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If I tried to hit the ‘brush’ option on finishing work with the filters, it would load up into Photoshop as a separate layer with a filled in mask in place.
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It’ll take me a little while to isolate what triggers the crash, but the point is that it ends up feeling like you are paying for a beta version of the software rather than the finished product. It’s also not necessarily consistent, sometimes working, sometimes not.
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This is an old bug that was sorted out with the last update, so to me if felt a little like we’re regressing. However, as soon as I applied more than one u-point and tried to save, the same crash occurred.
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I restarted PhotoShop and it worked the second time around. I opened an image into Color Efex 4, applied a filter and the Color Efex app along with Photoshop both crashed completely. Straight out of the gate, my very first use of the new collection managed to crash Photoshop. Instead, I’ll focus on any issues, or advantages that I came across while trying out this new version of the Collection.Īs background, I have been using Nik Efex filters since their inception - even before thy were a standalone company (that have now been acquired by DxO) - when it was baked into Nikon’s proprietary Capture NX editing software. I am not going to dive too deep into the new Collection as there are already several reviews on the internet (along with multiple ‘announcements’ which essentially copy each other word for word), of which the DPReview one is really comprehensive enough to be honest, and I would literally just be reiterating what it has to say (also 's video is the best deep dive into the software that I could find - ). I may be disappointed with the update, but the Nik Collection remains a staple in my commercial and personal image workflow.Īn image from Kolmanskop in Namibia edited in Silver Efex 3 from the new Nik Collection 4 If you don’t already own the previous version of the Collection, the introductory price is worth it just for Silver Efex and one or two of the Color Efex filters.
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Reasonable update to the UI of two apps (Viveza and Silver Efex) at the expense of a performance slowdown on said apps, plus a few more presets (not many and not applicable if you aren’t using the Nik Collection for its presets.īuy if you want to stay current and up to date, or want to take advantage of the one month introductory special, but make sure you have the old Nik Collection 3 install files as you may find yourself reverting to that until the bugs are sorted out. Underwhelming update that actually breaks a bunch of things that worked if you have a non-PhotoShop centric workflow. I Don’t have time to read, give me the summary The new version is essentially a reboot of two of the Nik Collections apps: Silver Efex and Viveza. Version Three came out in 2020 and was essentially some bug fixes and the inclusion of a miniature filter and the start of a theoretically non-destructive workflow. The last properly major update was in 2019, and I wrote about it in this article. Although in a bizarre naming twist, only two of the apps are actually at version 3, with most of them still at version 2, and some still at version 1. This ostensibly brings the suite of applications to version 4. Last week, with very limited fanfare, DXO launched their now annual update to the Nik Collection of plugins and standalone image filters.