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I just downloaded the NIK 7 thirty day trial version and it is easily accessed and used in Photoshop Creative Cloud.
I prefer to do most of my processing in Lightroom CC and I can't figure out how to use NIK while in Lightroom - can't find it!
Can anybody help me figure out what I am missing?
Thanks.

[Rob_Cullen]

(I have no recent experience with current NIK apps. Following is how the earlier NIK versions worked! )

Lightroom-Desktop does not allow the use of Plugins, but you can use the NIK apps in several ways.

1) Select an image and go FILE > Edit in > BROWSE  (to the Nik App/feature you want in Applications. Windows users would browse for the .exe app file.)

2) Select an image and [Edit in Photoshop],

Convert the background layer to a Smart Object

Apply a NIK filter  eg. FILTER > NIK Collection > Silver Efex

Make adjustments to the image in NIK and [Save]

* *This method has the great advantage that the NIK adjustments are preserved in the Photoshop TIF file as a Smart Filter that can always be re-opened and the NIK settings (in the Smart Filter) changed as desired.

3) Export an image from the Lightroom-Desktop Library to a local drive

Start the wanted NIK app (as independent app)

Open the exported image with the NIK app, FILE > Open Images...

(In Windows I can [Open With] and choose a NIK app.)

Save the edited image from Nik, and IMPORT the new file to Lightroom-Desktop.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Lightroom Desktop added the ability to configure 3rd party editors in the October Release

Right-click on an image, choose Edit In and browse to your Nik executable.  Once you do this, it will appear in Edit in as an Option.