Photolab 7 & Nik 7 - Start to finish edit of aurora australis

This is aurora australis aka the southern lights taken last Saturday (May 2024) from the South Island NZ. In the video I walk through how I went about my edit using DxO Photolab 7 to start and Nik Collection 7 to add some panache. I have been a long time user of Nik, but with this most recent release have had my enthusiasm boosted. There are so many improvements that I have been loving. If you haven't tried it in a while, grab a 30 day demo and try it out for yourself (link below).
00:00 Introduction
03:40 Photolab 7 edit start
13:27 Nik Collection 7 edit start
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[@alangauld6079]

I have to agree, the more I use Nik 7 the more I like it. However, with the move of Viveza tools into Colorefex I think that the writing is on the wall for Viveza as a separate tool, I just never use it now. Between PL and ColorEfex I can now do everything that I used to use Viveza for.

[@dxflow3271]

Agreed. I cannot imagine going to Viveza now. It makes me think, it might be nice to integrate all tools into color efex and silver efex. Basically bring it down to two interfaces - one for color work and one for B&W work. I personally think that might work from a workflow perspective without confusing the interfaces too much. might need to increase the max effects stack in that case. I have never maxed it out myself, but looking at the support pages recently I see it is currently 15