I got a nice surprise in my inbox today...

[Ivan Muller]

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...when I joined the forum about two years ago, the perk for signing up as a sponsoring member was a copy of Nik colour Efex. I lost that software in a pc upgrade a while ago...and I have been using Nik silver Efex for a while now. Today I got this message from Google :

 

' Dear Ivan,

Thanks for being a long-time Nik customer. As a registered owner of one or more of our software products, we are pleased to announce that you are now eligible for a free copy of the new Nik Collection by Google, which includes all six of our award-winning plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom, or Aperture.'

 

It includes the following,

 

Color Efex Pro 4

Dfine2

Fusion express

Silver Efex2

Sharpener Pro Raw presharpener

Sharpener Pro output sharpener

Viveza 2

 

All in all a great little present. I will post some before and after images here once I get the hang of some of them...

[Ivan Muller]

Managed to do a before and after. Before is just as is out of camera with LR4, with no adjustments. After image via 'Color Efex Pro4' and the 'bleach bypass' preset. Then sharpened with 'Raw presharpener'. Have a look here for some more adjustments and PP made with my 'Nik collection' plug ins.....Ivan Muller, the lazy travel photographer ...

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[rafikiphoto]

I saw that Google are giving a Collection free to existing users of at least one Nik product. I was just wondering if I need to buy the Nik collection now as I will shortly get a copy of Silver Efex 2 when my M Monochrom arrives tomorrow. I guess I'll register asap and see if I get the offer letter. I hope so.

 

Incidentally the collection is a further $22 cheaper using code MU-43.

[Ivan Muller]

I saw that Google are giving a Collection free to existing users of at least one Nik product. I was just wondering if I need to buy the Nik collection now as I will shortly get a copy of Silver Efex 2 when my M Monochrom arrives tomorrow. I guess I'll register asap and see if I get the offer letter. I hope so.

 

Incidentally the collection is a further $22 cheaper using code MU-43.

 

I got the whole collection for free.

[DigitalHeMan]

I bought the collection last month for 250$ yesterday Google refunded 100$ to my Paypal account to make up for the difference between the old and new price. Very impressed by that, excellent customer focused move.

[rafikiphoto]

Very impressed by that, excellent customer focused move.

 

Amazed!

[IWC Doppel]

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Anyone know where in the UK the NikSoftware products can be bought cheaper ?

[IWC Doppel]

Looks like I can get this via credit card and a charge

[Jeff S]

Another discussion started here.

 

Jeff