Change NIK to parametric adjustments

[vartkes (vartkes peltekoglu)]

I know this is a biggie… I would like to see NIK application to move to parametric adjustments and save them in a sidecar. Of course when the adjustments are to be returned to a host app then the adjustments will render to adjust actual pixels. The benefit f this is that every time the user returns to an image already adjusted in NIK can revert to ‘original’ state to start editing from base.

[Asser]

Seems to be related to:

Request: Ability to save image-specific Filter & Control Point settings

The Nik Collection tools allow for filter settings to be saved in “Recipe” (.np) files - thereby enabling the saved filters, and their settings, to be applied to other images and to be saved for future re-use. That’s good … However, these Recipe files contain only generic filter settings - but NOT any details about the use of Control Points related to the filter(s). Therefore, in the typical case where Control Points have been applied to refine the action of filters, Recipes are of no use in r…