HDR Efex Pro 2 – Creating and editing HDR images.

Perspective Efex – Perspective corrections and special effects.

But you can also use the Nik Collection tools as stand-alone editors in their own right.

These can be used as plugins to compatible host editors like Lightroom, PhotoLab, Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Today there 8 plugins in the Nik Collection 5. It was then purchased from Google by DxO which has continued to develop and support the collection. Originally developed by Nik Software, it was later sold to Google who developed it for a short time before retiring the product. See full pricing information at the bottom of this story.The Nik Collection has been around for a long time. But there is an important new addition: DxO PhotoLab 2.3 Essential Edition has become part of the suite. The other plug-ins in the suite remain essentially the same. Within each plug-in, the new additions are grouped and identified as “En Vogue” so you can find them more easily. The 42 new presets augment the already powerful original set of 156 and were added as follows: Color Efex Pro plug-in has 10 new recipes, Silver Efex Pro gets 10 new presets, there are 12 more presets for HDR Efex Pro and 10 new tool combinations for Analog Efex Pro.

Promotional pricing ($59 upgrade, $99 new) available through June 30.

High-resolution monitor support for Windows (same as Mac OS).

No Adobe Required (use with DxO PhotoLab 2.3 Essential Edition).

Raw compatibility via DxO PhotoLab 2.3 Essential Edition.

DxO PhotoLab 2.3 Essential Edition included.

If you are already a Nik user, or are otherwise familiar with the older versions, here’s what you’re interested in today: a summary of the additions and improvements. Analog Efex Pro 2, Double Exposure preset combined with image of Forget Me Not flowers also known as Scorpion Grass (who was in charge of naming flowers?).

Dxo silver efex pro 2