
13.Create one-of-a-kind effects with ParticleShop, a powerful NEW Photoshop brush plugin powered by Painter. There's a 30-day free trial available for the plugin package, afterwards it costs around $50/£37.

Other tools include Sharpener Pro, which brings out hidden details in pictures HDR Efex Pro, which processes images into artistic HDR photos Viveza, a tone and colour adjustment tool and Silver Efex Pro, which provides darkroom-inspired controls for black-and-white images. Nik Collection currently includes: Analog Efex Pro, which replicates the classic look of analog cameras, film stock, and lenses Color Efex Pro, a collection of filters for color correction, retouching, and effects and Dfine, which allows you to process images with noise reduction.

Google acquired it and made it free, and it's since changed hands again – this time to DxO.


Pulling together seven different Lightroom and Photoshop plugins in one essential plugin package, Nik Collection (opens in new tab) used to exist as a $500 photo processing package in its own right. Nik Collection pulls together seven different Lightroom and Photoshop plugins in one essential package
