- REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO UPDATE
- REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO SOFTWARE
- REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO CODE
REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO SOFTWARE
Photo software powerhouse DxO acquired the Nik property in 2017. The apples were shot with a Sony V3 (remember that gem of a camera?) and converted using Nik (or as it was spelled in 2005, “nik”). This image appeared in my 2005 Shutterbug review of the black and white conversion capabilities of Nik Color Efex. That is, until the Nik treasures changed hands again.
While this act of grandeur created quite a buzz, it also was fraught with the anxiety that compatibility updates and further development would likely cease.
This was a big deal-probably bigger than most folks realized at the time-because the retail price for the set of the original 75 traditional and stylizing filters was $299.
REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO CODE
In 2012 the software code was obtained by Google and later was released to the photographic community free of charge. The sum and substance of the Nik plugin filter collection hasn’t changed much since then, truth be told. The package has been around for close to 15 years, and now it’s in the DxO barn so we can be confident that it will remain compatible and relevant for years to come.īack in 2005 I interviewed Nils Kokemohr, founder of Nik Multimedia Inc., for a story that ran in Shutterbug, and I have used Nik filters ever since. HDR Efex can merge separate bracketed exposures into high dynamic range images, and it can also apply its HDR effects to single images too.īoth plug-ins get DxO's latest Control Line local adjustment tool, which works rather like a gradient mask but with an eyedropper to select the tones to be affected by the adjustment.If you do any photo editing, you’ve probably heard about the collection of plugin filters called Nik.
REVIEW NIK COLLECTION BY DXO UPDATE
The same update has been applied to Nik HDR Efex, another older Nik plug-in that was due some attention. Nik Sharpener now has the latest interface design shared by the other Nik Collection plug-ins, with a "clearer, cleaner" look and the option of using DxO's local adjustments via sliders attached to control points in the traditional manner or via sliders in the sidebar. This is actually an important technical process that's often overlooked but is key to the best print quality. Nik Sharpener is a two-part tool which offers a 'presharpener' for general detail enhancement and an 'output sharpener' to optimise sharpening for specific print sizes and output devices. The update also adds support for the best 4K monitors and beyond as high-DPI monitors become the norm. DxO acquired the Nik Collection from Google in 2017, just when it looked as if one of the best photo editing software suites might be lost for ever, and has spent the last six years re-authoring "millions" of lines of code, much of it undocumented, to make it fully compatible with modern hardware and systems, including Windows, MacOS and Apple Silicon, which is now used for many of the best MacBooks for photo editing, for example.
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