you have selected layer of that image on which you want to apply filter. If you want to preserve your image for later use, just press ⌘-j to duplicate it: One drawback of Nik Collection is that it applies the changes to the image destructively. You just need to tick the Allow “Unknown plugins to be used” to activate them all.Ĭlose the dialog and the plugins will be available under the Filters menu: Preserving your image from Nik Collection changes Once it reloads, all plugins are properly enabled to work. Click the Add button and just click Authorize in the Finder dialog:Ĭlose the Affinity Photo plugin preferences and you’ll be prompted to restart again. We’ll authorize them in the Plugin Support Folders area. Some of the plugins detected by Affinity Photo say that it Requires Global Support.
Once it’s reloaded, the plugins will show in the left panel for Detected Plugins: Affinity Photo will prompt you to restart: You can also select the top level folder and it will search everything below but for the purposes of this tutorial I’ll just select the folder with the plugins:Īccept and close the preferences dialog.
Click on Photoshop Plugins:Ĭlick the Add button in the Plugin Search Folders area and select the folder with the Nik Collection plugins. Now launch Affinity Photo and press ⌘, to open the preferences. If you go to the Affinity folder you’ll now see it created a Google folder where it added the Nik Collection plugins, Analog Efex, Color Efex, Dfine, HDR Efex, Selective, Sharpener, Silver Efex and Viveza: There’s nothing special to do for the path screen, so just click Installįinish the installation. Click the plus sign and select the Affinity folder we previously created. Open the Nik Collection disk image and start installing it. The screen for compatible hosts is where we need to find our folder. While the standalone apps will install to /Applications/Nik Collection by default, we’ll use this folder to install the plugins compatible with Affinity Photo. Go to the /Applications/ folder in your Mac and create a folder named Affinity. To begin installing and using these filters in our photos, you’ll need the installer.