NIK Plugins Killed Trial?

For one day after installing a Trial version of Photoshop CS6 for Mac it worked fine. The next day (today) I installed my NIK/Google Plugins Collection and now Photoshop won't open and says "Your Trial Has Expired" and just offers to let me purchase cloud service or enter a serial number. Now what? How do I get the remaining 29 days of trial back?

Thanks for the quick response Jeff. Not the answer I wanted but at least it's something. I assume the plugins made my setup violate item number two of your link's information:
"Adobe trial software is time limited, and otherwise has the same feature set as the licensed version. Some scenarios can cause trial software to expire early:
Changing the system clock
Modifying the executable file
Attaching a debugger
Automated virus scans
Trial periods can't be extended. After a trial expires, you need a serial number to install the software as a licensed version. Or, you can install trial software on another computer."
I'm probably buying the product anyway but those who have not made the purchase decision could become a lost sale under this scenario... not everyone has "extra" Macs sitting around to cover this plus the lost time and frustration of reinstalling.

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I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use

@I run a Windows 8.1 - Photoshop CS5 under Parallels on an iMac one year old and both having the latest OS. I use a NIK plugin "VIVEZA" which run fine for years without a problem. Latelt and without a reason, the NIK plugin has gone corrupt, (can not use it more the 2 corrections after a get a black background message that there is not enough memory) and the system stops running and a must restart is required. How do I fix this terrible problem?
If it requires a Photoshop CS5 re-install, (I belief that it may fix the problem) and re-install the two third party plugins (NIK Viveza) and (Onone Perfect Resize) how and where do I get to the proper Adobe upload page to do that.
I have tried to fix this problem by changing the memory allocations, I have spend many hours on it and are very disgusted with it but it needs to be fixed. The current memory settings are;
Ram available = 1588 MB
Range = 873 -1143 MB
Recommended Photoshop usage range = 857 however I have tried every setting to max and in between. Nothing works. Current setting = 1588 (max)
The Photoshop I use is registered, I have product # and order # .

Contact NIK for updated/upgraded versions of their plug-ins. They have been having a lot of issues with their plug-ins.

Lightroom,Nik plugins and color spaces

I'm having an issue and not sure who is holding the smoking gun. I have the Nik ultimate collection installed which covers Lightroom and Photoshop CS5 extended. I work primarily in Lightroom and apply most corrections globally but occasionally i need to do localized adjustments so the photo gets shipped off to Photoshop. Here's a typical scenario:
1) From Lightroom edit in Dfine 2.0 for noise - as copy with Lightroom adjustments which gets copied as a tiff.
2) From Lightroom edit in Viveza 2 - as original since we're now working with a tiff and I don't want a copy for every single thing I'm doing.
3) Edit in Photoshop
Now there's two issues at this point:
1) The edits do not show up in the Lightroom history - it's like nothing happened.
2) Photoshop will complain that the assigned profile is sRGB. Really?
#1 is a PITA because if I want to rewind I have to start all over since there's no history - what exactly is responbsible to set an edit as history? Lightroom or the plugin?
#2 is by far the most serious as it degrades the work in a seriously bad manner. I mean, WTH - I'm moving along in ProPhoto Ferrarri space and all of a sudden - *boom* - I'm running in sRGB moped mode.
I looked at edit->Preferences->External Editing -> Additional External Editor and indeed when I select the Nik plugins from the combo box preferences the default for the plugins is sRGB. I can change to ProPhoto and quit. I repeated this for each plugin assuming that somewhere the setting was remembered. Nope LR acts dumb as a rock and shows sRGB as the defaults for all except the currently selected plugin.
So my questions are:
- who's gonna own up to the problem - LR or Nik?
- how can I work around it?
- how can I make LR remember the settings? Not a registry key nor INI file in sight to set them - so where/how are the plugins tracked?
Thanks for any help!
Jon

Jon,
The User Interface for changing how external editors are invoked is about as smart as your average chunk of granite.
After you change the Color Space to the one you want, you have to click on the Preset box and choose "Save current settings as new preset...". Not exactly intuitive, but there you are.
Hal

Issue with re-importing images after using Nik plugins

Currently, when images are edited in a Nik plug-in and saved back to Aperture, the project folder the image originated in is changed from being organized by "date" to "manual" and then that image is inserted as the first image in that folder. In past versions of Aperture, the image would be placed back into the project folder by date. At the very least I would like to have the control on where that image is placed. And my selection of how that project folder is organized should NEVER change unless asked.
Is there some hidden setting that can change this behavior?
Ken

Unfortunately, this issue was with some of the last versions of Snow Leopard as well. Oh, and for clarification, this happens with HDR efex. Others have commented that the Nik plugin is designed to work this way. Maybe, but I would like a choice where the image is returned. I believe it is a NIk issue but they won't admit it.
I did try your suggestion, but no luck. This image changed the project folder organization to "manual" and put the image first.
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Problems with NIK Plugins

Hi all,
a lot was said already about problems with using Nik plugins in PS5 64 bit mode, but I'm not getting closer to a final solution.
I have installed all latest NIK plugin updates without problems.
According to their website all of their plugins are running now in a 64 bit mode.
In CS4 I can open and work with all plugins, BUT ONLY after removing the 'Selective Tool' from the plugin folder.
When it is not removed, PS4 is crashing all the time immediately after opening.
In Dfine plugin I noticed that my pointer is always a bit flickering during processing.
In CS5 it is the same; if the Selective tool is in the Plugin folder, it won't opening.
After removing it, in 32 bit mode I can open and work with all installed plugins.
But in 64 bit mode I'm able to work only with Silver Efex and HDR Efex Pro, but as soon I open Dfine, Sharpener, Viveza or Color Efex CS5 is crashing immediately.
I'm running a Mac pro with plenty power, ram etc, all updated and cleaned up.
What is other people's latest experience regarding that issue?
Thanks

Hi to all,
here I like to give you an update on my experience with NIK Plugins.
After beeing unable to solve my NIK problems by myself and in the forum I was contacting NIK, and their respons email told me only the following:
"In case of experiencing problems with their plugins in 64 bit mode remove all Duplicate Ariel Fonts"
Since I read about that already earlier, that reason had been ruled out.
BUT I got the idea simply to remove all my Arial Fonts from my Library (to the Desktop), and surprisingly ALL NIK plugins now were functioning without bringing CS5 to crash at start-up.
Unfortunately over the last days, especially on working with big file size pictures (around 200 MB) and plenty layers, CS5 crashed again often after initializing of the plugins.
Than I read today the post from Grey Havens, who suggested to set the percentage of RAM what Photoshop should use to maximal 60%.
Since I do have 14 GB RAM available, I indeed reduced the settings from 85% to 65%.
2 of my 3 internal HD's are assigned as scratch disk, as recommended by Adobe.
Thanks Grey, as you described, all plugins are opening now very fast, and I just tried all applications with big files, many layers and CMYK files,
without having any crash so far anymore.
If this continues, than I dont have to use my CS4 or the CS5 in 32 bit mode anymore, which would make all easier for me.
Than it also doesn't matter that Photoshop has less RAM assigned, because in 64 bit mode the almost 9 GB RAM assigned is for me more than enough.
So what worked for me, might work also for other people with same problems:
---    I had to remove the 'Selective Tool' from all plugins in CS4 and in CS5
---    I had to remove all Arial Fonts from my Font Library
---    I set in Preferences Performance the 'Let Photoshop Use RAM' to 65% only
Regards
Michael

Nik plugin and 3 weird problem

I know about the 32bit issue with the nik plugins but when I try and use any of the nik plugins I get an error message"Editing Error this message cannot be rendered for editing becuase Aperture does not support the image"
The images are Nikon RAW work fine with A3 in 32 or 64 bit mode, but with none of the Nik software. Nik support says it is an Apple problem but can not find anywhere but here to find a solution. Anyone have any idea what is going on ?
I have tried in 64 bit with it switching 32bit and also forcing it to 32bit mode in get info.
john

a friend of mine is having similar problem with a BorderFX plugin. initially we thought because of 32-bit plugin but after upgrading to 64-bit version, A3 still wouldn't render preview from the images manipulated from the plugin. have tried turning off the generating preview option from A3 preference?
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Hi!
Just got aperture2...
I have some nik plugins, viweza and silver fx pro, ozone and so on.
my understanding is that they can be intergrated within aperture2 , but HOW?
Also, can you do selective editing with "enhance/definition" for example - like
you can in the new lightroom version?
Thanks, T

I guess i have bought the photoshop version of the plugins...
will they work under aperture?
"Also, can you do selective editing with "enhance/definition" for example - like
you can in the new lightroom version?"
sorry for beeing unclear; but i
meant: can i apply f.ex. definition with a brush?
T

NIK Plugins and window position

Hi folks,
i installed the NIK Plugin Suite. Everythings works fine until i open let's say color efex pro. The menubar goes behind the aperture menubar and i'm not able to click on it to resize color efex.
resize is only possible dragging the lower right corner to minimize color efex.
After restarting it it's centered on the screen but to small to use it. Resizing it is now possible but after a new start the same thing again. Menubar is covered by the aperture menubar.
btw: i resintalled color efex pro several times. even did an aperture reinstall....No success
The same strange behavior when i'm running silver efex or viveza. What's going on here?
Didn't have any problems with a previous installation.
I use the latest version of aperture (2.1.2) and osx 10.5.6 and the latetst version of the NIK plugins
Any suggestions?
kind regards
frank

Had the same thing happen to me. Asked Nik Software. This is their reply:
+To correct this issue go to the following location on your Mac:+
+Macintosh HD | Users | <your user name> | Library | Preferences+
+Find the file called, com.niksoftware.sep.aperture_edit.prefs+
+Do a control + click to the file and click open With >Other… and then choose the TextEdit application.+
+In TextEdit, for DialogX= and DialogY= change the numbers to 20. So it will say DialogX=20 and DialogY=20 for example. Then for DialogWidth= change to 800 and for DialogHeight= change to 600. Now save this file and close it.+
+Next open the file, com.niksoftware.cep3Complete.aperture_edit.prefs and do the same thing as above.+
+Now reopen Aperture and select an image, then bring up Silver Efex Pro or Color Efex Pro 3.0 to see if that corrects the issue. If you still cannot resize it, go back and change the number to another higher or lower value until you can see the title bar.+
It may be that there is a better solution. In my case once I made the correction I can now deal with it. In my case I use a second monitor. When I start any of the Nik plugins the top right part of the window including the window bar overlaps into the external monitor. I can grab it there and move it to the larger external monitor and resize it.
This pretty darn annoying and I was hoping that Nik would make the necessary changes. Especially given no one else seems to have the issue and that the plugins are not cheap. They very useful though.
Cheers... John

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Aperture 3.2.3 and NIK plugins. Intermittently, the viewer doesn't update an image adjusted using several NIK plugins, though the browser strip does. The viewer updates once Aperture is quit and re-launched. IS there some explanation for this recent behav

Aperture 3.2.3 and NIK plugins. I use several of these plugins. Recently, and intermittently, the edited image fails to update in the viewer until Aperture is quit and re-launched, even though it is updated in the browser strip. I have assumed the NIK software must be working because the problem occurs from time to time regardless of which one is used. Is there some explanation?

See this known issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4237
Not sure why Apple has not fixed this one yet. It is consistent with NIK plug-ins as well as Photoshop (CS5 and CS6).
Big fumble from my point of view.

Problem With Nik Plugins and Lightroom 4.3

I bought a Drobo Mini and moved my photos and my Lightroom Catalog onto it. The reason I did this was because I just bought a MacBook Pro laptop to supplement my Mac Pro Desktop and I wanted to be able to use both computers with the Drobo Mini and not have to constantly be importing Catalogs back and forth. This was a solution that Tim Grey recommended. The advantage is I can take the Drobo Mini with me on the road and add my new photos directly to the Catalog when I'm traveling, and then when I get home, I can just hook up the Drobo Mini to the Mac Pro Desktop and continue with my work. The problem I've encountered is with my Nik plugins Color Efex Pro 4 and Silver Efex Pro 2. On the new computer everything works fine. On the desktop computer I can't go directly from Lightroom into Color Efex Pro 4 or Silver Efex Pro 2 for the new photos initially downloaded from the new computer. For all my photos downloaded through the old computer, both computers work fine. Only the new computer works with the Nik Filters for the new photos. Also, if I go over to Photoshop from Lightroom, the new photos won't let me just hit "Save" and exit Photoshop. Instead, I have to designate a location for the "Save" as if I was doing a "Save As" and then it doesn't show up in Lightroom unless I import it again. I'm trying to get some answers from Nik but I thought maybe someone on this forum might know what is causing this problem?? Any help greatly appreciated.
SaratogaLefty

Nik developers don't participate in this forum -- it's mainly for developers to discuss technical issues of using the Lightroom Software Developer Kit. You might have better luck reposting in the main LR forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom

None of the Nik plugins would open after installing LR5.4

I had LR 5.3 installed and I downloaded the LR5.4 update this afternoon on my Win 7 64 bit Desktop, and afterwards none of the Nik plugins would open and l got an AppCrash error. I uninstalled my current version of Nik, rebooted and download again from the site and installed the newer version of Nik. This did not fix the problem and I have not found any postings with a fix. I then booted my Win8 64 bit Laptop still running LR 5.3 and the Nik Collection works fine. I think LR 5.4 upgrade broke the Nik plugins.
I probably will have to backout the LR5.4 upgrade so that my plugins will work as I need all my software working for this weekend.
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, do you have a fix.

Under Windows when you install a new version of LR it makes a new version specific folder in Program Files. Your old one is still there. You need to drill down and find the plugins folder in the old version and copy everything to the new plugins folder. A restart of Lr should find the plugins. For some reason Adobe does not install over the top of the last install. It may be a good thing but the plugin installers do their install and Adobe does not migrate their stuff. Under new versions of Windows you'll need to be an Admin to mess with program files folder stuff.It's just another thing to trip you up.
It's not that nobody knows but it's two different companies. Doing the above worked for me. It may not be perfect but it beats not having it. Photomatix has a stand alone so you don't need the plugin but it's still nice.

Upgrade Dramas 3.4.5 - NIK Plugins

Hi,
Had the usual upgrade to Aperture 3.4.5 dramas and sorted it out with a reinstall and some swearing. Then my NIK plugins got knocked out. NIK were kind enough to link me to the full new suite. Guess what? They all crash. BOOOO!!!
Still waiting on word from them, anyone with similar dramas?
I'm more of a hobbyist so I'm not sitting on dealine jobs, but still quite frustrated.
Thanks
Tried ArnieB's slution from Dec2012 - nuthin'!
ArnieB
Re: Nik Software
Dec 22, 2012 1:58 PM (in response to Pabli)
Thanks Pabli, I too contacted Nik and they sent me the following instructions, which failed to work
Maybe you will have better luck.
Thank you for contacting Nik Software. HDR Efex Pro 2 and Color Efex Pro 4 take advantage of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of the computer system. The GPU is also sometimes referred to as the Display Adapter or Video Card, in any case they are all the same. Sometimes certain video cards will not handle this additional processing.
In order to resolve this, the first measure would be to update the Display Adapters or GPU driver. Generally the video card that comes with your Mac will be updated automatically. The exception may be when there has been an additional video card added. In that case the user may need to go to the video card manufacturer's website to download an updated driver for their secondary GPU. If you are using Mac OS Snow Leopard (10.6) ensure to update to 10.6.6 or higher as this can affect performance. If this does not apply to you, please go to the next section below.
If after following the above steps you are still experiencing the same issue, the next step will be to either disable the GPU (if possible) or force the plug-ins to not use the GPU (safe-mode). In order to disable the GPU in the plug-ins, please do the following in each one:
If you are able to open the program and can see part of the interface, see if you can click on the"Settings" button in the lower left.
In Settings locate the section "GPU" and expand it, in this section you will see a check box "Enable GPU Processing", uncheck this so the GPU will be disabled, then close the settings window.
Close out of the program (click Cancel), quit out of any and all host applications (Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture), and then relaunch HDR Efex Pro 2 or Color Efex Pro 4 to see if this corrects this issue.
If you are unable to disable the GPU via Settings or if the issue has not been resolved (e.g. HDR Efex Pro 2 or Color Efex Pro 4 crashes or the buttons are not displaying correctly), please try the following steps below after quitting out of all host applications (Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture):
Open a finder window (or double click on the Macintosh HD on the desktop) and navigate to:
Macintosh HD : Users : <user name> : Library :Preferences : Nik Software : HDR Efex Pro 2
Locate the file, HDREfexPro2.cfg and right-click and choose "open with..." and then click "Choose" and then locate the applications, "TextEdit" to open this file.
At the very beginning (before all the text) of the configuration file, paste the following code below verbatim:
<configuration>
<group name="INTERN">
<key name="UseSafeMode" type="bool" value="1"/>
</group>
</configuration>
Now save the file, close it and relaunch HDR Efex Pro 2 and see if the issue has been resolved.
Then, for Color Efex Pro 4:
Open a finder window (or double click on the Macintosh HD on the desktop) and navigate to:
Macintosh HD : Users : <user name> : Library :Preferences : Nik Software : Color Efex Pro 4
Locate the file, ColorEfexPro4.cfg and right-click and choose "open with..." and then click "Choose" and then locate the applications, "Text Edit" to open this file.
At the very beginning (before all the text) of the configuration file, paste the following code below verbatim:
<configuration>
<group name="INTERN">
<key name="UseSafeMode" type="bool" value="1"/>
</group>
</configuration>
Now save the file, close it and relaunch Color Efex Pro 4 and see if the issue has been resolved.

From Google
Navigate to your Applications folder and open your Font Book as seen below.
2. Scroll up to the Arial fonts (A), select the drop down triangle to view it's contents (B).
3.Select any duplicates, hold your mouse over them to check their path(C).
4.Any fonts located in the "Path: Library/Fonts/'name of arial font" should be kept (such as the example above).
5.Duplicate fonts in any other location, such as the example below, should be removed by right-clicking (or control-clicking) and selecting "Remove 'Font Name'".
Examples of incorrect locations that should be removed are:
-Path: Users/ 'username'/Library /Fonts
-Path: Library/Fonts/Microsoft
6. Please repeat this process for all 'Arial' font duplicates, such as Arial Black, Arial Hebrew, etc.
7.Once all duplicate Arial fonts have been removed, please quit font book and restart your system.
If the crashing continues, then please let me know which of the plug-ins cause Aperture to crash. Is it all six, or is it just a few of them? This information will be helpful to continue troubleshooting.

NIK plugins are not working in LR 4

I have been using the BETA version for some time and I did not see this problem until I installed the released version of LR 4
The problem is that I cannot edit the images using my plugis from NIK software. ( I bought the complete collection about 3 months ago)
In the Beta version it was still OK.
Only the export plugin works (HDR from nik)
Also when I try to install the plugin again it only shows that it is compatible with LR3.
I just bought LR4 (since it worked in the BETA version)
Hope they will fix this soon. I also sent a message to NIK software.
anyone else has seen this problem
regards
Andre
I use MAC OS-X 10.7.3
NIK plugins are the latest versions available.

Windows 7 64-bit SP1 machine here.
Yesterday, as most of you here, I had this error message with any
external editor, and I posted a message in this forum. At night, before
going to bed, I installed an evaluation version of Photoshop Elements
10. This morning I opened Lightroom and, TADA!, plugins work fine! So
definitely it is an Adobe problem, LR must be missing some piece of
software that PSE has; note that I did not open PSE at all after
installing it yesterday night, so it has added the missing part during
installation.
Hope this helps Adobe engineers to solve the problem.
Il 07/03/2012 08:06, Michael Rainwater ha scritto:
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NIK Plugins and Shortcuts assignments

I installed the NIK Plugins without any problems. Tried to assign some shortcuts but i can't seem to find them in the command groups when opening the customize keyboard command editor.
Under Main Menu Commands->Images Menu they had no entries. The only entry is the "Open in external Editor".
I could do the assignments in a previous aperture installation easily. What's going on here?
Thanks
frank

it has worked for me to do that ...
are they showing under the image -> edit with ... in the main workspace ??? what i am getting at, is are you able to see them normally and use them ???

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