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13 Photoshop Extensions and Plugins That Will Blow Your Mind

Creative Market Last updated: April 3, 2024 · 4 min read
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Despite Adobe Photoshop’s unrivaled feature set, everyone has something they wish the software could do (especially web designers). Fortunately for Adobe, Photoshop has a rich community of third-party developers on the web that regularly churn out fantastic plugins, extensions, and other tools which add all kinds of functionality for Mac OS and Windows.

From layer organization to guide control, here are 13 outstanding Adobe Photoshop plugins you should download and install today.


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1. Renamy 3

Stop getting stuck with boring patterns or having to craft your own. With Super Spray, you can turn any .png images into a spray pattern. All you have to do is import the picture with the plugin.

2. ICO Format

This indispensable (and free) plugin allows you to open and save files in the ico format. Users can design a single icon in sizes ranging from one to 32 bits. What’s more, you can save the finished product in ICO format or PNG (Vista).

 

3. SpecKing

Get precise measurements fast. Once installed, SpecKing gives you measurements of each layer with just one click, or if you have multiple objects on a flat layer, you can measure them with a selection tool.

 

4. The Zeick Photoshop SVG File Formats Export Tool

This plugin allows you to quickly export any vector shapes to the SVG file format. You simply target a single layer or any group of layers, hit a button, and you’re ready to go. If you’re looking for a solution to reduce your file’s actual size, we rounded up a great list of tips here.

 

5. Portraiture

Portraiture boasts best-in-industry skin smoothing algorithms and is a must-have for any professional portrait photographer. It’s hard to find a tool that has such impressive results with such little effort. It’s not cheap, but if you make your living editing photos, it’s definitely worth the expense.

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6. Font Awesome

Font Awesome is one of the most popular icon fonts on the market and this plugin brings all those awesome icons into an easy-to-access Photoshop panel.

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7. GuideGuide

GuideGuide is a fantastic way to quickly create a complex guide arrangement in Adobe Photoshop. Like some of the other panels on this list, Photoshop has added a similar functionality, but this free to download extension does it so much better.

8. Size Marks

Size Marks is another useful plugin for quickly placing measurement information onto your PSDs. Simply draw a box with the Marquee tool, hit a keyboard shortcut, and you’re done.

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9. PNG Hat

Font Awesome is one of the most popular icon fonts on the market and this plugin brings all those awesome icons into an easy-to-access Photoshop panel.
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10. Random User

If you’re a UI designer in Photoshop, you’ve come up against this problem tons of times: you’re designing your app and you need some sample avatars for your comps or ads. With the Random User plugin, great placeholder avatars are a single click away.

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11. LayerCraft

LayerCraft is a great little toolkit for preparing and exporting images from Photoshop. There are a few quick scripts like for trimming and scaling, as well as export options for 1x, 2x, and 3x size graphics.

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12. Velositey

This Photoshop extension will cut your time making design mockups and wireframes in half. It comes with loads of UI staples (buttons, sliders, comment boxes, etc.) in a variety of styles and colors. With just a few clicks, you can turn data into a beautiful prototype of an entire web page.

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13. Layrs

Layrs is a plugin that helps your clean up your messy Photoshop PSDs with seven useful scripts. It was created by Creative Market shop owner Vadim Sherbakov.

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What Are Your Favorite Photoshop Extensions?

These 13 Adobe Photoshop plugins should be enough to supercharge your workflow. Head over to this great list of tutorials if you want to learn to achieve more with this powerful tool. If we missed your favorite plugin, leave a comment below and let us know.

 


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  • Does Creative Market still have a photoshop plugin? 10 years ago
  • @Derek Stevenson with all the recent changes in Adobe CC, it's no longer functioning properly, and I don't think it's currently on the roadmap to be revitalized. 10 years ago
  • @Josh Johnson gotcha, was just wondering because I always thought it was a really cool tool. Sucks that there had to be such a big overhaul with Adobe CC. 10 years ago
  • Excellent! Will definitely try these out 10 years ago
  • "Will" is spelled incorrectly in the header of this article ;) 10 years ago
  • Awesome Plugins, I have tried Velositey, Web Zap, Layrs, Subtle Patterns & Guide Guide. You can also find some other useful plugins here : http://pspanels.com/ http://www.cutandslice.me/ 10 years ago
  • LMFAO … #17: was iOS "hate" really a freudian slip? 10 years ago
  • SpecKing by @Wuwa Corp and Zeick by @Renamy are awesome. 10 years ago
  • Here is a phenomenal Photoshop script that I use every day to sequentially renumber layers: http://blog.kam88.com/en/group-layer-renaming-script.html 10 years ago
  • Viveza by Nik is another of my favorites. Great list here, thanks! 10 years ago
  • This is a great list! I'm going to try PSD Cleaner. I'm pretty good at keeping my Photoshop files organized but curious how this works. Thanks for the useful article! 10 years ago
  • Any suggestions for more "custom shapes" libraries and where to find those? Thank you. :) 10 years ago
  • Great plugins! You should try a new Photoshop design specs plugin named Markly http://marklyapp.com 10 years ago
  • Interesting and Awesome work.Thanks. 10 years ago
  • Thanks for these tools! Such an awesome resource. 10 years ago
  • Absolutely fantastic. Well written, clean, newsworthy. I look forward to more in the future. Thank you! 10 years ago
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  • Nice to be on such honored list, Thank You. By the way, Fixel Contrastica 2 PS (And all the rest) are Photoshop CC 2015 compatible. 10 years ago
  • Super Plugins. Thank You! 10 years ago
  • i will try it. thks....... 10 years ago
  • There's a lot of useful plugins here (although some of them doesn't work with latest versions of Photoshop longer). I'm missing extensions that makes it easier to work with the flow from Photoshop design to social media like twitter and Instagram though. It would be nice to see some of them (if they exist!). I know one tool that I like to use that's for free www.ps2insta.com It let's me post my design to Instagram instead of first emailing it to me and then using the Instagram app to post it. I have only tested it with Photoshop CC 2014 so I don't know if it works for older versions. One neat feature is that it can resize the canvas to make it square before I hit the post button :) 10 years ago
  • Oh wow! I have never heard of some of these! Thanks for the info. 10 years ago
  • All of tools are very important and helpful also. 10 years ago
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  • All good and nice, however. Be carefull when purchasing the Font Hero photoshop plugin, because, after making payment you dont get the licence right away. I dont know why. I bought it half an hour ago, no reply from the developer, no licence code, no nothing. Hope its not a hoax. 9 years ago
  • Thank you for sharing the list of plugins. Check out http://www.knowband.com/ to get the best plugins for your OpenCart, Prestashop and Magento website. 9 years ago
  • Thank you for your comprehensive list - having read these I thought I'd add mine too. I've been developing professional Photoshop plugins that have become very popular, aimed at 3D artists and photographers for over a decade. In particular, Ultraflares - http://richardrosenman.com/shop/ultraflares/ has become a best seller for photorealistic lens flares. I also have many freeware ones that I've contributed to the community. Feel free to check them out at http://richardrosenman.com 8 years ago
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  • Wow, amazing! 8 years ago
  • I bought Super Spray when he first came out with it and I LOVE IT. For the Design work I do, PSD Dude is on my top list of 5 action designers. I love the way I can modify or change something to fit with what I am designing and the uniqueness of his work fits with my quirky ideas. No matter what I am designing, I know he will have an action that I can utilize - I got so bored with actions that only give you one result - which is not to say that other actions are boring but that I get tired of seeing the same action generated and/or assisted design suddenly flooded everywhere. I also look forward to his tutorials. ---- BTW, I noticed somewhere in these comments that those designers that are always on top of the latest Photoshop version are frustrated when he can't use some of the great older actions because of missing DLL files. -- I get frustrated when I can't use some of the newer actions because just can't update all the time and I'm not fond of the "cloud" thing which is just a subscription. I prefer to buy an actual software product for many reasons, but that is me. [Okay, by a show of hands, how many know in their gut that they could have done a better Photoshop job on Obama's birth certificate for a lot less money and would NOT have forgotten to merge the document??? --- 8 years ago
  • Oh my God, excellent plugins for photoshop. These are really rocks for designers I believe. 8 years ago