I used to be a software developer when I was young. Speaking for myself I am pleased with the changes that were made to the interface and control points in Silver Efex and Viveza and look forward to them being implemented in the other apps. Read of some of the experiences and see if the bad experiences are occurring to with the way you use the Nik Collection apps, your OS, and your expectations. I would recommend that you check out the link to the DxO Forum. The new way is sure to be implemented in the other Nik Collection apps at some point. For me, those there capabilities offset the need for having to cope with the old way and the new way of Control Points. However, on the plus side you can now name Control Points and Control Point Groups you can assign name to the Control Points and Control Point Groups and you can save the Control Points in presets you create. The changes to the interface in Silver Efex Pro and Viveza handling of Control Points means you have the old way in all other apps in Nik Collection and a new way in Silver Efex Pro and Viveza. Especially being able to call Viveza 3 from Affinity Photo and save it back to Affinity Photo without the app crashing is a big plus. While I think the changes implemented are good.

That is a situation I don't have because you can't save the settings when calling from Affinity Photo. That only affects you if you have been using it from one of those apps and expecting to go back and edit those settings.

But, Nik 4 will not read the settings from the Nik 3 saved item. Now the reason he did that is because when you use Nik from PhotoShop, PhotoLab, or run it standalone you have the option to save the settings which allows you to work non-destructively. I did read one posting on the DxO forum where an individual was able to install Nik 3 after they did the Nik 4 install and was successfully running them side by side. However, all presets and recipes are retained.

The install procedure for Nik 4 uninstalls Nik 3 completely and you do not have the option to keep it in place. Like I said, my experience has been good so far. So, you may want to visit that forum and read over some of the experiences people seem to be experiencing. However, be aware that on the DxO forum ( ) the postings are mixed for both Windows and MacOS. James, I am running it on Mac mini M1 (2020) macOS Big Sur 11.4 and using it from Affinity Photo and have not had any problems after I got it installed. Did you have to delete Nik 3 first? Or did it just override?ĭid it maintain any preferences or settings?

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