Nik Collection 7 - The BIG Thing!
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- This is the first in a series of videos in which I'll demonstrate features of the Nik Collection 7.
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This is the first in a series of videos in which I'll demonstrate features of the Nik Collection 7.
Get more info about the Nik collection here:
tidd.ly/3MQ3uU7
I am a DxO (Nik) affiliate and will earn a commission if you purchase anything using the link directly above. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement:
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How to install Topaz Labs Photoshop plugin in Macbook.. tutorial video please
I'd like to add a vote for a deep dive into the black and white tools.
I would like to see future videos on any changes to control points in Silver Effects, any presets added for Silver Effects, and how to add outsiders’ presets to Silver Effects. Thanks as always, Anthony.
I always take my black and white images into Silver Efex Pro 2 (still on the free version) I am thinking of purchasing V.7 so a tutorial on the possibilities within that module would be much appreciated. I admire the clarity of your channel content.
Excellent video, Anthony. I look forward to any future tutorials on the Nik collection. They are all most helpful. Thank you!
Good idea for this video series on the Nik Collection 7. I can't wait to see what you're going to show us about silver effex ;-)
the other apps are also interesting. I would love it if you could make a video on how you integrate the Nik Collection into your workflow ;-)
thank you already and see you soon for the rest
Thanks Thanks Thanks for your video on Nik collection 7. I love your videos and also extremely interested in Silver Efex can't wait for that video. I am so glad that you are making videos on the new version of Nik collection!!!!!!!
Thx Anthony. Looking forward to more on NIK 7 from you!
Great video. Probably wouldn't have found the link between the two modules without your video. I would like to see more videos on the sharpener modules. Thanks AM, love your channel.
Great video as always Anthony. I recently installed Nik Collection 7 and yes, definitely would love to see a video on Silver effects pro.
Thanks for taking a new look at NIK! I also used it many years ago when there were few alternatives. I remember doing some pretty awesome edits, both with Silver Efex (agree it’s the best) and Color Efex. Eventually was seduced by newer plugins, even though I kept NIK/DXO up-to-date. Looking forward to your Silver Efex video. Maybe some start-to-finish edits on a few different genres-portraits, landscapes, night, street, your call!
Can't wait to see the video on Silver Effects pro.
I have an ancient version of Silver Effects Pro that I love! I never finish a B&W image without using it! I’m anxious to see if the new version is any better. Thanks for your helpful information!
Definitely agree about Silver Efexs Pro being the best B&W software. Looking forward to you take on it and how to improve my understanding
Interesting video ... as always. I would love to see a couple of videos on workflows from unprocessed raw file through to images ready to print for both a color and a black and white. Thanks for posting.
Thx for the video, I would love to learn more about the HDR tool
Yes - add some videos on Silver Efex Pro 2. Create several and go from the basics to advanced.
I first used the NIK Collection in Apples Aperture app, the Silver Effect plugin is my favourite by long shot
I definitely want to see a video on SilverEfx, but also the Nik tools for sharpening images.
Looking forward to a detailed discussion on Silver Efx!
With all the tools available in lightroom, would love to hear when you would choose to use viveza vs lightroom. Thanks
Thank you for this video. I am very interested in all the possibilities of Silver Efex so I would appreciate a video about that module
Thanks, Anthony! Your videos are always awesome!! Are there any changes to Silver Efex from Nik 6? That would be my primary reason for upgrading. Love that app!!
I’ve been an enthusiastic user of Silver Effex for many years now, and will gladly watch anything you make about that. As for the others; Analog Effex some, for the film looks, and also some of the individual color filters, but I don’t think I’ve even opened the others - the sharpeners in particular. Perhaps an in depth review and analysis of those would be helpful. Thank you for all your efforts shining a light on all this complex, but exciting, software for us. 😎👍
I'd like to know how to best prepare/adjust any RAW file before bringing it into a Nik application for further processing. I'm thinking about this more for working on an image on Silver Efex, but I suppose this goes equally for the other apps/colour. Surely there's some kind of best practice to prep a RAW file before converting to TIFF for working in a Nik app?
I'd like to see you do some videos on all the Nik plugins. I use Silver Efex the most but know little about Analog Efex and Color Efex.
Would love to see a derp dive into Silver Efex. How to use the tools and how to decide what to do.
Good that you mentioned that you will cover Silver Effex anyway, otherwise I would also have asked for it.
I agree about Silver Efx being outstanding for B&W. Every dSLR image I edit as B&W is done in Silver Efx. Given improvements in LR over the past couple of years, I'm less impressed with the other Nik modules. I am not certain they add functionality beyond what is now built into LR.
I've never really figured out how to best use the Sharpener modules in Nik effectively. Perhaps an exploration of that would be helpful to others, as well?
Using the silver effect (NIK6) only as lightroom plug in, cannot find a reason to upgrade to NIK7' you may halp??
Would love to see videos on Silver Efex and Sharpener
Anthony, I'd appreciate you illustrating an optimal smart object workflow from Photoshop using the Nik Collection 7.
Great video. Would you consider doing a HDR video using Nik7. Thanks.🙏😊
I have had NIK since day dot (I'm 7 now). Please show us your favorite uses of each app.
One thing I noticed is that the width of the control-sliders is extremely narrow, something that really bugs me. I actually reached out to customer service but they said the UI cannot be altered and I would have to globally change the display size in my computers' settings. This is one of the main reasons why I refrain from using the software. The ability to make accurate changes is greatly reduced by this I think.
I'd love to see the best way to take a portrait coloured raw file and convert it to a contrasty black and white?
Is it possible to have Nik applications store settings in a sidecar file so images can be re-edited based on previous tweaks to the tools? If so, I'd love to see a video on how it can be done.
hello Anthony and thanks for the great tutorial on Nik 7. I am a new to Nik collection, so it's possibly something I am doing wrong. I have opened up Color Efex and added the Viveza filters. When I adjust White Balance, nothing happens until I tiggle it off and on with the check box. This seems strange to me. Do you have any ideas, please. many thanks
Could you please do something on the sharpening apps
Colour FX has so many features, could you go through them? Please
I think Silver Effects Pro USED to be the best B&W conversion tool, but Photoshop surpassed it with their improvements to B&W processing.
More videos please
Yes! I need to learn control points, because I miss the original control points in viveza for controling a certain area. I don’t see this in Nik 7
The Nik 7 control points(and lines and polygons and luminosity masks) allow more sophisticated selections than we have ever had before. They are truly immense and Nik 7 is the biggest update since DxO took over the product. But ironically it almost certainly spells the death of Viveza since, as Anthony shows, everything from Viveza (plus a whole lot more) is now inside ColorEfex.
Using Define … comparable to topaz denoise? Output? Computer processing time?
Well, my earlier version of the NIK collection works perfectly well with raw files. Are you telling us they downgraded the functionality at some point?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE..........Silver Effects Pro, I will be out West this summer and want to do some "Ansel Adams, Clyde Butcher" type of photos. I photgraphed the T A Moulton barnand the surrounding buildings earlier this week. Looking forrward to the videos.
I have the original Nik that you paid $149 for. Do I have to purchase Nik Collection 7?
Version 6 is free?
It looks like not much different than Lightroom. I can't see purchasing this if I already have Lightroom especially because it does not work with raw files.
Viveza is a bad example since it is similar to Lightroom. It is basically a super sophisticated dodge and burn tool. The other plugins are where you get added value. Silver Efex, Color Efex, HDR Efex, each do their own thing and especially for localised edits. Now that LR has advanced masking the difference is much less but I still find I can bring things out with Nik that LR or DxO Photolab simply can't.
And there you have it. '2:09' in. '"Nik Collections does not work on RAW files"
I have a been a NIk user from the start and they continue to ask for Upgrade payments even when one has bought the product and they state that one has a 'Lifetime Membership' (effectively)
Currently using the last v6 version but refuse to pay the £79 for the upgrade to v 7. Even now.... NO RAW file ability!!! Come on DxO!!
You don't have to buy the upgrades. You get a lifetime license for the version you buy plus any point releases. I usually only buy every second update. But Nik 7 is a huge upgrade, the biggest Nik has done since DxO took it over. But I doubt you'll get raw processing, that's what DxO Photolab is for. Nik is about creative control, you don't need raw for that and it would have a huge impact on both the complexity and speed of the product.
What about workflow……. Seems everyone has their own ideas
I see no point in wasting time on color editing in Nik when you already use latest Lightroom Classic which can already do all of that . Especially given that Nik cannot work on a raw .
I'm also scratching my head. I'm trying to work out the value of a Lightroom plugin that basically does the same thing as Lightroom, but not on RAW?
Lightroom is great for basic raw conversion and overall tonal and colour control. But it has nothing like the creative potential of the Nik tools. Unfortunately, this video doesn't show that. Viveza is very similar to Lightroom in what it can do, it's only when you start looking at its local adjustment masking tools that it starts to add extra value (and LR is closing the gap with its new AI selection tools now) But once you go beyond basic tonal control and start looking at the creative filters, that is where Nik shines.
Completely disagree Alan . Which version of LR Classic are you using . LR Classic local adjustments etc etc etc….no need to waste time in another app
@@graham_T I'm not sure which bit you disagree about? But basically, the LR selections/masks are area based so you apply the adjustment to everything within the selected area. You can feather a little and I think there is a form of luminosity masking (but I can't be sure I haven't used the latest LR, I'm mainly a DxO PL user). But Nik U-Points work on selecting by colour/tone./texture which gives an entirely different kind of mask, much more natural in its scope. It is a very primitive form of AI compared to the modern deep-learning type stuff but still valid because the modern AI is ultimately still looking for an edge, ie an area. Sometimes that's what you want (and Nik can usually do that if you want to but usually you're better in LR/PL for that kind of thing) But Nik isn't about the kind of edits you normally do in LR it's much more appropriate to compare it to Photoshop (you can do anything Nik does in Photoshop it would just take much longer). Not that Nik competes with Photoshop, it's a plugin for PS after all, there's a lot that Nik doesn't do that PS does(cropping and cloning and compositing etc). Nik just creates certain effects more easily thus saving time (and for a pro that means money).
2:13 "The Nik Collection does not work on RAW files." I stopped watching then. Sorry.
Have no idea where he got that idea. I have an older version of the NIK collection and it works perfectly on raw files. If you open your raw file as a smart object, the NIK changes are embedded in that raw smart object.