25 professional and incredibly powerful photoshop plugins
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25 Professional and Incredibly Powerful Photoshop Plugins Published on March 10, 2013 Published by Joshua Johnson
Freebies are awesome, and design blogs are full of them, but sometimes you need a professional
tool to handle professional tasks. There are a wealth of extremely powerful and high quality
photoshop tools that can dramatically improve your workflow and are worth every penny you have to
spend to get them.
Today we’ll look at a number of the best tools available for making color adjustments, adjusting
focus, enlarging images, transforming layers in 3D, reducing noise, creating textures, applying
complex masks, and even taking that PSD into full-blown HTML.
Color and Exposure
Exposure 3
“Over 500 analog techniques and organic looks are back like cross processing, Polaroid and vintage
Daguerreotype. There is careful research under the hood, but the controls are simple so you can
focus on the creative choices. The result is a photo that looks like it was made by a human, not a
computer.”
Price: $249.00
PhotoTune 3
“Great color, it’s not as hard as you think. If you can compare images side-by-side and pick the best
one, then you can easily color correct and enhance your images with PhotoTune 3. Additionally,
PhotoTune 3 improves the color and sharpness of your image without the need to know how to use
levels or curves in Photoshop.”
Price: $159.95
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. ”
Price: $109.00
Topaz Adjust
“Quickly and easily make your photos stunning by using Topaz Adjust’s creative exposure, powerful
detail enhancement, and unique color manipulation tools.”
Price: $49.99
Focus Enhancement
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.”
Price: $199.99
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.”
Price: $69.95
DOF Pro
“Naturally occurring depth of field has extremely complex optical characteristics. It cannot be simply
simulated through the use of a standard blur filter. Lens size, subject distance, aperture shape, lens
curvature, film grain, spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, lens asymmetry, transparency, light
refraction, motion blur and much more must be taken into account in order to achieve an accurate
and convincing depth of field effect. DOF PRO carefully takes into consideration all of these aspects
in order to produce the highest quality depth of field output possible.”
Price: $99.99
Enlargement
Blow Up 2
“Blow Up 2 is a Photoshop plug-in that produces enlargements dramatically sharper than any other
software, especially Photoshop! Blow Up uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts
pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges. Simulated texture
and film grain keep photos looking natural even in extreme enlargements. Blow Up can even clean
up JPEG compression artifacts when a client insists on using a low quality source image from the
Web.”
Price: $249.00
Perfect Resize
“Perfect Resize (formerly known as Genuine Fractals) is the industry standard for enlarging and
resizing images. It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to
increase image size without the loss of sharpness or detail that you might normally expect. The
patented, fractal-based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for
themselves.”
Price: $199.95
3D Transformations
3D Invigorator
“3D Invigorator for Adobe Photoshop allows you to easily create complex 3D objects, logos and text.
Import a vector object or create a simple object inside the Photoshop plugin. Add lighting to make
the object look more real. Then drag-and-drop 3D materials to make the object look transparent,
reflective, or just plain cool. This 3D Photoshop plugin opens up a new world of creating 3D objects
and text.”
Price: $199.00
AV Bros. Page Curl Pro
AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.2 is an extremely powerful and high quality Photoshop plugin, which will
definitely boost your productivity and creativity. This Photoshop filter lets you not only bend the
image, using two types of bending (curling and folding), but also texturize it (using the bump maps),
orient it in 3D space (including the perspective distortions) and obtain total control over the process
of lighting the image (including the option of dropping inner shadows). All this is possible thanks to
the all new and unrivalled engine of this plug-in.
Price: $49.95
3DECovers
“Create dazzling ecovers that virtually jump from the screen into the prospect’s lap…giving them a
level of ultra-realism and incredible detail they can almost touch with their fingers. There’s no huge
learning curve, no monster manual to memorize, and no long list of prerequisite software. All you
need is Adobe Photoshop–that’s it!”
Price: $97.00
Noise Reduction
Noiseware
“Noiseware is a high-performance noise suppression software tool designed to decrease or
eliminate noise from digital photo or scanned images. Unlike most image processing software
techniques that utilize simple methods (such as median filters) to treat digital noise in images,
Noiseware features a sophisticated yet fast noise filtering algorithm. Using the adaptive noise profile
capability and sharpening function, Noiseware greatly reduces the visible noise while keeping the
details in the images. ”
Price: $49.95
Neat Image
“Neat Image is an image filter to reduce noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital
cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, no-flash, astro) and
high-speed (sport, action, children) photography.”
Price: $79.90
Texture Creation
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.”
Price: $129
Machine Wash Deluxe
“Finally you can create professional quality image texture, aging and weathering effects with our
Machine Wash Image Filters! This closely guarded secret of the design industry can now be yours!”
Price: $99.00
Filter Forge
“Filter Forge is a high-end Photoshop plugin that lets novice and expert users create a wide variety
of realistic and abstract textures and effects. It’s a must-have for any digital artist – 3D modeller,
photographer, web designer and scrapbooker alike.”
Price: $166.00
Kubota Texture Tools Industrial Pak
“You’ve never seen anything like the 50 textures you’ll find in our new ‘Industrial’ pak. Far from
subtle, these striking looks give you the ability to add an element of techno-industrial style that will
make your images snap! Edgy looks from textures like ‘Cobalt’, ‘Fingernails’ and ‘Lead’ bring a
sharp, eye-catching look while ‘Radon’, ‘Polonium’ and ‘Zinc’ will give you that final touch, grunge-
look that seniors are begging for in their portrait shoots.”
Price: $149.00
Masking
Mask Pro
“For removing unwanted backgrounds, Mask Pro is the Photoshop plugin recommended by
Advanced Photoshop magazine. Mask Pro allows you to cut out a subject from the background by
assigning keep and drop colors and simply painting away the background. Mask Pro makes it easy
to create masks, selections and clipping paths on difficult subjects like hair, glass and fog all in real-
time.”
Price: $159.95
Fluid Mask 3
“Take masking to the next level with Fluid Mask 3. The professional choice for quality masking, Fluid
Mask 3 is industry recognised for excellence. Quick to pick up and intuitive to use – gets
professional results fast.”
Price: $149.00
EZ Mask
“EZ Mask is 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. This extraction process
creates what is known as a mask–essentially a black and white cutout. White mask areas are
extracted, black areas not, and gray areas in between represent a level of transparency. Once a
mask is extracted, the foreground object can be seamlessly composed onto a new background in
Adobe Photoshop as well as apply filter and image corrections only within the area defined by the
mask.” Also check out Power Mask from the same developer.
Price: $150.00
Web Design
SiteGrinder
“If you know Photoshop then you already know enough to start creating web pages for yourself and
your clients. With SiteGrinder there is no longer a requirement to slice up your web design and send
it off to a developer to convert your design from Photoshop to HTML / XHTML and CSS. SiteGrinder
does all of that tedious work for you. Your Photoshop web design is output just the way you
envisioned it – resulting in a full functioning website.”
Price: $397.00
Divine
“Divine suggests easy steps to convert Photoshop to WordPress theme that any of you can carry
out. Yes, that’s right – you need no special extended knowledge about HTML, no special skills in
coding, basics are completely enough to convert PSD to WordPress. You’ll find all necessary
information about converting Photoshop to WordPress at our site. ”
Price: Free (Still in beta, Windows only)
Miscellaneous
DiskFonts
Browse and install uninstalled fonts right from Photoshop.
Price: $29
ColoRotate
“Fully Mac and Windows compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS4 or newer. The ColoRotate 3D color
editor plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS4 is intended to give you another way to edit colors —
intuitively and effectively. The magic of ColoRotate is that your colors are displayed and edited in
three dimensions, the same way your brain naturally understands colors. ”
Price: $9