Nik Collection Will Live Again!

[JimFox]

It looks like the Nik Collection of addons for Photoshop will live again. This is a highly favored collection of tools used by the photographic community. After years of languishing under Googles watch, it looks like DXO has bought up the collection and plans to continue development on it.

Please read all about it here: https://nikcollection.dxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Nik-Software-Press-Release-English.pdf

 

[Ben Egbert]

I had the old paid version of Nik but when I first upgraded to 64bit, Nik did not support it, but Topaz did, so I switched to Topaz. Later I added Nik when it got 64 bit support. But by then I had learned Topaz and still use it. I do have Nik on my computer and use Silver EXF pro, which has no equal.

I may have to check it out again.

 

[JimFox]

Yeah, I use the Silver Efex Pro 2 as I agree there is no equal. I have several of the Topaz addons, they are the closest to Nik, but just can't compete with the B&W.

Also I use a couple of the presets from Color FX, not for landscapes but for when I shoot portraits, but overall I like the effects of the Texture one from Topaz better for people too.