What are the new features?

This information applies to version(s): 6

Five of the eight plugins that make up Nik Collection 6 see significant individual upgrades bringing new features and smoother functionality.

In Nik Collection 6.0:

• Rewrote Nik Dfine
• Improved Nik Perspective with ReShape tool which allows photographers to warp and shape local areas for complete precision or to flip image features
• Improved Nik Color Efex: gains a brand-new Hue/Saturation/Luminance tool for deeper and more accurate control of color and tone
• U Point improvements*:
• Control Point diffusion (feathering)
• Control Lines
• Display all parameters directly on the preview
• Inversion of mask
• Naming / Saving within presets / Color selectivity for all new plugins (new for Dfine and already existed on other ones)
• Installation as plugin for Affinity
• Convert layer as smart Objects*
• Apple M1/M2 compliance*
• Parameters from previous 15 saved imaged remembered and could be reapplied at any time*
• Rewrote Nik Sharpener in 6.2  (free updates will be provided for purchasers of version 6)
• Rewrote Nik HDR Efex in 6.3  (free updates will be provided for purchasers of version 6)

To see the Nik Collection new feature overview for each version directly from this article, please click on this link.

* Nik Sharpener updates coming in Nik Collection 6.2 and Nik HDR Efex updates coming in Nik Collection 6.3 before the end of summer (free updates will be provided for purchasers of version 6)