Google Nik Collection is Now Free

The Nik Collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture.
Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day.
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.
Download Google Nik Collection for free

Giveaway: Zoner Photo Studio 17 PRO

The only photo software you will ever need. It is a user-­friendly Windows software, that brings every feature you need in a single package. From importing photos onto your PC to organizing a photo archive, editing, sharing, and RAW files support. Almost every Zoner`s feature can be applied to batches of photos. For example, you can apply frame to 1000 vacation photos at once, resize them the size you need for a photo album, saving you time.

Features:

• Importing: Right as you're downloading your pictures to your PC, you can tag them, rotate them to match camera rotation (EXIF), back them up, and more.;
• Managing: Give photographs a rating from 1­5, colored labels, descriptions, and more. Drag­and­drop them onto an integrated Google Map to GPS­tag them, so you'll know exactly where your photos were taken even years from now. Then find any photo you need in seconds, even among thousands of others;
• Editing: Dozens of photo editing and retouching features: cropping, resizing, straightening, local edits, exposure and color fixes and more. A Quick Edits panel helps you fix a picture in moments using just a few sliders. The Editor also offers dozens of creative Quick Filters and other creative tools like HDR, Tone Mapping, 3D, panoramas, cartoon, lens flare;
• Sharing: Share straight from Zoner to Facebook, Flickr, and more, including Zoner's own Zonerama: the first truly unlimited gallery;
• RAW: An improved, faster RAW module with start-­to-­finish processing of your DSLR's RAW files, with lots of practical perks such as RAW+JPEG stacking.

Download link available today: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-17-pro/

About.com review ****: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/productreviews/ss/Zoner-Photo-Studio.htm  
Download.com review****: http://download.cnet.com/Zoner-Photo-Studio/3000-2192_4-75186165.html

Zoner free Android photo app: http://www.zoner.com/en/zoner-photo-studio-for-android 
Google play - Zoner Android photo app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoner.android.photostudio 

Free Alternatives:

• Zoner Photo Free -  free limited edition - PRO vs. Free edition comparison;
• Rawtherapee - free open source;
• Digikam  - free open source;
• Photoscape - free;
• Photo-editing software, Lightroom alternatives - dedicated page on my blog.