Luminar 4.3 in Affinity Photo?
AnsweredDoes the update to Luminar 4 now allow Luminar to run as a plugin in Affinity Photo?
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Hi Bob!
Luminar 4 doesn't officially support Affinity, but you can try following the steps outlined by our customer here:
http://prntscr.com/tk7lsqComment actions -
Thank you for the updated information and I am glad to know the team is working toward implementing the solution to Luminar SNAFUs in Affinity Photo.
On the latest mac OS, I am using Affinity Photo 1.8.4.183 Beta, the version Serif recommends instead of the version available in the app store. When this beta was introduced, the plugin for another external began to work in Affinity Photo. However, the Luminar plugin still does not work in Affinity Photo, despite following your instructions above.
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This works perfectly for Windows, Luminar 4.3, and Affinity 1.8.3 and 1.8.4:
https://community.topazlabs.com/t/affinity-photo-and-luminar-4-3/15684
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Hi guys,
Thanks for sharing your feedback about this tip. Glad to know it helped!
@Bob,
Please find the instructions below:
- Right-click the Luminar 4 icon > Run As Administrator.
- Click File > Install Plugins.
- Click Uninstall next to Photoshop.
- Reboot your PC.
- Right-click the Luminar 4 icon > Run As Administrator.
- Click File > Install Plugins.
- Click Install next to Photoshop.
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Please note that due to some peculiarities with Photoshop plugin, it needs to be updated separately after you update Luminar. Our team is currently looking for a way to make the plugin update automatically along with the update of Luminar. We hope to implement this in the future.
In the meantime, to update your Luminar 4 plugin please perform the following:
- Launch Luminar 4.
- In the top menu click Luminar 4 > Install Plugins.
- Click Uninstall next to Photoshop.
- Reboot your Mac and launch Luminar 4.
- Click Luminar 4 > Install Plugins.
- Click Install next to Photoshop.
You may be prompted to enter your Mac user password at some point, please do so.
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Hi Bob,
Please note that Luminar is not compatible with Affinity Photo and the interactions of these two apps are not documented.
According to my experience, some of the artists were able to use Luminar as a plugin on Windows, but the integration on Mac was never so smooth. Since Luminar does not officially support Affinity, it was not tested with this app and, therefore, as much as I'd love to, I cannot guarantee that this update will work with as a plugin in Affinity.
We do have a number of requests with regard to the implementation of these apps' compatibility, though, so maybe we'll do so in the future and will share some good news with you. Hope for your understanding.
There's a slight chance the following may help:
- Launch Luminar 4.
- In the top menu click Luminar 4 > Install Plugins.
- Click Uninstall next to Photoshop.
- Navigate to /Library/Application Support/MacPhun Software/Luminar4/Plug-Ins/ and delete the contents of this folder manually.
- Navigate to wherever you're storing Luminar .plugin file in the Affinity bundle and delete it.
- Reboot your Mac and launch Luminar 4.
- Click Luminar 4 > Install Plugins.
- Click Install next to Photoshop.
- Navigate to /Library/Application Support/MacPhun Software/Luminar4/Plug-Ins/ and retrieve the updated .plugin file from this folder.
- Reconnect Luminar and Affinity with the help of this .plugin file.
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Affinity connection. Sorry for my englisch. Affinity doesn't work with 4.3 as plugin. I have 4.2 offline installed on my old laptop as trial. Next, I have copied the directory Programm/skylum/luminar 4 from my laptop to my standard computer with a other directory name. Next, Affinity plugin connected to that luminar 4 (4.2) and it will start as 4.3!
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Uwe Lindner Here in the Luminar for Mac community we can only envy your ability to use the L4 plugin in Windows.😥
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Bob Shrader I'm a Windows user and saw that some of the questions here are about Windows integration as well. And I know from a Mac user that the integration of Luminar as a plugin for Affinity can be done in almost excatly the same way as in Windows. I even learned how to integrate Luminar to Affinity as a plugin in the filter section from this Mac user.
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Uwe Lindner Thanks a lot. I think the integration of plugins on the Mac side relates to the version of the operating system, Affinity Photo and Luminar. The latest Topaz Studio plugins did not work in the Mac version of AfPh until there was some collaboration between Serif and Topaz. On the other hand, in the latest beta release of AfPh, the Exposure X5 plugin started to work with no changes by Exposure Software. So, those of us running the latest version of the macOS are hoping another change by Skylum or Serif will make the Luminar 4 plugin available soon.
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Luminar 4.3 plugin solution, Affinity Photo 1.8.5
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Hi Bob,
Please contact our support team and we will do our best to assist you https://skylum.com/support
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Solution by Uwe Lindner works ok with me.In case your Tools are not docked the Luminar is opening in the background (needs to press ctr+TAB to switch to it). Once Tools are docked - no problems.
https://community.topazlabs.com/t/affinity-photo-and-luminar-4-3/15684
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