NIK collection for $0

[dwood]

This isn't a Sony centric thing but thought my Sony friends would want to know that starting today, you can grab the entire NIK Collection of PI's for free. Here you go:

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

 

[MikeEvangelist]

Cool!

Just grabbed it.

I hadn't used Silver EFX before, but it seems do quite a nice job. The pushed Tri-X preset brings back some good memories!

 

[Jan]

If you bought it in 2016 you get a refund. A nice gesture, but a slap in the face if you are among the early adopters.

 

[dandrewk]

Typical Google. Buy a company with a suite of popular applications, for God knows what strategic reasons, then stop all development and offer virtually no support for users. Perhaps they are just using their muscle to eliminate a potential source of future competition. These are classic "shelving" strategies, and consumers are the ones who get shafted.

So now Nik is free. Grab it while you can, because shortly you won't be able to download them anymore. Nik Silver Efx is still the best B/W conversion application, and was worth the price even when it wasn't free.

 

[Lucille]

sweeeeet.....

 

[Jorgen Udvang]

Typical Google. Buy a company with a suite of popular applications, for God knows what strategic reasons, then stop all development and offer virtually no support for users. Perhaps they are just using their muscle to eliminate a potential source of future competition. These are classic "shelving" strategies, and consumers are the ones who get shafted.

So now Nik is free. Grab it while you can, because shortly you won't be able to download them anymore. Nik Silver Efx is still the best B/W conversion application, and was worth the price even when it wasn't free.

Just wait for the announcement of a subscription to keep it working.

 

[msadat]

i paid for this product and i wish i could still pay for it, cause now there is no more. most probably when adobe changes something in photoshop, it will stop working and thats the end of it

Typical Google. Buy a company with a suite of popular applications, for God knows what strategic reasons, then stop all development and offer virtually no support for users. Perhaps they are just using their muscle to eliminate a potential source of future competition. These are classic "shelving" strategies, and consumers are the ones who get shafted.

So now Nik is free. Grab it while you can, because shortly you won't be able to download them anymore. Nik Silver Efx is still the best B/W conversion application, and was worth the price even when it wasn't free.

 

[pegelli]

From The Luminous Landscape

Some good news:

Update: Mar. 29, 3:16pm EST: Google confirmed to Quartz that the Nik Collection will continue to be updated for compatibility with other operating systems and programs, including Lightroom and Photoshop, but there will be no new versions of the suite in the future.

Even better news (on the next page):

Not only that, there is now a set of four training videos on the Nik collection available free of charge courtesy of Tim Grey here: Tim Grey Learning Nik Bundle