Will nik software work with cs 6

I found a workaround for High Sierra and Nik. Don't access Nik from the Photoshop Filters menu. I did go back to PS and it seems like it crashes less. Which PS are you using? Oh ok Yes, that very well may be. Thank you for the info.

Can you successfully go back in and update the settings for a Nik smart filter? For me the crash happens when I try to update the existing filters, not add new ones. This works! Over the years I bought the Nik Collection twice before and after Google gobbled it. I was disappointed when Google made it a free, not because I had paid for it twice , but because I knew it meant the end of support and future development. I thought Nik was toast.

Thank you Mr. I do this in order to apply the effect in a non destructive way, and to allow masking the effect only into specific areas of the image. If I turn the effect off with the eye icon at the left of the item nested beneath the Smart Object layer then turn it back on it crashes Photoshop every time also discarding all other changes since I last saved.

Hopefully some resolution comes when DXO puts out the new release this year although that doesn't help right now. Can I say I love you!! Thank you so much! Thanks again!! What I did to solve the problem was to search for and delete all the Nik folders, files, etc. But I didn't delete any of the photos that had been edited with the Nik software. I ran the Nik deinstaller app to remove anything else that was left behind, but this app set a flag indicating that the Nik software had been completely removed.

Then I reinstalled the Nik software with the Nik installer. Launched CS6 and bridge CC , and opened a photo. At this point the Nik Tool Selector appeared on the screen. I accessed the settings at the bottom of the Nik selector? I did the same with every one of the plugins shown on the Nik selector. I also check-marked not to have this selector launching every time that I use CS6, but only because I prefer to access the Nik plugins on the Filters folder.

Now I launched everyone of the Nik plugins shown in the CS6 Filters folder, and made sure that the settings were the same not use of the GPU, and applying the layer to the current photo. Maybe some Nik setting or file is left behind somewhere, or maybe the following? Maybe they are placed in a the Plugins folder, but not made active during the installation process. Once that is done, PSE will launch the plugins and the Nik selector. The same happens when I try to use any of the plugins in the Plugins folder.

It is very possible that having PSE launch the plugins to make them active conflicts with the installation process, but I don't really know. Upon DXO request, I emailed the diagnostics file to their technicians about a month or more ago, but I haven't received an answer. The diagnostics file contains the details of what causes PSE to crash. There could and probably are limitations coming from only 2-core as well. A machine is kind of getting end-of-life performance-wise nowadays - of couse it still works, but just as you and I are seeing, it is getting slow for today's applications and image-sizes.

Obviously make sure your HDD is not full. Maybe use Disk Utility to check all is well on it. Nik silently auto-updates as part of Google Updater, but worth to check you do have latest V1. Just found this, so don't know if it really gives advantage did not seem to for me , but run CEP4, but may work for the others also in bit mode:. You can test your Nik standalone speed by just opening the application direct from the Applications folder.

If you do this, you can just see Nik's behaviour without the host Photoshop around it. You will be hitting performance bottle-necks because of RAM much more than me as you only have 4GB now. Mark W. Just further note: CEP4 also uses GPU, so there's probably a bottleneck there also, although there is not much you can do about that in a way that I think will get you back performance.

You can try forcing it to not use GPU, but that may make it still slower:. Hi Mark, thank you very much for your professional answer! Really appreciate it! One last question, is it worth upgrading it or would you buy the lasted new model. Would the new one still be much faster than my upgraded old one?

I would take that question over to the Mac forum here if you want a precise view. You can see for at least short-term I upgraded my own similar-age similar-spec but 8GB machine with SSD, and I think that has probably brought me another 1- to max 2- years of use. I am definitely budget limited though, and I just love my MacBookPro's 17" screen so wanted to keep it going for as long as I practically can. That might mean it is just more economical and sensible for you to look at buying a new model or at least a second-hand more recent one with more memory.

Thank you so much Mark, you helped me a lot! I would prefer to keep my "old" iMac for the next 20 years, but it is just not possible Since everything here in Morocco is so time consuming and difficult to find the right people to do the upgrade, I might go for a new one now.

I'm not a Mac owner, so maybe I'm off base, but with a PC it is fairly easy and cheap to do a memory upgrade. I saw a huge performance increase going from 4G to 8G memory, but I also had to change to 64 bit OS to use it. Another thing I wanted to mention. I think links to those get posted here pretty often in various threads, too. One thing to check is how much disk space is being allocated for the cache and increase that by a hefty amount over the default, provided you have room on your disk.

I have an 8GB similar spec system and mine is quite slow with heavy Photoshop documents, so I would tend to recommend 16GB, but I think for an iMac it is a reasonably easy upgrade to do:. I can well believe the performance difference with Photoshop if it is memory constrained in 4GB, especially on an HDD system, and you now give it 8GB or more will be huge. If anything I think this would be a memory allocation preference setting under Photoshop Preferences..

Performance… and change it from whatever the default is on a 4GB machine - see below. You can do other tricks like create a separate partition for the scratch disk to make things even more efficient. The ACR cache shared with LR is also on the disk, but that will not be relevant here, as the only things active at this stage are Photoshop proper and Nik as a plugin within that.

What I am not sure of though is how Nik and Photoshop use or is it share memory when Nik is run as plugin filter. Nik may do it's own memory management direct from OS X which is perhaps what I would expect and so maybe a decrease in Photoshop max RAM allocation might speed up Nik but slow down Photoshop! Thanks for your further information. I would still like to use my old iMac for a while saving money first. So I have attached the photoshop performance setting I have.

Could you advice me what to do, please? Try with and without other applications that you want also running e. Once you have some data-points there, then perhaps you can go back and adjust the preferences above in a more reasoned and logical way.

If you are runing out of system memory, I doubt that there is some magic number in the above preferences though that suddenly brings back performance.

The alternate is to change the Scratch Disk as above to an SSD but that is much much more complex modification to do. The other alternate is simply to go back to 8-bit working in your images.

Is it CEP4 which is getting the most annoyingly slow?? Thanks for your reply Mark, but it is getting now a little out of a simple user knowledge. What is CEP4??? Sorry - just the abbreviation for Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

That's what you should have in your Nik Collection. I posted a link before on how to set that to work in bit mode:. Thank you very much Mark! I have changed all nik plugins to 32bite, and some have increased in speed quite a lot, some less like SilverEfex. Photoshop CS6 may not work on recent versions of Mac OS, however from what I saw in a quick search just now, it may work on the latest version of Window 10 with some caveats.

Win10 is not causing problems. There are a lot of photographers around the world still using stand-alone apps such CS3-CS6 for photo editing. There are often difficult decisions to make when using a mix of older unsupported software along side newer software.

That is true, Mark.