And this will be the end of the story, because Google will no longer provide any support. So, at some point in the future, the Nik collection will stop working because of an incompatibility with Lightroom, Photoshop or your new operating system. Google knows that the future of photography are smartphones, and they will continue to focus on that area. Just bug fixes and the addition of Analog Efex (which was probably already in the pipeline when Google acquired Nik). And while Snapseed was developed further and further, the Nik collection did not see any major development. Snapseed is a solution to process and enhance your pictures on a mobile phone.

The real reason they acquired Nik was Snapseed. So – why I am posting this under “Commentaries” and not under “News”? 1.The future of the Nik collectionĪt first sight, this seems to be good news for us photographers, right? A very capable suite of plugins available for free, there is not a lot to complain about, right?īut then, you might have followed Googles approach of acquiring companies and products for purely strategic reasons. You can download your copy on the Nik homepage. And a few days ago, Google announced that they are giving away the complete suite for free. In March 2013, I reported that after taking over Nik, Google was selling the complete suite for 149 USD and you were able to get it for even less. Initially priced at 499 USD, a single plugin like Silver Efex Pro was more expensive than Lightroom at that time. Hopefully this is of use to someone and for the record I am using the free legacy version in Adobe CC 2021 (latest version) without any issues.I guess every photographer using Lightroom or Photoshop did at some point look at the Nik collection, a suite of plugins to cover specific requirements. In the event that the links stop working let me know as I have both files downloaded which I could share over Google Drive or similar. Nik Collection legacy version for Windows So below are the download links for both Windows and Mac. However I managed to find a cached version of the original page and took it upon myself to enter my email to receive the download links which alas still worked.

Previously DXO advertised through their help pages that the free version could be downloaded from them even though it is no longer supported.ĭXO have now changed their website and taken away all knowledge of the free legacy version from their help and support pages.

On the back of the thread created by regarding DXO's Nik Collection, I thought I would create this post to help others download the free legacy version direct from DXO themselves.

Nik collection 2012 free download