For fans of Nik Software, Google’s 2012 acquisition of the company was met with skepticism. It was suspected that of the suite of Lightroom and Photoshop plugins which includes Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, and Analog Effex Pro and Nik’s Snapseed app (which was named iPad app of the year in 2011) one of these things was a shinier attractant for the internet behemoth who battles Instagram owner, Facebook, for control of the web.