Nik Collection Update Fixes Capture One Workflow, Adds M1 Native Photoshop Support
When version 4.0 of the Nik software collection was released a few months back, like many of my readers, I was quite disappointed by the bugs in the software that prevented the suite from working with Capture One. Well, the latest release, version 4.2 finally addresses this and the Nik Collection finally works with Capture One again.
Not only that but they have also addressed another big issue: The suite will now work with Photoshop when running natively on an M1 Mac. Until now if you wanted to use any of the applications, such as Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop on an M1 Mac, you had to run photoshop under rosetta. Now, with version 4.2, despite the suite still being Intel native, they will work with Photoshop even when it is running as an Apple Silicon native application.
The other feature listed in the release notes is that Silver Efex Pro has some performance enhancements when using u-point technology in the application.
I’ve been a fan of the Nik software collection from right back when it was originally developed by the now defunct Nik software (before google bought and sold it) so I was really disappointed with the 4.0 release and how it didn’t work with Capture One as it had in previous versions. Not only that, but the company was less than gracious about it. Anyway, thankfully it’s fixed now and it works well so far based on my testing.
If you already have the software, you can upgrade to the latest version through the apps, or by going to your account. If you don’t have the Nik Collection and you’re interested, DXO are having a 30% off sale at the time of writing (until 10th October) and I believe there is also a 30 day trial version available.
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