You can dictate what type of film to mimic, apply colour filters, vignetting , grain, and other basic adjustments. There is also a variety of black and white edits to use as a starting point, with different levels of exposure and contrast.
The best thing about this tool is that it makes the process user-friendly and then allows you to make adjustments on the new HDR image. This is because the HDR tool uses multiple photos, rather than one selected image to work on. To access this collection, select your bracketed images to work with.
The final photo will now be saved in your computer folders, but will NOT be automatically imported into Lightroom. If you want to do any further adjustments in Lightroom, you can simply import that photo and continue adjusting. The Dfine collection helps reduce noise and can be fully automated or manually controlled. This is ideal for underexposed images that would otherwise be full of grain in the shadows!
Essentially, they are Google filters for photos. For example, in case you apply a filter but find that the foliage has become too orange. You can then apply a control point in the area of the foliage and lower the effect of the filter over that area so that it retains its green colour.
The ability to layer effects gives you more control and endless possible looks. The Viveza collection is ideal for applying selective adjustments, like masking. You use control points once more, but this time you can do a variety of adjustments for specific areas of the photo.
The control points are blended into the rest of the image so that you never see an edge to these adjustments. This gives you control over specific areas of the photo to create your own look without filters. For those of us who are not comfortable applying filters, this manual control is perfect. Sharpener Pro is for exactly that — sharpening! Within Lightroom, there are two options that appear for this collection. The key addition to your Photoshop tools. Directly access your favorite presets from Adobe Photoshop and save time editing.
The Nik Selective Tool is your best partner when it comes to directly accessing an incredible palette of creative options. With the Last Edit feature, you can retouch your photos in a flash by re-applying the last edit setting used. With the Quick Edit option, you can now re-apply the last actions used without even having to launch the Nik Collection interface.
Retouch your files as much as you want all while keeping the editing settings from your last session. Export your image in TIFF format, then activate the option to retain your settings. The input file, your editing settings, and the export file are saved together in a one-of-a-kind file. I would have to respectfully disagree concerning customer service. I was having a problem with a current update, and customer support was johnny on the spot.
There was some back and forth dialog, and it could not have gone any better. Very recently, I had a suggestion for a feature in PureRaw. The reply was back in a matter of hours. If you come, please leave your crappy attitude at the door. The updates are every year, not every six months. If you don't like any given Photolab or Nik update, there's no issue skipping it.
The software keeps working and any given Photolab has been fully compatible with at least two versions of Nik. This morning surprise I still waiting answer! No luck here. I went with the upgrade and DxO package. DxO downloaded and installed. Nik downloaded but the install is greyed out. Plenty of room on my computer. I contacted them and they replied they will get back.
I always enjoy using the Nik collection. As others have had some issues: support has been in contact with me asking "what language "my computers speaks". I assume they mean Java etc. Still no solution yet. Same to me, they ask how I do for uninstall, if I use Microsoft Windows 10 or I deleted it and redownloaded it.
Still won't install. Hopefully, they get back to me by Tuesday I won't be home Mon. Too expensive for a set of plugin containing several outdated ones. The upgrade gives only a slight improvement related to only 2 plugins out of 8 that should have been implemented many years ago. To still have unresizeable windows after 4 years of ownership by DXO is unacceptable. Just playing around with v. But the crown jewel has always been the U-points.
They probably don't make sense to people who never worked in a darkroom, but soft-edged "selections" were the norm when burning and dodging. This approach is degrees different from the very precise but incredibly tedious selections, refined edges, masks, marching ants, etc.
No affiliation. The Film Pack grain textures are a massive step up over the previous grain algorithm - they look way more analogue. The only other plugin I use in the pack is Viveza which now has a much more usable interface. Seems a bit faster too. I'll be interested in the other tools once the UI for all of them has been updated to match Viveza and Silver Efex. I suppose because the software is also sold as a plug-in that can be used in other software platforms.
I am using it as a plug-in for Elements. Unless you mean Nik should replace Dfine with DeepPrime in their plug-ins. I don't think it is possible to use DeepPrime with anything other than raw files so I am not sure if it would even work in another program. I add grain to my bw conversions so the point is moot a good deal of the time for me. I only use Dfine for selective nr, but, most of the time, I don't need anything more than a touch of nr in Topaz Denoise AI if I need any at all.
Yeah, I think that is the issue. There is only so much they can do as a plug-in and they realise that is a large part of their market. With dfine you can do selectively reduce noise with the u-point. You can use it if you find that a portion of you photo have a little bit too much noise.
For me it has its place in this collection of plugins. What I think is obsolete now is the presharpening plugin. The biggest thing on my Nik wishlist had been the ability to reshape the U-point.
At least to an oval. Thom Hogan wrote about a way to change the shape of U-point selections in Capture NX2, but I could never figure out how he did it. If you want an oval, just overlap 2 U-points and group them together.
Not sure why it remains just a circle. From what I understand, the shape of the selection within the circle automatically varies based on the brightness and color of where you click they call these parameters Luminance and Chrominance. With this update, you can adjust the sensitivity of the Luminance and Chrominance within the u-point circle. So, that will adjust the size of the selection, making it larger or smaller.
The circle just gives the boundaries for where the u-point looks. For example, a strip of bright seafoam on a dark ocean. A large circle lightens too much in the dark areas and smaller, grouped circles create noticeable patterns in the dark areas An oval shape would remove this issue.
Well, i still dislike the fact, even after such a long time, DxO it must being admitted - it was Google, then originally Nik Software before both the Silver Efex Pro and Viveza GUIs aren't updated, not being resize-able. Not sure why they waste valuable work time on this. If it had been integrated in PL, so that you could work non-destructive it would have been fine.
But as now the time would have been much better spent on PL. I expect there are lots of folks who prefer other RAW processors but want access to some of these tools.
As such, it's a smaller company, and it's facing tremendous competition at the high end from Adobe and at the consumer end from cheaper upstarts like Luminar. It seems pretty clear they're fighting for financial survival and seeking additional revenue streams.
Updating Nik is probably a less labor-intensive way to do this than trying to bundle everything into PhotoLab, and it has the benefit of expanding their customer base. I think they're doing a good job of balancing and expanding their product lineup while bringing useful improvements to all of their customers. We would have to know how many of Nik users originally got the software as a plug-in for other than DxO software and wish to continue using it as such.
I don't think it would be wise for them to narrow the target audience for these upgrades. I use it in Elements. I had to get the DxO version when I upgraded to the latest Mac os.
I just upgraded to the 4 and am liking the changes quite a bit. Especially in the way the control points now work. The biggest upgrade I have seen so far. Some or color efex filters as layer directly in Photomatix would instantly make it the editor of choice for me.
And the skylight filter and 'perceptual saturation ' would be awesome. May test the new version, but I've read that it may be problematic to reinstall Nik 2 on Big Sur if one doesn't wan't to buy the new version?
I did not have the same experience when I moved to my new mac and the latest os. I had to get 3. Or, at least I thought I did. But, I am very happy with 4. Just upgraded and have been using it for the past two days. A big improvement over 3 and the greatest change to the software since I got the original version. I think it might be a problem to do the resinstall of 2.
I have a DxO account that allows me to access the download for 3. As a long time user of the Nik Collection, I think this is a very accurate review of the current situation with this programme. It is getting a bit old now, but there are a few Nik adjustments that still make it worth being part of your workflow and the U Point adjustments are one of the easiest methods of adding selective filters.
Lets hope DXO keep supporting the application into the future, it's still up there with the best. John Taylor. The Great Joy 60mm T2. Apple's flagship M1 Max MacBook Pro offers a combination of performance, efficiency, build quality, and screen quality that you cannot find in any PC on the market, full stop.
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What's new and included in Nik Collection 4? The Meta-presets section is a new addition which allows multiple plug-ins to run sequentially with a single click. The Viveza and Silver Efex Pro plug-ins both sport shiny new, modernized user interfaces. The new Silver Efex Pro 3 and the prior version 2 can compared above. Tags: review , dxo , nik , software-review. View Comments Comments All Gary Macleod a bit off thread but i'm still happy using Nik 3 but i have constant crashing issues with the upgrade flash screen, does anyone have any advice to get round this, i'm on a Imac thanks in advance.
Mala Photography I was at last able to get it working last night! Constantine Lykiard Second post on this now and I am afraid things have got worst Constantine Lykiard I have been using Silver Efex ever since it appeared on the market. I've successfully downgraded to Nik 3 - which in comparison is fabulous Sue Anne Rush Thank you. If I had it to do over James Grove V4.
James Grove Yup. Al-G I'm evaluating the collection prior to purchase and am most interested in Silver Efex and Viveza but although I have the option to use non-destructive edits switched off I'm finding the processing lags in Viveza about 1. Al-G cgassier, many thanks for this. Nick Bln I have win10, i7, 32gb, all ssd.
Lags are around 1 to 3 sec, 61mpix files. No fun, thus uninszalled. Using silver efex 2. Thanks for your input, it's much appreciated. Al-G 2Oceans, thanks for your reply. Downgraded to SFX 2. Al-G I wrote to DxO about the problem and they got back to me and then I sent them a bunch of information and diagnostic files.
KevinWu Wow. They are still selling filters for money! String ""Wow. M Lammerse Twice a year DxO comes with a 'much better version' of it's software while in practice not much changes.
Many thanks. Madaboutpix Thanks a lot for the honest, balanced, and perceptive review of the latest Nik Collection, Mike. SmilerGrogan How does it perform on noise reduction vs.
Don T I was hesitant to buy the product from DXO the first time they took over the development of the product. KikileKoko Yes. UncoyDP Real world: it gets easier to work with Nik with each post-Google update except maybe the first which was pretty buggy.
I don't mind the power of the side panel.
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