Dxo photolab 2 nik collection software#

Maybe this will happen in version 3 (for which weвЂ™ll have to pay again) but very frankly, now I doubt.

They are disappointed and I understand this. This is what the users who purchased the license for version 1 and now for version 2 were expecting. This would allow to use the Nik plugins without breaking the RAW workflow. This will be possible only when the code of the plugins, modified to work on the RAW format, will be a part of the DPL code itself.

Dxo photolab 2 nik collection software#

At this time, DPL and Nik are just unaware of each other (with exception of the cosmetic addition of the Nik software button in DPL - an addition that didnвЂ™t required much coding). Talking about directly working on RAW files when using the Nik plugins is just nonsense. You have to wait until it becomes a raster image when ACR (which is itself a PS plugin) opens the image in PS after converting it to an in-memory raster image. So, when one is working on a RAW file and wants to use the Nik plugins in order to make some adjustments, the image must first be converted to a raster format (that is, JPEG or TIFF).Д®ven when using Photoshop, this conversion is implicit : you can not access the Nik plugins while the image is processed in Adobe Camera RAW. Whatever the format used, they are totally unaware of the RAW format. They exist in 2 forms : as executables or as DLLs (a 8bf file is a specialized DLL known as a Photoshop plugin).

You can even use them as standalone programs as I explained above. Basically, they are external programs that can only work with raster images, not RAW files. It seems that there is a lot of misunderstanding about what the Nik plugins actually are.