While DxO hasn’t added any additional plugins into Nik Collection 2 (the suite includes Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3, Silver Efex Pro 2, and Viveza 2), DxO includes 42 new presets spread across the four Efex Pro plugins, as well as bundling the Essential Edition of their own DxO PhotoLab 2 raw converter software with this release. While the bundled DxO PhotoLab 2 Essential Edition comes at no extra cost, we did notice a variety of graphical glitches in the raw converter’s interface while testing how the software interfaced with Nik Collection 2.

Updated UI now scales to support high-resolution monitors.Introduces 42 new “En Vogue” presets, recipes, and tool combinations for the Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, and Silver Efex Pro plugins.DxO’s U Point technology does a lot of the heavy lifting that’s traditionally required when creating masks to isolate specific elements on an image.

DxO PhotoLab 2 Essential Edition is now included with Nik Collection 2 for photographers frustrated with Adobe’s software subscription model and are looking for an alternative raw editor.Compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Lightroom Classic.

We got a chance to test drive Nik Collection 2 before it’s public release to see how the updated plugins suite fared. In a move that will surely please many photographers wanting to move away from Adobe and their subscription software model, DxO is bundling DxO PhotoLab 2 Essential Edition, their French company’s own standalone Raw Converter, with the newly updated Nik Collection 2. With Nik Collection 2, DxO includes over 40 new creative presets along with support for high DPI displays on Windows. Nik Collection 2 by DxO introduces 42 new creative presets and comes bundled with DxO’s own PhotoLab 2 Essential Edition raw converterĭxO is releasing version 2 of their ever popular Nik Collection today, a year after the French company first released its own version of the much-loved of image editing plugins suite after acquiring the previously orphaned codebase from Google.

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