What are the new features?

This information applies to version(s): 6

Five of the eight plugins that make up Nik Collection 6 saw 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 layers as Smart Objects*
• Apple M1/M2 compliance*
• Parameters from previous 15 saved imaged remembered and can be reapplied at any time*
• Rewrote Nik Sharpener & 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 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)