Google's Nik Collection photo editing applications are now free

[Arthur]

Website / Download (Windows, OS X)

 

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 24 March 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. (Source)

 

[browolf]

I tried them on photoshop elements (7), they're amazing! Proper professional filters. If you dont have a suitable photo editing program you can open most of them as separate programs.

[Dos_Box]

I'm glad someone else posted this up. I've been having a play over the past week or so and they really are nice.

Apparently they used to sell them for £500!

If you don't have them yet you can grab them from here:

 

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

[Arthur]

Google abandons its Nik collection of popular photo editing software

 

Google received praise from photographers last year when it made its $150 Nik Collection of popular photo editing software 100% free. But alas, all good things come to an end: Google has quietly announced that it will be abandoning the Nik Collection from here on out.

 

The announcement was made through a simple banner message found on the Nik Collection homepage.

 

"The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 through 10.10; Windows Vista, 7, 8; and Adobe Photoshop through CC 2015", Google writes. "We have no plans to update the Collection or add new features over time".

[Arthur]

https://nikcollection.dxo.com/

 

DxO acquires Nik Collection assets from Google, and plans to continue to develop the Collection for the benefit of the photographer community.