If you don’t want the fuss and you’re happy with regular ‘destructive’ editing, you can still work with regular JPEG and TIFF images. It means working with some pretty large double-size TIFF files, but they contain both the original image, the edited version and the Analog Efex Pro editing instructions, so you can pick up where you left off and re-edit your images without having to start again. Until the release of Nik Collection 5, it really had any significant changes since DxO took over the Nik Collection, although with Nik Collection 3 it did benefit from DxO’s new non-destructive workflow using the ‘multipage’ TIFF format. You can select a preset look and stop there, select a preset and then modify its adjustments, or start from a blank canvas and choose your own filters and effects. It follows the same principle as the rest by offering a selection of preset image effects which are constructed using individual components like film effects, borders, vignettes and more. And, if you’re into retro effects, it’s perhaps the most interesting in the whole Nik Collection. Analog Efex Pro was the only Nik Collection plug-in added under Google’s ownership.
