Thanks to the newly refined and functional user experience in both of these plug-ins, presets are now more accessible, with improved options for saving and editing favorite settings. Nik Color Efex is a powerful means of enhancing and manipulating color, while Nik Analog Efex can recreate vintage photographic effects. This new version features a tool to reduce haze, and there are 29 accurately reproduced color film grains. The user interfaces of Nik Color Efex and Nik Analog Efex have been rebuilt from the ground up, bringing them into line with the recent updated Nik Silver Efex and Nik Viveza. Also reappearing are Nik Sharpener and Nik DFine for noise reduction. The collection includes the presets regular users are accustomed to, including black and white presets (Silver Efex Pro), HDR effects, color toning, and Color EFX Pro, along with Analog Efex. The tools also offer U-Point technology, seen in some other DXO software, that gives you the ability to make smart selections of parts of an image. Taken together, the collection offers 300 presets, each of which can be adjusted to taste, and your new creations can be saved.

Running that way, the collection presents itself as a single window where you can select any of the eight included tools.

The software can run standalone as individual tools, but is usually used as a Photoshop or Lightroom plug-in.

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