Finally, the new program in the stable, Perspective Efex, that corrects geometric flaws in your photos – we’ll look at this a little more in a few minutes. Viveza, which allows you to change colours in images and impact the contrast and saturation. Silver Efex Pro, the black and white editor.

Sharpener Pro, which as the name suggests, sharpens your photos. HDR Efex Pro, which is an excellent tool for merging bracketed photos. Color Efex Pro that applies colour filters in a similar way that you’d be used to on your mobile phone. Analog Efex Pro, which simulates different types of analogue film effects. With the latest release, the Nik Collection is a package of eight programs. DxO has now brought out two version upgrades of the programs and has undoubtedly pushed the products forwards. Google wasn’t going to support the products, and if either Microsoft or Apple did anything to break them, then it was simply tough luck!Įventually, a company called DxO bought, what would become, the Nik Collection from Google, and it became a commercial product once more. Google loved the mobile product so much that they bought the company.įor a couple of years, it was possible to get the entire Nik Software package as a free download from the Google website.

The company also produced a mobile photo-editing tool called Snapseed. The black and white editing tool, Silver Efex, was quickly picked up as being the go-to program. It gets its name from the company who originally developed some great picture editing tools, Nik Software. What is the Nik Collection?īefore we start on the changes made to the package of programs, I think it would be good to recap what the Nik Collection is and a bit of its history. One addition, in particular, is going to speed up the workflow for wedding photographers that use Adobe Photoshop. This week, I am going to look at a couple more developments that have gone into the suite. In last weeks’ article, I talked about an addition to Silver Efex Pro, one of the programs that form the Nik Collection.

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