This meant Google had lost interest in the Nik Software and it would no longer get updated. Worse than that though I knew what this really meant.
Im ok with free if it was free to me too. That’s right I spent $750 for plugins that were now free to the world. Again life was good until I received yet another email from Jean that Google was now giving away the Nik Collection for free. There was a plus side I wanted a copy to use at a second location so the $149 wasn’t a difficult decision. I was bummed because i spent so much and admittedly this put the software within reach of a lot more people reducing the uniqueness of the software. About a year later I got a message from a friend Jean Ramirez at Jean Ramirez Photography that Google had bought Nik Software and they were now offering the collection for $149.95. To buy the plugins individually was very expensive so I decided to buy the entire package called the “Nik Collection” for $499.95.
Naturally I tried the Photoshop and Lightroom Demo of all of the plugins.I loved them. Sharpener Pro 3.0 – The most advanced, powerful, and complete sharpening solution for photographers.Silver Efex Pro 2 – The world’s leading black and white imaging software.Color Efex Pro 4 Complete Edition – The photographer’s choice for photographic filters.HDR Efex Pro – The new professional standard for powerful realistic and artistic HDR imaging.Viveza 2 – Powered by U Point® technology, Viveza 2 is the most powerful and precise tool available to globally or selectively control light and color in photographs without the need to create complicated selections or layer masks.Dfine 2.0 – Best-in-class noise reduction to improve the quality of virtually every photo.Blending modes will only work if you have multiple layers/groups.Several years ago I noticed that a lot of the professional photographs I really like were edited in one way or with plugins plugins from a company called “Nik Software”. Yes, I thought that is what I described in my post. Your result is an improved color image, right? Have you tried just converting one layer to b&w in PS and putting that on a layer above and luminosity mode? Curious, and thank you. That prevents the colors from being changed to gray scale. One thing I like to do for tonal improvement in a color image is to use NIK's Silver Effects Pro (the B&W app) on a duplicate layer above the original, bring it back to PS and select the luminosity blend mode. The round trip into Nik is fast and smooth, and I usually apply Nik's edits with a control point for fine tuning the selection while still in Nik. I use Nik as a plugin from PS quite a bit and appreciate that I can put a mask on the layer in PS and apply the Nik results selectively (locally) with the adjustment brush.
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