Of the collection, and for very good reason – it makes converting colour images to black & white incredibly easy, and the results are arguably the best available from any in-software or plug-in presets.
#Nik collection hdr efex pro pro#
Silver Efex Pro is easily the best-known and most respected plug-in It’s incredibly quick and easy to use, and the results are highly effective. You can use just the presets, but if you’d prefer to create a more unique and personalised effect, you also have access to a control panel to completely customise the chosen effect as well as being able to apply multiple filters. Alongside these one one-click and fully customisable effects, Nik Collection 2 now supports high-resolution monitors (HiDPI) with Windows.Ĭolor Efex Pro provides 55 filters and 20 recipes for applying a range of colour effects to your images at the touch of a button. New in version 2, there are 42 new ‘En Vogue’ presets available (raising the total number of presets to 198) ten are in Color Efex Pro, ten in Silver Efex Pro, ten in Analog Efex Pro and 12 for HDR Efex Pro. And this new version also comes with a copy of DxO Photolab 2 Essentials, which can be used for editing Raw files, JPEGs and TIFFs, which exports images directly into the Nik Collection, so even if you’re not an Adobe user you can use the plug-ins with powerful image editing software out of the box. The Nik Collection 2 includes seven plug-ins for Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom Classic. And after years of stagnation, the software has been updated since being bought by DxO from Google back in 2017, and we now see a new and further improved version. The Nik Collection is one of the best-loved, and indeed most comprehensive plug-in packages available to photographers.