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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 March 24, 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.
https://www.google.com/nikcollection/
>in b4 botnet
I've never really even heard of these but I tried the Color one and I liked the results on the few I tried. I think this was "Tonal Contrast". I guess I could have done this shit in Lightroom but I've never learned how outta laziness.
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It makes the photo much more punchy - which is something I've felt I've never really had from my pictures.
I guess it's just a big pop in contrast but whatever.
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>>2800665
Way to bury the lede.
>>2800665
And to all the people that paid for it, fuck you and thanks for the loot
>>2800665
How do the sharpener and noise reduction tools compare to native Lightroom settings? Felt like Lightroom already did a pretty good job once you get the sliders right.
>using anything google
Enjoy having it removed in 1.5-4 years time. Google love to kill off services.
>>2800678
You should read more
>>2800691
Too bad this is a bunch of programs that don't require internet to work so they might (and probably are) stop supporting/developing them, but you'll pretty much have these programs for as long as you want them.
>>2800709
lol, if a significant amount of people had actually bought it in the last three months they wouldn't be giving it away. The fact that they are doing so now suggests that all the people that thought it worth paying for did so sometime ago. It also suggests that Google don't think that was enough to make it worth committing the resources to develop it further
>>2800730
You get a refund you fucking illiterate nigger faggot go read more motherfucker burn victim bitch
srsly read more
So is this somehow Nikon optimized, or is google just retarded at naming things?
>>2800787
It was first created by a company called Niksomething, then Google bought it, and to preserve the heritage of the software, called it Nik Collection.
It's a combination of business and retarded names.
>>2800781
>If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund
>in 2016
I can read, do you even know what day it is?
>>2800678
They're actually refunding a lot of people. Past 3 months is done automatically, beyond that is on request. People who have bought last July have had refunds. Nobody posted from earlier than that.
>>2800665
sounds like they want to nick your photos
0/1
>>2800959
>People who have bought last July have had refunds
source?
so, is the noise reduction worth the download? is it better than lightrooms because ive always hated that; the difference is unnoticeable, and when it is it looks like shit
>>2801015
Yup, plus the presharpener works miracles on the details.
I have uses for at least half the features of the whole collection, considering it is free it's definitely worth the download.
Hoolyshiit! Going to make TOP HIPSTOGRAM ACC!
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You know what they say - "If you want to be Peter Lik, you're better off using Nik!"
>>2801445
Budapest?
>>2800675
Wanna know some real gangsta shit?
>open silver efex pro
>select harsh structure
>adjust blacks and contrast
>pull down whites
>send to photoshop as layer
>change layer to luminosity mode
its dope
>be me
>shoot fuji
>no need to pp since sooc are literally perfect
Thanks fuji
>>2801640
Saint-Petersburg.
>>2801678
>literally
you're so February
>>2800691
>plugins
>service
lern2computer
i dont know what im doing
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>>2802844
Mail me your gear and I'll show you how to use it properly
do you need lightroom or photoshop to be able to use these?
no. they can be used as standalone applications
Is Dfine better at noise reduction than Lightroom?
>>2803445
You can literally get it and test it for yourself.
I purchased in July 2015, sent an email yesterday asking if there was any dispensation for people before the 2016 refund cut off, got a full refund through today. Google confirmed nice guys.
>>2801673
You's smart. I appreciate you.
>>2801673
Before
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>>2801673
>>2805450
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VSCO is on suicide watch now
>>2805453
>I don't see the insect.
>>2805500
Shit senpai, is the compression really that bad?
>>2801673
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>>2801673
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The nik suite is great and the film simulation shits all over VSCO, if you already have photoshop the plugins got nearly everything covered for the low low price of N O T H I N G
>>2806050
everything
>>2806135
That isn't helpful criticism at all, so I've elected to ignore you.
wow sweet!
i tried to pirate silver efex a while back to no avail
thnx google gods!
btw this layout is so much cleaner
>>2800665
This sucks
>>2806285
then stay shit
>>2807445
>Your pics are bad
>"Why?"
>Because they're bad
Tell me, what knowledge about photography am I supposed to gain from this interaction. If my pictures are bad, tell me why. Don't just shitpost and expect me to learn some lesson.
I love the noise reduction on Dfine 2, I didn't even have to use control points on this, it just does the work for me.
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