
In a post shared publicly on the Google+ page of the Nik Collection, google also added: So if, you recently discovered that a DSLR set to auto can work wonders even for the most inexperienced hands, you might want to take that a little further and add some professional effects to your images, legally! Anyway, Google was originally going to offer the Nik Collection for around ZMW1,600, down from around ZMW5,600, but, that has since changed with Google announcing that the collection will now be freely available to download from the Nik Collection page.Īccording to Google, the Nik collection offers “a powerful range of photo editing capabilities - from filter applications that improve colour correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the colour and tonality of images,”. And Google’s primary intention, was of course to gain a controlling hand over the popular Android/iOS photo editing application Snapseed, but that aside.


Sometime in 2012, Google purchased a German company called Nik software that specialized in photo editing tools that targeted the amateur to professional photographers.
