Brilliant news if you are very much into your photography, just like me!
From Google:
"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.
The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities -- from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.
We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now. "
I'm not sure how long this will be free for and Google could easily charge full whack again for this soon, so download it whilst you can! It might end up be free forever though.
Top comments
brilly to billybob111
26 Mar 167#29
just threw my laptop out the window
had no problems but just dont want it bursting into flames due to this
...and all out Drama Queen of the week is..... :man:
dw94 to splender
25 Mar 163#12
Hardly.
The NIK collection fine tunes some of the functions in Photoshop and Lightroom but most photographers and other creatives aren't going to dump Adobe for the fact that this is free.
The NIK software is incredibly powerful but I won't change my whole workflow because it simply can't do that!
All comments (33)
Shatwell
24 Mar 16#1
I wish they'd update it. It was July 2015 when the last update came out.
jonfev
24 Mar 162#2
It was good when you had to pay for it but now it's free it couldn't be better. Silver Efex Pro is pretty much unbeatable B&W conversion software. HDR Efex is pretty handy as well.
susieqt
24 Mar 16#3
Oh you've made my day - thanks for the heads up
LetoKynes
24 Mar 16#4
Well spotted
sylv
24 Mar 16#5
Great find, OP. Really great. Thank you.
tightasagnatschu
24 Mar 161#6
Free is always good.
yokomoko
25 Mar 161#7
Wow, fair play to Google. Silver Efex pro in particular is an absolute must for those who love their black and white photography. Fantastic offer :confused:
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Opening post
From Google:
"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.
The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities -- from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we’ll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.
We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now. "
I'm not sure how long this will be free for and Google could easily charge full whack again for this soon, so download it whilst you can! It might end up be free forever though.
Top comments
had no problems but just dont want it bursting into flames due to this
also learn how to use
The NIK collection fine tunes some of the functions in Photoshop and Lightroom but most photographers and other creatives aren't going to dump Adobe for the fact that this is free.
The NIK software is incredibly powerful but I won't change my whole workflow because it simply can't do that!
All comments (33)
EDIT: $150