Nik Software
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Digital image processing, digital photography |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Founder | Nils Kokemohr[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Owner | Alphabet Inc. |
Number of employees | >100[4] |
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| Website | www |
Nik Software is a software development company established in 1995 and based in San Diego, California.[5] Nik Software develops multiple image editing plug-ins and tools (for digital image processing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop) and Snapseed, a popular image enhancement application for iOS and Android.
In September 2012, Nik Software was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount.[4]
Foundation
In 1995 Nik Software (originally Nik Multimedia) was founded by Nils Kokemohr in Hamburg. Nik Software focused on digital photography and graphic design. The Nik Software team developed Nils Efex! and Nils Type Efex!, these were a combination of Photoshop actions and textures.[6] In 1999 Michael J Slater joined Nik Software, Inc as CEO of the company. He led the company from a small software developer company to a software research and development company. The various tools of the Nik collections are now recognized and leading in developing software products and technologies for digital photography.[7]
Nik Collection
History
The Nik Collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture.[8] The collection was originally priced at $500, but after Google acquired Nik, the price was dropped to $150 in order to, according to Josh Haftel, a Google+ product manager, "get [the tools] out to more and more people".[8]
On March 24, 2016, Google announced that they will make the entire Nik Collection a free download, a departure from the software's previous cost of $150.[9][10]
Overview
| Product name | Functionality[11] |
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| Analog Efex Pro | Applies film-era camera, lens, and film simulation to digital images. |
| Color Efex Pro | Package of filters that comes with many effects e.g. HDR effect |
| Dfine | Noise reduction |
| HDR Efex Pro | Specialized program for processing HDR pictures |
| Sharpener Pro | Image sharpening |
| Silver Efex Pro | Black & White conversion |
| Viveza | Color control with advanced functions to change contrast and saturation |
References
- ^ "Nik Software gobbled up by Google". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Nik Software gets into photo-editing tools for 'Debbie Digital'". USA Today. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Nik Software, Inc. - Current & past teams". ChrunchBase Aol Inc.
- ^ a b Miller, Claire (September 17, 2012). "Google Buys Nik to Lure Photographers to Google Plus". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. The New York Times.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (September 17, 2012). "Google Acquires Nik Software, The Company Behind The Popular Snapseed Photo Editing App For iOS". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch.
- ^ Nik Software Tools Bundle by Joshua A. Haftel. John Wiley & Sons.
- ^ "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9550253/Google-takes-on-Instagram-with-Snapseed.html". Telegraph UK. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
{{cite news}}: External link in|title= - ^ a b Wauters, Robin (March 25, 2013). "Google bundles acquired Nik Software plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, drops entire set price to $149". thenextweb.com. The Next Web.
- ^ Allan, Patrick (March 24, 2016). "Google's Nik Collection of Photo Editing Software Is Now Completely Free". lifehacker.com. Lifehacker.
- ^ "Today we're making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free". plus.google.com. Google. March 24, 2016.
- ^ "About the Google Nik Collection". Google.