Integrating CaptureOne, Affinity Photo, and DxO NIK Suite

Having tried just about everything on the market over the last 10 years I have settled on CaptureOne for library and general editing, Affinity Photo for composites and superior cloning and healing, and NIK for colour enhancements and mono conversions.

It's easy to round trip from CaptureOne to AP and from CaptureOne to Nik but if I want to use all 3 on the same image it gets to be cumbersome.

Happily advances in the relationship between DxO and AP have solved this and the Nik suite can now be installed in Affinity as a fully active plugin. This means that all you have to do is, with your image open in CaptureOne select Edit With > AffinityPhoto and from there you can open whatever routine in the Nik suite from Filters > Plugins > (name of the Nik routine you want to apply). When you have finished all your editing, save the result (CMD S) and the edited image will be saved to CaptureOne.

Here are the steps,

1: Download Affinity Photo.

2: Download the Nik suite from the DxO website. Do this even if you already have Nik as one essential step is set up in the installation dialogue and cannot be accessed from an already installed version (or I couldn't do it).

3: Go to https://support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040284711-How-to-launch-Nik-Collection-3-by-DxO-and-Nik-Collection-2-5-by-DxO-plugins-from-Affinity-Photo-1-8-or-higher-

and follow the instructions.

(An extra comment on AP: I mainly go there for the reasons stated above but I also prefer it for some cases of dodging and burning. The new D&B brushes in CaptureOne are great but for tricky work AP allows you to selectively apply the effect to highlights, mid-tones or shadows).

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