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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.

Color Efex Pro review

June 15, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 5 stars . Colour Efex Pro initially looks a little dated, but dig deeper and you’ll find its best filters are very useful indeed and the ability to combine filters into Recipes dramatically expands its potential.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Color Efex Pro, Nik Collection

Silver Efex Pro 2 review

June 13, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 5 stars For fans of black and white photography, Silver Efex Pro is just superb. It recreates the depth, intensity and ’soul’ of black and white in a way few other tools approach.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Analog, Black and white, Nik Collection, Silver Efex Pro

DxO Nik Collection 2: Did DxO just make it worse or better?

June 8, 2019 by Rod Lawton

DxO Nik Collection 2

DxO has released Nik Collection 2, but without any major overhauls to the seven Nik plug-ins themselves and with an addition you might not actually want. Hmm.

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

DxO brings PhotoLab 1.2 update and launches Nik Collection 2018

June 6, 2018 by Rod Lawton

DxO PhotoLab 1.2

DxO has announced updates to both PhotoLab and its recently-acquired Nik Collection software. These products are likely to prove key to the company’s future as it restructures its financial activities around its software portfolio. Nik Collection 2018 DxO acquired the Nik Collection from Google late last year and its software engineers have spent the last […]

Filed Under: News, Nik Collection, PhotoLab Tagged With: DxO PhotoLab, Nik Collection

Hand coloured black and white with a bi-colour filter

August 19, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Hand coloured black and white with a bi-colour filter

It does seem a bit perverse, adding colour to a black and white image which used to be colour in the first place, but hand-coloured (or digitally-coloured) black and white has a very particular ‘look’ that colour images just don’t have. So this image (below) is one I originally shot in colour but then reworked […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white, Color Efex Pro, Nik Collection

Add zoom blur with a twist

August 18, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro zoom blur

Zoom blur is a popular bit tricky little technique where you zoom the lens during the exposure so that you get a kind of radial blur from the centre of the picture. This means using a shutter speed long enough to capture this rapid zoom movement, which usually means you get plenty of regular blur […]

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

Try this soft focus effect on landscapes

August 16, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Color Efex Pro Glamour Glow soft focus

You normally associate soft focus effects with portraits, but they can work on all kinds of images, adding a romantic, dreamy feel to an everyday scene. Landscapes, for example, are often given a dramatic, brooding look when sometimes the emotion we feel is much lighter. Here’s an example. This tree-lined avenue felt bright, airy and […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Color Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Soft focus

See the world in infra red

August 10, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Infra red effect

Infra red photography creates an unusual and surreal view of the world that can also be very beautiful. You can do it in black and white or colour, but the techniques used today with digital cameras are rather different to those used with film. Infra red film photography is relatively straightforward – you simply use […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Color Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Soft focus

Get better Lightroom HDR with the help of HDR Efex Pro

November 30, 2016 by Rod Lawton

The Lightroom HDR tools built in are good in their way, but will only get you so far. Yes, you can boost the shadows, reduce the highlights, add some Clarity and Dehaze and maybe a graduated filter for the sky, but you can end up doing a lot of work only getting half way to the […]

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

6 tips for getting an authentic analog film effect

November 29, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Modern cameras can reproduce the world with utter, clinical accuracy. The trouble is, it turns out that’s not what we wanted after all. A lot of the time, what we actually want is the faded, distressed, imperfect look of analog photography. So here are six top tips for getting that analog film effect ‘look’ with […]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Film simulation, Grain, Nik Collection, Textures, Vignette

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