Nik Collection 5 is a group of 8 plug-in software packages for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab (formerly DxO Optics Pro). More recently, however, DxO has switched to developing Nik Collection further and the latest version, Nik Collection 4 was launched on 2nd June 2021.

There then followed a period of stabilisation during which DxO worked on correcting all the compatibility issues and glitches that had arisen during Google’s tenure. Thankfully, in October 2017, DxO, the developer of the widely respected optical correction software now called PhotoLab, announced that it had bought Nik Collection from Google. However, in Spring 2017, Google confirmed that it wouldn’t develop the software any further. Nik Collection continued to be popular, possibly helped by the fact that in early 2016, Google made it free to download.

At the time this was largely thought to be to enable Google to get hold of Snapseed, an excellent mobile image editing app. Nik Collection, a group of Adobe Photoshop plugins, was originally launched by Nik Software but in September 2012 it was acquired by Google.

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