Third-party plug-ins for Photoshop
Plug-ins from third-party developers provide customers with the ability to add even more capabilities to their Adobe® Photoshop® software and, in some cases, can make certain tasks easier and faster. Look here to find the latest and greatest plug-ins from third-party developers.
Plug-ins by category
3D
Andromeda Series 2: Three-D Filter
This plug-in offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, shading, and 3D scene building from within Photoshop.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Aurora
Aurora allows Photoshop users to create great 3D skies with clouds, water with reflections, light sources, and more all within Photoshop.
Developer: Digital Element, Inc.
Bridge for Photoshop
Easily pose characters and objects three-dimensionally with the 3D Bridge for Photoshop while in DAZ Studio (see below), which is a free download. Work interactively with 3D objects and see real-time results in Photoshop. 3D Bridge is available for both MAC and PC.
Developer: DAZ 3D
Works for Photoshop 7 or Higher
Carrara 6
Carrara 6 is recognized as the complete, all-in-one 3D solution for digital content creators of many industries including magazine, comic book, newspaper, TV and film. It features figure posing, modeling, landscape design, physics, animation, and rendering all within a single application.
Developer: DAZ 3D
Daz 3D Studio
This free, simple-to-use 3D animation software has step-by-step tutorials and enables you to create quick 3D renders. In conjunction with the 3D Bridge for Photoshop, DAZ Studio allows you to work interactively with 3D objects and see real-time results in Photoshop.
Developer: Daz 3D
Works with Photoshop CS3
DigArts Software
DigArts revolutionizes layer compositing by taking over where stock photography leaves off. No more clipping or cloning trees and nature. Create textures for 3D or 2D illustrations simply by mixing and merging coordinated arrays of layers.
Developer: DigArts Software
Search for and download free 3D content from the Google 3D Warehouse, Google’s free online repository for 3D models and content, directly within Photoshop CS3 Extended. Place, manipulate, and use the 3D content in composites with the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Developer: Adobe Systems Inc. and Google Inc.
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
imageSynth
Creates seamless, high-resolution images from existing seed images that you supply. Unlike procedural solutions, imageSynth processes all or portions of your existing imagery to create fully tile-able images that are ready to be used as backgrounds, brushes, or texture maps.
Developer: Luxology
Works with Photoshop CS3
LightWave® Rendition for Adobe Photoshop
Realize the full potential of the new 3D capabilities in Photoshop CS3 Extended with this new render plug-in, powered by the Emmy-award winning lighting and rendering system found in LightWave 3D®.
Developer: NewTek
Works with Photoshop CS3
Modelshop 1.0
Have you ever needed to line a picture of a street with street lamps? See what a garden would look like with a bench? Show a city what the street would look like with a new building? This can all be done in 3D programs, but do you really want to have to load a 3D program to modify a picture?
Developer: Digital Element, Inc.
Strata Design3D
3 tools in one:
- Match generates a matching camera view and a 3D grid that coincides with Vanishing Point data. Match the perspective in a Photoshop® document and place 3D objects into it.
- Model creates new objects or modify existing objects with a wide range of 3D tools.
- Render composes final scenes using Strata’s award winning rendering technology.
Developer: Strata Design
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
Strata Foto3D
This plug-in allows you to generate 3D models from photographs shot with a standard digital camera. These objects include the 3D model data as well as the photo-based surface textures. Transfer photos directly to Strata Fotoand return a real-time 3D object to a 3D layer in Photoshop® CS3 Extended.
Developer: Strata Design
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
Strata Live3D
With Live 3D you are able to create real-time interactive 3D content for both web sites and PDF documents from Photoshop® CS3 Extended which includes 3D content. Now you can export 3D PDFs and real-time 3D Java applets directly from Photoshop® CS3 Extended.
Developer: Strata Design
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
TypeCaster
Create stunning 3D type quickly and easily without having to learn a difficult 3D interface. Render any Type 1 PostScript® or TrueType font with textures, bump maps, and multiple lights. Scale, rotate, and manipulate 3D text, and add depth by creating bevels and extrusions with unsurpassed ease.
Developer: Xaos Tools
WildRiver SSK
With WildRiverSSK, you can manipulate color, simulate 3D effects such as bevels and extrusions, enhance textures, and produce other creative special effects quickly and effortlessly.
Developer: WildRiver SSK
Architecture/engineering/manufacturing
Clicdesign - ColorTool
With this amazing Adobe Illustrator plug-in, designers can now easily create and manage color story boards. And best of all, when you make changes to a sketch, all color combinations will be updated automatically!
Developer: Age Technologies Inc.
Clicdesign - ColorVision
With ColorVision, designers can recolor a scanned fabric image or any piece of garment instantly; in an almost infinite range of hues.
Developer: Age Technologies Inc.
Clicdesign - MotifStudio
Let's designer create print design whether for textile fabric, surface design or home furnishing industry. Using this amazing tool, the designer has total control on the type of repeat needed to create the final design: free, tossed, border, stripe, engineer and more!
Developer: Age Technologies Inc.
Clicdesign - PlaidMaker Pro
PlaidMaker Pro is the most flexible yarn dye fabric design systems on the market today. Create any type of yarn dye fabrics like plain, sateen, diamond, twill, basket, herringbone and more with great ease directly on screen.
Developer: Age Technologies Inc.
Clicdesign - StyleDraper Pro
Whether you are in the apparel, home furnishings or any other surface design industry, StyleDraper Pro is unequivocally the best tools on the market to visualize models in as many variations as you wish.
Developer: Age Technologies Inc.
DigArts Software
DigArts revolutionizes layer compositing by taking over where stock photography leaves off. No more clipping or cloning trees and nature. Create textures for 3D or 2D illustrations simply by mixing and merging coordinated arrays of layers.
Developer: DigArts Software
Fovea Pro
Fovea Pro offers a comprehensive set of functions for the computer-based image processing and measurement of images.
Developer: Reindeer Graphics
Image Processing Tool Kit
The Image Processing Tool Kit provides a lower-cost set of tools that include most of the functions of Fovea Pro for 8-bit-per-channel grayscale and RGB color images, excluding those that deal with surface images, automation, and feature classification.
Developer: Reindeer Graphics
Color management
ADAMS Image Calibration Utility v2.0
This Photoshop plug-in lets you calibrate images with a click of the mouse during image acquisition without the worry of calibrating the distance from lens to object.
Developer: Foray Technologies
Color Darkroom
Color Darkroom is a filter plug-in for Photoshop that allows you to manually edit and save new copies of your printer manufacturer's ICC color profile.
Developer: Antelligent MicroSystems
Gammawork
Gammawork allows professional Photoshop users to match their monitors to a print or calibrate their monitor gamma to a desired value.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
Digital asset management
Font Reserve Server
Font Reserve Server is the most powerful client/server font manager available. The answer to the font management challenges faced by large or multi-workgroup print, publishing or creative environments, Font Reserve Server provides powerful, centralized administrative management and control, helping minimize font-related IT issues and ensuring a consistent, smooth font workflow.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Portfolio 8
Portfolio 8 automates the organization, archiving and distribution of all your digital content (images, illustrations, designs, photos, etc.) With its ability to automate the importing of XMP, EXIF and other metadata and perform quick finds and drag-and-drop placements of files using the Portfolio Express floating palette, Portfolio is a valuable addition to any Adobe Creative Suite user’s repertoire.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Portfolio Server 8
Portfolio Server 8 makes it possible for workgroups to keep their digital content (designs, images, photos, collateral, etc.) organized, and easy to find, access and distribute. With its ability to automate the importing of XMP, EXIF and other metadata, build dynamically updated websites for distributing catalog content, and perform quick finds and drag-and-drop placements of files using the Portfolio Express floating palette, Portfolio Server is a valuable addition to any Adobe Creative Suite user group.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Portfolio 8.5
Your digital assets at your fingertips thousands of graphics, photos and other digital files to keep organized? Whip them into shape with Portfolio 8.5. Intuitive, powerful and expandable.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Portfolio Server 8.5
Creative assets management for workgroups Portfolio Server 8.5 serves as the powerful hub of your creative assets management system, providing the core set of capabilities you need to keep your rich media on-the-move for routing to other users/departments, for final delivery to clients, partners or vendors, or for secure archiving.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Suitcase Fusion
Suitcase Fusion provides Mac OS X users with the industrial strength font management that today’s creative workflows demand. It builds upon the best of Extensis’ previous leading font managers—Suitcase X1 and Font Reserve 3—to provide reliable, hassle-free font management.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Professional-level font management for the MAC desktop. Suitcase Fusion eliminates font problems that creative professionals face everyday. It combines the best of Suitcase and Font Reserve to provide reliable, hassle-free font management.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Suitcase for Windows
Suitcase for Windows provides Windows users with the industrial strength font management they have been waiting for. It allows you to easily organize, find and activate only the fonts you need, saving system resources and all but eliminating font conflicts and other font-related errors.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Professional font management, Suitcase for Windows eliminates font problems that creative professionals face everyday. It provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Suitcase Server
A true client/server font manager, Suitcase Server is the perfect solution for print, publishing and other creative workgroups that want a time-saving solution that ensures font consistency from desktop-to-desktop. Easy to set up and support, Suitcase Server provides the key features administrators need to keep workflows free of rogue and duplicate fonts, track font licenses and ensure that client users have the fonts they need when working in their Adobe Creative Suite applications of choice.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
Suitcase Server X1
Client/Server font management for workgroups. A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.
Developer: Extensis Corporation
File format
Animaq/Digital
Animaq/Digital supports all leading video graphics and video compression boards and includes plug-ins for Photoshop and Adobe Premiere® software.
Developer: Diaquest, Inc.
DICOMaccess 3.0
With DICOMaccess, Adobe Photoshop can transparently read and write DICOM files.
Developer: DesAcc
Works with Photoshop CS3
FITS Liberator
For many years, astronomical images from the world's telescopes were reserved for an elite group of astronomers and technical people. Now anyone with a desktop computer running Photoshop can try their hand at crafting astronomical images as beautiful as those from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Developer: European Space Agency, European Southern Observatory, and NASA
Genuine Fractals
For extraordinary image enlargements, Genuine Fractals enables photographers to create high-quality, print-ready enlargements yet save files in a small, space-saving format for easy archiving and file transfers.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
IRIS/CT plug-in module
Prepare and download files to an IRIS FEP front-end processor for output as an inkjet proof, and then return them to Photoshop.
Developer: Total Integration, Inc.
Kodak PhotoCD Acquire Module
The Kodak PhotoCD Acquire Module offers greater image color adjustment from within Photoshop.
Developer: Eastman Kodak
NITF Escalator
An Adobe Photoshop File Format Plug-in that allows users to read NITF 2.0, NITF 2.1 and NSIF 1.0 imagery files directly into Photoshop and other host image processing applications.
Developer: Stellar Science
NJ2K Escalator
An Adobe Photoshop File Format Plug-in that allows users to read JPEG 2000 imagery directly into Photoshop and other host image processing applications.
Developer: Stellar Science
Panopticum Alpha Strip 1.0
Panopticum Alpha Strip is a unique set of procedures for cutting alpha-channel images. Without this plug-in, to get the effect of cutting your image with geometrical objects you had to draw the mask manually or use a mask prepared in advance.
Developer: Panopticum LLC
Panopticum Fire 2.0
Panopticum Fire 2.0 is a Photoshop plug-in designed for creating realistic, animated images of burning, with different special effects that you can apply to the flame, such as spreading out the fire or changing the color of the flame.
Developer: Panopticum LLC
Pixel!SCAN
To scan images into Photoshop for UNIX®, all you need is a scanner, a SCSI cable, and the Pixel!SCAN for Photoshop plug-in from Mentalix.
Developer: Mentalix, Inc.
PSD2FLA
This plug-in lets you save your layered Photoshop design as a Flash® 5 FLA file. This means you can open your Photoshop design directly in Flash and begin to edit, adding animation, interactivity, and more.
Developer: Media Lab
SiteGrinder
This plug-in converts Photoshop documents into interactive web pages in a way that is both more intuitive and more powerful than other web tools.
Developer: Media Lab
Medical/scientific/forensics
ClearID
Expands the functionality of Photoshop by providing innovative and powerful tools such as an automated pattern remover, multiple Fourier filters that work in color, and improved Color Safe Levels and Curves that can be adjusted without affecting the saturation of the image.
Developer: Ocean Systems
Works with Photoshop CS3
Fovea Pro
Fovea Pro offers a comprehensive set of functions for the computer-based image processing and measurement of images.
Developer: Reindeer Graphics
Geographic Imager
Geographic Imager is a suite of spatial imaging tools for Adobe Photoshop. Geographic Imager provides Adobe Photoshop with a set of tools and functionality that allows the use of the powerful and vast image editing tools of Adobe Photoshop to enhance and manipulate spatial imagery without losing any geospatial metadata.
Developer: Avenza Systems Inc.
Image Processing Tool Kit
The Image Processing Tool Kit provides a lower-cost set of tools that include most of the functions of Fovea Pro for 8-bit-per-channel grayscale and RGB color images, excluding those that deal with surface images, automation, and feature classification.
Developer: Reindeer Graphics
J2K Escalator
An Adobe Photoshop File Format Plug-in that allows users to read JPEG 2000 imagery directly into Photoshop and other host image processing applications.
Developer: Stellar Science
NITF Escalator
An Adobe Photoshop File Format Plug-in that allows users to read NITF 2.0, NITF 2.1 and NSIF 1.0 imagery files directly into Photoshop and other host image processing applications.
Developer: Stellar Science
Miscellaneous
ArtOptimizer reduces size of images linked to Illustrator document by eliminating excessive image data. It automatically reduces image resolution, scales images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in Illustrator and target resolution specified, and reimport them to Illustrator at 100%. Save storage space, time, production costs, increase printing speed, speed up job transfer and more.
Developer: Zevrix Solutions
ColorExchange
ColorExchange is a Photoshop plug-in that enables you to automatically generate and view multiple color combinations, or colorways, of any graphic design, saving you time and money.
Developer: Monarch Design Systems
LinkOptimizer reduces size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data. It automatically reduces image resolution, scales and crops images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the InDesign and target resolution specified, and reimport them to InDesign at 100%. Save storage space, time, production costs, increase printing speed, speed up job transfer and more.
Developer: Zevrix Solutions
Photographer's Contact Sheet
Creates a contact sheet of images in a folder, and along with the file name gives you the option to add up to 3 lines to add an ordering grid of images, or any other text.
Developer: Foil, Graphics, & More
Smart Connection Enterprise
With Smart Connection Enterprise, Adobe InDesign, InCopy and other client applications are seamlessly integrated into a parallel workflow for maximum efficiency. Every day, on many continents and in many languages, publishers of all sizes and types are using Smart Connection Enterprise to efficiently produce their publications.
Developer: WoodWing Software
Tiffen Dfx Digital Filter Suite
Tiffen Dfx digital filters represent a technological breakthrough that both complement and expand the extraordinary creative control Tiffen optical filters have brought to still imaging as well as to the motion picture and broadcast industries. Unlike other software, Tiffen Dfx digital filters are the first and only software to provide filter effects that simulate the characteristics of Tiffen¹s award winning optical glass counterparts.
Developer: The Tiffen Company
Tile Tools
Fantastic Machines Tile Tools is a set of 21 Photoshop compatible plug-in graphic filters that can be used to create amazing tileable images and textures. Try the demo with seven of the filters fully enabled.
Developer: Fantastic Machines
Photographic
Alien Skin Exposure 2
Exposure 2 is the feature-packed, new version of Alien Skin Software's award-winning Photoshop plug-in that gives digital photographs the look and feel of film.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Andromeda Series 1: Photography Filters
The first in a series of excellent Photoshop filters, this plug-in gives you ten of the most sought-after optical lens special effects and professional photographic techniques.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Andromeda Series 2: Three-D Filter
This plug-in offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, shading, and 3D scene building from within Photoshop.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Backdrop Designer
Backdrop Designer provides a great new way of creating digital backgrounds for photography and other design media.
Developer: Digital Anarchy
BM Workflow Pro
This workflow tool is not like any other plug-in available. There are tons of options, features, and endless possibilities for creating your masterpiece. In addition to manual modes and custom tweak options, this plug-in is packed full of carefully designed preset options to help you get the best image quality out of your files.
Developer: Fred Miranda
B/W Styler
Apply B&W conversion and create traditional B&W effects. Simulate the whole workflow of B&W photography from shooting the photo to framing the end result.
Developer: The Plugin Site
CFrx
The Color Fringing RX plug-in was designed to reduce and in most cases remove unwanted "color fringing" from digital files.
Developer: Fred Miranda
Color Efex Pro 3.0
Widely used by many of today’s professional photographers to quickly enhance and transform images, the award-winning photographic filters of Color Efex Pro 3.0 give you superb traditional and stylizing power. Fifty-two filters and over 250 effects let you perform high quality retouching, color correction and endless creative enhancements to your photographs. Nik Software’s patented U Point technology provides the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated selections or layer masks. Get the edge the pros rely on.
Developer: Nik Software
ColorWasher
Correct the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos with a a wide range of automatic, semi-automatic and manual tools.
Developer: The Plugin Site
Cutline Filter 1.1
Apply high-quality, hand-engraved special effects to grayscale images in minutes with this third-party plug-in. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS2.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Digital Film Lab
Digital Film Lab is a unique plug-in meant to simulate a variety of color and black-and-white photographic looks, diffusion and color grad camera filters, lighting gels, film stocks, and optical lab processes all in a controlled digital environment with either 8- or 16-bits-per-channel processing.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
DRI Pro
This professional tool offers an easy and efficient solution to increase dynamic range by blending two images shot at different exposures.
Developer: Fred Miranda
EZMask
An easy to use interactive image masking tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image — even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
55mm
55mm is a comprehensive set of digital optical filters meant to simulate popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, lighting gels, film grain, and exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
Final Impact
The aim of this plug-in series is to offer a range of common effects that help users speed up certain tasks.
Developer: Cybia
FocalBlade
Sharpen your photos for screen and print with a tremendous amount of control over the sharpening process and without ugly side-effects.
Developer: The Plugin Site
FocusFixer
FocusFixer is a Photoshop plug-in destined to revolutionize the work of digital photographers by allowing them to remove focus blur after a picture has been taken.
Developer: FixerLabs
Fotomatic
This is a series of effects based on traditional photography equipment and techniques. The effects are not meant to be complex or exact matches, but merely a quick and easy method to achieve results that are similar to what can be produced via conventional nondigital formats.
Developer: Cybia
FotoPage Platinum 2.5
This plug-in provides photographers, visual artists, and other professionals with a quick and easy method of creating high-quality digital and printable contact sheets of their work.
Developer: Infinitimages
Genuine Fractals Print Pro
For extraordinary image enlargements, Genuine Fractals Print Pro enables photographers and digital imaging professionals to create high-quality, print-ready enlargements of RGB and CMYK files.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
Highlight Control
Based on our popular Shadow Control, Highlight Control extracts details from highlights.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
ImageAlign
ImageAlign software uses breakthrough technology to correct lens (barrel and pin cushion) and perspective (keystone) distortions in digital images.
Developer: Grasshopper Limited
ImageAlign Professional 1.2
Correct both camera tilt and lens curvature distortions in a single pass with this third-party plug-in.
Developer: Grasshopper Limited
Intellisharpen II
The Intellisharpen II plug-in is a new sharpening technology specifically designed to accommodate all digital files including scanned film. This plug-in is compatible with JPEG files straight from the camera or TIFF/JPEG files converted from raw files.
Developer: Fred Miranda
IR Film
The IR Film plug-in is designed to emulate the look of infrared film, or a photo taken with a digital camera and an infrared filter.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
ISOx Pro
This professional tool offers an easy and efficient solution to quickly and affordably reduce noise from digital camera files or scanned film. It uses noise reduction technology specifically designed to accommodate raw or JPEG images straight from the camera.
Developer: Fred Miranda
LensDoc 3.0
Easily correct distortions produced by zoom and wide-angle lenses with this third-party plug-in. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS2.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Light!
Light can be added into a scene where none existed before. Unlike anything you've seen before, the Light! Photoshop filter adds light to the scene just as if you were adding a light at the time of shooting.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
LightMachine
Perform shadow/highlight, virtual lighting and selective color corrections without the need for time-consuming selections or masks.
Developer: The Plugin Site
Lucis Pro 5
Gain complete exposure and creative control of images. Compatible with Photoshop CS2.
Developer: Image Content Technology
Matchlight 3.0 Professional
Predictably and consistently calibrate the lighting and camera characteristics of two or more images to create a realistic image composite.
Developer: Matchlight Software
Mystical Tint Tone and Color 1.0
This suite of 38 color effects is easy to use and provides professional results in seconds. Compatible with Photoshop CS.
Developer: Auto FX Software
Nik Sharpener 2.0
Sharpening an image enhances the overall visual impression of that image, and is an essential step in creating a good digital print. Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0 is a powerful, easy to use tool that fits smoothly into your digital work flow, taking over the complicated process of optimal image sharpening and providing you features and controls necessary to achieve optimal sharpness in any image on any output device.
Developer: Nik Software
NoiseFixer
NoiseFixer is a plug-in for Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 2.0.
Developer: FixerLabs
Ozone
Ozone is a unique Photoshop filter that allows photographers, designers, and artists to manipulate the color of an image with incredible flexibility and accuracy.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
Photographic Filters
Photographic Filters is a powerful tool that is like having an unlimited amount of filters in your bag.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
PhotoKit
PhotoKit is a photographer's plug-in toolkit of effects that offer accurate digital replications of analog photographic effects.
Developer: Pixel Genius, LLC
Works with Photoshop CS3
PhotoKit Color 2.0
PhotoKit Color applies precise color corrections, automatic color balancing, and creative coloring effects.
Developer: Pixel Genius, LLC
Works with Photoshop CS3
PhotoKit Sharpener
PhotoKit Sharpener provides a complete sharpening workflow, from capture to creative to output sharpening.
Developer: Pixel Genius, LLC
Works with Photoshop CS3
Plaids & Stripes
Plaids & Stripes is a plug-in that instantly generates simple to complex plaid and stripe patterns within Photoshop.
Developer: Monarch Design Systems
ScatterLight Lenses 1.2
Use the professional digital lenses in this third-party plug-in for scattering light. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS2.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Series 3
Quickly and easily convert grayscale images to line art for creating special effects and screens with this third-party plug-in. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS2.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
SF ColorMixer 2
SF ColorMixer is a Photoshop plugin whose functionality greatly exceeds Photoshop's channel mixer. It's built-in "auto balance" feature ensures an always balanced mixing ratio of the channels and avoids the trimming of shadow and highlights. Thus all levels of color alterations can be accomplished very easily without constantly paying attention to keeping the sum at 100%. In addition, you can fix any color ("ColorFix") and therefore exclude it from all further alterations. The Pro version of the filter also supports images with 16 bit color depth per channel as well as CMYK and Lab images.
Developer: SimpelFilter
SF GrayMixer 2
SF GrayMixer is a Photoshop plugin for transformation of color images into grayscale images. It offers the possibility to (almost) randomly choose which brightnesses should be assigned to which color in the resulting grayscale image and therefore for example turn a light-blue sky into a dramatically dark sky. Like in ColorMixer there is a "ColorFix" option which prevents that the fixed color is altered during subsequent corrections. The pro version of the filter also supports images with 16 bit color depth per channel as well as CMYK and Lab images.
Developer: SimpelFilter
SF Maskerade 2
SF Maskerade is a Photoshop plugin for creating luminance, color, saturation and edge masks. It is also suited for doing very concise color selections under consideration of saturation and brightness or for selecting only black, white or gray-tones of an image or transforming images into line drawings, and much more. The result can be output as a grayscale mask or transformed into transparency (and inverted or blurred before). The plugin works internally in full 16 bit per channel color depth and can be used from within Photoshop actions and batch processing commands. In addition to the full version there is a free-ware version available with restricted functionality.
Developer: SimpelFilter
SF Maskerade 2.2
SF Maskerade filters support the creation of luminance, hue and saturation masks. Via a range of sliders you can control masked and unmasked areas very precisely using edge masks, invert or blur masks and transform masks.
Developer: SimpelFilter
SF TransluSense 2
SF TransluSense is a Photoshop plugin for, on the one hand, decreasing or completely eliminating image transparency, on the other hand transforming selected colors or luminance into transparency. It is also suited to transform transparency into a mask and hence separate color information and transparency for easier manipulation of both.
Developer: SimpelFilter
Shadow Control
Give your digital photos a professional look by boosting details in otherwise lost, dark areas of deep shadow, while preserving details in highlights.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
ShadowFixer
ShadowFixer has been specifically designed to correct the problem of different exposure requirements within one image.
Developer: FixerLabs
SI Pro 2
The new SI Pro 2 plug-in gives photographers access to powerful and flexible options for customizing their own image interpolation outputs.
Developer: Fred Miranda
Snap
Snap is an easy-to-use interactive image cutout tool.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
SR Pro
Since highlights are difficult to recover when not exposed properly, this tool was developed to focus on recovering the hidden shadow detail.
Developer: Fred Miranda
The Works
This plug-in set provides a base of simple effects that can be handy on a regular basis, including filters, screen overlays, grain effects, transparency, and color.
Developer: Cybia
Velvia Vision
This is a new Photoshop plug-in designed to enhance color and tone in your photographs. It provides a 200% range of error-free color intensity as well as smart algorithms to increase contrast, create moods, and expand tonal range.
Developer: Fred Miranda
Web Presenter
With Web Presenter, photographers have access to powerful and flexible options for customizing their own image downsampling output.
Developer: Fred Miranda
zMatte
zMatte is a full-featured bluescreen and greenscreen keyer that is the result of the experience Digital Film Tools has in creating hundreds of successful bluescreen and greenscreen composites.
Developer: Digital Film Tools
Retouching
AdvantEdge
Now you can combine multiple frame images in just minutes on a Windows® based computer. Fine hair detail, water, shadows, smoke, glass, and reflections — even blurred edges — are composited flawlessly and automatically with Ultimatte AdvantEdge.
Developer: Ultimatte
AlgoShop
AlgoShop removes many of the visual artifacts that plague highly compressed digital images. It is a simple and effective solution for improving image quality.
Developer: Algolith
Alien Skin Image Doctor 2
Image Doctor 2 easily fixes imperfections in digital images, helping restore, retouch, and repair old or new photos by replacing unwanted objects with seamless background fill.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
AutoMask 4
This masking filter plug-in features global density masking, allowing you to create a mask on selected areas or protect certain areas, and local brush density masking, allowing you to build a mask automatically and quickly.
Developer: HumanSoftware Company Inc.
AutoSelect 1.0
With AutoSelect, you can use exclusive color-correction features such as selective multicolor correction, advanced plate manipulation, and fully adjustable curves.
Developer: HumanSoftware Company Inc.
Blow Up
Blow Up offers the highest quality image resizing available, better than bicubic interpolation and any other third-party solution.
Developer: Alienskin
Chromatic Fast Fourier Transform Filter v2.0
This Photoshop plug-in lets you remove repetitive patterns from color images while retaining valuable information on RGB color channels that often can be lost in grayscale imaging alone.
Developer: Foray Technologies
Color Theory
Color Theory is a digital color wheel used to find harmonious color combinations.
Developer: Digital Anarchy
EasySharp
EasySharp is a Photoshop filter plug-in for the selective edge-sharpening of digital images. It enables the selective extraction and sharpening of prominent edges in an image without requiring the use of edge masks.
Developer: Pixel Vistas
FocusFixer
FocusFixer is a Photoshop plug-in destined to revolutionize the work of digital photographers by allowing them to remove focus blur after a picture has been taken.
Developer: FixerLabs
GenoPal 2.1
GenoPal is an easy-to-use color combination and matching tool that lets you pick a color from an existing palette or any window or picture on your computer.
Developer: Genometri Pte Ltd.
Genuine Fractals
For extraordinary image enlargements, Genuine Fractals Print Pro enables photographers to create high-quality, print-ready enlargements yet save files in a small, space-saving format for easy archiving and file transfers.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
Genuine Fractals Print Pro
For extraordinary image enlargements, Genuine Fractals Print Pro enables photographers and digital imaging professionals to create high-quality, print-ready enlargements of RGB and CMYK files.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
Image Doctor 1
Image Doctor magically removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs overcompressed JPEG files, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects.
Developer: Alienskin
Intellihance Pro
Intellihance Pro quickly and dynamically enhances images to make them look their best. Compare and print up to 25 professional enhancement variations at once.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
Knockout
Achieve complex masking with absolute precision — Knockout is a powerful extension to Photoshop.
Developer: Corel
MaskPro
This third-party plug-in offers a complete collection of masking tools perfect for every masking challenge.
Developer: OnOne Software
Works with Photoshop CS3
NoiseFixer
NoiseFixer is a plug-in for Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 2.0.
Developer: FixerLabs
Noiseware
Noiseware™ is designed to remove noise with unsurpassed speed, picture quality, and ease-of-use. The Pro Plug-in features the IntelliProfile™ algorithm with self-learning mode, which automatically creates a precision noise profile optimized for each individual image. Picture details are preserved using an advanced DetailGuard™ technique during the noise removal process. The presets deliver stunning results, while a range of intuitive controls allow for optional fine-tuning by luminance, tonal and color ranges, noise frequency, and region of interest. Now you can shoot at high ISOs under available light with absolute confidence in the end results!
Developer: Imagenomic
Pattern Removal Filter v2.5
This Photoshop plug-in allows you to quickly and easily identify and remove repetitive patterns from digital images that often interfere with the recovery of forensic evidence.
Developer: Foray Technologies
PhotoLift
PhotoLift is a Photoshop filter plug-in for adjusting detail and contrast levels in digital photographs. Using the plug-in, local and global contrast levels can be independently manipulated. Standard paint, fill and erase tools allow selective application of contrast adjustments to various areas of the image.
Developer: Pixel Vistas
PhotoKit
PhotoKit is a photographer's plug-in toolkit of effects that offer accurate digital replications of analog photographic effects.
Developer: Pixel Genius, LLC
Works with Photoshop CS3
Portraiture
Portraiture eliminates the tedious labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to deliver accurate, natural-looking skin retouching in seconds! Intelligent skin masking and automated skin smoothening, along with batch processing and optional finishing controls, provide superior results and a streamlined retouching workflow.
Developer: Imagenomic
Primatte Chromakey 2.0
Primatte Chromakey 2.0 is a powerful chromakey masking plug-in for Photoshop.
Developer: Digital Anarchy
PTMac
This is the Mac OS X version of Helmut Dersch's popular Panorama Tools (PanoTools) image correction plug-ins, including Adjust, Correct, Perspective, and Remap.
Developer: Kekus Digital, LLC
RealGrain
RealGrain™ is the Plug-in software which enables you to "shoot film with a digital camera!" RealGrain features a comprehensive library of color and B&W film types and scan resolutions. Grain size is automatically adjusted based on physical output dimensions, and presets and custom controls are available for B&W conversions, split-toning, grain balance and tonal and color fine-tuning.
Developer: Imagenomic
Smart Sharpen
Smart Sharpen is a sophisticated sharpening tool that works where sharpening is needed most on the edges while leaving the featureless areas alone.
Developer: Boxwork Corp.
ShadowFixer
ShadowFixer has been specifically designed to correct the problem of different exposure requirements within one image.
Developer: FixerLabs
Viewpoint ZoomView
Easily deploy large, print-quality images online, zoom in, pan around, and see the finest details without any special graphic card or high-speed Internet access.
Developer: Viewpoint
Special effects
Alien Skin BlowUp
Best image enlargement available! Better than bicubic. Preserve crisp lines and smooth colors at sixteen times original size. Works with 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images in Photoshop and Elements.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact
New Photoshop plug-in. Includes 10 filters that render chrome, bevels, glass buttons, perspective shadows and more. Features three new filters and seven revamped classics.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature
New Photoshop plug-in. Includes 10 filters that render beautiful, organic effects: fire, smoke, rust, and more. Four new filters and six revamped classics.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Alien Skin Snap Art
All-new Photoshop plug-in. Simulate beautiful, natural media in one step. Stylize photos and graphics without hand editing. Oil paint, pencil sketch, pen and ink, comics, and more.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Alien Skin Xenofex 2
New version with 14 more phenomenal effects. Simulate realistic lightning and clouds in your digital photos. Create striking images using sophisticated distortions such as Flag and Television. Transform your photos into jigsaw puzzles, constellations, or intricate mosaics with a single click.
Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC.
Andrew's Plugins Vol 18 CarnivalColors
Create stunning combinations of color and design for overlays, backgrounds, text, designs and fashion. Great for texture designs, digital photography and color effects. Plug-in includes gradient effects and combinations of horizontal gradients, vertical gradients, ellipsoids, pyramids, angular beams, star gradients and more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins Collection
180 plug-ins spread over 20 volumes, all the plug-ins of the Andrew's plug-ins in one special bundle. Plug-ins include blur effects, color effects, gradients, patterns and much more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 1 Innovations
26 plug-ins set including color effects, invert effect, wave plug-ins, edge effects, posterization effects and more - millions of effects via output modes, effects modes and transparency settings.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 2 DistortionTricks
16 plug-ins including shudder plug-in, smear plug-ins, color op art plug-ins, dot plug-ins, distortion plug-ins and more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 3 PhotoMagicks
Plug-in set including 10 color effects plug-ins including grayscale plug-in, tone plug-in, satuation plug-in, color plug-ins, vignette plug-in and many more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 4 BlurFactory
Plug-in set with 20 plug-ins for blur effects including out of focus plug-in, smear plug-in, emboss plug-in, color smudge plug-in and many more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 5 PhotoGrainy
Plug-in set themed noise effects, paint effects and more. Includes 18 grainy plug-ins.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 6 CutoutLantern
Color cutout plug-ins, 16 plug-ins in total including noise effects and many more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 7 GradientWorld
Three plug-ins (gradients, patterns and stretch). The gradients and pattern plug-ins come with many 100s of combos of designs for creating backgrounds, overlays etc The plug-ins use the FG and BG colors of Photoshop®.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 8 PixelHazy
6 Plug-ins for grain, smear, mist and color effects + gradient plug-in with 100s of combinations of colorful gradient designs.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 9 ImageEchoes
7 plug-ins themed blurs,focus, gradients, colors, fragmentation and more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins 10 WeirdColor
14 Color effects plug-ins including badTV effects, dot effects, warped color effects and more.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Andrew's Plug-ins GXBlurry
7 Plug-ins for blurry and smeary effects + pyramid gradient plug-in effect.
Developer: Abneil Software Ltd (Graphicxtras.com)
Artlandia SymmetryShop
Artlandia SymmetryShop fully automates the creation of textile, wallpaper, and other surface designs. It also creates web page backgrounds, pattern-based optical illusions, and other repeating patterns.
Developer: Artlandia
Artlandia SymmetryShop is all you need to do professional pattern design in Adobe Photoshop. This plug-in makes the design procedure quick, easy, and fully automatic. You can edit the source and rebuild the pattern at any time.
Developer: Artlandia
Aurora 2.1
Add natural elements to any 2D Photoshop image to enhance an existing picture, or create new content from scratch.
Developer: Digital Element, Inc.
AV Bros. Page Curl Pro
AV Bros. Page Curl Pro is an extremely powerful and high quality filter plug-in for Photoshop. It is meant to let you not only bend (curl and fold) the image, but also texturize it (using the bump maps), orient it in 3D space and obtain total control over the process of lighting the image (including the option of dropping inner shadows).
Developer: AV Bros.
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
AV Bros. Puzzle Pro
AV Bros. Puzzle Pro is a high-quality, powerful, and flexible filter plug-in for Photoshop. It is meant to help you create a jigsaw puzzle effect, but it also produces a variety of additional high-quality image effects.
Developer: AV Bros.
Works with Photoshop CS3 Extended
Backdrop Designer
Backdrop Designer provides a great new way of creating digital backgrounds for photography and other design media.
Developer: Digital Anarchy
Chromassage
With Chromassage, any Photoshop user can create wild colorization effects impossible to produce any other way! Chromassage allows color table manipulation as well as color injection into 24-bit color space.
Developer: Chromassage
Creative Pack
Create winding edges, undulating surfaces, bright colors, and patterns.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Cutline Filter 1.1
Apply high-quality, hand-engraved special effects to grayscale images in minutes with this third-party plug-in. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS2.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Designer Sextet
This set of six transcendent plug-in filters can be used to warp, recolor, abuse, and dreamify your images. It includes Aetherize, Twist, Swerve, Lacquer, Silver, and Glare.
Developer: Flaming Pear
DreamSuite Gel Series
Add vibrant, translucent depth effects to your artwork with ease. Compatible with Photoshop CS.
Developer: Auto FX Software
DreamSuiteSeries 1
This third-party plug-in is an advanced, full featured, photo-realistic visual effects application that offers precise control over the creative process. Compatible with Photoshop CS.
Developer: Auto FX Software
Final Impact
The aim of this plug-in series is to offer a range of common effects that help users speed up certain tasks.
Developer: Cybia
Flexigy
Bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Flood
Inundate the landscape and submerge your friends. Create realistic pseudo-3D watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Fotomatic
This is a series of effects based on traditional photography equipment and techniques. The effects are not meant to be complex or exact matches, but merely a quick and easy method to achieve results that are similar to what can be produced via conventional nondigital formats.
Developer: Cybia
FXPak Styles
FXPak Styles is a library of more than 500 styles designed to create stunning text or shape effects within Photoshop CS2 or Photoshop Elements.
Developer: HumanSoftware Company Inc.
Glitterato
Create stars and nebulas with lots of realism and little fuss.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Hue and Cry
Create abstract regions of color: Vivid or pallid, structured or diffuse, endless weird imagery is yours to use.
Developer: Flaming Pear
India Ink
Convert color images to unusual black-and-white halftones. Use its color modes to produce strange etched effects.
Developer: Flaming Pear
KPT Collection
A natural addition to Photoshop, the Corel KPT Collection is a selection of the most powerful Kai's Power Tools plug-in filters from KPT 5, KPT 6, and KPT effects.
Developer: Corel
LunarCell
Create instant planets. Fractal, reality-based, or just strange worlds are yours in seconds.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Melancholytron
Make pictures moody, nostalgic, and somehow sad.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Mr. Contrast
Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail.
Developer: Flaming Pear
myColorViz creative
myColorViz creative is the first design software that helps the user to design dazzling metallic effects on your images. It visualizes the documents in 3D, optimizes and exports your silver effect design concepts in accordance with real printing process conditions and specific ink sets.
Developer: MetalFX Technology
Mystical Tint Tone and Color 1.0
This suite of 38 color effects is easy to use and provides professional results in seconds. Compatible with Photoshop CS.
Developer: Auto FX Software
Paint Alchemy 2
Combine Photoshop and your artistic vision with Paint Alchemy software's palette of stunning painterly effects for brilliant results.
Developer: Xaos Tools
PhotoSpray 1.5
With this filter plug-in, you can spray pictures on top of any RGB photo or layer. Brushes are adjustable through a variety of parameters, including XY resizing, shadow strength, hue and saturation values, opacity, and arithmetic mode.
Developer: HumanSoftware Company Inc.
Panopticum Alpha Strip 1.0
Panopticum Alpha Strip is a unique set of procedures for cutting alpha-channel images. Without this plug-in, to get the effect of cutting your image with geometrical objects you had to draw the mask manually or use a mask prepared in advance.
Developer: Panopticum LLC
Panopticum Fire 2.0
Panopticum Fire 2.0 is a Photoshop plug-in designed for creating realistic, animated images of burning, with different special effects that you can apply to the flame, such as spreading out the fire or changing the color of the flame.
Developer: Panopticum LLC
Panopticum Lens Pro 1.0
Panopticum Lens Pro is a powerful tool for creating the visual effect of seeing images through various types of lenses, prisms, and crystals. The lens effects can be adjusted for shape, optical properties, position of the lens, and light intensity.
Developer: Panopticum LLC
Polymerge
Combine image gangs into bizarre composites.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Series 3
Quickly and easily convert grayscale images to line art for creating special effects and screens with this third-party plug-in. Compatible with Photoshop 5.5 through CS.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
SolarCell
Create suns in a fantasy style. Design your own sun with controls for every part of its appearance, or roll the dice and see what happens.
Developer: Flaming Pear
Tesselation
Easily turn any graphic into a seamlessly repeating tile without detailed retouching.
Developer: Flaming Pear
The Works
This plug-in set provides a base of simple effects that can be handy on a regular basis, including filters, screen overlays, grain effects, transparency, and color.
Developer: Cybia
VariFocus Filter 1.1
Use this third-party plug-in to go beyond flat Gaussian blurs and extend your creative options with true selective focus that replicates photography.
Developer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Verdant 1.5
This plug-in offers 16-bit color and will support plants created by Digital Element's upcoming Plant Mechanic.
Developer: Digital Element, Inc.
WildRiver SSK
With WildRiverSSK, you can manipulate color, simulate 3D effects such as bevels and extrusions, enhance textures, and produce other creative special effects quickly and effortlessly.
Developer: WildRiver SSK
Xenofex 2
Xenofex 2 offers 14 more phenomenal effects for web designers, graphic artists, digital photographers, and special effects enthusiasts.
Developer: Alienskin
Textile Design
TRIADEM StylePlugs: Weaver
Weaver is a textile design PlugIn for Photoshop to create dobby weaving simulations. You can easliy define warp and weft color sequences to create checks, stripes and madras in infinite variations. From the weaves library you can choose and edit the weaves to be applied on the fabrics.
Developer: TRIADEM OHG Hamburg
TRIADEM StylePlugs: Repeater
Repeater is a range of textile design PlugIns to draw repeats and all-overs. You can choose between a simple tiling allowing shifting in horizontal or vertical direction. You can also create allovers with rotation and mirroring of the sequence, defining the size of the resulting repeat.
Developer: TRIADEM OHG Hamburg
TRIADEM StylePlugs: Coloration
Coloration is a textile design PlugIn to reduce the number of colors of a design, and create colorways. Any image can be reduced to a choosen number of colors, and then be re-colorized, replacing the original colors with yours. The resulting image can be in flat colors, or be dithered or reomputed in full colors.
Developer: TRIADEM OHG Hamburg
TRIADEM StylePlugs: ColorList
ColorList is a Photoshop PlugIn to create collection colors. It acts as a colorpicker. Designers can easily mix and shade colors to create their color cards. A shading grid helps to find the right





