It was once a $500 package of pro photo editing software but
is now completely free. The Nik Collection of photo editing tools, which was recently
priced at $150 following Google’s acquisition in 2012, is now available free
for everyone.
“As we continue to focus our long-term investments in
building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and
Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for
free,” Google announced this month. Those who have already paid for the
software in 2016 will get their money back automatically.
UPDATE - 2018
The product has now been acquired from Google by DxO
labs. They plan to update the Collection and enhance the U Point technology. At
present the Collection can still be downloaded freely by emailing DxO for a
download link.
