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1 PHOTOSHOP PANEL Fully customisable and dockable.
1 NIK SILVER EFEX Useful for black-and-white edits.
1 NIK COLOUR EFEX The suite’s principal editing tool.
DxO Nik Collection 8
Popular plug-in suite gets a range of improvements, including better integration with Photoshop, while the black-and-white editing tool Silver Efex has been redesigned
The annual update of Nik Collection brings x a series of improvements to this popular suite of image editing plug-ins. Headline changes include a new Photoshop panel and new masking functionality, plus enhancements to Color Efex and Silver Efex. For DxO’s 20th anniversary year, the logos for the Nik Collection and its seven plugins, including Analog Efex, Viveza, Dfine, Sharpener and HDR Efex, have been refreshed.
The plugins can either be used as standalone programs, integrated with editing software such as Photoshop, Lightroom and Affinity Photo or used natively within DxO PhotoLab. The new mask options allow users to import masks directly from Photoshop into any Nik Collection plugin, and masks created in Nik Collection can be sent back to Photoshop for further refinement.