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.

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