This is a cool product and certainly worth the free upgrade for existing owners. Except for the first shot below where I did experiment with custom settings, the others are simply unedited preset versions which were one click edits. This product is pretty fun for taking completely unedited images (such as these in-camera JPEG’s taken Canon 1D X using a 24-70mm f/2.8L II lens) and making them look cool with literally no work. The UI is a joy to use and performance well once it loads. Beyond that it’s pretty much everything you love about Nik and comes with a bunch of great presets. The absence of the U-Point controls and very slow performance (takes about a minute to load the UI) are about my only gripes about this product. This control is tough to describe, so you’ll just need to try it out for yourself in the free demo (if you are the last person left on Earth who doesn’t already own the Nik Collection).
This control is typical Nik in that it is both revolutionary and easy to use, so for the filters where it is offered – I love it! In fact, I really wish they had it in Color Efex and others where vignettes and blurs can be added.
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While I can think of great things that could be done with the missing U-Point controls, I am happy to say that the Bokeh and Zoom filters both feature a really cool control which seems to be called the “on-image placement control” which is much like the onOne Software spider found in FocalPoint, except it doesn’t suck. Shockingly in this product, there are NO U-Point controls!!!! As a result, when I use any Nik product the first thing I do is see what I can do with the U-Point controls. These brilliantly designed controls (which are basically intelligent masks) changed the lives of photographers and the world of photo editing. If you ask anyone why the love the Nik collection, the first word that comes out of their mouth is U-Point controls. The on-image placement control replaces the beloved U-Point for selected filters only Just when all hope was lost, the unthinkable happened – an all new product, Analog Efex Pro, gets released much to the surprise of the entire community (and even former Nik employees)!!! Not only that, it’s a pretty darn cool product to boot! What’s even more insane, is that it is FREE for anyone who already owns the Nik Collection by Google, so if you don’t have it then go get it now! User Interface Thoughts I didn’t expect any updates, innovation or really anything moving forward and I was very sad. Like many people, I had pretty much written off the Nik Collection by Google as being dead and gone. A familiar Nik interface will please current collection owners
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