NIk Pluging

Lordy, Lordy Lordy…..it’s finally released……and with an apology….as you may be aware the NIK suite is slowing down 3/4 of the photog’s pc’s in the world because you have to disable Photoshop’s 64bit to use their currect old school  sw.

I wasn’t to thrilled throttling back the new PS CS5 ….other plug-in mfg.’s had stepped up and supplied 64 bit (onOne,Topaz  for example) on/before CS5…The NIK suite is core to my workflow and there was nothing coming-out of the NIK web site on availability …..until today….

and in the meantime, guys like Tom Hogan, Scott Kelby and I have switched over to Topaz for ‘deNoise 5, what a great product…..

Now available over at the Nikon site,is the LOOOOONG awaited update to NX2 for Snow Leopard compatibility. Baaack in September when SL was released, the only critical software  that was not compatible with SL and in my work flow was NX2 and View NX. And I really lost quite a bit of hard DD work as I tried work around after work around. I finally had to reinstall SL and so I was not a happy camper with NX2.  And I’m not going to be an early adopter on this release either. I’m going to wait a bit, check it out on a partitioned drive with SL on it, then if all works out… then it will be time to totally upgrade to Snow Leopard again…sigh

This NIK plugin has a silent upgrade announced via subscriber email. Not really sure what it fixed as I didn’t notice any difference.  However, Version 2 this is a very nice plug in and does a lot of the work NX2 does inside of PS4 along with Color Efex Pro.  So you have your choice, use NX2 or use the 2 NIK plug ins….or I’m sure there are many other useful solutions…(it sb mentioned that Viveza2 plugin also is used in Lightroom)

Truth be known,

• The Nikon release is just a mess, lots of complaints out there, and a lot of Mac SL users left NX2 for Lightroom… SL came out in September ! and nothing from NIKON for ~ six months..shame on them.
• And the folks at NIK, the version 1 of  Viveza was featureless crap, which should have been free until the real stuff came out…..but nooo they charged way too much for release 1 and then more $$ for the version 2 upgrade, ….
• I keep track of and own and buy and am involved in over a couple hundred  apps and software and both of these guys get a flat-out “F” for release management and customer management and support of their customer base…..
• maybe they can get their act together now that this release is behind them….let’s hope so