
Installing the current DXO NIK Collection 4 forcefully removes all older versions and the included new Silver Efex Pro 3 is not able to open Smart Filters created with Silver Efex Pro 2. So editing older files with such Smart Filters is simply not possible anymore. Especially Silver Efex is for me the best and most intuitive tool out there for black and white conversions.īeing able to come back to images later and change my editing has always been import to me, so I use non-destructive workflows wherever possible. Before DXO took over and introduced non-destructive editing, the only way to achieve this with the NIK Collection was to apply them as Smart Filters in Photoshop, a technique I used extensively in the past. Editing Silver Efex 2 Smart Filters after installing Silver Efex 3Īs you may know from reading my previous posts, I am a big fan of the NIK Collection, first released by NIK Software, then for some time taken over by Google and now being owned and further developed by DXO.
