To import these presets (or any others), click the ‘+’ button (circled) alongside the Imported panel heading in the left sidebar. Just click on the download link below, unzip the file and then follow the instructions in the next step. It’s just as easy to import presets, and you can find out for yourself by downloading the presets I’ve exported. Each preset file is only around 5 kilobytes in size, and that’s because they’re simply a set of processing instructions. The export takes just a couple of moments. ![]() When you press this button, Analog Efex Pro prompts you to choose a location on your computer to save the presets to. To export my presets for sharing with other people, I need to press the Export All button (circled) at the bottom of the custom presets panel. The main window shows the ‘Cyanotype’ preset applied to a still life image. You use custom presets just as you use those that come built in – they’re simply stored in a separate panel. Here are eight custom presets I’ve created while I’ve been writing this series, displayed in the Custom panel in the left sidebar. In this part I’m going to show how to save presets you’ve created as external files you can share with other people – and how to import presets sent to you by others by downloading the free Analog Efex Pro presets I’ve created to go with this mini-series. Part 1 looked at Analog Efex Pro basics and how to apply preset effects, part 2 explained the Camera Kit and how to create effects of your own and part 3 showed how to create, save and work with your own Analog Efex Pro custom presets. This was written for the first version of Analog Efex Pro, but the tools and presets still apply for the latest DxO version. ![]() Note: Following many requests, I’m republishing this article with the download link restored but the content unchanged. It joins the existing plug-ins in the Nik Collection, now owned and distributed by DxO. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.Welcome to the fourth and final part of this mini-series on Google’s brand new film and camera simulation plug-in, Analog Efex Pro. Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. ![]() In a post shared publicly on the Google+ page of the Nik Collection, google also added: So if, you recently discovered that a DSLR set to auto can work wonders even for the most inexperienced hands, you might want to take that a little further and add some professional effects to your images, legally! Anyway, Google was originally going to offer the Nik Collection for around ZMW1,600, down from around ZMW5,600, but, that has since changed with Google announcing that the collection will now be freely available to download from the Nik Collection page.Īccording to Google, the Nik collection offers “a powerful range of photo editing capabilities - from filter applications that improve colour correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the colour and tonality of images,”. And Google’s primary intention, was of course to gain a controlling hand over the popular Android/iOS photo editing application Snapseed, but that aside. Sometime in 2012, Google purchased a German company called Nik software that specialized in photo editing tools that targeted the amateur to professional photographers.
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