And you may want to as some of the math has improved! With all that said, the updates in Nik 5 Color Efex 5, I find are worth all the hassles. You cannot modify and save the changes to Presets in the Imported Panel! If you want to change any aspect of them, you will need to recreate them in Custom and then you can modify and save them on the fly all you want. When you install them, they will go into the Imported Panel in Color Efex 5.

BEFORE YOU DO THAT, you might want to do screen grabs of your recipes and all their numbers so you can recreate them in Nik 5 Color Efex 5.Īnd here are my Nik 5 Color Efex 5 Presets in a Zip file for you to download and install if you’d like. With that and the fact that any “Recipes” you created before (now called Presets) don’t work in Nik Color Efex 5, you might as well delete the old ones when you install Nik 5 Color Efex. They’re forcing us to delete Nik 4 to install Nik 5 seals the fate of those old files and any flexibility we had worked for in our workflow.

In fact, you’ll see the warning symbol next to that layer. This is no longer true for all my images finished with Color Efex 4 or earlier now. If I double-click on it, it will open and bring up the Color Efex UI. The Nik Color Efex is its own layer under the Smart Object. I apply my Nik Color Efex Preset to that layer. In my workflow, I bring my Nef into ACR and then open it as a Smart Object in Photoshop. My first warning to you is that the images you finished with Nik 4, the layer with Nik Color Efex cannot be opened by Nik 5 to make changes. You have to delete Nik 4 to install Nik 5. The Color Efex 5 does that and a whole bunch more! The new update I hoped would at the very least take care of some long-residing bugs (it does!). Using Nik back when it was only Beta, it has been an essential part of my imaging finishing. If you’ve launched your Nik 4 Color Efex Pro in the past few days, you probably saw the notice that Nik 5 is now available from DxO.

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