But the bottom line, for photographers, might be to avoid having your workflow dependent on any single element. If Nik is critical to your workflow, you could dedicate a second desktop to the software and avoid updates. What does all this mean for photographers using the Nik plug-ins-Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine? There won’t be any changes immediately, most likely, but one day when it’s time to update Photoshop and Lightroom or your OS, Nik will no longer function. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.” Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. Google purchased Nik Software in 2012, and in March 2016 made the plug-ins free for everyone, eliminating the $149 price for the software, which once cost as high as $500: “Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free. We have no plans to update the Collection or add new features over time.
By way of a banner atop its Nik Collection webpage, Google quietly announced it would no longer support the image-editing software plug-in suite: “The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 through 10.10 Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Adobe Photoshop through CC 2015. 2 - So to run a really Nik collection plugins you can open them through a Lightroom (right click on the image and select any plugin from the context menu for example) or Photoshop (here you’ll have a Selective tool with all the plugins).ĭisappointing news for photographers using the plug-ins that comprise the Nik Collection. 1 - Nik collection does not have an icon on a Desktop (capture NX-D is not this program). Easily create the photos you've imagined with six powerful plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom.
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(currently working with Classic7.3.1 WIndows-10) It is not surprising that the automatic install is not working with updates in operating systems and Lightroom since the time that Nik programs were released. I have always, without fail, used the 'Manual' method of adding the NIK programs to Lightroom (various versions) as 'External Editors'.