Update: The day after this blog and four days after the initial acquisition was announced, Gundotra posted on Google+: "I also want to make something clear: we're going to continue offering and improving Nik's high-end tools and plug-ins. Google owes Nik users the courtesy of some detail on whether these products have a future. Some of Nik's users have invested hundreds of dollars in multiple plugins. Even those of us who are heavily involved in social networking and upload lots of photos to multiple sites don't want to do all our serious photo editing on a social networking site in the cloud.
#Viveza or dfine software#
There's a fair amount of unease among users of Nik's desktop software, myself included, that some of the desktop software will no longer be developed and supported. However, that doesn't account for desktop products like Silver Efex, Color Efex, Viveza, Dfine and HDR Efex.
#Viveza or dfine professional#
Google+ has already generated a following among some professional photographers such as Scott Kelby, author of popular PhotoShop instruction books. In a Google+ post, Google senior VP of engineering Vic Gundotra says only that "We want to help our users create photos they absolutely love, and in our experience Nik does this better than anyone." That's it.īut what does that mean? And who is "we," Google+ or Google at large? The guess is that Google will use Nik technology in Google+, allowing users to do some more serious Web editing of their photos than Picasa allows.
Incredibly, Google hasn't given Nik's user community the slightest inkling of what it plans on doing with Nik's product line. Want to make a bland sky pop? Instead of tediously selecting the sky in your image by manually "brushing" or clicking and dragging, adding a control point or two allows you to make various adjustments only on portions of the photo with similar tonality. Unfortunately, while these two plug-ins now look much better, some others still feel very dated, and there are inconsistencies even among the more recently-updated plug-ins. Most feature what Nik calls "control point" technology that makes it easy to do selective adjustments on only part of a picture. Nik also sells several other popular Photoshop/Lightroom plugins for post-processing digital files. Its desktop photo software lineup includes what many consider the top software for creating artistic black-and-white photographs from color digital files, Silver Efex Pro.
#Viveza or dfine android#
The good news is, I probably won't have to wait too much longer for Snapseed to come to Android the Nik Web site has been pledging an Android version was "coming soon" for quite awhile now.īut among serious hobbyist photographers as well as pros, Nik is more than just Snapseed. "Holy crap! Definitely didn't see that one coming," posted well-known Lightroom blogger and trainer Matt Kloskowski on Google+.Īmong mobile device users, Nik is probably best known for its popular Snapseed photo editor - Apple's 2011 iPad app of the year that's not yet available for Android. Still, I wasn't alone in my surprise to hear that it's purchased Nik Software. Yes, Google's been on a buying binge, so no, we shouldn't be shocked that it's made another moderate-sized acquisition.
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