Like the previous versions, the Nik Collection 2018 by DxO is also composed of 7 independent tools for different purposes. That moment has finally come, and on 6 June 2018 DxO announced the release of the “ Nik Collection 2018 by DxO”. Towards the end of October 2017, DxO unexpectedly announced the take-over of Nik from Google, while promising to release a new version of the suite, aimed at professional photographers, in 2018.

Even if the application worked really well and it didn’t really need any actual new features, our fear was that, over time, we would lose Photoshop and Lightroom plug-in compatibility, and in fact, the first problems began to emerge just a bit later. The concerns of us photographers with regard to the actual continuation of its development for professional purposes came true in 2017 when Google announced the intention of abandoning the development of Nik. Fortunately, Google took care to save us photographers by taking over the company and related software copyrights in 2016, first bringing down the price to 150$ and then making it free of charge.īasically, Google acquired the core technology of the software in order to implement it into its own editing application for smartphones, that is Snapseed, seeing (after due consideration) how the simplicity and potential of Nik would be the perfect solution to ride the wave of the “ instant edit” fashion. Over the years, the company began to face the emergence of its first difficulties until it came to a stalemate in 2015, when there was a tangible fear concerning the abandonment of the project. The combination of such characteristics was the reason why the suite was immediately loved despite its price which wasn’t really within everybody’s reach: 500$ for the complete bundle. Unexpectedly (but not so much), DxO has released the new version of the much beloved and controversial Nik Software Collection.įor those who missed the previous episodes, Nik Software is a company established in California in 1995 which has developed photo editing software as simple as they’ve been revolutionary.

Nik collection 2018 by dxo