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Google has said it will continue upgrading its Snapseed iOS app (a

But in 2013 Google killed the Mac version (along with a PC version) even though Nik had announced the product only about a year earlier, just before being acquired. The acquisition included Snapseed picture-editing apps for iOS and Mac. Google’s Nik Software buyout has been a mixed blessing for photography enthusiasts in recent years. Mac and iOS users should probably not wait for the collection to spawn Apple Photos extensions any time soon. In a Google+ post, the company wrote, “As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile … we’ve decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.” Google has not said whether it will continue to update the Nik Collection, but it seems to be signaling that the suite has now become abandonware.

Silver Efex Pro for black-and-white editing.Color Efex Pro for color correction and retouching.Analog Efex Pro for mimicking classic films and lenses.The seven Nik Collection editing tools, a part of Google’s 2012 acquisition of Nik Software, work both as standalone apps and as plug-ins for Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop programs, as well as for Apple’s now-defunct Aperture, which some still use. The company is issuing refunds to those who purchased the suite in 2016. Google has made a freebie of its Nik Collection, a set of advanced Mac and PC photo editing tools that, until last week, cost $150, and at one time went for $500. Google Gives Away Its Nik Collection Photo-editing Apps