DxO’s Nik Collection 6 is now out

If you’ve been looking forward to the latest version of the Nik Collection, the wait is finally over. DxO has recently released the Nik Collection 6 with comprehensive updates to the innovative U Point tool. It also includes a new filter for Nik Color Efex, an updated interface for Nik Dfine, additional Smart Object functionality, and other refinements for improving your editing workflow.

More creativity, more control

Nik Collection was the birthplace of U Point technology, the most intuitive tool for local adjustments in photo editing. Available across the suite, U Point has been upgraded to add new functionality to make selective edits more intuitive in the following ways:

• Control Lines add flexibility when making broad adjustments, bringing the power of Control Points to linear gradients
• Control Point diffusion features mean you can regulate the strength and style of adjustments more easily
• Control Points and Control Lines can now be inverted, giving you huge flexibility when editing
• Color Selectivity sliders allow Control Point and Control Line editing to be tied to specific colors and tones in an image
• Renamable Local Adjustments let you stay on top of complex edits, so you’ll never lose sight of your work
• Local Adjustments can now be saved as Presets, giving you quick access to your most frequently used edits.

A cleaner look for those who want it

New to Nik Collection 6 is the ability to choose where sliders for local adjustments appear on screen. Controls can be kept in a sidebar to keep the image area clean or overlaid on top of the image in the traditional Nik Collection style.

Always easy to use

Despite all of its new and improved features, Nik Collection 6 is easier to use than ever before. Available to hundreds of millions of users, it plugs straight into DxO PhotoLab, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom Classic and Affinity Photo. This provides unprecedented creative features without affecting your preferred workflow.

Several new workflow features make editing even better:

• Turn your edits into a Smart Object at any stage from within the plugin, giving you fully non- destructive editing in Photoshop
• Call on any of your last 15 Nik Collection edits and apply them with a single click
• Presets can now be searched for by name so you can instantly find your favorite edits
• HiDPI & Multiscreen support lets you work with all screen configurations
• Affinity Photo is now automatically detected as part of installation

Individual app upgrades

Five of the eight plugins that make up Nik Collection 6 see significant individual upgrades bringing new features and smoother functionality:

• Nik Color Efex gains a brand-new Hue/Saturation/Luminance tool, for deeper and more accurate control of color and tone
• Nik Dfine receives a complete visual overhaul bringing it into line with the other plugins, creating a more refined experience as well as improved options for saving denoising recipes and returning to them in just a few clicks
• Nik Perspective adds the powerful new ReShape Tool which allows photographers to warp and shape local areas for complete precision
• Nik Sharpener will also be receiving a rebuild and interface overhaul, destined for Nik 6.2, and available as a free update
• Nik HDR Efex, the premier tool for exposure blending, also gets a fresh new interface as part of version 6.3 (arriving in August), providing a clearer, faster workflow.

What’s in Nik Collection 6?

Nik Collection 6 includes eight powerful plugins that also function as standalone apps. It covers everything you need as a photographer to improve your images, both creatively and technically:

• Nik Color Efex: Countless striking filters for color, tone, contrast, and more
• Nik Silver Efex: Darkroom-inspired controls for the ultimate in black-and-white photo editing
• Nik Analog Efex: Dive into history and discover endless analog effects to give photos a vintage feel
• Nik Viveza: Shape color, manipulate tones, be bold, and inject passion
• Nik Dfine: Remove digital noise exactly where required, without destroying detail
• Nik Perspective: Fix perspective and distortion for geometric perfection or creative effects
• Nik HDR Efex: Harmonize highlights and shadows for photos with a gorgeous dynamic range
• Nik Sharpener: Enhance images with perfect sharpness, exactly where you need it.

Nik Collection 6 is available now for Windows and macOS, exclusively from the DxO website (https://shop.dxo.com/en), at $149 for Nik Collection 6 of $79 for those who are upgrading from Nik Collection 4 or 5.

To upgrade, customers should log into their customer account. Nik Collection 6 does not require a subscription and can be installed on up to three computers.