BackdoorArts
Senior Member
I'm with Dave. I went Lightroom, Nik, Photoshop, Nik upgrade for Photoshop (this was back when the PS version wasn't "cheap"). With rare exceptions, I invoke the Nik tools from Photoshop now. In fact, outside of basic RAW processing I do all of my work out of Photoshop. At least if buy Nik now you get the full Photoshop version regardless, so if you choose to go that way first you've got nothing to upgrade when (and I do me when) you eventually get Photoshop.