How to Use Flood 2 with Affinity Photo 1/2

Flood 2 is a simple Photoshop plugin that also works in Serif’s Affintiy Photo (both versions). This also applys to most other Flaming Pear plugins.

Installation

1. First, acquire the plugin from Flaming Pear’s site.
2. Either extract and place the 64-bit version of the plugin into Affinity’s Plugins folder, or extract the Flood 2 folder and add it to Affinity’s Plugin Search Folders.

• Affinity 2 Plugins folders are in [LOCAL USER]\.affinity\Photo\2.0\Plugins
• You can add Search Folders in Edit > Settings > Photoshop Plugins

3. Start or Restart Affinity and you can now locate the plugin under Filters > Plugins

The Render Doesn’t Work!

Yes, but no. The render will appear fragmented and non-functional if you try to apply the Flood 2 or similar Flaming Pear plugins to an image without first making a selection. I don’t know why but it has something to do with the way Flaming Pear splits images up for renders on the whole canvas.

The easiest solution is to just Ctrl+A (select All) and then run the plugin. This seems to allow the preview to work properly.