Nik Collection 9 Adds AI Masking and Depth Maps

The depth mask is the one to watch: Nik Collection 9 can now infer a depth map from any image and let you make distance-based adjustments — no embedded metadata, no Photoshop handoff, no manual selections. For anyone doing creative finishing work in Analog Efex or Color Efex who's been annoyed at Nik's historically clunky selection tools, this closes the biggest gap. The halation and chromatic shift filters are fun bonuses, but the masking overhaul is why Nik users should actually care about version 9.