It comes with 9 presets, and one Google inspired ‘I’m feeling lucky’. The plugin acts as a bridge between Film and Digital by providing effects to turn your digitally shot image appear as if it’s shot on film. Photographers who already own Nik Collection 4 can upgrade by signing into their customer accounts for £69. Analog Efex Pro is a major constituent of Nik Collection 3, and one of the reasons it is popular. 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. Nik Analog Efex gives you access to a unique selection of tools that can instantly produce a look and feel from across the last 160 years of photography. Some 20 new cameras and 60 lenses have been added to DxO’s database of supported equipment. One of eight powerful plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic offering endless creative possibilities. Nik Perspective Efex is also part of the collection and it benefits from the ongoing research conducted in DxO’s labs. Nik Silver Efex Master the art of black-and-white photography using a comprehensive set of darkroom-inspired controls and a refined interface, all designed to let you create stunning monochrome images. 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. So if you are a Photoshop or Lightroom user download the collection and dive in.Haze in photographs is now easy to remove with Nik Color Efex thanks to ClearView, a technology borrowed from DxO PhotoLab 5. You have so many options available from light leaks, to dust & scratches, bokeh and many more. I really would like to see more people use it and play around and get real creative. It’s like this is where Instagram created their filters. If you like Instagram and all the filter choices, you will love Analog Efex Pro. It could be a “one click” and your done edit if you use the presets, but I really like to play with the controls and see what I can create on my own. The double exposure effect is a lot of fun and again one might think the “masking” in PS would produce the same effect, but AEP is so much more fun. So yes you could do it in Photoshop, but the feel of the end visual seems different to me. Now I know if you are a Photoshop user your first thought might be that “it can all be done in Photoshop” and I would answer “yes & no.” Well actually “yes” but Nik’s algorithms are a lot different from Adobe’s and seem to produce the end results in a unique way with a different feel. It basically gives you all these old camera kits from the film era and lets you create some really awesome stuff. It was at that time I started to explore this fun little gem. Not until one day I was trying to open Color Efex Pro in Photoshop and I accidentally opened Analog Efex Pro in the fly out menu. Actually the truth be told I never even opened it. So when I downloaded the whole collection I seen Analog Efex Pro but I thought I had no use for it. Nik Silver Efex includes an exclusive range of filters and effects to help you emulate the look and feel of classic film emulsions such as Kodak Tri-X 400, Ilford Delta 100, and Fuji Neopan. This was long before Google made the collection available to the public. In my last post I talked about how I had bought just two products from Nik, but soon after Google acquired the Nik collection they sent download links to previous Nik customers for the whole Nik collection. Let’s talk a little about Google’s Nik Analog Efex Pro plugin for Lightroom or Photoshop.
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