

I tried it with Capture One Pro, and it behaved like it knew what to do, but in the end the experiment failed. You can use Silver Efex as a standalone app or as a plugin for Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. If you work with Tiff files, you have the option to retain all of the edits so you can return to the image and pick up where you left off. This new version released by DxO updated the interface, added presets, now includes DxO's ClearView technology, and made the control points easier to use. Then along came Silver Efex 3, and truly, a good thing got better. And much like a black tux that never goes out of style, so remained my favorite application for digital black and white photography. That wasn't really a problem however because it's good. Photographers who already own Nik Collection 4 can upgrade by signing into their customer accounts for £69.All through its journey from Nik, to Google, to DxO, Silver Efex has more or less remained the same. Pricing & Availability: Nik Collection 5 (Windows and macOS) is now available for download on the DxO website and costs £135. Photographers who choose to shoot in RAW can get the power of DxO’s PhotoLab 5 ESSENTIAL, a feature-rich photo-editing software that contains DxO’s Optics Modules and U-Point technology for precise local adjustments.

The plug-in can now automatically correct the geometric distortions produced by more than 70,000 camera and lens combinations. Some 20 new cameras and 60 lenses have been added to DxO’s database of supported equipment. Nik Perspective Efex is also part of the collection and it benefits from the ongoing research conducted in DxO’s labs. Color Efex also benefits has 29 authentic color film grain effects that were created in DxO’s laboratories, giving analog enthusiasts a range of new creative options. Fog, mist, smoke and pollution are intelligently reduced using a simple slider, returning contrast and color to photographs. Haze in photographs is now easy to remove with Nik Color Efex thanks to ClearView, a technology borrowed from DxO PhotoLab 5.
