Upgrade Your Editing Suite

The Nik Collection by DxO is not a single plugin or suite, but a collection of eight plugins for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Elements, DxO PhotoLab and Serif Affinity. The collection offers a vast library of exclusive presets along with a host of retouching tools. This collection of plugins allow you to edit your images easily without much technical expertise. Being a pack of plugins, it is not feasible to illustrate the capabilities of each of these in a few pages. While this review might not bring out all the capabilities in detail, we would try to evaluate the Nik Collection as a whole and attempt to look at each of these in details in our subsequent issues. For this review, I am using the Nik Collection from Photoshop.

Key Features

The Nik Collection 3 includes eight plugins—Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Perspective Efex, Sharpener Pro 3 (for Raw and Output), Silver Efex Pro 2, and Viveza 2. These allow you to perform complex retouching