If you don’t already own the previous version of the Collection, the introductory price is worth it just for Silver Efex and one or two of the Color Efex filters. Reasonable update to the UI of two apps (Viveza and Silver Efex) at the expense of a performance slowdown on said apps, plus a few more presets (not many and not applicable if you aren’t using the Nik Collection for its presets.īuy if you want to stay current and up to date, or want to take advantage of the one month introductory special, but make sure you have the old Nik Collection 3 install files as you may find yourself reverting to that until the bugs are sorted out. Underwhelming update that actually breaks a bunch of things that worked if you have a non-PhotoShop centric workflow. I Don’t have time to read, give me the summary The new version is essentially a reboot of two of the Nik Collections apps: Silver Efex and Viveza. Version Three came out in 2020 and was essentially some bug fixes and the inclusion of a miniature filter and the start of a theoretically non-destructive workflow. The last properly major update was in 2019, and I wrote about it in this article.

Although in a bizarre naming twist, only two of the apps are actually at version 3, with most of them still at version 2, and some still at version 1. This ostensibly brings the suite of applications to version 4. Last week, with very limited fanfare, DXO launched their now annual update to the Nik Collection of plugins and standalone image filters.

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