Google received praise from photographers last year when it made its $150 Nik Collection of popular photo editing software 100% free. But alas, all good things come to an end: Google has quietly announced that it will be abandoning the Nik Collection from here on out.
The announcement was made through a simple banner message found on the Nik Collection homepage.

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“The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 through 10.10; Windows Vista, 7, 8; and Adobe Photoshop through CC 2015,” Google writes. “We have no plans to update the Collection or add new features over time.”

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Google originally acquired Nik Software back in 2012, bringing the Nik Collection and the popular photo editing app Snapseed into the fold. Snapseed had become one of the most popular photo editing apps in the iTunes App Store, and was perceived as a photo filter competitor to Instagram.

Google Nik Software Complete Collection 1.2.11 for Mac OS X – Since NIK software is acquired by Google is the price of the entire collection has fallen dramatically. This creative plugin is a lot more interesting for photographers. That seemed Maurice Duke a good reason to go once to delve into this software!

But things have been going to well for the Nik family of software. In 2013, Google announced that it was killing off Snapseed for Desktop. At around the same time, Google regained some goodwill when it dropped the price of the Nik Collection from its original cost of about $500 to $150.

Three years later, Google yanked that $150 price tag and made the software free. While many photographers lauded Google for the generous move, others wondered whether it was the beginning of the end for the popular collection of tools.

If you’re a fan of the Nik Collection, you’ll still be able to use the tools indefinitely for now, but there’s no guarantee that the software will be supported well by future versions of Photoshop, Mac OS, and Windows. But who knows — perhaps Google will decide to make the Nik Collection an open source project for independent developers to further develop and keep alive.

The famous Google Nik collection with photo editing plug-ins is free since March last year (https://plus.google.com/+NikCollection/posts/AFGsG2Di7EK) - download it here:

If you are using Photos 3.0 on High Sierra you can call the stand-alone applications of the Nik collection simply using 'Image > Edit with', while you are viewing a photo enlarged in Photos.

In earlier versions of Photos you need a photo editing extension, that will call an external editor, for example the 'External Editors extension'. This extension is no longer available from the AppStore, after High Sierra has been released. I hope, everyone purchased this extension in time.

After downloading the NIK Collection from Google's site https://www.google.com/nikcollection/, run the installer. You will find the stand-alone programs in the Applications folder in the subfolder 'Nik Collection'. Run each of them to test them (but not the Uninstaller 😁).

After you restart the Mac, the External Editor Extension will be able to see them and show them in Photos.

To use them, open the photo in Photos in Edit mode by selecting the thumbnail and hitting the Return key.

Now click 'Extensions' in the Edit panel and select 'External Editors'.

In the External editors select the NIK plug-in you want to use:

Now you will see the editor window of the selected plug-in and can edit your photo. When done, use the 'Save' button in the plug-in and then the Save Changes in 'External Editors'.

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Now the edited photo will appear in Photos.

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Using photo editing extensions will usually create an additional original master image file. It increases the storage required for your photos. Don't use external editors for tasks, that can be done in Photos. By doing simple things in Photos you are able to revert all adjustments individually and to save storage.

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On a stand-alone basis Dfine2 and Viveza2 are working well. I am using tis work-around to use them in Photos 2.0. I export the original from Photos to the Desktop, then ctrl-click to to use 'Open with Dfine (or Viveza2). Then I am using the External editor extensions 'Replace with Image from Disk' to pair the Viveza edited photo with the Version in Photos. This is giving the same result as directly editing from Photos.