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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.

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

How to get started with Silver Efex Pro

June 10, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Silver Efex Pro is one of the best-known plug ins in the Nik Collection and widely regarded as the premier tools for fans of black and white photography. There are lots of really good ways to create black and white images in all sorts of software, but even now Silver Efex Pro has a magic […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white, Black and white filters, Borders and frames, Burn Edges (Silver Efex Pro), Contrast filter, Control Point, Curves, Dodging and burning, Film simulation, Grain, Histogram, Levels, Loupe, Nik Collection, Presets, Silver Efex Pro, Split toning, Toning, Vignette

Perspective Efex review

June 4, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.5 stars Perspective Efex is a really nice addition to the DxO Nik Collection 3. It offers geometric perspective, distortion and tilt-shift corrections in a simple, user-friendly interface.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Lens corrections, Miniature effect, Nik Collection, Perspective correction, Perspective Efex, Tilt shift, Volume deformation or anamorphosis

DxO Nik Collection 3 review

June 3, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 5 stars The Nik Collection is an evergreen plug-in suite that’s as fresh, varied and exciting now as when it was first launched a decade ago. The new Perspective Efex plug-in is a major bonus and the new ‘non-destructive workflow’ is rather clever.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Dfine, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Sharpener Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza

DxO Nik Collection 3 brings 3 important new updates and a new perspective control plug-in

June 3, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Since DxO acquired the Nik Collection from Google it has updated the software to work better with current operating systems, added new presets and film simulations and now – in by far the biggest update yet – added a new plug-in, a new non-destructive workflow and a new way of working with the Nik Collection […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Nik Collection Tagged With: Nik Collection

Free Analog Efex Pro presets (and how to install them)

April 19, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro preset export and import

Welcome to the fourth and final part of this mini-series on Google’s brand new film and camera simulation plug-in, Analog Efex Pro. It joins the existing plug-ins in the Nik Collection, now owned and distributed by DxO. Note: Following many requests, I’m republishing this article with the download link restored but the content unchanged. This […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Presets

Using HDR Efex Pro for everyday enhancement

April 18, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Usually, HDR images are pretty obvious. The technique is part of the ‘look’. But it’s also possible to use HDR to enhance regular images to add depth and drama, but winding the effect back just a little so that it’s no longer center stage. So for this shot I used DxO PhotoLab and HDR Efex […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: DxO PhotoLab, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection

Sharpener Pro 3 review

June 21, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3 stars Sharpener Pro’s output sharpening tools are a reminder that images need to be optimised to look their best on different printers, and at different sizes. However, its ‘capture sharpening’ tools feel like they’re just a little too late in the workflow, when most of us would apply sharpening during RAW processing, or in the ‘host’ application used to launch Sharpener Pro.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Nik Collection, Sharpener Pro, Sharpening

Nik Dfine 2 review

June 20, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 2.5 stars Dfine feels like an old-fashioned solution to a problem that has changed. There are now many ways of controlling noise in-camera or in RAW software, and the real issue these days is not just finding a tool that can do it well, but doing it at the right point in your workflow.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Dfine, Nik Collection, Noise reduction

Viveza review

June 17, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3.5 stars Viveza is a great tool for making fast and effective adjustments to colour images, but it now feels a bit redundant. The Nik Collection’s other creative plug-ins come with equally powerful control point corrections of their own, as does DxO PhotoLab Essential, the Nik Collection’s new ‘host’ program.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Nik Collection, Viveza

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