Photographers who already own Nik Collection 4 can upgrade by signing into their customer accounts for £69. Pricing & Availability: Nik Collection 5 (Windows and macOS) is now available for download on the DxO website and costs £135. Photographers who choose to shoot in RAW can get the power of DxO’s PhotoLab 5 ESSENTIAL, a feature-rich photo-editing software that contains DxO’s Optics Modules and U-Point technology for precise local adjustments. The plug-in can now automatically correct the geometric distortions produced by more than 70,000 camera and lens combinations. Some 20 new cameras and 60 lenses have been added to DxO’s database of supported equipment. Nik Perspective Efex is also part of the collection and it benefits from the ongoing research conducted in DxO’s labs. Color Efex also benefits has 29 authentic color film grain effects that were created in DxO’s laboratories, giving analog enthusiasts a range of new creative options. Fog, mist, smoke and pollution are intelligently reduced using a simple slider, returning contrast and color to photographs. To see how a professional uses Nik Software, watch Renee Robyn utilize Color Efex Pro in her class Creating Your Reality with Composite Photography.Haze in photographs is now easy to remove with Nik Color Efex thanks to ClearView, a technology borrowed from DxO PhotoLab 5. Now go out there and experiment! Go nuts and share it with the world! Keep in mind, each of these programs has many different presets to pick from and I just slapped one on at random. Google also no longer supports or updates its Nik plug-ins for current versions of Photoshop on current. Google no longer provides download links for its versions of the Nik collection. DXO has purchased the Nik Collection and has released new. “ Selectively adjust the color and tonality of your images without complicated masks or selections.” Explore the look and feel of classic cameras, films, and lenses. “ From natural to artistic, explore the full potential of HDR photography.” “ Master the art of black-and-white photography with darkroom-inspired controls.” “ Bring out hidden details consistently with the professional’s choice for image sharpening.” Sharpened on the right “ Improve your images with noise reduction tailored to your camera.” I added noise to this and zoomed in so that you could see it at work “ A comprehensive set of filters for color correction, retouching, and creative effects.” “ Explore the look and feel of classic cameras, films, and lenses.” Here’s the original image straight out of camera for comparison. Okay so important question you may be asking, “Oh my good lord, there are 7 choices of different applications to use! Why goodness gracious me oh my, where ever shall I start?” Well, you probably won’t be asking yourself with those exact words (who talks like that?) that but the question remains. Step three and a half: if you don’t have lightroom you can still edit the image! You’ll just need to import it directly into the program. Step three: Open the image in lightroom, right click, and scroll to “Edit In” and there you go! Step two: Install by double clicking Nik Collection There is even a button on the top right of the page that says, “Download now” Step one: Download it. <– Super duper easy. So what does all this mean? How do I use this fancy new 100% free tool? In Google’s press release they say, “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.” And everyone should AT THE VERY LEAST try it. Okay, now before I put my foot to far into my mouth, the reason I use the word “ actually” is because the internet is littered with free software to process raw images, but often times it will do only an adequate job or leave you with a gross watermark until you purchase. FREE EDITING SOFTWARE! And guys, get this… holy freaking crap, it’s actually good.
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