


Simulates vintage, film-era cameras, lenses, and film stocks. Changes can be made globally or targeted using local adjustment tools. Tools for making a broad range of changes to an image, such as exposure, contrast, structure, color, shadow recovery. Noise reduction, with global and local adjustments It also includes local adjustments and a number of presets that emulate classic film stocks. It is possible to target edits using local adjustments.īlack and white conversion and editing, offering control over exposure, contrast, structure, tones, grain. The collection comprises the following products:Ī large collection of filters focused on manipulating color, tone, and contrast. They also function as standalone applications. They are predominantly used as plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop but can also be used as plug-ins for Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and DxO PhotoLab.

Nik Collection is a suite of eight photo editing applications for Windows and macOS. In 2020, it introduced an eighth plug-in as part of Nik Collection 3: Nik Perspective Efex. In 2018, DxO released a new version of Nik Collection and has since released a new version every year. On October 25, 2017, DxO announced the acquisition of Nik Collection assets from Google. Around May 30, 2017, Google announced that they had no plans to update Nik Collection or add new features over time. On March 24, 2016, Google announced that they would make Nik Collection free. After acquiring Nik, Google dropped the price of the software from $500 to $150. In September 2012, Nik Software was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount. As of 2010, the company had 120 employees - around 40 of whom were located in San Diego where the company was headquartered while the remaining staff (primarily engineering) were based in Germany. Nik Software was, until Google's acquisition, a privately held company owned by investors and Nikon, which in 2010 had a 35% stake. He led the company from a small software developer company to becoming a software research and development company.

In 1999 Michael J Slater joined Nik Software as CEO of the company. The Nik Software team developed Nils Efex! and Nils Type Efex! which were a combination of Photoshop actions and textures. Nik Software focused on digital photography and graphic design. In 1995 Nik Software (originally Nik Multimedia) was founded by Nils Kokemohr in Hamburg.
