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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Affinity Studio → g'mic plugin
I seem to be having a problem to load this plugin into Affinity (ver3). It works fine in Photo ver2 G'Mic 3.4.3. I have discovered that there is a newer version of the program and I have been to the site but I am unsure which file to download.
Using Win 11 25H2.
Can anybody point me to the file I need to install please to give it a try and see if I can get that to load into Affinity.
Thank you Vicki
Just to clarify, Vicki, are you saying that although G’MIC stable version 3.6.3 works fine with Affinity Photo 2 it doesn’t work with Affinity by Canva, so you’d like to try the pre-release version of the G’MIC 3.6.4 plugin but you’re unsure which installer to use? If so, I think you’re out of luck!
The G’MIC Download page has tiny (i.e. strongly discouraging) links to ‘latest dev’ versions of the plugins for Gimp, but in the section headed ‘Photoshop / Affinity Photo / PaintShop Pro / PhotoLine / XnView (8bf)’ they only offer the stable version.
If you’re desperate to try G’MIC 3.6.4, you might like to consider using the standalone version instead of a plugin.
I don't know what version of G'mic I have but I downloaded it way back in July 2024 for use with AFP2. Now, it works with as expected in AF3 on my Win11 laptop. NB my version of Win 11 is still 24H2, not 25H2, but I'd be very surprised if G'mic fails once my machine updates to 25H2.
Have you ticked the 'Allow "unknown" plugins to be used' check box in Edit | Settings| Photoshop Plugins?
...Can anybody point me to the file I need...
On looking closer I had G'mic 3.4.0 installed in AF3 on Win 11. I now have v3.6.3 installed and working. I did that as follows
1) I downloaded the relevant zip file (GmicPlugin_x64.zip) from here:
https://github.com/0xC0000054/gmic-8bf/releases
2) I unzipped that file and (with AF3 closed) copied the GmicPlugin.8bf file and the Gmic folder into the AF3 plugin folder
3) Opened AF3 and the filters were available
EDITED TO ADD:
Even though my laptop is a Corei7 CPU / 16 GB RAM / RTX 4050 6 GB VRAM, these filters are sloooow
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