![]() ![]() In general, I think DxO needs to publish a roadmap that shows existing and prospective customers how they plan to evolve their product line. DxO might want users to upgrade to FilmPack 7 to get that “feature”, but if so, I don’t think I’ll follow. For what it’s worth, I also upgraded to FilmPack 6 when it came out it doesn’t run natively on Apple silicon, either. In this case, it’s worth it (for me!), but I agree that DxO is not transparent enough about what has been added (or not) to older versions. so I bit the bullet and paid for the upgrade. I tested v5 of the Nik plugins when they came out, and I could confirm that they all ran within Photoshop without having to run Photoshop under Rosetta. This is obviously not an acceptable workaround. ![]() When I contacted DxO Support about this, they told me this (after a very long wait) and recommended that I run Photoshop under Rosetta. Perspective Efex would therefore not even show up in Photoshop on my 14" October 2021 M1 Max MacBook Pro. What I didn’t realize then is that not all plug-ins had been recompiled to run natively on Apple silicon. I tested v4 on an Intel iMac, and I bought the upgrade from v3. ![]() V4 was NEVER completely upgraded IMO if only 3 plugins out of the entire collection saw version-worthy upgrades. Most aspects of their pricing model have not changed very much over the last several years and are unlikely to do so in the near term, but I suppose that anything is possible. I have had issues with some aspects of DxO’s pricing model in the past and I really do understand your concerns. As I said, If there is nothing in Nik 5 which will be any value to you, there is no reason to upgrade at all. I intended my suggestion as a possible short term alternative to spending $80 at this time. If by do the right thing you mean lowering the cost to you for Nik 5, that is highly unlikely to happen. On1 and Skylum are two that are developing great products while going above and beyond in developing fair relationships with their customers – and Skylum continues to do it in spite of a stinking war! I’m not ready to give up hope that DxO will do the right thing, but, if they choose to continue to have such a sad, non-customer-supportive business model I’ll be looking at one of the other companies out there that do show responsiveness and care toward their customers. If customers simply suck it up and purchase the products without expressing their frustration and displeasure, DxO is never going to improve on these substandard practices. I wish they would replace them with more useful and modern modules like masking and layers.I don’t see that as a solution to a problem… DxO’s unfair treatment of its customers. ![]() The others are out of date and could be scrapped as they are overshadowed by PL4’s abilities to sharpen, denoise, and apply local corrections. I find the CE4, SE3, HDR2, PE(if you don’t have VP3) all to be useful and very nice additions to PL4. The latest version “25th anniversary of Nik” includes 15 new presets for CE4 and 10 new presets for SE3, some of which are pretty nice. I can’t seen to remember the correct procedure, so I find this new feature to be invaluable and very easy to use. Now will come along and tell you that non-destructive workflow is available even with the free version if you save the preset correctly. I’ve used this feature many times and am glad it’s there. My favorite addition is the non-destructive workflow between PL(or Lightroom) and one of the Nik modules. V3 includes Perspective Efex, which is Viewpoint without the RAW support. ![]()
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