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OT: Google makes Nik Collection free for everyone.

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  • IppotamusIppotamus Posts: 1,580

    Purchased these some time ago.

    I can not recommend them enough.

    Very surprised they are being given away.  One of the few purchases I would make again indeed.

    Youtube has a ton of useful tutorials as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/user/NikSoftwareLessons

  • StalestStalest Posts: 880

    Aye a big thank you for posting this and also for the instructions on how to use in gimp smiley I just had a couple of minutes of play with 1 of the addons and was amazed cool

  • AllegraAllegra Posts: 405

    Anyone know if ColorFX works in CS3 extended....it loads, looks great but nothing happens when I click Okay?

  • Hiro ProtagonistHiro Protagonist Posts: 699
    Allegra said:

    Anyone know if ColorFX works in CS3 extended....it loads, looks great but nothing happens when I click Okay?

    I have CS3 Ext and ColorFX worked perfectly for me. I tried a couple of the effects and they all showed in my viewport as per the previews.

  • BlueIreneBlueIrene Posts: 1,318

    What a great bunch of tools. Thanks for letting us know :)

  • SkippybotSkippybot Posts: 8

    Nice find! downloading now. Thanks!

  • AllegraAllegra Posts: 405
    Hiro Protagonist said:
    Allegra said:

    Anyone know if ColorFX works in CS3 extended....it loads, looks great but nothing happens when I click Okay?

    I have CS3 Ext and ColorFX worked perfectly for me. I tried a couple of the effects and they all showed in my viewport as per the previews.

    Strange, can't get mine working...will try again;)

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,816

    Thanks for highlighting this - great news. I have just downloaded to try in Photoshop Elements 9.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,249

    Interesting tools.  Makes some operations very easy.  Especially for casual users. 

    Not complaining, just observing that there doesn't seem to be anything that these tools do that an experienced Photoshop user couldn't do using native tools given enough time and practice.  Comparing Photoshop and these tools to a player piano and piano rolls.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    To be fair that's the case with most things. Buying food instead of doing your own growing and slaughtering, buying daz models instead of learning to model yourself, etc.
  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,846

    I'm so happy I can grow food now or use cheap food products like protien isolates of soy and wheat plus varieties of dried beans so i don't have to buy meat anymore. My grocery bills are so small now. The doctors keep being impressed by my health. I am ordering 8 dwarf fruit trees. It's a lot of fun to grow fruits, nuts, vegatables in your yard. It's a type of good anticipation that doesn't cost a lot of money and is good mild exercise too.

    These NIK tools should be good as I go to learn to make greyscale maps for PBR shaders.

  • HeraHera Posts: 1,962

    Awsome! Thanks Vaskania! smileykisssmileyheartcoolyes

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,972

    Gave me the option to install to either elements 11 or 13.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,449
    Kharma said:

    Requirements says it only works on CS4 and up, I have CS2, does anyone know if they work with this version?

     

    Hiro Protagonist said:
    Kharma said:

    Requirements says it only works on CS4 and up, I have CS2, does anyone know if they work with this version?I

    I've just installed it in CS3. The installer didn't find an application to add the plugins to, but you can navigate manually (I selected this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins). One annoyance is that a tool panel called Selective Tool pops up when I start PS. I guess this will dock with CS4+ but doesn't in CS3. You can close it or minimize it. Apart from that all the plugins appear to work as they should.

    I would say it's worth trying with CS2.

    I had to manually add CS2 to the install; but even after it was installed I couldn't get CS2 to recognize the filters.  

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    This is going to sound like an odd question....but how is the image saved???

    I have them in Photoshop, and after I apply the filter I want, I hit "ok". it closes and goes back to the photoshop screen, but nothing has happened. The image is still the original image without the filter. 

    So I have no idea how to actually save the image with the filter on it. 

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116

    The new image should be created in your layers panel as a new layer.

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    I figured it out :D

    When it installed, I forgot to add the Photoshop plug in folders to the "host" program thingy in the installation. Once I uninstalled and then reinstalled doing that, it worked fine :D 

    Vaskania said:

    The new image should be created in your layers panel as a new layer.

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,660

    Thank you for posting. I probably never would have stumbled upon this myself.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    jakiblue said:

    I figured it out :D

    When it installed, I forgot to add the Photoshop plug in folders to the "host" program thingy in the installation. Once I uninstalled and then reinstalled doing that, it worked fine :D 

    Vaskania said:

    The new image should be created in your layers panel as a new layer.

     

    Glad you got it. :D

  • xmasrosexmasrose Posts: 1,409

    As I said earlier it does work for me on an old CS2. The "selective tools" window does appear and the filters seem to work fine.

    I had to manually copy the Google folder with the nik filter (from my CS6 plug-ins folder) in CS2 plug-ins folder. Did you look through file --> automate (like Vaskania said) ?

     

    Charlie Judge said:
    Kharma said:

    Requirements says it only works on CS4 and up, I have CS2, does anyone know if they work with this version?

     

    Hiro Protagonist said:
    Kharma said:

    Requirements says it only works on CS4 and up, I have CS2, does anyone know if they work with this version?I

    I've just installed it in CS3. The installer didn't find an application to add the plugins to, but you can navigate manually (I selected this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins). One annoyance is that a tool panel called Selective Tool pops up when I start PS. I guess this will dock with CS4+ but doesn't in CS3. You can close it or minimize it. Apart from that all the plugins appear to work as they should.

    I would say it's worth trying with CS2.

    I had to manually add CS2 to the install; but even after it was installed I couldn't get CS2 to recognize the filters.  

     

  • adzanadzan Posts: 268
    edited March 2016
    adzan said:
    Toyen said:

    Oh I thought this was standalone. Now I am even more tempted to finally get Photoshop : )

    The windows version has .exe files in each plug-in folder so they can be used stand alone.

    the plugins will also work with corel paintshop pro X7, X8  - just copy the NIK plugin folders to the corel plugin folder ( if using PSP 64bit just copy the 64 bit folder from each of the plugin folders and put those into the corel folder).

    They also work with Serif PhotoPlus X5 and up - and Corel Photo-Paint (pro, oem and home/student)

    edit to add ( sorry to quote myself but for some reason the edit wouldn't work :/ )

    the Nik plugin also works with Zoner Photo Studio ( I tried versions 16, 17 and 18)

    To use them click on Settings (Top Right next to Help) - click Plug-ins - Click Add - select the Nik install folder - click ok

    To Use - Select - Effects from the top left menu - click Plug-In Moduels - Nik Collection and choose the filter set you want to use ( Filters you can't use will have a Red X depending on your installed version  ie 32 or 64 bit or just add the 32 n 64 bit versions individually)

    Thought I'd add the comment as it might come in handy now that Google has discontinued development on Picasa

    Post edited by adzan on
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