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Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

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Post by scintill76 »

arjie wrote: post #28
gfody wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a travesty. Someday we will look back and see the whole web application trend as a technological plague that wiped out great native desktop applications replacing them with inferior web versions that nobody actually wanted.

Right now I see it as a technological boon that ensures that I have access to software irrespective of my OS platform. That used to matter so much previously. Now it doesn't, and that's great.

> that ensures that I have access to software

...until they shut off the server that serves you that software, or remove/change features you liked. In the old days, you could save your software somewhere and know you could always use it and it wouldn't change on you.

Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

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Post by shagen »

stan_rogers wrote: post #29
bribri wrote: post #19

Hoping for Google Photos integration...

That would require a lot of work. There are parts, at least, of the Nik collection that use deep hooks into Photoshop; it's not just a set of typical 8BA/8BF "give me a pointer to a TIFF I can play with" plugins.

This didn't happen in the last years. I doubt it will happen at all. I think they're more interested in the algorithms to reuse them in Google Apps the one or the other way.

Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

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Post by piyush_soni »

gfody wrote: post #26
themartorana wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Photos is amazing, superior, and everything I've wanted for years. Seriously.

I couldn't disagree with you more, Google Photos is garbage compared to Picasa. There's no folders and no tags (for writing a quick description that applies to a bunch of pictures), no manual face tagging (for when the magic fails, or tagging pets, or tagging people that were there but not in the photo, or just tagging things that aren't faces), no people pane (where you can select two or more people to quickly see a…

Manual face tagging is there now, and it definitely looks like they're trying to bring as many (relevant to web) Picasa features as possible to Google Photos.

Google Photos is 'partially' superior because of its super-search, which was not there in Picasa. People, place, things or time (and their combinations), it can search them all without any manual tagging required. Picasa Desktop or web couldn't search photos of "Alice and Bob riding hiking/riding a boat" by just typing that in. Sure, they could have built that feature to the desktop app as well, that would have been the best.

Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

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Post by wodenokoto »

scintill76 wrote: post #31
arjie wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now I see it as a technological boon that ensures that I have access to software irrespective of my OS platform. That used to matter so much previously. Now it doesn't, and that's great.

> that ensures that I have access to software ...until they shut off the server that serves you that software, or remove/change features you liked. In the old days, you could save your software somewhere and know you could always use it and it wouldn't change on you.

By that logic, it is perfectly fine that Google stopped developing Picasa, since the executables are still available somewhere

Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

#37

Post by SyneRyder »

dergachev wrote: post #12

See https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/4bsn5a/google_...

Worth looking at for the mention of folks obtaining refunds outside of the advertised period. Only offering refunds to customers in the last 2.5 months seems rough, but it appears that if you contact Google they're offering refunds up to about a year ago.

Re: Google Nik collection now available for free

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Post by dave2000 »

thenomad wrote: post #38

This seems like the rare case where a more descriptive title would really help this item. I nearly didn't click on it, because I had no idea it was relevant to one of my major interests, photography.

Looks horrific. Tragic over sharpening, crossed with HDR. Best avoided unless you're into instagram filters to disguise cheap phone camera based photography.
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