![]() Nik Collection 5 introduces the latest version of Color Efex Pro and Analog Efex Pro, bringing them into line with Silver Efex Pro and Viveza and the upgrades they received with Nik Collection 4. Silver Efex Pro is the most widely known of the plugins and it’s a popular choice of software for converting colour images to black and white. It also has tools for making global and local adjustments manually. dxO has also added its PhotoLab 5 software which uses the company’s detailed analysis of camera and lens flaws to enable automatic corrections. These packages enable a range of effects to be applied quickly and easily to images, they include Silver Efex Pro, Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Dfine, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro, Viveza and Perspective Efex. Nik Collection 5 is a group of 8 plug-in software packages for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab (formerly DxO Optics Pro). More recently, however, DxO has switched to developing Nik Collection further and the latest version, Nik Collection 4 was launched on 2nd June 2021. There then followed a period of stabilisation during which DxO worked on correcting all the compatibility issues and glitches that had arisen during Google’s tenure. Thankfully, in October 2017, DxO, the developer of the widely respected optical correction software now called PhotoLab, announced that it had bought Nik Collection from Google. However, in Spring 2017, Google confirmed that it wouldn’t develop the software any further. ![]() Nik Collection continued to be popular, possibly helped by the fact that in early 2016, Google made it free to download. At the time this was largely thought to be to enable Google to get hold of Snapseed, an excellent mobile image editing app. In addition to being available for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or other programs that are compatible with Photoshop plug-in architecture, other versions will plug into Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture.Nik Collection, a group of Adobe Photoshop plugins, was originally launched by Nik Software but in September 2012 it was acquired by Google. Like the other Nik programs, you can choose to brush the resulting effect selectively onto your picture in Photoshop rather than apply it globally. Before Viveza, you had to be very skilled at Photoshop-type masking tools to achieve this, and to make it look natural. Then, you can select and alter only the purple flowers in that field. By putting the control point on her face, and sizing it to include her arms, too, you can then adjust the tones, brightness and vividness of her skin, while not making any changes to the field of flowers or, even, to the clothes she is wearing. For example, suppose you have a portrait of a child playing in a field of flowers. ![]() Place the control point on a certain color, shrink or enlarge the area of the control point, and then use sliders to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, red, green or blue values of only that area. Like the same company's Silver Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro, Viveza uses Nik's U-Point technology Control Points. And the result blends in beautifully with the entire image. Nik Software's Viveza does away with all that with a surprisingly simple, yet very sophisticated interface, giving you full control over color and light within any portion of your picture, without affecting the rest. After you make your adjustments to the selected area, you then have to try (often vainly) to make the new edit look like it belongs with the rest of the picture. First, you have to carefully and expertly select the area with a mask. If you've ever tried to alter the color and light values of specific areas of a picture, you know it can be a time-consuming, frustrating, skill-intensive task.
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