Nik 7 Collection → Affinity Photo V2 Crashing

[Wolfgang ([ Win11, PL9, FP7, VP5, Nik7+3.3 ])]

@stuck

If you have:

1. Opened your RAW file in PureRAW3
2. Saved / Exported the output as a .dng
3. Opened the .dng in Affinity Photo, which means you end up in the ‘Develop Persona’
4. Made any further tweaks
5. Clicked the ‘Develop’ button to get to the ‘Photo Persona’

then you should be able to simply click Filters | Plugins | Nik Collection and pick the one you want.

Quickly tried this, but used PL7 to export as a .dng (don’t have PR).

As you mentioned, the file with the applied Nik filter (used the base layer only to simplify) needs to be saved in AP’s native (.afphoto) format and can then exported (converted) into something else (tiff, png …).

@affinity should be able to reduce filesize, bitdepth & output format at the very end.

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addendum

just rechecked ( and to point out some differences )

• Windows 10
• used again PL 7 to generate the *.dng output file
  (don’t have PR)
• developed now the *.dng in the latest AP 2.4.2
  (without & with Save as *.afphoto immediately)
• added now a 2nd layer to then apply NIK CEP 6
  (don’t have NIK 7)
• exported from AP to tiff / png …
• in AP Save as *.afphoto / overwrite
  (if not done yet)