We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now.
If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days. Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. Earlier this year, Google bought Nik Software and rumors circulated about the future of the popular software, and its potential availability on Android.
The app was released by Nik Software for the iPad in 2011 and has since become available on iPhone, Mac OS and Windows. The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities - from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images. The Snapseed photo editor is a one-stop app for performing both quick and in-depth edits on a mobile device or computer. 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. It can work with JPEGs and RAW files, even applying automatic lens corrections, and it has a large collection of effects.
Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. Once a film simulation plug-in, now a full-blown standalone image-editor with file browsing and non-destructive adjustment layers and masks, Alien Skin is a very interesting Nik Collection alternative. Obviously the best of the best will always be fine but with access to these tools, nearly anyone can look like a professional.Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free. This could certainly put a damper on the photography industry. Thousands of editing jobs in the film industry have been lost due to home editing.
With all of these tools now available, and for free no less, is this going to put photographers out of a job? Remember how easy it is to edit video. This however also begs the question of the photography industry. You can truly take your photo and make it look as amazing as some of the finest photographers out there. From color to backgrounds to texture and shade, we decided to hunt down 10 great examples of before and after shots to show you how powerful these tools can be. Instead of leaving the photo sitting on your hard drive, you can make most images pop using Lightroom or Photoshop, but with help from the Google’s Nik Plugins, you can take control of the editing process to another level and get the most out of each photo.Īnd when we’re referring to “another level” we’re talking effects that some of the best photographers in the world can’t even create.
Often when a photo comes straight from the camera, it looks flat and not just up to our expectations or what our experience was when we took it. It enhances the photo in easy and fastest way. It includes many usuable filters to enhance the photo quality. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which Google will automatically issue back to you in the coming days.įor those of you who haven’t used the Nik Collection to improve your photos, you don’t know what you’re potentially missing. Nik Collection is a plugin which includes different photo Filters developed by Google.
Google dropped that price to $149 until they made the free move this week.
The initial price for their suite of plug-ins was $499.
Back in 2012 Google bought the German developer Nix for it’s mobile photo editing app Snapseed. In recent photography news, Google has reduced the price of the Nik Collection, a suite of seven desktop plug-ins aimed at advanced photographers, from $149 to nothing.