For $69/£59 you got seven plug-ins: Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3, Silver Efex Pro 2 and Viveza 2. When DxO acquired the portfolio, it was put on sale as the Nik Collection 2018. This was fuelled by the fact that the plug-ins were really very good, with Silver Efex Pro being the standout performer with its superb black & white conversion skills and an extensive bank of legacy film profiles.

It was made even more accessible in 2016 when Google offered the whole package as a free download, and not surprisingly its popularity soared.

Google bought Nik Software in 2012, and the Google Nik Collection was marketed for a more affordable $149. But its history goes back further to 2009, when software firm Nik bundled its imaging plugins Dfine, Viveza, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro and Sharpener Pro into a single suite the Ultimate Edition of these apps sold for $599.95. But it also has an impressive software portfolio: PhotoLab, a capable editing app PureRaw, a cutting edge denoising program for camera raws and the Nik Collection, a suite of powerful creative and technical apps.ĭxO acquired the Nik Collection from Google in 2017. Nik Sharpener 6: Comprises two components: Presharpener for enhancing raws and Output Sharpener for controllable sharpening for display and printing among the optionsĭxO Labs is world-renowned for its optic correction modules, with over 80,000 camera/lens combinations in its database.Nik 6 Silver Efex: For excellent black & white photo conversions with film profiles, coloured filter effects and much, much more.Nik 6 Analog Efex: Enjoy analog film effects with this plug-in.Nik 6 Color Efex: Control color, tone, contrast, and more with a vast collection of editable filters.Nik 6 HDR: Two tools, to work with a single image or multiple images to produce one high dynamic-range image.Nik 6 Perspective: Fix perspective and distortion for geometric perfection or creative effects such as miniature.Nik 6 Viveza: Lets you quickly shape colour and manipulate tones.Nik 6 Dfine: Removes digital noise exactly where required, locally or globally, without destroying detail.The Nik Collection 6 plug-in menu in the Photoshop workspace What are the 8 different DxO Nik plugins?

Free Nik Collection by DxO 6.4.0