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Marieke Feenstra
Marieke Feenstra
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February 22, 2017
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Nik Collection alternative?

  • 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.

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Martin_Bns
Martin_Bns
Inspiring
October 6, 2017

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
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 7, 2017

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Unfortunately Nik is no longer being updated by google.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
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 27, 2017

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

Homepage - Nik Collection by DxO

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rogerplaramos
Participant
September 27, 2017

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
    Inspiring
    October 6, 2017

    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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      August 25, 2017

      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
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 22, 2017

      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 Feenstra
      Marieke FeenstraAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 22, 2017

      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.

      Trevor.Dennis
      Community Expert
      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 28, 2017

      Sorry I »muddied the water« with the tangent about whether Nik works on CC 2017, maybe you should start a new thread to get actual feedback on alternatives.


      c.pfaffenbichler  wrote

      Sorry I »muddied the water« with the tangent about whether Nik works on CC 2017, maybe you should start a new thread to get actual feedback on alternatives.

      Perhaps a major aspect of this request is that NIK is now free.   It would be a very decent collection of effects even if priced similarly to alternative plug-ins like Topaz, and I don't personally know of anything as good that comes free.  On1 has a few freebees, but I doubt they come close to the NIK filters, and I don't know if it includes a B&W.   Silver Efex is probably the best tool of its kind at _any_ price!

      ON1 Effects 10.5 Free – ON1, Inc.

      [EDIT] Perhaps I should have mentioned that I mostly use several of the Topaz plugins, but that's mainly because I have been doing so for a very long time now, and am used to them.   I would use Silver Efex Pro 2 for monotone work though.

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