Download them today, start experimenting and bring your photo collection to life. It's amazing that these seven powerful image editors are yours to use completely free. The effects can be subtle or incredibly striking – it's entirely up to you. Click 'Add a control point' to select a certain color, then move the brightness, contrast, saturation and structure sliders and you'll see areas of that hue change independently of the rest of the image. Viveza is one of the most interesting tools in the bundle, letting you control color and exposure settings in your whole photo or just selected areas. You have an impressive degree of control, and if you're particularly happy with your bespoke settings you can use the 'Custom' button the left to save them as a new profile. Make sure you back up your images If you're using the filters as standalone apps rather than Photoshop plugins, because the original files will be overwritten when you save the changes.Įach of the seven apps lets you edit photos individually or in batches, and includes a list of presets that can be adjusted manually to suit your tastes. It's also worth noting that some don't have an 'Open' button – you need to drag your photos onto the filter's icon in Explorer instead. Provided you've used the default location during setup, you'll find them in C:\Program Files\Google\Nik Collection. Instead, you need to track the filters down using Windows Explorer. "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," said Google in its blog post.Google Nik Collection won't appear in your Program list after you've run the installer, and you won't find any desktop shortcuts. You can get a low down on all these plug ins here. These seven plug-ins are Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. Nik Collection comprises seven plug-ins that work with Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. Before Google bought the company, the Nik Collection was selling for $500. Nik software came under Google after it bought out Snapseed developer Nik. Users who have already purchased the Nik Collection in 2016 will get a complete refund, said Google. Drill down to the program you want to run and select the. This software was priced at $149 till a couple of days back. You can use the Export to Application feature in PhotoLab and browse to the location of the NIK executable programs which in Windows 10 would be C:Program FilesDxONik Collection. It has made the entire Nik Software collection of photo-editing plug-ins available as a free download for Windows and Mac users. Google made an announcement last night that will make photography enthusiasts smile.
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