Photo software powerhouse DxO acquired the Nik property in 2017. The apples were shot with a Sony V3 (remember that gem of a camera?) and converted using Nik (or as it was spelled in 2005, “nik”). This image appeared in my 2005 Shutterbug review of the black and white conversion capabilities of Nik Color Efex. That is, until the Nik treasures changed hands again. While this act of grandeur created quite a buzz, it also was fraught with the anxiety that compatibility updates and further development would likely cease. This was a big deal-probably bigger than most folks realized at the time-because the retail price for the set of the original 75 traditional and stylizing filters was $299. In 2012 the software code was obtained by Google and later was released to the photographic community free of charge. The sum and substance of the Nik plugin filter collection hasn’t changed much since then, truth be told. The package has been around for close to 15 years, and now it’s in the DxO barn so we can be confident that it will remain compatible and relevant for years to come.īack in 2005 I interviewed Nils Kokemohr, founder of Nik Multimedia Inc., for a story that ran in Shutterbug, and I have used Nik filters ever since. If you do any photo editing, you’ve probably heard about the collection of plugin filters called Nik.

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