Alternatives to Nik Collection
A suite of photo-editing plugins for film looks, black and white conversion and sharpening. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Nik Collection
A suite of photo-editing plugins for film looks, black and white conversion and sharpening.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Nik Collection.
Exposure X7
Commercial RAW photo editor and organizer with film simulations, masking and layers.
Exposure X7 provides hundreds of film simulation presets and can run as a Photoshop and Lightroom plug-in or standalone, but it lacks dedicated sharpening plugins for output.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe's raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing, painting and generative AI edits.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe's photo organizer and RAW editor with a library synced across desktop, web and mobile.
Topaz Photo
Desktop image enhancement software that uses AI models to sharpen, denoise, unblur and upscale photos.
Luminar Neo
A desktop photo editor for Windows and Mac built around AI tools for skies, portraits and relighting.
ON1 Photo RAW
A raw photo editor and organizer with layers, masks, effects and AI tools, sold without subscription.
Negative Lab Pro
A Lightroom Classic plugin that converts scanned colour negatives and slide film into positive images.
