On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:51:45 -0800, trouble wrote:

Rather than paying for NX2 it may be more worthwhile looking into
the new Nik plug-in (Nik is the actual source of NX) for Photoshop
that does essentially the same thing and possibly more.

I may be mistaken but I thought that I read someone's reply that
said that the Nik plug-in cost about the same (or more) than NX2.