Nik Software

[MiFleur]

I use nik software on a regular basis, not all the time but often enough to say it is very useful, I love the tonal contrast filter and the skin softener filters a lot, they also have filter to make your digital photos look like old film photos that give an interesting style.
I would suggest to people interested to take advantage of the free trial.

 

[skieur]

Does anyone actually use Nik software? I had a ton of it come with the purchase of my camera, and I've never used it a day in my life. I thought most people just toss it and forget it's there

I do quite frequently. Their software provides control over selective parts of the image as in exposure, individual colours , contrast, lighting etc. and is faster than doing multiple edits in Photoshop to create the same result.

 

[foquito]

...you can't have a first post,twice!!It upsets the natural balance of our universe. ldman::razz::scratch:

I am very sorry about that. I am so sorry that I would like to apologize one in this post and one in the next, but the natural balance of the universe would upsets again!!

 

[ratssass]

...you can't have a first post,twice!!It upsets the natural balance of our universe. ldman::razz::scratch:

I am very sorry about that. I am so sorry that I would like to apologize one in this post and one in the next, but the natural balance of the universe would upsets again!!

...nicely,played,my friend......just having fun with ya.

 

[elementgs]

I use some small component of the collection for every photo I have, either the sharpener, dfine, Viveza and as mentioned, Silver Efex. It's an amazing suite and honestly worth the money if you have photoshop/lightroom. It really makes every average picture simply perfect.

 

[EDL]

Do you have to have Lightroom or photoshop to use the NIK suite?

 

[ann]

go to their website and it should indicate which programs will support the collection. I believe corel paint pro is one, along with PS and lightroom

 

[usayit]

Do you have to have Lightroom or photoshop to use the NIK suite?

Nik Collection

 

[foquito]

I trying NIK Viveza and Dfine with Lightroom. The problem is that when I go to both of them from Viveza, the pictures are shown with a strange blue cast that makes me impossible to work with the picture. But when I return to Lightroom, the tiff generated by Nik is shown as the original photo was -without the strange blue cast-. I think the problem is something related to Color Space, but I can not fix it.
Thanks

 

[bravozulu]

As a Plug-In with Aperture, I find it great. Easy to use and trouble free. It takes a bit of learning to master ColorEfex and Viveza, but worth the effort. And the results of HDR are just plain fun.

 

[Bykhoff]

I have a very basic question regarding Nik software. I just purchased the software.

My question is, when I start with Sharper my only option is "Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments." And after I'm done with the adjustments, it creates a .tiff file. Do I then use that .tiff file, do I use that same file to "edit in" the next Nik tool? Am I not repeatedly degrading the raw file by processing it in one tool after another?

Thank you kindly,

Daniel (Bykhoff)

 

[usayit]

Unfortunately, Nik software has much better integration with Photoshop than Lightroom. Yes... the plugin doesn't work on the raw file but requires that Lightroom exports to it in TIFF format. You can continue to edit the Tiff to Tiff. I generally group the subsequent images together. You shouldn't worry about degrading the raw file.