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Perspective Efex – corrects for lens and perspective-based distortions, and allows for a tilt/shift-like miniature effect plus cropping.Viveza 3 (updated) – tools for adjusting color, light and tonality, along with a small number of presets.

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Silver Efex Pro 3 (updated) – converts images to black and white, with a healthy selection of presets, haze reduction, color filtering, film simulation and more.

Sharpener Pro 3 – pre-sharpens raw data and applies secondary sharpening immediately prior to output.

HDR Efex Pro 2 – combines multiple identically-framed images for higher dynamic range, or simulates an HDR look from a single image.

Dfine 2 – reduces noise levels in high-sensitivity and/or small-sensor images.

Color Efex Pro 4 – a wide range of color image presets in architecture, film, nature, portrait, travel and wedding categories.

Analog Efex Pro 2 – replicates the look of images shot using analog film cameras.

In full, the list of plug-ins is as follows: Silver Efex Pro 3 and Viveza 3 are both updated with modernized UI’s and some new tools suite-wide, ‘U-Point’ controls are more versatile (more on this later) and ‘Meta presets’ in the selective tool allow for multiple plug-ins to run sequentially with one click. With the introduction of Perspective Efex in the previous release, the Nik Collection has a total of eight plug-ins. What’s new and included in Nik Collection 4? The image is split vertically for comparison against the original, unedited image.

You can save some money if you order soon, though – through June 30, 2021, DxO is offering discounted pricing of $99.99 for new customers, and $59.99 for upgrades.Ĭorrecting the color of an overexposed reflector lens using grouped control points in Viveza 3.

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Since then, the French software company has been steadily adding new features and some its own algorithms to the Nik Collection toolbox.Īvailable immediately, Nik Collection 4 is priced at $149 for new customers, with upgrades available to existing customers for $79. Initially developed by Nik Software and later purchased by Google, the Nik Collection was acquired by DxO in late 2017. The Nik Collection first appeared over a decade ago, and some of its component plug-ins can be traced back as far as late 1999, when the first version of Nik Color Efex was released. And 2021 is no different, with Nik Collection 4 now making its debut.

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You also have a full set of color filters that can be applied at various hue and strength levels.Every year around the start of June, French software company DxO releases a new version of Nik Collection, a suite of eight image processing tools that can be used either as standalone apps or plug-ins for third-party software like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. Along the right side of the window are all the controls-Brightness, Contrast, and Structure, as well as a Shadows/Highlights control to protect important areas of the image from clipping. If you’ve ever used any Nik product the interface will be familiar (#1).

Silver Efex Pro is a new take on monochrome imaging from Nik Software. Early on, learning to use the Channel Mixer in Adobe’s Photoshop wasn’t always easy or intuitive, and some of the monochrome plug-ins left very little control over the final product-pick your film type and that’s it. So, with digital photography, I’ve often done black and white conversions with a varying degree of success. In fact, it was black and white that first interested me in photography.

There is something magical about a well-crafted image in monochrome that is more expressive than any color image could ever be. In a world of oversaturated color, I’m always surprised at the popularity of black and white images.