

The feature I like best with Nik is their control points for fine tuning and I predominantly use colour effects, silver effects for my portraits, and now Analog effects where there are a whole bunch of new presets to play around with such as bokeh, double exposures, multi cameras and the list goes on. However for someone who doesn't edit much unless I'm working for someone else, I find I still pick DxO for my basic clicks for rapid edits for my birds here and I can export directly from DxO to Flickr. There's a lot I like about ON1 especially their NoNoise, their portrait and resize capabilities.

I left DxO for ON1RAW when I got my A1 as DxO took forever to bring out a module for the camera and I could only edit in jpeg whereas ON1RAW were up and running virtually immediately. I'm running Win 10 64bit with Intel i7-10700k cpu 3.80GHz and 32GB RAM on a NVIDIA Ge Force GTX 1660 Super video card. I've never had a problem with the Nik Collection running it from within DxO Photolab, currently PL4 as I didn't think PL5 worth the upgrade but I'm hopeful for PL6 which should be coming in October. I upgraded from Nik 3 thinking V4 wasn't worth it but I'm really enjoying V5 especially the new analogue effects and colour effects. Nik 5.0.2.0 is working perfectly for me too. If you paid for the upgrade to version 4 you might feel cheated since those who paid for an upgrade to version 3 got version 4 for free (as in may case).Įdited by waldo_posth - 29 June 2022 at 11:22

In the DXO forum there is quite a heated discussion about cashing in with version 5. I will report about my experience ASAP.īut I might also go back to version #4 and try to get my money back - if the installation fails continuously. I still have to use Color Efex 5 which has seen a complete refurbishment (getting it was my main reason to upgrade). I told them - so far no answer.Īs it now appears to me, version #5 has been published prematurely and still has a lot of bugs. Unfortunately they had an upload limit of 50MB and their diagnostics software collected 62MB from my computer. The diagnostics software which they provided collected some data from my computer which they wanted to analyze - they asked to upload the data to their site. They offered a new version of the upgrade to download - which got Perspective Efex working, but not the other two.

Contacting support didn't work either at the beginning - you get a numbered link, but that didn't work. Unfortunately, three tools (Perspective Efex, Silver Efex, Viveza) did no longer work after I had installed the upgrade (both, independently and as plug-ins to Photoshop CC).
