Have a photo that needs higher levels of contrast without sacrificing detail? The Nik Pro Contrast filter tackles this problem with three filter settings that you can tinker with. You can also add the effects of several different filters, so be sure to play around with as many as possible to achieve the look you’re after. Note that all tools and filters within the Nik Collection contain certain points that can be individually controlled to apply the filter effect as little, or as much, as you desire. This article will highlight these essential filters and why they are so valuable. Of these many filters, there are 5 within the Color Efex Pro 4 toolset that are particularly useful for landscape photos. Today, the Nik Collection makes available over 55 filters that do everything from old camera and film simulation, to image sharpening, noise reduction, and basic retouching and correcting of photos.
The Nik Collection by Google is a desktop photo editing software that was recently declared free of charge earlier this year. There is a 30 day trail available to try and buy.One of the best image editing programs available right now happens to be free.
The new plugin version is really of no value to me since I'm a C1 user. If you want to use them as a standalone app do your research.
Upgrade price point was 60$ US or full version for 100$ US.įWIW: DOX 2 not all of the the presets worked as standalone for me. The only upside was being able to work nondestructively with SEP3. From video and looking at SEP3 I did not get that feeling. Not sure DOX SEP3 would be worth the upgrade really unless it has something that would really blow your hair back. So I'm still playing around with SEP2 and C1's BW preset styles that are builtin or purchased. From the original/free google version to DOX2 in SEP they added a couple film stocks not much else. I've just started going back to SEP2 because I'm looking to get back into B&W again. The only bits that interest are SEP2, define2, Sharpening Pro output and Raw. Richard has proved other wise recently if my I remember correctly with NIK and Catalina OS. Purchased DOX version (which was dirt cheap compared to original version prices of NIK from NIK) because of the rumors of it not working with latest Mac OS. And maybe some of the upgrades would prove useful. This would increase the probability of future upgrades and also that it would still work after future updates.
So, if I were still using the product and valued what it does, I would probably invest. Income potential drives innovation in most companies. Management is, no doubt, looking at how well this investment pays off. The tricky bit here is that they have made a large investment. If they are adding features, buying an upgrade would go a long way to encouraging them to do more of the same. If they did a decent job of this, this is a very substantial and probably expensive move, making it much easier to stay working and to make improvements. My understanding is that VSCO did substantial work to bring the code up to date. Keeping a product like this alive and working across updates from Adobe, Apple and Microsoft is, by itself, non-trivial. Reports from some Capture One users are that it has some new features and that it integrates well with Capture One. It’s a bit odd for me to answer, since I no longer use the program.