Nik Collection now free

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Not anything that interests me, but I saw this and thought I would pass it along...

https://plus.google.com/+NikCollection

Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free.

Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.
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Disclaimer: I don't use Nik software, I run Linux and I'm color-blind, so I don't do much photo editing. That means I'm just passing this along for those who might be interested. For some reason, whenever I do something like this, someone feels compelled to inform me what crap X, Y, or Z software is. Gee, kiddies, I don't care. I don't use it. If you don't like it, here's a thought, don't use it. I'm just trying to help those who might use it. Keep your negativity to yourself if you don't mind. Thanks!
 
I've used the Nik stuff for a long time. Viveza is great for doing selective adjustments on photos. Seems Google periodically releases the existing version of the Nik stuff just before or after they release a new version. Definitely worth giving it a shot.
 
I'm a long-time NIK user as well. I especially like SilverEfex Pro.

Google should buy Adobe and make Photoshop available to everyone for free. :D
 
kxl said:
I'm a long-time NIK user as well. I especially like SilverEfex Pro.

Google should buy Adobe and make Photoshop available to everyone for free. :D
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I use silver fx as well, the other parts just occasionally..

Definitely buy Adobe :p


Gary
 
kxl said:
I'm a long-time NIK user as well. I especially like SilverEfex Pro.

Google should buy Adobe and make Photoshop available to everyone for free. :D
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Then it would be a big reason not to use Adobe products. I avoid Google services as good as I can.
 
woooooh -- even the Aperture plugins included. I'm quite happy
I'll try to figure out if the PS plugins works in Affinity asap
 
Nice! Thanks for posting this.

Have been on the fence about buying it and now that barrier is removed.

Though, since it's now free, I don't see them putting any effort into updates.
 
segedi said:
...since it's now free, I don't see them putting any effort into updates.
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That's the point, isn't it? Silver Efex is important software for many photographers — but how can you expect improvement in this program if it's free. And there are a lot of things that could be improved in Silver Efex. People who use it seriously know what needs to be improved...so I won't start making a list.
 
Google has plenty of money it made off of everyone on earth already, from data mining everyone's personal habits then selling same. So, they could easily pay programmers to update Nik software; would only be a rounding error for them. They are fond of saying how beneficent they are to the world, maybe they'll keep it updated. Time will tell.

I bought Silver Efex Pro when it wasn't free, and it was well worth the money, I thought. For free, it's hard not to appreciate that.
I do wish Nik still 'supported' the functions it lent to NX2 though. Losing that hurt for Nikon users.
 
Good, good! I spent too much time making custom ACR presets combined from other film presets floating around the web, now I can have it all.
 
Google .... free! :eek:

I'll download it and have started that process but suspicious I am! :D

Thanks for the heads up Mr Mattock. :)
 
Since this doesn't work as a stand alone is there an older version of cs/lr/elements for windows available for free/cheap/non subscription?
 
I have a partial set of the Nik plugins and all of them are quite old. But its safe to say I love them. Nik products for photo processing are in my view not just among the best they are world beaters. Yes its true that you can achieve many of the outcomes with off the shelf photoshop etc (and I have done so in the past) but Nik is powerful and fast making it easy to produce powerful and beautiful edits in record time. I especially love the way that Nik plug-ins can apply effects selectively to a photo so it avoids the hassle of making layers and masks which can be slow and imprecise. Here is my chance to do something I was planning to do - upgrade to the latest plugins. Thank you Google.
 
This might be an old post, as Google made this offer when they first purchased Nik last year. Hopefully the offer is still good. I love using the Nik software: easy to use (on the Mac anyway), lots of features.
 
And they are refunding money (the full amount) to anyone who bought the software this year! :eek:
 
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