The 47 best Photoshop plugins

By Creative Bloq Staf February 04, 2016

Create amazing images and designs with this selection of

the most creative, useful, and time-saving Photoshop
plugins available.

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31. Fluid Mask 3

Fluid Mask is designed to make masking simpler

Publisher: Vertus
Price: $149 (free trial available)
Best for: Photographers & Designers

Masking is a fine art all in itself, and while Photoshop has improved its
built-in masking tools with CS5 and CS6, there's still plenty of room for a
dedicated tool to help you get the cleanest and most accurate masks
possible - especially around problem areas such as hair and fur. Fluid Mask
makes this normally laborious process quick and (relatively) easy!

32. Portraiture

This plugin automatically smooths without softening detail areas

Publisher: Imagenomic
Price: $199.95
Best for: Photographers

Portraiture is a combined plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture

that automates the process of retouching portraits for a perfect-skin look.
The plugin automatically smooths skin tones while removing blemishes
and, crucially, avoids softening or destroying detail areas such as
eyelashes and skin texture.

33. SuperPNG

SuperPNG allows greater control over PNG images

Publisher: fnord
Price: Free
Best for: Designers

If you're a regular user of the PNG format, you'll know that Photoshop can
sometimes struggle a bit to render PNGs quickly. SuperPNG aims to fix this
by ofering more control over your PNG output, allowing for a balance
between speed and file size, control over the alpha channel and meta
data. SuperPNG's a handy tool for taking control of your image export, and
is free!

34. Wire Worm

Remove annoying wires and cables easily with Wire Worm

Publisher: MV's Plugins

Price: Free
Best for: Photographers

Wire Worm is a free plugin with a single, simple purpose that may save
you a lot of time removing telephone wires, fences and similar
obstructions in your images. The interface is simple, allowing you to select
an area around a wire or other obstruction and have the tool automatically
remove it. Results are surprisingly good, especially for the price!

35. EyeCandy

A multitude of efects are available with EyeCandy

Publisher: Alien Skin

Price: $129 (free trial available)
Best for: Designers

EyeCandy has been around for over a decade, ofering a broad range of
efects ranging from fire to chrome, glass to extrusions. Useful for many
diferent scenarios, a lot of the efects need dialing down from the default
settings to achieve something other than a cheesy result, but theres a lot
of hidden gems in the suite.

36. Viveza 2

Viveza works in a similar way to Lightroom's local corrections feature

Publisher: Nik Software

Price: $95 (free trial available)
Best for: Photographers

Viveza 2 is a great solution for applying localised colour and lighting

efects to your image. Working in a similar way to Lightrooms local
corrections feature, Viveza allows you to place points on your image and
apply a series of efects that are automatically blended to give a
professional result. Fantastic results are pretty easy to achieve, and above
all else it's quick to use!

37. ToonIt

ToonIt quickly turns an image into a cartoon

Publisher: Digital Anarchy

Price: $129 (free trial available)
Best for: Designers

ToonIt is a straightforward way to turn regular photos into a cartoon-style

image, suitable for use in graphic novels or other scenarios where you
dont want photo-realistic images but need to base images on a
photographic original. The plugin works automatically on an image, but
there is a degree of control you can exercise to change the final output.
Niche, but fun!
Next page: more top Photoshop plugins

38. Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop 3.2

Add lens flares to your image with this plugin

Publisher: Red Giant Software

Price: $199 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Similar to its After Efects big brother, Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop
allows you to create a host of advanced lens flares, integrating them into
your image and adding immediate impact. There are over 100 presets,
and you can build new flare efects to your own taste. A great tool for
adding instant drama to photographs.

39. Tych Panel 2

Photoshop plugins: Create diptych, triptych and ntych panels with Tych Panel 2.
Image credit: Gordon Andersson - www.gordonandersson.com

Publisher: Lumens
Price: Free
Good for: Photographers and designers

This straightforward plugin makes it simple to create diptych (double),

triptych (triple) and ntych (quadrule+) panels within Photoshop. Choose
the alignment, number of rows and columns, or hybrid layouts, and Tych
Panel 2 will create the layout for you utilizing Smart Objects and layer
masks to avoid destructive editing.

40. GuideGuide

GuideGuide makes it easy to create a grid system

Publisher: Cameron McEfee

Price: $10
Good for: Print & web designers

This simple Photoshop plugin makes it easy to create a grid system in

your Photoshop document, hijacking the built-in guides system to create a
pinpoint accurate grid according to your chosen settings. You can use
negative margins for special hanging columns, separately define
individual margins and gutters, and save your preferred options for quick
access in the future. Perfect for anyone using a grid to help them create
their layouts.

41. Cut&Slice me

Cut&Slice Me makes it easy to export your designs to the web

Publisher: Daniel Peruho

Price: Free
Good for: Web designers

This super-handy CS6-only plugin makes it easy to export your designs

from Photoshop to the web. Rather than rely on Photoshop's outdated
export for web functionality, Cut&Slice me ofers a new way of doing
things; allowing overlapping slices, multiple button states and even
exporting diferent resolutions of the same assets to cater for diferent
screen sizes and devices.

42. Divine Elemente

Divine Elemente lets you create WordPress themes from PSD files

Publisher: Divine Elemente

Price: $199 (free trial version available)
Good for: Web designers

This in-depth plugin integrates with Photoshop to allow for the creation of
complete, functioning WordPress themes directly from a PSD file. You start
by generating a PSD from within the plugin's own screens, then adapt the
boilerplate design to suit your own aesthetic treatment. Once complete,
you can export directly to WordPress, and edit otherwise static content
using a special WordPress plugin. Ideal for non-technical users who want
to get started in web template development.

43. Mr. Stacks

Mr. Stacks enables you to convert layer comps into a storyboard view

Publisher: Mr. Stacks

Price: Free
Good for: Photographers, designers, film-makers

This handy Photoshop script converts layer comps into a storyboard view,
compositing your individual comps into a layout that can be easily output
as PDF for printing and sharing with others. This turns Photoshop into a
great place to create your blockbuster's storyboard, doing away with all
the tedious manual positioning and exporting associated with generating
your own board manually.

44. Freeware Boundary Noise Reduction

Freeware Boundary Noise Reduction is a big improvement on Photoshops own

noise reduction filter

Publisher: Colormancer
Price: Free
Good for: Photographers

This Photoshop plugin is a freeware version of the full Boundary Noise

Reduction plugin from Colormancer. Ofering a simplified set of user
controls when compared to the pro version, it's superior to Photoshop's
own noise reduction filter.

45. Pano Warp

Pano Warp lets you correct for panorama distortion easily

Publisher: MV's Plugins

Price: Free
Good for: Print and web designers, photographers

While Photoshop ofers a handy Lens Correction feature, this filter takes an
entirely diferent approach. Use this Photoshop plugin to adjust the focal
length, roll and horizon height to correct for panorama distortion easily.

46. NKS5 Natural Media Toolkit

Nkurence's tool lets you quickly access real-media preset efects

Publisher: Nkurence
Price: Free
Good for: designers & artists

This amazing free Photoshop plugin provides a new panel in Photoshop

CS5 and above, allowing you to quickly access real-media preset efects in
order to generate documents with natural paper backgrounds, realistic
water-colour brush strokes and many more.

47. Sinedots II

Generate abstract, random wave patterns with Sinedots II

Publisher: Philipp Spoeth

Price: Free
Good for: Designers

If you're looking for a quick way to generate abstract, random wave

patterns for use as background art, this Photoshop plugin could be just
what you need. It's phenomenally complex, and its surprisingly old having been around for at least a decade - but still does the trick and
creates some amazing patterns.
Words: Sam Hampton-Smith and the Creative Bloq team
This is an updated and extended version of an article that was previously
published on Creative Bloq.
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