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DxO Nik Collection

With the launch of the DxO Nik Collection 3, the Collection now consists of eight different plug-ins, including four of the best creative tools for photographers you can buy today. Silver Efex Pro is still unrivalled for its black and white photography effects, Color Efex Pro has a dazzling array of photographic effects, Analog Efex Pro is superb at evoking classic analog film and darkroom effects and HDR Efex Pro makes HDR merging and editing easy enough for anyone to get great results straight out of the box. The new plug in, Perspective Efex, corrects perspective distortion and more.

DxO offers up to 30% savings on PhotoLab and Nik Collection

December 9, 2020 by Rod Lawton

DxO has announced Holiday Season savings on its leading software applications, including DxO PhotoLab 4 and the DxO Nik Collection, which will run right up until the end of December 2020. Both are among the best photo editing software products on the market. DxO PhotoLab 4 is a powerful RAW processing and lens correction program […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, PhotoLab

Black Friday: DxO reduces prices by up to 50% until November 30

November 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

French software publisher DxO has announced its Black Friday deals for 2020, including discounts of up to 50% on its leading software applications, including DxO PhotoLab 4 (Elite edition) and the recently updated DxO Nik Collection. Both are among the best photo editing software products on the market. Here’s a list of offers supplied in […]

Filed Under: Black Friday, Featured, Nik Collection, PhotoLab

The Detail Extractor in Analog Efex Pro is like a magic bullet for contrast issues

August 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro, part of the DxO Nik Collection has an excellent tool that’s easily missed but lies at the heart of many of this software’s striking analog film effects.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Detail Extractor, HDR, Nik Collection

How to customise Analog Efex Pro presets

August 23, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro, part of the DxO Nik Collection, has some great vintage film effect presets, but you don’t have to use them exactly as they are provided. It’s very easy to customise and adapt these presets to give exactly the kind of look you want.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Detail Extractor, Film simulation, Grain, Textures, Vignette

Photo editing software downloads: links to trial versions listed here

July 7, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Almost all the software applications reviewed and described on Life after Photoshop are available as a free trial, and here are the links. I always recommend using the trial version before making your mind up.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab

The DxO Nik Collection 3 non-destructive workflow and how it works

June 27, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The DxO Nik Collection 3 brings non-destructive editing to the Nik plug ins for the first time. This is how it was done, and what you need to know.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Nik Collection, Non-destructive editing

Analog Efex Pro 2 review

June 24, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 5 stars Analog Efex Pro2 goes way beyond most analog photography filters, offering not just film styles, grain effects and borders, but creative vignetting, bokeh, lens blur, lens distortion, double-exposures, motion blur and more.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Film simulation, Grain, Nik Collection, Plug-ins, Tilt shift

Nik Collection presets: Even on a Cloudy Day (Color Efex Pro)

June 20, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Color Efex Pro Recipe

You can learn a lot from experimenting with manual adjustments and individual filters in a program like Color Efex Pro, but you can learn even more by dismantling a preset to see how its individual parts work together.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Color Efex Pro, Cross Processing, Curves, Levels, Nik Collection, Old Photo (Color Efex Pro), Presets, Recipes (Color Efex Pro), Sunlight filter (Color Efex Pro)

How to get started with Analog Efex Pro

June 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro is one of the plug-ins in the Nik Collection. It works as a plug in with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop but it can also work as a standalone program or as an external editor with all sorts of other programs like Capture One, Exposure X and more. It’s designed to recreate the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Camera Kit (Analog Efex Pro), Film simulation, Light leak, Nik Collection, Non-destructive editing, Toning, Vignette

Nik Collection tips: image effects, ideas and insights for the Nik plug ins

June 13, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Hand coloured black and white with a bi-colour filter

The best Nik Collection plug ins are so deep you might never completely get to the bottom of what they do. Here’s a series of tips and ideas for Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, Analog Efex Pro and Viveza.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Silver Efex Pro

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