Nik Collection Silver Efex and LR Classic Issue

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March 29, 2026
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Running Mac Studio M1, 26.4 and LRC 15.2, Nik Collection 8

When exporting an image from LRC to Silver Efex (Nik Collection 8) the image returned is not opening in b&w.

Anyone else experiencing this?

AxelMatt

Community Expert

Does this happen all the times?

Does only Silver Efex is affected?

What happend if you actualized the preview?

Which version of the Nik Collection do you have installed?

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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Geoffrey239952378o0zAuthor

Known Participant

It happens sporadically. I have Nik Collection 5 (latest version) I have also tried v8. Seems to only affect Silver Efex although I don’t really use the other plugins.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

Version 5 is rather old. Does this happens also in Version 8?

Which MacOS version do you have installed?

Which file type do you use for returning from Silver Efex? JPEG, TIFF?

If you open the appropriate image in Finder, is it black and white?

Sporadic errors can be an indication of problems with the default settings.Try to reset the preferences of Lightroom Classic: How to reset Lightroom Classic preferences (adobe.com)

It's recommended to backup your preferences before you reset the preferences to the default settings: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations.html

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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