Perspective Efex and Viveza are more for image correction and enhancement. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab)ĭxO Nik Collection 4 consists of eight plug-ins, some of which are for creative image effects and some for more everyday image corrections and enhancements.Īnalog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro are the chief 'creative' plug-ins, offering analog film and darkroom effects, a myriad of different photo treatments, filters and adjustments, HDR merging and tonemapping tools and powerful black and white image editing and conversions respectively.

Photographers who already own Nik Collection 4 can upgrade by signing into their customer accounts for £69.DxO Nik Collection 4 brings major improvements to Silver Efex Pro (shown here) and Viveza, but there are workflow improvements across the board for Adobe users too. Pricing & Availability: Nik Collection 5 (Windows and macOS) is now available for download on the DxO website and costs £135.

Photographers who choose to shoot in RAW can get the power of DxO’s PhotoLab 5 ESSENTIAL, a feature-rich photo-editing software that contains DxO’s Optics Modules and U-Point technology for precise local adjustments.

The plug-in can now automatically correct the geometric distortions produced by more than 70,000 camera and lens combinations. Some 20 new cameras and 60 lenses have been added to DxO’s database of supported equipment. Nik Perspective Efex is also part of the collection and it benefits from the ongoing research conducted in DxO’s labs. Color Efex also benefits has 29 authentic color film grain effects that were created in DxO’s laboratories, giving analog enthusiasts a range of new creative options. Fog, mist, smoke and pollution are intelligently reduced using a simple slider, returning contrast and color to photographs. Haze in photographs is now easy to remove with Nik Color Efex thanks to ClearView, a technology borrowed from DxO PhotoLab 5.

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