Updated 2020-01-03
DxO has acquired the Nik Collection from Google and will be developing it further with a new version. You can fill in a request form on the DxO site for the old Nik Collection 2012 here.
Read more about the new Nik Collection 2 by DxO here.
Note: We are not affiliated with DxO and will not be able to help with any support related queries.
This is the best news we’ve had for some time… Google has just announced that their popular photo software, Nik Collection, can be downloaded for free!
It is not every day that we get free photography software! Previously, photographers had to pay up to $150 for it! As Google continues to focus their long-term investments in building innovative photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, they’ve decided to make their Nik desktop suite available to both Mac and Windows users as well. Moreover, if you’ve bought the Nik Collection in 2016, Google will even refund you. Good for you!
The Nik Collection consists of seven desktop plug-ins for Photoshop and Lightroom. The Nik programs are easy to use and photographers can create stunning effects through intuitive filter applications. With Nik Collection you can create almost anything; from mimicking classic cameras and creating vintage style images in Analog Efex Pro, to colour correction, retouching and creative effects in Color Efex Pro. With Viveza, you can selectively adjust the colour and tonality of an image without using complicated masks, or selections. Then there is also HDR Efex to create HDR images, as well as Dfine and Sharpener Pro to handle noise and sharpen your images intelligently. Then there is also my personal favourite, Nik Silver Efex, which is probably the finest black and white software available today…
Nik Collection has been touted a Swiss army knife for both professional and amateur photographers alike. In fact, for some time now, we’ve incorporated the Nik software in a few of our photography courses, such as the Wedding Photography Course and more. We, therefore, applaud Google for this very generous offering since our photography students will most certainly relish using these great tools for their creative endeavours!
Don’t waste any more time. Visit the Nik Collection website now!
The complete collection is yours to download. Head straight to the Nik Collection website where you can download the mother-ship of all photography plugins!
Please just try downloading this versio – https://archive.org/details/nikcollection-full-1.2.11
In my case the previous installed version did come back to life without asking fort any payment.
Best,
Susana
They still offer the original Nik collection for free on their website – it’s just hidden really well. Here’s a link: https://nikcollection.dxo.com/nik-collection-2012/
I had the free Google Nik Collection installed and was using it as a plug-in for Corel Paint Shop Pro 2018. I was interested to see if the new DXO version with 55 new filters would be worth paying for. After installing it and discovering that it no longer works with Corel Paint Shop Pro, I discover the trial installation wiped out my prior free version, so I no longer can use it. And, because the new DXO version won’t work with Corel, I don’t want. Thank you DXO for deleting my past free version and leaving me hanging. I own other DXO software but will never buy anything from them again. Very displeased.
Woke up todayh to find that my Nik effex had moved from being free to having to pay for it – I uninstalled it and reinstalled it ( which worked the last time this happened) only to find that I had the 30 day trial option in lieue of buying – looks like the freebie is now done and dusted
I feel you! Same thing happened with me. I bought it and then a few months later it was offered for free. I also predicted that Google is going to let Nik Collection go as soon as they tapped the technology for Snapseed and decided to not buy Nik until DXO proven that they are committed and bring out a fresh version. Fortunately, the free version still runs without problems on my computer.
I paid for the NIK collection just a fe months before it was available for free. When I had to update Photoshop for 2019 the NIK collection was not there so I just went to download it again and did so thinking it would be free which it might have been if I had an activation code for it which I had been informed was sent to me via email but which hadn’t been the case. At any rate it appears that I now have to pay again for the collection. I’m NOT a happy camper.
I had the nik collection, but after up dating Photoshop I have to re install the nik collection but I would not be without it
Man its kind of sucks, i loved this app. Its a shame google sold it again