Google announced recently that it is making all seven of its popular and powerful Nik plugins available for free! I haven’t tried them all, but I love their U-Point technology for making local corrections, and I was really impressed by how I could easily produce stunning black and whites with Silver Effects Pro (that I didn’t have the experience to imagine beforehand.) Rather than list all the plugins here and what they are for, I’ll send you to. If your plugins don’t appear in Lightroom after installation, visit. It appears from Google’s statement that they will be focusing on mobile applications going forward – so don’t count on future support for or development of these desktop plugins. Sap Bw 7.3 Rapidshare. Update: if you’re looking for training on using Nik plugins, Update: I am not a Nik expert and can’t provide troubleshooting help. Please check the, or post in one of the Lightroom or Photoshop forums. I’ve used the Nik collection via LR and am very pleased with many of the tools (especially noise reduction), but I do have a question: everytime I use NIK via LR I have to export to Nik, use the tool and them import the copy back into LR.

A curious error which appears after using HDR v2 plugin on CS6. Nik plugin HDR v2 and CS6. Might have occurred after returning to Photoshop from plug-ins.

Then if I want to use another plug in, say Color Efex I must repeat the process ultimately ending up with multiple copies of the same photo with a huge file number followed by edit-edit-edit etc. Is there a way to export once into one of the plug-ins and then within NIK itself access the other ones to perform additional refinements before exporting back into LR? (And will it be layered, in the event I wish to modify the adjustments later?

In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. (Once you've found the one you need, and see if you can grab a bargain on it – or any other top design and creative gear.) Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and passable renders for. • All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away. Promoted: • Publisher: • Price: $149-$399 (now $37 - $99 at a 75% discount) • Good for: Photographers, photo editors, graphic designers, 3D artists Filter Forge offers 12 thousand of effects and textures, covering almost every use case you can imagine. In version 7.0, the new copy-paste function makes it possible to use Filter Forge with any host. Just copy a processed image from the standalone Filter Forge application and paste it anywhere you want.

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