In 2010, the company had 120 employees - around 40 of whom were located in San Diego where the company was headquartered while the remaining staff (primarily engineering) were based in Hamburg, Germany. Nik Software was a privately held company owned by investors and Nikon, which in 2010 had a 35% stake. He grew the company from a small software development company into a software research and development company. In 1999 Michael J Slater joined Nik Software as CEO of the company.

The Nik Software team developed Nils Efex! and Nils Type Efex! which were a combination of Photoshop actions and textures. Nik Software focused on digital photography and graphic design. In 1995 Nik Software (originally Nik Multimedia) was founded by Nils Kokemohr in Hamburg. Nik Software was acquired by Google in 2012.

The company developed multiple image editing plug-ins and tools for digital image processing software applications. Nik Software was a software development company established in 1995 as Nik Multimedia Inc.

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