Hello, this is my first post on these forums. This morning I downloaded the Nik Collection and, eventually, after following Google's troubleshooting suggestion to manually install, most of the Collection now appears under Photo>Edit In.
"4. While Lightroom is still open, click Edit> Preferences OR Lightroom > Preferences.
5. Click on the "External Editing" tab at the top of preferences.
6. Midway down on the right click on the "Choose" button and locate the Nik Collection application file for your product. Typically it can be found at either, C:\Program Files\Google\Nik Collection\Viveza 2\Viveza 2.exe, OR Macintosh HD |Applications | Nik Collection | Viveza 2 | Viveza 2. For other products, replace Viveza 2 with the appropriate product.
7. Once located, select the program or application file as indicated above and click "Choose".
8. Set the file format to "TIFF", Color Space to sRGB (or the one of your choice), Bit Depth to 16-bit, Resolution to 240, and Compress to None.
9. Under Preset click the drop down selector and choose, "Save Current Settings as New Preset" from the list.
10. Type in the name of the plug-in such as"Viveza 2" and click Create."
However, the instructions tell you not to use this method for HDR Efex Pro 2 and so I had to search for the method of doing this. The Google suggestion for this is as follows:
"If Lightroom was installed prior to running the installer for HDR Efex Pro 2 and HDR Efex Pro 2 is not available, the Export settings within Lightroom may not be correctly enabled. In Lightroom, go to File, then Export. Next to "Export To," select Google. Then click the "Add" button under the Preset list, and title the Preset "HDR Efex Pro 2." HDR Efex Pro 2 will now be available under the Export With Preset menu."
However, the only choices I can see in the main "Export To" drop down box are email, hard drive and CD/DVD.
HDR Efex Pro 2 shows up with the rest of the Nik Collection under Applications in Finder so it appears to be on my system but I would be grateful if anyone could please tell me how to access it from Lightroom!
"4. While Lightroom is still open, click Edit> Preferences OR Lightroom > Preferences.
5. Click on the "External Editing" tab at the top of preferences.
6. Midway down on the right click on the "Choose" button and locate the Nik Collection application file for your product. Typically it can be found at either, C:\Program Files\Google\Nik Collection\Viveza 2\Viveza 2.exe, OR Macintosh HD |Applications | Nik Collection | Viveza 2 | Viveza 2. For other products, replace Viveza 2 with the appropriate product.
7. Once located, select the program or application file as indicated above and click "Choose".
8. Set the file format to "TIFF", Color Space to sRGB (or the one of your choice), Bit Depth to 16-bit, Resolution to 240, and Compress to None.
9. Under Preset click the drop down selector and choose, "Save Current Settings as New Preset" from the list.
10. Type in the name of the plug-in such as"Viveza 2" and click Create."
However, the instructions tell you not to use this method for HDR Efex Pro 2 and so I had to search for the method of doing this. The Google suggestion for this is as follows:
"If Lightroom was installed prior to running the installer for HDR Efex Pro 2 and HDR Efex Pro 2 is not available, the Export settings within Lightroom may not be correctly enabled. In Lightroom, go to File, then Export. Next to "Export To," select Google. Then click the "Add" button under the Preset list, and title the Preset "HDR Efex Pro 2." HDR Efex Pro 2 will now be available under the Export With Preset menu."
However, the only choices I can see in the main "Export To" drop down box are email, hard drive and CD/DVD.
HDR Efex Pro 2 shows up with the rest of the Nik Collection under Applications in Finder so it appears to be on my system but I would be grateful if anyone could please tell me how to access it from Lightroom!
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