My office for the day – Scotts Miracle-Gro Research Center – Apopka, Florida
Google just announced that it’s making its Nik Collection of desktop photo editing software totally free.
Google acquired Nik Software and its popular Snapseed photo editing application in September 2012. Although Google killed off Snapseed for Desktop about six months later, it was still big news when Google started selling the entire Nik suite (originally valued at around $500) for a reduced rate of $150 later that month.
Now it’s free.
“Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day,” Google writes. “As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.”
The Nik Collection has 7 desktop plug-ins that provide a wide range of photo editing features, including mimicking the look of old cameras and films, retouching and correcting photos, darkroom retouching, adjusting color and tonality, HDR, image sharpening, and noise reduction.
The entire collection is free to download starting today, March 24th, 2016. If you spent money buying the collection anytime this year, you’ll get a full refund of your purchase price (it’ll be automatically issued soon).
“We’re excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now,” Google says. You can download the suite for yourself for both Windows and Mac here.
Camera Raw gets a new look with version 9.5, available now. The update introduces a color scheme that brings Adobe’s Raw conversion software in line with Photoshop and Bridge. ACR 9.5 also extends support to a dozen new cameras, including the Nikon D5/D500 and Canon EOS 80D, fixes a handful of bugs and adds support for new lenses like the Sony FE 85mm F1.4 and 24-70mm F2.8 GM. Get the full details at Adobe’s Lightroom blog.
Camera Raw 9.5 direct download for Windows and Mac
DNG Converter 9.5 download for Windows and Mac
Bugs Fixed in Camera Raw 9.5
- Fix crash/hang in Camera Raw and DNG Converter on some Mac systems when saving multiple images.
- Fix corruption issue that would prevent DNG images originally created by Parrot Bebop Drone devices from being opened after metadata updates.
- Pressing the Option/Alt key while click-dragging on a perimeter handle of a Radial Filter will adjust only that side of the filter. This change in behavior was made to match Lightroom’s behavior. Previously, Option/Alt-clicking on a Radial Filter in Camera Raw would delete that filter.
- Camera Raw Filter now displays the histogram and RGB color readouts using the assigned color space of the corresponding Photoshop document. Previously, Camera Raw Filter always displayed its histogram and RGB color readouts using the ProPhoto color space.
- Improve quality of Boundary Warp for some panoramas.
- Fix bug where EXIF metadata for SIGMA 50mm f/1.4 ART lens on Canon was incorrectly identified as Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/1.4.
New Camera Support in Camera Raw 9.5
- Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
- Canon EOS 80D
- Canon EOS 1300D (Rebel T6, Kiss X80)
- Nikon D5
- Nikon D500
- Olympus PEN-F
- Olympus SH-3
- Panasonic DMC-CM10
- Panasonic DMC-GF8
- Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (DMC-ZS110, DMC-TZ100, DMC-TZ101, DMC-TZ110, DMC-TX1)
- Samsung NX3300
- Sony Alpha a6300 (ILCE-6300)
- Yuneec CGO4
Behind the scenes of a shoot with Promera Sports photographed Thursday March 3, 2016 at the Arnold Classic Sports Festival. Bodybuilders Fred ‘Biggie Smalls & Tiffany Cogan. iPhone photos, please excuse the quality 🙂 #JDeCampPhoto #promera #ArnoldSportsFestival #concret #FredBiggieSmalls #ArnoldClassic #Schwarzenegger #tiffbou
(© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366)
A little trinket found on the floor and repurposed on my ‘puter photographed Monday January 4, 2016. iPhone photos, please excuse the quality 🙂
(© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366)
Batman is out in Galion, Ohio fighting crime photographed Thursday October 8, 2015.
iPhone photos, please excuse the quality 🙂
(© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366)
Going flying today with the OSU Center for Aviation Studies program. Behind the scenes images photographed Sunday November 24, 2013. iPhone photos, please excuse the quality 🙂
(© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366)
To all of my photographer friends (and everyone else)
All Points Bulletin – Be on the look out for the following camera equipment stolen today in the Hilltop Area:
Canon EF 14mm ƒ/2.8 L – Sn# 18577
Canon EF 15mm ƒ/2.8 – Sn# 27155
Canon EF 16-35 ƒ/2.8 L II – Sn# 1312163
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM – Sn# ?
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM – Sn# 502045
Canon 100mm Macro f/2.8L IS USM – Sn# 3040122
Canon Extender EF 1.4x II – Sn# 57022
Canon Extender EF 2x II – Sn# 55958
Canon Speedlite 550EX – Sn# OR1334
Canon Speedlite 540EZ – Sn# OL0111
Canon Speedlite 580EX II – Sn# OG8874
4x Pocket Wizards
And a host of smaller items
All of it was in a Black Domke F-1x bag lifted from the back seat of a car parked infant of the Ohio Public Safety Building on West Broad in the Hilltop about noon.
CPD has the theft report and all was insured – but probably at less than street value 
🙁
reward for Info 
🙂
Thanks
Jim
James DeCamp on the tarmac with Air Force One at Port Columbus International Airport Friday morning June 14, 2002 as President George Bush arrives to give the commencement speech at the Ohio State University graduation ceremonies. (photo courtesy of Terry Gilliam)
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