Head to DxO's dedicated Nik Collection site if you'd like to snag free versions of the plug-ins while you still can.ĭxO acquires Nik Collection assets from Google and plans to set a new bar on Photo editing softwares The company plans to continue actively developing and improving the mobile image editing app. Not surprisingly, Nik-developed Snapseed is not included in the transaction, and will remain with Google. Meniere also mentions that they'd like to work with the Nik community to take the software in a direction that they'd like to see it go.

Meniere hints that this may not always be the case, and DxO plans to develop a new 'Nik Collection 2018' for mid-next year. The Nik Collection in its present state will continue to be offered for free – for now. Krishnaswamy mentioned Google's need to focus on its Photos application, but that they want the Nik community to have a future, and a place to continue using the suite's tools. We spoke with Aravind Krishnaswamy, a Google Engineering Director, and DxO founder/CEO Jerome Meniere about the acquisition.

DxO will offer a new flagship application called PhotoLab, a version of OpticsPro that will incorporate Nik Collection's U Point technology. It will change hands from Google to DxO, who will continue to offer it as Photoshop and Lightroom plug-ins, as well as incorporate it into their own software. Look alive, Nik Collection fans: the software suite is back from the (mostly) dead.

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