DxO promises that the Nik Collection 2018 will be fully compatible with the latest Mac and PC operating systems, as well as the latest Adobe CC products such as Lightroom and Photoshop (Elements). The new release now also means the end of the free version of Google. Then DxO took over Google’s Nik Collection in late 2017 and has begun refurbishing the classic image effects. In September 2012, Google had taken over the plug-in collection from the Hamburg software company Nik Software and initially paid for, later also offered for free – but without product maintenance. This has now the French software company DxO announced. Nik Collection’s image editing plug-ins for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are now available in a new version.