The Nik Collection is the most comprehensive collection of plug-ins from one of the best Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture plugins available. With these plug-ins, you can adjust image clarity, color correction, retouching, styling, and removing any type of noise from digital photos, as well as brightness, contrast, and color saturation of individual objects or areas within a photo.
The DxO Nik Collection includes plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom:
• Analog Efex Pro
• Color Efex Pro
• Dfine
• HDR Efex Pro
• Sharpener Pro
• Silver Efex Pro
• Viveza
• Perspective Efex
Using these plug-ins, you can adjust image clarity in digital photos, perform color correction, retouch, styling, remove any type of noise from photos, brightness, adjust contrast and color saturation of individual objects or areas in photos.
Analog Efex Pro – Relive the golden age of vintage photography by faithfully recreating the classic look you can only achieve when shooting with vintage cameras and lenses using film types from centuries ago.
Classic Camera
Nik Analog Efex is the only way to recreate the atmospheric atmospheres that date back to the early days of photography. Nik Analog Efex gives you exclusive access to a unique set of instruments and effects that instantly create the "look" of the past. Reimagine your photography using classic cameras, vintage lenses, and long-forgotten film technology. Apply special effects to give your photos the patina of a classic era of photography. With over 80 tools and special effects at your disposal, give your images the look of authentic vintage photographs.
Retro Effect
In addition to adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation, Nik Analog Efex includes a special set of vintage effect tools for authentically simulating scratches, vignetting, light decay, and other looks only achievable with classic film types. Create compelling analog images and save your own unique recipes and presets, which you can recall with a single click.
Built for highest precision
At the heart of Nik Analog Efex is U POINT technology, exclusive to the Nik Collection. With U POINT in Nik Analog Efex, you can adjust the desired amount of detail, brightness, contrast, and saturation, applying them only to the areas you want to change. With U POINT, you can correct even the tiniest parts of an image with surgical precision.
Sharpener Pro is a powerful image sharpening tool. The program combines a range of tools within a single shell of your choice. While working, the plug-in takes into account image resolution, distance, paper type, and print quality. Sharpener Pro is known for analyzing the visual characteristics of various printing processes, such as non-computer halftoning, sublimation, digital photography, and inkjet printing, including variations between inkjet printer manufacturers. Sharpener Pro allows you to sharpen 16-bit images, features a built-in preview of image areas, and allows users to adjust the sharpness level of any part of the image using a set of tools.
Plugin features:
– Create precise and selective sharpness control
– The updated final sharpening mechanism allows you to prepare images for output on nearly any device and media – on monitor screens, inkjet printers, full-color prints, screen printing, and more.
- Sharpen fine details and textures using new Structure, Focus, and Local Difference tools to draw attention to desired areas of the image
– Preview results on screen before printing.
– Save user settings for professional results
— Preserve and adjust the clarity of image details without accentuating noise and other artifacts
– Selectively using the Brush Tool in Adobe Photoshop
– Smart Object integration in Adobe Photoshop allows you to adjust sharpness after applying the plugin
– Low resource requirements (Pentium III 1Ghz, 512 MB)
- View "before and after" results simultaneously (split the image into two parts)
– Convenient user interface
Color Efex Pro is a set of filters designed to enhance photos. The plug-in includes 75 filters and 250 effects designed to improve photos through color correction, retouching, and many other operations. Designed for both professional designers and amateurs, the plug-in features a rich selection of pen-controlled filters for applying a variety of photographic effects, providing a natural and intuitive way to edit digital photos. A new selective module allows photographers and graphic designers to apply filters with dynamically determined stroke width and intensity. Applying effects is simplified by the ability to preview large areas of an image. Improved controls for controlling the highlights and shadows of an image have been implemented, allowing you to limit the area covered by the filter. Furthermore, Nik Color Efex Pro allows you to significantly improve performance when processing a series of images, as any filter with the same parameters can be applied to a group of images at once. All of this is very clever and helps create authentic painterly effects, especially if you enjoy photographing still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. The degree of application of each filter is extremely flexible, allowing you to adjust not only the intensity of the effect, but also the brightness, grain, or tint. Graduated filters can be stretched across an image and rotated as needed, making it easy to find the perfect choice for landscapes.
Plugin features:
– 52 filters and 250 different effects to enhance your photos
– Unique U Point technology that allows you to flexibly adjust individual areas of the image
- New filters: Film Grain, Film Effect, Glamour Glow, Selective Contrast, High Key, Low Key, Polaroid Transfer, Cross Balance
- Selective tool, which allows you to apply effects only to selected areas of the image
Silver Efex Pro allows you to transform or convert modern digital photo images into stylish black and white. For users who don't want to delve into the nitty-gritty of image conversion, Silver Efex Pro offers a wide selection of presets (over 80) to achieve impressive results. U Point technology allows you to manipulate various areas of an image: faces, eyes, backgrounds, and more. Simultaneously, but with different settings, you can set any number of control points in any area, with any radius, within the working area (within the desktop).
Plugin features:
- Quickly stylize black and white color images in automatic mode
– Use built-in color filters
— Adjust image brightness, contrast, and structure
– Use ready-made presets
– Unique U Point technology that allows you to flexibly adjust individual areas of the image
- Selective tool, which allows you to apply effects only to selected areas of the image
— Smart Object integration in Adobe Photoshop
– Preview results on screen before printing.
– Save user settings for professional results
- View "before and after" results simultaneously (split the image into two parts)
Viveza is the most powerful tool for selectively controlling color and light in photos, without the need for complex selections or layer masks. Powered by U Nik Software's patented Point technology, photographers of all skill levels can achieve rapid image quality improvements using innovative tools designed for speed and efficiency. U Point technology eliminates the need for complex selections or layer masks. Users specify so-called Color Control Points. Furthermore, using sliders, you can control brightness, color, contrast, and other parameters. Because the plug-in itself creates masks based on user-specified points, the time spent editing photos is significantly reduced. Add as many control points as needed to achieve the desired effect. The plug-in automatically adjusts images – with stunning results. The program independently selects the necessary objects and automatically creates masks, allowing experts to work more efficiently. New global image controls, adjustment levels and curves, shadow recovery, improved detail control, control point grouping, and time-saving features through an improved interface make professional-quality adjustments fast and easy, enabling professionals to work more efficiently. New global image controls, adjustment levels and curves, shadow recovery, improved detail controls, control point grouping, and time savings through an improved interface provide fast and easy professional-quality adjustments. This allows professionals to work more efficiently. New global image controls, adjustment levels and curves, shadow recovery, improved detail controls, control point grouping, and time savings through an improved interface provide fast and easy professional-quality adjustments.
Plugin features:
– Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation of selected parts of an image
– Unique U Point technology that allows you to flexibly adjust individual areas of the image
– Incredible plugin speed
- Selective tool, which allows you to apply effects only to selected areas of the image
— Smart Object integration in Adobe Photoshop
– Preview results on screen before printing
- View "before and after" results simultaneously (split the image into two parts)
– Convenient user interface
– Compatible with 64-bit Windows operating systems
- Copy and paste allows you to quickly duplicate control points for more complex images
- Built-in online help and online video tutorials provide free training to ensure you get the most out of the software
Dfine is an excellent Adobe Photoshop plug-in that removes any type of noise from your photos. With just a few clicks, the program automatically removes noise from your photos, and you can adjust the settings independently for even better results. One of the most common issues digital camera owners have to deal with is noise. The appearance of noise is influenced by a variety of factors – the light present during capture, exposure time, and how the specific camera processes the image.
The Dfine 2 plug-in for Photoshop helps you remove any type of noise. The filter's secret is that it helps identify the source of artifacts and, based on this information, provides options for resolving the issue. Each camera has its own photo processing characteristics, so noise in images acquired with different cameras can vary. That's why Dfine includes a system of pluggable profiles for each camera type. These profiles help more accurately process images acquired with a specific camera, as they account for the characteristics of each model. However, even without using camera profiles, Dfine performs very well and does an excellent job of removing image noise.
Plugin features:
- Automatically remove noise from photos
– Manually adjust parameters to get better results
– Connection profiles for each type of camera
– Unique U Point technology that allows you to flexibly adjust individual areas of the image
- Selective tool, which allows you to apply effects only to selected areas of the image
— Smart Object integration in Adobe Photoshop
– Preview results on screen before printing
– Save user settings for professional results
- View "before and after" results simultaneously (split the image into two parts)
HDR Efex Pro offers a surprisingly simple yet powerful photo editing experience. Simply click on a selected preset to create HDR images, and use U Point technology to selectively adjust exposure, contrast, and fine-contrast image structure (without complex selections or layer masks), along with a new, best-in-class tone mapping algorithm. Photographers are given control over color, contrast, and vignetting to further enhance their images for stunning results. HDR users will find HDR Efex Pro a complete solution that elevates the genre to a new level and offers new possibilities. HDR Efex Pro also allows photographers to create pop and artistic HDR images from a single photo. This feature allows photographers to reprocess images that lack multiple exposures or use inappropriate subjects.
Key Features:
– Intuitive interface with easy-to-understand photographic terms and continuous display of actual processing results.
– Powerful selective U-point tool for quickly fine-tuning contrast, shadows, structure, and saturation adjustments.
– Several proprietary tone mapping algorithms providing a wide range of styles and HDR capabilities
- Powerful preset settings control with multiple HDR styles – from photo-realistic to creative
– Standard and custom presets categorized into one-click operations.
HDR from multiple exposure photos or one frame at a time
– Advanced technology for automatic image alignment and reduction of artifacts known as “ghosting”.
- Built-in video helps make it easier to understand HDR technology
– All-in-one allows you to create professional HDR images from photos in 32-bit color
Perspective Efex is a new Nik Collection plug-in that allows you to correct geometric distortion in your photos. It's no secret that DxO's Photo Lab RAW converter is renowned for its ability to correct various optical distortions. Based on this experience, a new Perspective Efex plug-in was created that not only combats optical distortion but also adds numerous effects to your photos.
The Perspective Efex plug-in automatically corrects geometric distortions, such as parallel lines. This is particularly useful when editing cityscapes shot with wide-angle optics, often used to capture objects in urban spaces. It's also a great tool for correcting distortion in group portraits. Another useful application could be the automatic leveling of scattered horizons in landscapes.
Nik Collection 5 Update Content:
• Film Grain by Nik Color Efex. Access 29 high-fidelity, color, analog, film grain types with DxO
Exclusive calibration process with the ability to change intensity and size.
• ClearView for Nik Color Effects. Take your renderings one step further by intelligently increasing local contrast.
At the same time, it effectively suppresses distant atmospheric haze without producing obvious halo effects.
• Create presets with (or without) control points. In Nik Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex, users can save
Just click on the image to apply more accurate and creative effects.
• Color selectivity of control points in Nik Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex. Adjust the selectivity to
Apply the effect to similar hues and brightness.
• Control Point design and new user experience for Nik Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex. Control Point
Nik Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex adjustments can be found in the right panel under Selective
Adjustment class.
The control point image viewer design remains unchanged, but to prevent preview
All control point parameters are now available in the right panel of the interface.
Nik Color Effect and Nik Analog Effect.
• Control Point and Control Point Group Naming now allows you to rename Control Points in the list to self-explanatory titles such as Sky, Eyes, Skin, etc…
• Control point copy and paste. Control points in Nik Simulation can be copied from one filter to another.
Efex to ensure consistent localization adjustments.
• Nik Selective Tool now displays favorite presets from Nik Analog Efex and Nik Viveza, allowing users to
Select them from within the Adobe Photoshop interface and simplify the overall user experience.
• New Optics Module available for Nik Perspective Efex
Newly supported cameras:
✓ Canon EOS R3
✓ DJI Mavic 3 / Mavic 3 Cine
✓ Fuji GFX 50S II
✓ Fuji X100S
✓ Fuji X20
✓ Fuji X30
✓ Fuji X-E1
✓ Fuji XF10
✓ Fuji X-M1
✓ Fuji X-Pro1
✓ Fuji X-T10
✓ Fuji X-T30 II
✓ Leica M10-R
✓ Leica SL2
✓ Leica SL2-S
✓ Nikon Z9
✓ Ricoh GRIIIx
✓ Sigma Fp-L
✓ Sony A7 IV
✓ Sony FX3
✓ OM System OM-1
✓ Parrot ANAFI
✓ Parrot ANAFI Ai
✓ Canon EOS R5C
✓ Panasonic GH6
✓ Leica M11
Known Issues and Limitations
• Nik Collection cannot be launched from Affinity on Macs with ARM.
• Some portrait images may open in landscape format in Affinity
• Last Edit in the plugin file menu, Last Edit in the selective tool, Smart Copy and Paste
Adobe Lightroom Classic, the Brush tool, and non-destructive workflow are unavailable
Perspective effect in Nik
• Selective tool preferences do not apply to Nik Perspective Efex
• Nik Perspective Efex is not available in Affinity
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