Thinking of buying some plugins

I've been thinking of buying a couple processing plugins for Lightroom and am debating between Nik and MacPhun. MacPhun is running a black Friday special on their creative kit plus other goodies for $90.
http://macphun.com/cre​ativekit

Are the plugins worth it or should I just stick to working inside Lightroom?

It depend what you want to do, and what kind of plugin or software you need

Nik is worth it for Silver FX.

flowrider wrote in post #17793886
Nik is worth it for Silver FX.

And dfine.

Nethawked wrote in post #17794006
And dfine.

and ColorEfex

DagoImaging wrote in post #17794008
and ColorEfex

And the output sharpener.

another lover of nik the Viveza plugin is also superb you can do it with luminosity masks but much easier with nik

dashotgun wrote in post #17794051
another lover of nik the Viveza plugin is also superb you can do it with luminosity masks but much easier with nik

Never used Vivenza. I really should look into it to see what is it capable of.

How do you get the software? Is it a creative cloud style setup? Or can you download it to your computer? The site I visited
( https://www.google.com​/nikcollection/ ) was asking for credit card information, mentioned monthly payments, etc., before explaining anything about cost. I backed away from that and decided to ask about it here.

I love the Nik plugins, simple to use & IMHO good value. I paid $149 IIRC as a one time payment.

They then sent me a link to download the software, in-fact I contacted them only last week for a new download link as mine had expired & I'd changed computers - got back to me the very same day, can't ask for better than that...

I just clicked the link and clicked the 'Buy Now' button and was asked to pay £95 for the Nik Collection. No mention of any monthly payments.
I was signed in to my Google account at the time.
I purchased it a couple of years ago and have never paid any more even though it's been updated many times.

It's well worth having IMO, especially as someone said earlier for the SilverEfex Pro.

I have NIK, onOne's Photo 10 and MacPhun's plug-ins. Each does something different even when in the same class/type of plug-in.

Yet Silver Efix2 is my go-to B&W plug-in.

I just bought the Macphun plugins as they're on a 30 day MBG. I have to say that Snaptouch, from my 5 minute play just now appears mediocre at best...as I say, it was just a quick look & will require more time for sure & I'll need to take a look at the others in the pack to see if it's a keeper...

I bought the Nik collection today. $149. I'll compare it to the MacPhun collection I have.

What kind of looking are you hoping to achieve? That really defineswhat presets you shold be getting!