They must have sold a virtual truckload. But if you buy software, even if it's discounted, and if you start to build your workflow around it, it's only fair to expect the company you buy the software from to keep updating it.Īnd this is where things started to go progressively bad: when Google made the software totally free last year, this move was also interpreted by some as the beginning of the end.Īnd indeed, one year later, Google have discreetly put up a banner on their website saying the Nik Collection will no longer be supported. So one of the first things Google did was limit the number of versions to only one: the Lightroom and Photoshop bundle and drop its price to $149. One of the few, if not the only problem with the Nik Collection when it was still owned, developed and maintained by Nik Software GmbH was that it was pricey: around $200 for a single plugin, $300 for the Lightroom-only bundle and a whopping $500 for the Lightroom and Photoshop enabled version of the bundle. It's basically the mobile version of the Nik Collection and it's entirely free.
NIK COLLECTION ALTERNATIVE ANDROID
By the way, if you're looking for an excellent mobile editor on your phone or tablet (iOS and Android), Snapseed is a killer app (iOS link here, Android link here). Not so much for the Nik Collection, but rather because Google had set their eyes on Snapseed, Nik's mobile app. In September 2012 - I cannot believe that's almost five years ago - Google acquired Nik. In fact, a few of you reading this might use the Nik Collection because I recommended it to you. The long storyĮven if you're only a halfway regular reader of this blog, you know I was and still am a big fan of the Nik Collection.
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If you're a Nik Collection user, it's well worth one minute of your time to vote.
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In true David versus Goliath style, German photographer Sascha Rheker started an online petition on. Google have announced that it will no longer support the Nik Collection.