Nik software. Does it still make sense in 2016?

[jeff_delman]

<p>Been using NIK with Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6 for probably under 15 hours. I do about equal amounts of B&W and color photography, and have a pretty fine critical eye in post-processing. <br /><br />So far, I've gotten best results where I begin my 'developing' in Lightroom, then go into NIK - either directly through Lightroom, or through moving the image to edit in Photoshop and then into NIK. Then sometimes I like to do a little further touch-up in Lightroom. When I did that, the image would flash on and off, be slow to take on adjustments, and really heat my up my Mac. <br /><br />I realized while working in NIK via Photoshop that it was carrying layers. Not sure if that's the case in Lr, but still had the flashing problem - though a bit faster to control it seemed (still bogged down). <br /><br />I luckily realized that the best thing to do was start in Lr, move it to edit in Ps, open NIK, work it up, save the NIK image. Then still in Ps, I could go Layers > Flatten, then Save and reopen in Lightroom. There I can function further with it in Lightroom beautifully.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>

[marco_ristuccia]

Hi Jeff,

 

as far as I remember, there is an option in the Silver FX settings page which lets you chose whether to put the filtered

image on a new layer or just apply the filter to the current layer.

Once saved, the option will keep your choice for all future uses.

 

Regards.

[nick_fox1]

<p>Very short answer : yes it does !<br>

90% of my images are processed with NIK. </p>

 

[10934753]

This discussion will become mute for many of us who use Macs. Nik is no longer supported by Google, and not updated. It crashes on most new Macs running updated operating systems especially when used with photoshop. Silver efex still works on my 2016 PowerBook but none of the other Nik components do. Sadly NIk is history.

[Richard Williams]

A shame if everyone with recent Macs is seeing this. Of course the clock is always ticking when development stops, but the last release was only 18 months ago. No problem on Windows 10 (but then that will still run 15 year old copies of PS!).