The other four plug-ins are Dfine, Perspective Efex, HDR Efex and Sharpener. In total, Nik Collection 5 includes four fully updated plug-ins – Color Efex, Analog Efex, Silver Efex (2021 update) and Viveza (2021 update). This plug-in can now automatically correct the geometric distortions of more than 70,000 camera and lens combinations. Perspective Efex includes support for 20 new cameras and 60 new lenses, including Bayer and X-Trans sensors from Fujifilm and many Fujifilm X-Series lenses. The Perspective Efex plug-in has also been updated, but doesn’t include the same new UI and control point sliders as Color Efex and Analog Efex do. These new sliders allow you to make much more precise, or general, adjustments and even make it possible to utilise what are essentially radial filters.Ĭolor Efex and Silver Efex now allow you to infuse images with a choice from 29 classic colour film grains Perspective Efex It includes two colour selectivity sliders, Luminance and Chrominance, and by editing these sliders, you can adjust how a selected control point affects the pixels within its radius, depending upon sensitivity to colour and brightness. The U-Point technology – previously seen in the Silver Efex Pro 3 and Viveza 3 plug-ins in 2021’s Nik Collection 4 – allows for precise local adjustments to colours, brightness, contrast, sharpness and more. These include new and better user interfaces, plus improved U-Point implementation with better performance and more powerful local adjustments. Nik Collection 5 includes major upgrades and redesigns to the Nik Color Efex and Analog Efex plug-ins.

The Nik Collection suite of plug-ins can be used as standalone applications or as plug-ins with host applications, including DxO PhotoLab, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and as standalone software for Macs and PCs.

DxO has announced Nik Collection 5, the latest version of its eight-strong suite of image editing plug-ins.

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