Luminar 4 as plugin of Affinity Photo?
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will we be able to use Luminar 4 as a plugin for Affinity Photo?
What about Aurora 2019?
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Hi Martin,
You should be able to use Luminar 4 as an external editor for Affinity, but we do not currently have official support for Affinity. Our developers are working on it, but I don't have an ETA for implementation at this time.
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Please assign a higher priority to making the Luminar 4 for Mac plugin work in Affinity Photo. I'm now running this plugin in the photo editor PhotoLine, but my workflow would be simplified if I could avoid this step and run directly in Affinity Photo.
Luminar 4 is a great product, by the way!
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Roy Blackwell once you opened the plugin in Affinity Photo, did it automatically open Luminar? I open the plugin in Affinity but nothing seems to happen.
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Dear Helga Hufflepuff,
I sent a "Suggestion/Feature request" to the support team explaining the context and the issue. Should I also demand a "Technical support" on this subject?
I hope we'll have an answer regarding the status of this request soon, could save us a lot a headaches in the future, especially since Affinity Photo is a huge contender to Photoshop that seems to be used by many of us! ;)
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Has anyone been able to get this to work? I never could so I just left it alone out of frustration, I preordered Luminar Ai in hopes that it would be addressed but it still hasn't. Unless this is supported and round tripping to works with Capture One & Affinity Photo, I can't use Luminar 4 or the new Luminar AI. Which means my purchase of both versions was a waist of valuable resources on my part.
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Add me to the group of Luminar 4 users wishing the plug-in version could work with Affinity Photo. Clearly, Affinity Photo is now a viable non-subscription, affordable alternate Photoshop so a plug-in designed for Photoshop should work in AP. Luminar is the bridge. Even better is Luminar Flex for this purpose...just the edit panels, and no fluff of catalogs, themes, or templates.
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Re Aurora 2019: See this post
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@Bob, I realize that it would make your workflow much smoother. I'll pass this request on to the business team for further consideration. While at the moment we have no precise ETA for this feature implementation, you guys will be the first to know once we have any news regarding that. Stay tuned.
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@Nicolas Hosford I have the same experience. In Affinity Photo for MacOS, the Luminar 4 plugin appears in the menu, but selecting it results in a mini "Plugin started..." overlay being displayed interminably. Nothing happens (Luminar doesn't launch), there is no cancel option and the only way out at that point is to force-quit Affinity Photo.
I'm not sure what the cause is, but a number of other plug-ins do seem to work in Affinity Photo, so it seems there is something at issue with the Luminar 4 implementation.
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Ray Cologon I am also trying to implement Luminar as a Plugin in my Mac OS (Mojave).
So far the Plugin seems to be detected but Luminar does not launch from Affinity:
But Affinity still works perfectly. How did you set-up the plugin in Affinity (what are the files/app files you registered in the Photoshop Plugin detection parameter) ? Here is my trying (though is doesn't work so far):
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Angela Andrieux Dear Angela, I hope you and Skylum teams are doing great! Could you kindly provide an update regarding the implementation of Luminar 4 (and else) as a Plugin in Affinity for Mac OS? Thanks a lot ;-)
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The Luminar 4 installer placed a file called "Luminar4Plugin.plugin" into the CS6 Plug-ins folder on my computer, at:
Applications>Adobe Photoshop CS6>Plug-ins>Filters
That folder was already selected as a "Plugin Search Folder" in the preferences pane of Affinity Photo.
The result is that Luminar 4 shows up on the Filter>Plugins menu in Affinity Photo. But, as noted above, selecting it causes Affinity Photo to stall (and Luminar 4 doesn't launch).
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Ray Cologon I tried to add the folder that you display. Affinity still recognizes the Plugin but it doesn't launch. Nonetheless, nothing crashed. Which OS X are you using?
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