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Nik Collection alternative?

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February 22, 2017
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I have successfully used a paid version of the Nik Collection, until today, my new MacBook Pro keeps crashing and Google Nik does not offer support for newer Photoshop Versions. I do not have to time to find solutions to make it work and since Nik is not supported anymore, I would rather go to another software. Does anyone have suggestions that bring nice results like the Nik Collection? I use Silver Effects Pro and Color Effects Pro and Define the most. Thank you for taking the time to give me some suggestions to take a look at.

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Correct answer Marieke Feenstra

Fair enough, Nik also mentions support only up to CC 2015 …

Thank you c.pfaffenbichler. Here's the solution given by Adobe;

Adobe Photoshop crash with Nik plug-in installed

So any suggestion for other software is very welcome.

Martin_Bns

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I keep reading that the latest version of Photoshop is not supporting Nic Collection. I have the latest version of Photoshop and it's working great. Maybe it's not a Photoshop problem but the OS problem? I'm on OSX Sierra and it's working just at it used to work when i bought it several years ago.

Hope u can find the problem,
Martin

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Actually adobe fixed some of the incompatibilities with the Nik plugins and photoshop cc 2017 in an update to cc 2017, but now High Sierra has an apparent problem with the save part in the Nik plugin.

Photoshop CC 2017.1: Nik DFine2 hanging in Sierra | Photoshop Family Customer Community

On macOS High Sierra the stand alone nik versions also crash on save, so one has to use save as instead.

Unfortunately Nik is no longer being updated by google.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

DxO has acquired the Nik plugins, so maybe there is hope for future updates.

Homepage - Nik Collection by DxO

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rogerplaramos

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I was using the Nik Color Efex Pro 4.0 Complete until the Mac OS X Sierra version on a MacBook Pro 2016. Now, after uptading to Mac OS X High Sierra the pluggin don't works on Photoshop and crash when you select it.

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Linns2

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rogerp52808761, Photoshop crashed similarly for me when I tried to use the NIK Collection through the dropdown Filter menu. It seems to work though if you use it through the NIK chart that appears on your desktop.HTH.

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trish r

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I just popped in to say that SilverEfex being discontinued is soul crushing. I paid for it before it became free. How does this work in Tech? Is it unheard of for a company like a google to just hand it back to the developers or another developer to keep it going? It really was the best. My work is exclusively Black and white and the better technology gets and the better the quality of digital images, the more trouble I have trying to muck them up to an analog like state. The Grain in Nik's software wasn't like anything else. I'm devastated.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I seem to have no problems using Nik collection in Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 (on MacOS 10.12.2), so where did you get your information from?

Marieke FeenstraAuthor

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When my Photoshop crashes you can send the crash info to Adobe, the solution that comes back is to uninstall Nik Collection, since it is no longer supported by Google.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

With which Filter/s exactly do you get the crash?

Did you install the most current version?

Google Nik Collection

What have you done for general trouble-shooting so far?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/basic-trouble-shooting-steps.html

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