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Post by Sepiana on Aug 16, 2020 20:50:26 GMT
Annoyingly I can't get Silver Efex to work as a plug in to Luminar yet, as I did within Lightroom. Alex, I believe this functionality was broken sometime ago due to either a Nik Collection update or to a Luminar update; I'm not sure which one. Fortunately, this problem was fixed. If you have Luminar 4 (with the latest update -- 4.3.0.), this should work. (It does for me!) 1. Go to Edit>Plugins>Other 2. Select Silver Efex from the menu that pops up. From now on, when you launch Luminar 4, Silver Efex will be available -- Edit>Plugins>Silver Efex. |
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Post by alexr on Aug 17, 2020 15:35:09 GMT
Thanks for trying Sepiana. Yes, it should be easy, but when I do Edit > Plugins > Other > Open Plugin it opens the navigation box as you would expect. I go to Applications and see that the Nik Collection folder is highlighted but all the individual applications are greyed out, so I cannot select any of them.
I am on Luminar 4.3.0. Maybe I need to update my Nik Collection, which are all dated March 2016. I'll look into it as you say there is the prospect of success.
Cheers.
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Post by Sepiana on Aug 17, 2020 16:02:10 GMT
Alex, you are most welcome! Glad to help.
Maybe that's the problem -- you need to update your version of the Nik Collection. I have the current version -- v.3.
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Post by alexr on Aug 18, 2020 8:52:08 GMT
My version of Silver Efex Pro 2 is version 2.2.24.10 x64 (v1.2.11). I think this is the last free version, so to fix this I would need to move to the paid version 3, which I hadn't planned doing as my current version works well for me (except for this inability as a Luminar plug-in). I'll just have to decide whether I want to spend £125 to do this or to stick with my 'export and then open in the application' workaround. As always, I guess you don't get something for nothing.  |
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