It was already a great piece of equipment to use as a portfolio for photographs and video, as well as a great tool for researching stories and reading newspapers and magazines via the various Apps available. The iPad is definitely heading to becoming an ideal tool for photographers. To my utter amazement, Nik has managed to bring a version of this to the iOS (Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) platform and it’s called Snapseed. It made the process much more natural and saved time with it’s point, click and slide approach. One such example is Nik Software’s Viveza plugin which did away needing complicated layers and masks for colour image processing. If you purchased in 2015, you are out of luck.Įdit photos on your Mac or Windows desktop? Go grab the collection.Once in a while, a company comes up with a product that just amazes me and once I begin using it, wonder how on earth I ever did without it. If you recently purchased the Nik Collection for its $150 price, fret not! Google is automatically issuing refunds to all purchasers who acquired the collection so far in the year of 2016. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it. Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day.

Shared to the Nik Collection Google+ page, the following was shared in the announcement.

However, as of this week, the entire Nik Collection is free to download for anyone and everyone to use. After bringing Snapseed to Android, the collection of Nik plug-ins for desktop photo editing clients, such as Photoshop, were still available for purchase at $150. In 2012, Google acquired Nik, the company behind Snapseed.

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