Nik Collection 4 includes eight individual plug-ins covering a range of popular editing tasks and provides easy-to-achieve effects: Define 2 is used for noise reduction Viveza 3 is for adjusting colour and tonality Perspective Efex can be used to adjust lens and perspective distortion HDR Efex Pro 2 allows you to create HDR images from bracketed and single shots Analog Efex Pro 2 offers classic film and camera effects Color Efex Pro 4 provides colour filters and other creative effects Silver Efex Pro 3 offers powerful control over black & white conversions while Sharpener Pro 3 is for sharpening images. This is one of the most comprehensive plug-in suites ever created, and with frequent updates, it’s easy to see why the Nik Collection is once again growing in functionality and indeed popularity.

The Nik Collection 4 by DxO is the latest version of the unwaveringly popular plug-in suite for Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. The Nik Collection by DxO has seen some improvements in recent years, James Abbott takes a look at the latest version to see if it offers enough new features to be a worthy upgrade

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