Nik Software Collection is now FREE

[mikling]

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

This software package is aimed at the more advanced photographer. To use this properly, you MUST pretty much have your monitor calibrated and the B&W module Siver Efex Pro is my favorite one.

Now that it is free, there is no reason not to get it and with the savings....go get some hardware to calibrate the monitors. Of course the use of proper ICC profiles that allows close screen matching is also ideal.

 

[Emulator]

I note compatibility with Win 7 & 8, but no mention of 10. I wonder if this is just timing or a real problem.

I have used it to produce a B&W version of the Spring with Victoria Plum image. No doubt with more time and thought it could be more artistic!

 

[turbguy]

I installed it as a set of filters for Photoshop 7, and they open fine, BUT THE FILTERED RESULT DOES NOT SUCCESSFULLY TRANSFER BACK TO PHOTOSHOP 7 UPON "ACTIVATING" THE FILTER!!

Photoshop seems to act like it did, as the "undo filter", "fade filter", and action history show the filter being used, but I only have what I started with appearing on the screen.

Anybody know what I need to do to make these filters "work"?

 

[mikling]

When the editing is finished in Nik and it is closed, it is carried back into Photoshop and should be saved under a different name. Are you trying to restore the edits done in Nik within photoshop?

 

[turbguy]

When editing is finished in Nik and I close Nik, the original image appears in Photoshop (as if no editing was performed), rather than the edited image. That's the issue.

Other installed filters (Topaz and others) bring the edited image back...

 

[mikling]

Odd, my edits reappear in Photoshop.

 

[turbguy]

Actually, ONE filter in the collection DOES import back, HDR EFX Pro 2. I note that when I click "OK" after editing, it goes through a "saving image" step before closing. The other Nik filters do not do this.
Do you see a "saving image" step when clicking OK on the other filters?

 

[mikling]

Just used viveza, adjusted the curve. Click OK and then the adjustment reappears in Photoshop CS5. Only Nik filters installed. Same results for Silver Efex.

 

[turbguy]

FIXED!! Uninstalled and re-installed Nik. Now seems to work on all filters!!