Google's collection of photo-plugins "Nik" now completely free

Apparently, some users are concerned about updating the collection's plugins now that its completely free of cost. As an avid photographer, you probably already have had a fair amount of ideas for transforming mediocre frames into better images. Novices who have no complete idea about their work requiring a helping hand or those who crave to try out new things will be happy with Google's latest move.

Google's "Nik" , collection of plugins and apps is now completely free from a price range of 149$. This isn't a promotional or a steal-deal. The tools will be free for all to download from now and refunds will be initiated for purchases from users at any point of time in 2016.
Nik collection by Google came out with a statement on their Google plus page.

It read "Today we're making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free. Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focus our long-term investments in building incredible photo editing tools for mobile, including Google Photos and Snapseed, we've decided to make the Nik Collection desktop suite available for free, so that now anyone can use it.

The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities -- from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.

Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine. If you purchased the Nik Collection in 2016, you will receive a full refund, which we'll automatically issue back to you in the coming days.We're excited to bring the powerful photo editing tools once only used by professionals to even more people now."

Even though such a move is made, users are anxious about the company's move in no longer bringing out updates to the collections now that it's completely free of cost.

One user however was confident about Google developing its suite further also mentioned that there hadn't been any major updates for some time now that's its free will result in very few or no updates all since he relied on Nik collections from time to time.