image processing digital photography founded 1995 founder nils kokemohr 1 headquarters san diego california united states key people michael j slater ceo nils kokemohr cto adam christianson chief web developer 2 3 products analog efex pro color efex pro dfine hdr efex pro sharpener pro silver efex pro viveza snapseed owner alphabet inc. number of employees 100 4 parent google website www.google.com nikcollection nik software is a software development company established in 1995 and based in san diego california . 5 nik software develops multiple image editing plug ins and tools for digital image processing applications such as adobe photoshop and snapseed a popular image enhancement application for ios and android . in september 2012 nik software was acquired by google for an undisclosed amount . 4 contents 1 foundation 2 nik collection 2.1 history 2.2 overview 3 references foundation edit in 1995 nik software originally nik multimedia was founded by nils kokemohr in hamburg . nik software focused on digital photography and graphic design . the nik software team developed nils efex and nils type efex these were a combination of photoshop actions and textures . 6 in 1999 michael j slater joined nik software inc as ceo of the company . he led the company from a small software developer company to a software research and development company . the various tools of the nik collections are now recognized and leading in developing software products and technologies for digital photography . 7 nik collection edit history edit the nik collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug ins for adobe photoshop adobe photoshop elements adobe lightroom and apple s aperture . 8 the collection was originally priced at 500 but after google acquired nik the price was dropped to 150 in order to according to josh haftel a google product manager get the tools out to more and more people . 8 on march 24 2016 google announced that they will make the entire nik collection a free download a departure from the software s previous cost of 150 . 9 10 overview edit product name functionality 11 analog efex pro applies film era camera lens and film simulation to digital images . color efex pro package of filters that comes with many effects e.g. hdr effect dfine noise reduction hdr efex pro specialized program for processing hdr pictures sharpener pro image sharpening silver efex pro black & white conversion viveza color control with advanced functions to change contrast and saturation references edit nik software gobbled up by google . the san diego union tribune . retrieved 21 may 2015 . nik software gets into photo editing tools for debbie digital . usa today . retrieved 21 may 2015 . nik software inc. current & past teams . chrunchbase aol inc. a b miller claire september 17 2012 . google buys nik to lure photographers to google plus . bits.blogs.nytimes.com . the new york times . lardinois frederic september 17 2012 . google acquires nik software the company behind the popular snapseed photo editing app for ios . techcrunch.com . techcrunch . nik software tools bundle by joshua a. haftel . john wiley & sons . http www.telegraph.co.uk technology google 9550253 google takes on instagram with snapseed.html . telegraph uk . retrieved 21 may 2015 . external link in title help a b wauters robin march 25 2013 . google bundles acquired nik software plug ins for photoshop lightroom and aperture drops entire set price to 149 . thenextweb.com . the next web . allan patrick march 24 2016 . google s nik collection of photo editing software is now completely free . lifehacker.com . lifehacker . today we re making the nik collection available to everyone for free . . plus.google.com . google . march 24 2016 . about the google nik collection . google . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nik software & oldid 744149687 categories os x graphics related softwarewindows graphics related softwarephoto software1995 softwarehidden categories cs1 errors external linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aist rk e edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 12 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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