The input file, your editing settings, and the export file are saved together in a one-of-a-kind file. View this page in English? Presentation Creativity Tools. Free trial. The robust tools that make up the backbone of Nik Collection Take control of your images. Nik Silver Efex Black-and-white photography. Nik Sharpener Output Sharpener. Nik DFine Noise Reduction. It seems DxO is trying to make quick money but lack of a clear strategy for Nik, or of the resources needed to improve a product code they may not familiar with.
But I still love Photolab. Real world: it gets easier to work with Nik with each post-Google update except maybe the first which was pretty buggy.
Integration is smoother, HiDPI does work in a number of the apps now. If someone uses Nik on latest OS, it's probably worth the update. Silver Efex is the greatest BW tool for colour sensors ever built. Color Efex does some incredible film simulations but film simulation not as special a party trick as black and white emulation.
I don't really use the other tools as they have equal equivalents baked right into Photolab. But what made Nik still interesting and fun to work with is the immediacy and relevance of interacting with your settings right at the U-point. You're looking right at what you are interacting with and you see your changes right there.
Now you drop a point, it's kludgy to move and resize without another accidental point, and then you have to hunt it down over at the side so that you're glancing back and forth. I prefer them being on the side where I don't have to juggle my cursor to make sure I am properly grabbing the tiny sliders. I suspect neither solution is end-of-the-world though. I agree, going back and forth from U-point to right side is annoying and a time waster but that's what happens when "mature" software is upgraded.
Problems that didn't exist get solved, and users need to learn everything all over again. The control points are still the fastest way to make selections, except when Photoshop's magic wand just happens to make an accurate selection.
Being able to switch back and forth between the two interfaces would be the best solution in my opinion. Don't forget onlinedelivery that it can take time to become accustomed to new interfaces. That's often happened to me. Of course, sometimes new interfaces are just crap like the touch bar on the Canon EOS R for instance, copied from Apple who have since dropped the technology themselves.
It takes a bit of time to become accustomed enough to the new interface to be able to tell. DxO are extremely stingy about activations. Going over two is an issue. Which is extremely limiting for someone who has multiple computers. One has to choose which computers are activated or spend all one's time activating and deactivating licenses. Glad that they have not abandoned this project.
I'm in the same boat. Still using the free version from Google. Sezano: Yeah, until you have to get a new computer. Then you lose the old free version of Nik. Just happened to me. Not sure if it's really worth it. It was "never designed to work with RAW" exact wording from the developer. I hope they move in that direction at some point. In fact, that's the way I have always used NIK.
I will not say Nik 4 is disappointing but after so few changes in years this upgrade could have been more ambitious. In my opinion DxO having used time and resources in the development of PureRaw has probably penalized the development of more core functions as Photolab and the Nik. Nik 4 is not very polished to say the least, and it seems DxO is cherry picking more that developing a strategy.
Filters created previously with Silver Efex Pro 2 cannot be opened and modified with version 3. Photoshop considers that they are two different filters, and not one being the upgrade of the other. And the upgrade uninstalls version 2. That's very bad news for those of us who like to occasionally go back and redo an edit. That said, it would only be a matter of recreating the dynamics filters one uses once.
DxO should definitely work on a way to have both versions installed. A trick I often use on Mac, on all kinds of software not just DxO is to zip old versions before an update. Then after the update, I can go uncompress the zipped version and use the old version of an app if I want to.
Or for compatibility reasons like in this case. It hasn't been mentioned, but I'll assume that Nik 4 cannot run natively on the Mac M1 chip; which means it cannot be accessed from Photoshop on the Mac. I have to run it in Rosetta when I launch. I'm disappointed, since there are two MacBooks, plus the iMacs and two more upcoming Pros coming out that they wouldn't have M1 compatibility on day 1.
I will say however, that running Photoshop in Rosetta mode is still pretty fast. Then , just a few years ago, I bought their whole suite. Way more flexible than an iMac and none of the compatibility issues of a Hackintosh ran those for a few years about ten years ago, as desktops in parallel with MBP's. Is it possible that you somehow have the bit version of Photoshop? On any computer with 6. Trying to see what would the cause be.
Should be easy to check: open Task Manager in Advanced View, and any app that still uses bit would have that showing between paranthesis, after the name. It's just that CS6 doesn't work with the latest Nik Collection v4. I quote, "…trying to run the new Viveza 3 from within Photoshop C6…" Are you serious? I mean, PS CS6 was published more than 9 years ago and you are wondering why a freshly upgraded-new-piece-of-plugin doesn't work with it… It's like being surprised that your brand new 4K laser projector cannot be plugged in into your 90's Sony TV set… LOL….
Before you comment pls check first, thank you. All your reference to Sony TV is simply Hint 1 easy with your caps lock key! It installs fine, but does have this memory issues.
Anyway, buying Affinity someday. Instead of speculating, let's just go to the source It appears DXO may be giving mixed signals but I found this graphic on their site which might be helpful:. Anything prior to that including CS versions are not supported in the version 4, but were in version 3. As to why they won't support even puzzles me a little, but it is understandable why CS versions are not longer supported.
Adobe stopped supporting those versions years ago and developers likely followed suit or it was up to them. I took the plunge and upgraded to V4, however I have noted a large number of bugs, that didn't exist in V3. I have raised a support ticket with DxO to see if they will acknowledge it.
I don't think they'll fix anything, I don't think its a bug, it seems that the plugins look to see if C1 is open and then alters how it works. Apparently not: "For the moment, NikCollection 4 is not compatible with CaptureOne, but we're happy to record your case, and getting back to you when a workaround is found" Though you can see that the software is not even attempting to save, so this does seem like a really simple bug to fix and it seems churlish not to support CaptureOne.
AndyMcD Churlish and extremely short-sighted. Capture One users can become DxO users. I was initially an Aperture user, had a long stint with Iridient Developer, became frustrated, first tried Capture One and then after trying DxO Photolab found that it was much, much better for high ISO night sports and am now a DxO only user.
If DxO locks photographers out, they will miss out on important markets. Nik Tools were great. No, they were fantastic. Too bad that further development was mostly stagnant and there are simply better tools out there. I wouldn't say development is stagnant, slow is perhaps a better word, but it's come quite a way nonetheless since DXO took it over. I've tried similar types of tools from other companies Topaz, Luminar, etc.. I think it offers a lot more available options and the ability to fine tune the results over anything else i've tried, and it's significantly faster as well.
YuryVilin - You said better tools than Nik were available and I'm asking what tools. Affinity isn't a replacement for Nik in the least String Which makes me wonder - why do you think that Affinity and Nik are not comparable for image editing? As user of both products you should be able to answer this question. The u-point technology in Viveza is unique to Nik and a tool I find to be very useful to easily and intuitively make local adjustments. I think Google transplanted the technology to its Snapseed android app, which is one of the best photo editors that also support raw.
It's just a shame that Google has abandoned it but they probably want people to use and pay for Google Photos in stead. It is Nik Software who developed Snapseed. And Google bought them for this mobile app and probably to improve Google photo too. They were never really interested by the plugins. However it is under Google that Analog Efex was developed.
It actually looked refined before, now it looks like a generic windows app. Nik performance has always been awesome, and still is from what i see in the trial.
Don't get what they say about previews lagging behind a second. That being said , I'm unable to drag an image around with the mouse when zoomed in, in photoshop it keeps on creating new layers.
Even if I make the setting 'apply to current layers. Viveza even makes two! It applies its edits to my layer, creating a new one. Then it does the exact same setting to the first created layer, creating a 2nd layer which overdoes everything. So it seems to created some more bugs and makes working on images a hell lot irritating.
Working on a very wide image, I can only scroll by using the navigator window. Which is like 4 pixels tall. I had some annoying issues with the previous version of Nik Collection in Photoshop that was fixed when Adobe updated Creative Cloud.
So hopefully these issues will be addressed soon. From the article Yep and you'll have to pay for it again. I would have to respectfully disagree concerning customer service. I was having a problem with a current update, and customer support was johnny on the spot. There was some back and forth dialog, and it could not have gone any better. Very recently, I had a suggestion for a feature in PureRaw. The reply was back in a matter of hours. If you come, please leave your crappy attitude at the door.
The updates are every year, not every six months. If you don't like any given Photolab or Nik update, there's no issue skipping it. The software keeps working and any given Photolab has been fully compatible with at least two versions of Nik. This morning surprise I still waiting answer! No luck here. I went with the upgrade and DxO package.
DxO downloaded and installed. Nik downloaded but the install is greyed out. Plenty of room on my computer. I contacted them and they replied they will get back. I always enjoy using the Nik collection. As others have had some issues: support has been in contact with me asking "what language "my computers speaks". I assume they mean Java etc. Still no solution yet. Same to me, they ask how I do for uninstall, if I use Microsoft Windows 10 or I deleted it and redownloaded it.
Still won't install. Hopefully, they get back to me by Tuesday I won't be home Mon. Too expensive for a set of plugin containing several outdated ones. The upgrade gives only a slight improvement related to only 2 plugins out of 8 that should have been implemented many years ago. To still have unresizeable windows after 4 years of ownership by DXO is unacceptable.
Just playing around with v. But the crown jewel has always been the U-points. They probably don't make sense to people who never worked in a darkroom, but soft-edged "selections" were the norm when burning and dodging.
This approach is degrees different from the very precise but incredibly tedious selections, refined edges, masks, marching ants, etc. No affiliation. The Film Pack grain textures are a massive step up over the previous grain algorithm - they look way more analogue. The only other plugin I use in the pack is Viveza which now has a much more usable interface. Seems a bit faster too.
I'll be interested in the other tools once the UI for all of them has been updated to match Viveza and Silver Efex. I suppose because the software is also sold as a plug-in that can be used in other software platforms. I am using it as a plug-in for Elements. Unless you mean Nik should replace Dfine with DeepPrime in their plug-ins. I don't think it is possible to use DeepPrime with anything other than raw files so I am not sure if it would even work in another program.
I add grain to my bw conversions so the point is moot a good deal of the time for me. I only use Dfine for selective nr, but, most of the time, I don't need anything more than a touch of nr in Topaz Denoise AI if I need any at all. Yeah, I think that is the issue. There is only so much they can do as a plug-in and they realise that is a large part of their market. With dfine you can do selectively reduce noise with the u-point.
You can use it if you find that a portion of you photo have a little bit too much noise. For me it has its place in this collection of plugins. What I think is obsolete now is the presharpening plugin. The biggest thing on my Nik wishlist had been the ability to reshape the U-point.
At least to an oval. Thom Hogan wrote about a way to change the shape of U-point selections in Capture NX2, but I could never figure out how he did it. If you want an oval, just overlap 2 U-points and group them together. Not sure why it remains just a circle. From what I understand, the shape of the selection within the circle automatically varies based on the brightness and color of where you click they call these parameters Luminance and Chrominance.
With this update, you can adjust the sensitivity of the Luminance and Chrominance within the u-point circle. So, that will adjust the size of the selection, making it larger or smaller. The circle just gives the boundaries for where the u-point looks. For example, a strip of bright seafoam on a dark ocean. A large circle lightens too much in the dark areas and smaller, grouped circles create noticeable patterns in the dark areas An oval shape would remove this issue.
Well, i still dislike the fact, even after such a long time, DxO it must being admitted - it was Google, then originally Nik Software before both the Silver Efex Pro and Viveza GUIs aren't updated, not being resize-able. Not sure why they waste valuable work time on this. If it had been integrated in PL, so that you could work non-destructive it would have been fine. But as now the time would have been much better spent on PL. I expect there are lots of folks who prefer other RAW processors but want access to some of these tools.
As such, it's a smaller company, and it's facing tremendous competition at the high end from Adobe and at the consumer end from cheaper upstarts like Luminar. It seems pretty clear they're fighting for financial survival and seeking additional revenue streams.
Updating Nik is probably a less labor-intensive way to do this than trying to bundle everything into PhotoLab, and it has the benefit of expanding their customer base. I think they're doing a good job of balancing and expanding their product lineup while bringing useful improvements to all of their customers. We would have to know how many of Nik users originally got the software as a plug-in for other than DxO software and wish to continue using it as such. I don't think it would be wise for them to narrow the target audience for these upgrades.
I use it in Elements. I had to get the DxO version when I upgraded to the latest Mac os. I just upgraded to the 4 and am liking the changes quite a bit. Especially in the way the control points now work. The biggest upgrade I have seen so far. Some or color efex filters as layer directly in Photomatix would instantly make it the editor of choice for me. And the skylight filter and 'perceptual saturation ' would be awesome.
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