Ultimate Collection of Adobe Photoshop Plugins

Adobe Photoshop is the most powerful and highly intelligent photo editor available now. They make a complicated task much easier & help creating amazing effects, designing faster & better. Plugins are widely used by armature photographers to enhance their shot.

Listed below is the ultimate collection of Photoshop plug-ins that will make your work easier, faster and better. To download, view installation instructions or further details about any plugin, kindly visit the source page.

Exposure 4

Enjoy all the creative tools of film photography, such as discontinued films, dark room tricks, and lo-fi camera quirks. We accurately simulate classic films, like Kodachrome, Polaroid, and Panatomic-X. The result is a photo that looks like it was made by a human, not a computer.

There is careful research under the hood, but we keep the controls simple so you can focus on your art. Exposure 4 has a completely redesigned user interface that helps you quickly develop your own look. Across the board everything is faster and much easier to use.

Publisher: Alien Skin

Price: $199 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Kubota Artistic Tools Viva La Vintage

Add some new fun to your images with these Kubota Actions inspired by vintage looks your clients will love! These classic effects are wildly popular around the industry and in high demand from photographers and their clients. Prompted by phenomenal reception to our Kubota Vintage Delish™ Presets for Lightroom®, we have assembled a similar collection of vintage flavors in the form of speedy Photoshop® Actions powered by our popular Kubota Action DASHBOARD™ (included).

VIVA LA VINTAGE contains 25 time-warping enhancements to heighten your mind and bring you to the edge: Bleachy Peachy, Hot Flashes, Nostalgia, Time Machine, Lens Flare, Image Grunge and many more.

Effectively boost your creative output with Viva La Vintage, and when used together with Kubota Artistic Tools POW WOW!™ they will provide a well-rounded collection of tools reminiscent of the convenient inclusiveness found in our Artistic Tools Paks. Save BIG when you buy them together as the Kubota Viva La Vintage + Pow Wow! Combo Pak or choose one now and add the companion Pak at a later time.

All Kubota Actions run through our acclaimed Action DASHBOARD*, allowing lightning-quick search and launch of ANY action in Photoshop! Only the DASHBOARD allows keyword tagging, favorite marking, adding descriptions, and categorization of your actions. Our effects are fast, easy, and customizable so you can quickly edit and beautify your images in Photoshop.

Publisher: Kubota Image Tools

Price: $109

Best for: Photographers

Texture Anarchy

Texture Anarchy is a set of Adobe Photoshop filters for creating textures and borders. With these three Photoshop texture filters, you can create a variety of seamless, infinite textures that range from realistic and organic to design-appropriate. Plain old math is used to generate, extend, and output an image.

Great features of Texture Anarchy

There are three Texture Anarchy Photoshop filters. Each provides a different kind of seamless procedural texture. Texture Explorer is the centerpiece of the Photoshop textures set and creates seamless procedural textures. Tiler Anarchy is like Texture Explorer but its textures are always seamlessly repeated. Edge Anarchy is designed to create textured, distressed, or ornamental borders.

Publisher: Digital Anarchy

Price: $129 (free trial available)

Best for: Designers

Topaz Adjust

Easily correct and balance image exposure and color. Enhance dynamic range with adaptive exposure control. Quickly create single-image HDR effects. Shadow & highlight recovery that reveals lost detail. Adaptive color for a wide range of color effects. Creative detail enhancement and sharpening. Over 30 presets for a faster & more creative workflow.

Publisher: Topaz Labs

Price: $49.99 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers and Designers

Portraiture

Automatic skin smoothing, healing and enhancing effect plugin. Portraiture is a Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture plugin that eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.

Publisher: Image Nomic

Price: $199.95 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Bokeh 2

Bokeh 2 provides a wide range of creative focus effects and accurate lens simulation in a simple interface. Photographers use Bokeh to draw attention to their subject by manipulating focus, vignette, and depth of field.

Bokeh gives you the visual language of specialized lenses without the expense or hassle. Just drop a focus region over your subject and choose a preset or easily craft your own look.

Bokeh 2 is dramatically faster, has multiple focus regions, motion blur, and a more flexible vignette.

Publisher: Alien Skin

Price: $99 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Machine Wash Deluxe

Finally you can create professional quality image texture, aging and weathering effects with our Machine Wash Deluxe Image Filters! This closely guarded secret of the design industry can now be yours!

Publisher: Mister Retro

Price: $99 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers and Designers

FocalBlade

FocalBlade effectively sharpens photos for display and print, reduces noise and produces great looking blur, soft focus and special effects. FocalBlade is ideal for sharpening and enhancing all kinds of photo, e.g. snapshots, landscapes photos, portraits as well as high-ISO shots, because it effectively sharpens and reduces noise at the same time.

FocalBlade is available as a Photoshop-compatible plugin for Windows and MacOS X as well as a standalone application and Lightroom external editor for Windows. The plugin works in dozens of graphics applications, including Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, PhotoImpact and IrfanView. All versions support batch processing and process RGB images with 8-bit and 16-bit/channel. The FocalBlade standalone application supports JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, Camera Raw and DNG image formats among others.

Publisher: The Plugin Site

Price: $69.95 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers and Designers

3D Invigorator

3D Invigorator 5.0 gives you a true 3D environment inside Photoshop. The newly released version introduces the easy Object Editor for drawing and editing 3D shapes with familiar vector tools. Other exciting new features include GradientWerks for building colorful 3D materials and new Material Editor options like procedural texture mapping.

Co-developed with Zaxwerks Inc, our 3D Invigorator is legendary in the video and film industry for its high quality images and its time-saving workflow features. Now this popular 3D design tool takes Photoshop to a whole new level.

Publisher: Digital Anarchy

Price: $199 (free trial available)

Best for: Designers

DOF PRO

DOF PRO is the result of ongoing research, development and programming collaboration between Richard Rosenman and Martin Vicanek in an effort to produce a Photoshop® compliant plugin capable of delivering high quality, sophisticated Depth of Field and Bokeh effects quickly and efficiently as a post process.

Publisher: DOF PRO

Price: $99.99 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Blow Up 3 

Blow Up keeps photos crystal clear during enlargement. Especially in large prints hung on a wall, the difference between Blow Up and Photoshop is astounding. Version 3 makes pictures even sharper without computer artifacts.

If you understand Photoshop’s resize command then you already know how to use Blow Up. Our large library of standard paper sizes makes it even easier. With Lightroom and CMYK support, Blow Up fits into a professional workflow.

Publisher: Alien Skin

Price: $99.99 (free trial available)

Best for: Designers and Photographers

Photomatix Pro

Have you ever photographed a high contrast scene?  If so, you know that even the best exposure gives you blown out highlights, or flat shadows, or both.  The solution is High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing:

›     Take multiple photographs at varying exposure levels (brackets)
›     Merge the photos into an HDR image
›     Adjust the settings to get the look you want: from natural-looking with Exposure Fusion to painterly or surreal with Tone Mapping

Publisher: HDR Soft

Price: $99.99 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers

Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro

Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro, formerly Genuine Fractals, increases image size faster than ever before and without the loss of sharpness or detail that you might normally expect. The same patented, fractal-based interpolation algorithms that were in Genuine Fractals are at the heart of Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro with several improvements. Faster processing speeds, new presets that optimize clarity and detail of different image types, built-in output presets, and the redesigned user interface add to the power of Perfect Resize. Now, it’s even better for preparing all types of images for print—including photos taken with DSLR cameras and snapshots taken with mobile devices.

Publisher: OnOne Software

Price: $199.95 (free trial available)

Best for: Photographers & Designers

Perfect Effects 3 FREE

Add a heavy dose of excitement or a subtle amount of elegance to your photos with Perfect Effects 3 Free, the next generation of PhotoTools 2.6 Free. Choose from over two-dozen effects to enhance and stylize your images, including effects to create the popular HDR and retro looks. Instantly add any effect with a single click or combine them to create a look of your own. Additional effects are available from the onOne Marketplace.

Perfect Effects 3 Free is based on the popular Perfect Effects and can be used as a standalone or directly with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom or Apple Aperture.

Publisher: OnOne Software

Price: Free

Best for: Photographers & Designers

AutoEye 2.0

AutoEye 2.0 is an automated image enhancement solution that rebuilds lost detail, color and enhances digital photos to bring out amazing clarity and color fidelity. AutoEye 2.0 runs as a stand-alone application and as an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for Mac and Windows users.

Publisher: autofx

Price: $129

Best for: Photographers & Designers