![]() Nik Collection 5 is a group of 8 plug-in software packages for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab (formerly DxO Optics Pro). More recently, however, DxO has switched to developing Nik Collection further and the latest version, Nik Collection 4 was launched on 2nd June 2021. There then followed a period of stabilisation during which DxO worked on correcting all the compatibility issues and glitches that had arisen during Google’s tenure. Thankfully, in October 2017, DxO, the developer of the widely respected optical correction software now called PhotoLab, announced that it had bought Nik Collection from Google. However, in Spring 2017, Google confirmed that it wouldn’t develop the software any further. Nik Collection continued to be popular, possibly helped by the fact that in early 2016, Google made it free to download. At the time this was largely thought to be to enable Google to get hold of Snapseed, an excellent mobile image editing app. You can’t copy it to a regular layer.Nik Collection, a group of Adobe Photoshop plugins, was originally launched by Nik Software but in September 2012 it was acquired by Google. When you release the mouse, it creates a copy of the Smart Filter.īe aware that you can only drag and copy the Smart Filter onto another Smart Object layer. Whilst holding the key down, click and drag the Smart Filter you want to copy. ![]() Hold down your Option key on a Mac, or Alt key on a PC. If you only want to copy the Smart Filter, you will need to use your mouse and keyboard together. Alternatively, right-click on the Smart Filter using your mouse and select “Delete Smart Filter” in the popup menu. To delete a Smart Filter from a Smart Object you can click and drag the filter, dropping it on the trashcan or dustbin icon at the bottom of the Layers Window. ![]() You can then use the keyboard shortcut “Cmd + J” on a Mac, or “Ctrl + J” on a PC. After you have duplicated the Smart Object, you can delete or move the individual Smart Filters.Īn alternative way to duplicate a Smart Object layer is to click on the layer in the Photoshop Layers Window to select it. You then see a dialog where you can enter the name of the new Smart Object layer. You can then select the “Duplicate Layer…” option in the popup menu. To create a second copy of a Smart Object, right-click on the Smart Object layer in the Photoshop Layers window. When you duplicate or copy a Smart Object, you are also copying any Smart Filters applied to that Smart Object. Which is best will depend on what you intend to do, but it’s likely that only copying only the Smart Object will work best in most instances. Copy the Smart Object together with the Smart Filter. ![]() There are two methods we can use to copy a Smart Filter: Now that we’ve covered the moving and ordering of Smart Filters, we can look at how to copy them. After dragging it over the Smart Object you want to move it to, release the mouse to drop it into location. The easiest way to do this is by clicking and dragging the Smart Filter in the Photoshop Layers Window. Moving the Smart FilterĪfter adding a Smart Filter, you can move it to another Smart Object. This adds the filter to the Smart Object and opens the filter dialog to apply changes. If we select one of the Smart Object layers in the Layers Window, we can add the Camera Raw filter from the Photoshop Filter menu. If you try to add one of these that can’t work as a Smart Filter, Photoshop displays a warning message.Īfter adding a Smart Filter to a Smart Object, the Smart Filter looks and acts like a regular filter. The exceptions to this are third party filters and plug-ins. ![]() Then, if the filter you are trying to add to the Smart Object isn’t a Smart Filter, Photoshop disables it in the menu. That’s why we need to create Smart Object layers before trying to add a Smart Filter. Photoshop only allows you to add Smart Filters to Smart Object layers. ![]()
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