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If I take my own example, paying £69 to upgrade to the Nik Collection 5 probably isn’t good value.

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Whether you feel this is good value will depend on your existing version and the other software you own. If you are not already a Nik Collection user, this feels like a good deal.Īs an existing DxO Nik Collection user I was able to purchase an upgrade for £69 by logging into my account on the DxO website.

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This is for a perpetual license which you can continue to use, and you would only need to pay again if you upgraded in the future.

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In terms of cost, at the time of writing you can purchase a full Nik Collection 5 license for £135. That then reduces the room to display thumbnails even further.ĭespite this, the effects you can create and add with Nik Analog Efex remain extremely impressive and it leaves me wondering why I haven’t done more with this tool. Whilst there are different categories to reduce the length of the list, you need to expand this section to select many of them. This makes scrolling through the list of all 96 different “Cameras” difficult. There’s only enough space to display a couple of thumbnails. You can never remove the final filter only disable it.Īnother niggle I found was when trying to browse the “Cameras” list on the left of the interface. For example, whilst you can add and remove filters from an image, you always need to leave one. However, whilst there is now a new interface, not everything is as I would like it. I always felt the previous versions of Analog Efex were poorly designed which is probably why I stopped using them. This is an improvement that I’ve been waiting a long time for.

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As with both Viveza 3 and Nik Silver Efex Pro 3, it’s now possible to refine the Control Point selection based on Luminance and Chrominance. The other change introduced with the updated interface is to the Control Points. I therefore suspect this filter provides more of a film simulation than a simple grain simulation. I also noticed that switching between the different simulations would change the image colours. Whilst using the Grain filter I did notice that all the simulations were for colour negative and slide films I didn’t see any for black and white film. In addition, you can control the intensity or strength of the film grain effect as well as the size of the grain. Here you can select from a large number of film grain simulations. Grain which adds film grain to the image.You will also find this filter in Nik Silver Efex Pro and DxO PhotoLab. This can be extremely useful when editing landscape photography. ClearView provides a form of contrast adjustment.You will also find that unlike with the other Color Efex filters, you can’t remove these or add them multiple times. What’s different about these filters is that they are applied to every image but with settings that mean they aren’t having any effect on the image. Perhaps the biggest of these is the migration to a new user interface bringing it into line with Viveza 3 and Silver Efex Pro 3. Let’s take a more detailed look at the changes to Nik Color Efex Pro which takes it from version 4 to 5. If you find that you need the features of the Elite edition, paying for an upgrade may still work out as good value. This is though the Essential edition (not the Elite edition) so do please check which edition is best for you. The other “new feature” when you purchase the Nik Collection 5 is that it comes with the excellent DxO PhotoLab RAW editor. Additionally, there are new lens and camera profiles added to Perspective Efex. When compared to version 4, the main changes in the Nik Collection 5 are to Color Efex and Analog Efex, both of which progress to a new version.

Silver Efex Pro 3 – Black and white photography conversions and editing.

Analog Efex Pro 3 – Classic film camera special effects.

Color Efex Pro 5 – A large collection of special effects filters with many uses.

HDR Efex Pro 2 – Creating and editing HDR images.

Perspective Efex – Perspective corrections and special effects.

But you can also use the Nik Collection tools as stand-alone editors in their own right.

These can be used as plugins to compatible host editors like Lightroom, PhotoLab, Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Today there 8 plugins in the Nik Collection 5.

It was then purchased from Google by DxO which has continued to develop and support the collection. Originally developed by Nik Software, it was later sold to Google who developed it for a short time before retiring the product. The Nik Collection has been around for a long time.

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