Discontinuation of 3D features in Photoshop
Photoshop’s 3D features will be removed in future updates. Users working with 3D are encouraged to explore Adobe’s new Substance 3D collection, which represents the next generation of 3D tools from Adobe. Additional details on the discontinuation of Photoshop’s 3D features can be found here:Photoshop 3D | Common questions on discontinued 3D features.
Add even more capability to your Adobe Photoshop software. Find the latest plug-ins available from third-party developers.
Plugin Marketplace
Starting with the October 2020 release of Photoshop (Version 22.0), plugins can be easily managed using thePlugin Marketplace.
ThePlugins Marketplacelets you install or manage:
- UXP pluginssuch asSlack for Photoshop, andTrello for Photoshop.
- Classic CEP Extension Panels,previously Add-ons (ZXP), also available throughAdobe Exchange
Plug-ins available outside of thePlugin Marketplace:
- Traditionalplug-ins created by third-parties
- Optional file format plug-ins
To learn more, see Plugins Marketplace for Photoshop.
File format and filter plugins
For optional plug-ins for Photoshop available from Adobe, including Script Listener, MATLAB, sample files, and shortcuts:
- Optional file format plug-ins
For help installing or troubleshooting third-party plug-ins in Photoshop, seePhotoshop plug-ins troubleshooting.
For help with downloading and installing third-party plug-ins, see the links for each manufacturer below:
AlphaPlugins
Current versions work with macOS Catalina
| AlphaPlugins EngraverIII- A Photoshop plugin that gives you the power to create complex and beautiful engravings that look hand-drawn, with just a few clicks. | |
| AlphaPlugins EngraverAI- The first plug-in what use artificial intelligence to create amazing hand made engravings | |
| AlphaPlugins LaplacianBlend- A simple free plug-in what lets sophisticate and qualitative mix two pictures with using Laplacian pyramid blending. | |
| AlphaPlugins TurbulenceDistortion- Useful, simple plug-in quickly and easily enhances Photoshop compositions with different kinds of turbulence distortions for absolutely unique effects. | |
| AlphaPlugins FireFor- Powerful and handy Photoshop plug-in for creating fires, burning, smokes and etc naturalistic phenomenas. | |
| Digitalizer IIturns any picture into a set of symbols, digits or meaningful text. | |
| RichTextplug-in lets you add multi-line text and/or paragraphs to Photoshop compositions and apply effects for impact and interest. | |
| DigitalChaos lets your create random patterns consisted from symbols and digits. | |
| IcePatterncreates beautiful designs of winter ice patterns on window glass. |
Auto FX Software
| Plug-in | Description |
| Combine and create thousands of the most popular Photo FX today with one-click and a second of your time. | |
| Mystical Ultimate Bundle Gen2is an integrated bundle of products that work together to overcome challenges encountered by the issues with post production digital photo enhancement | |
| PhotoGraphic Edges Ultimate Bundle Gen2 includes over 10,000 frame, edge, and border photo effects. | |
| DreamSuite Ultimate Bundle Gen2is our best product for Graphic Artists. Containing a total of 36 powerful filters fulfilling the needs of the Digital Photographer, the Graphics Artists and Web Designer in one powerful tool. | |
| AutoMagic Ultimate Bundle Gen2is an amazing suite of 52 filters giving any type photographer whether a professional, intermediate photographer, or a beginner, some of the most comprehensive artistic effects allowing any user the ability to create a large array of digital artwork in one of the many artistic genres. |
Avenza
| Plug-in | Description |
|---|---|
| Tools to import, edit, manipulate and export geospatial images such as aerial and satellite imagery. |
Corel
| Plug-in | Description |
| Create one-of-a-kind effects with ParticleShop, a powerful new Photoshop brush plug-in powered by Painter. |
Digimarc
| Plug-in | Description |
| Digimarc® Barcode for Digital Images Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop applies and reads imperceptible identifiers via the Filter menu to help manage and track digital images. It’s easy to install and subscriptions for both personal and enterprise use are available through Digimarc. |
Digital Anarchy
| Plug-in | Description |
| Create digital backgrounds for photography and other design mediums. | |
| Quickly and easily erase skin blemishes and wrinkles, even out skin tones, and reduce shine. | |
| Fast auto-masking for green screen photography. | |
| Texture Anarchy is a set of filters for creating textures and borders | |
| An easy way to give your photos that sought-after cartooning look. |
| Plug-in | Description |
| DFT | DFT (aka Digital Film Tools) is the definitive digital toolbox meant to simulate optical camera filters, specialized lenses, film stocks and grain, lens flares, optical lab processes, color correction, keying, and compositing as well as natural light and photographic effects. |
| EZ Mask | EZ Maskis 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. |
| Film Stocks | Film Stocksis a unique filter that simulates 288 different color and black-and-white still photographic film stocks, motion picture films stocks, and historical photographic processes. |
| Light | Light can be added to a scene where none existed before just as if you were adding light at the time of shooting. |
| PhotoCopy | PhotoCopy creates a photographic reproduction of a printed or graphic work made with a process in which a new image is formed by the action of proprietary image analysis, color, texture, and light. |
| Power Matte | Power Matteis an easy to use interactive image matting tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image—even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. |
| Power Stroke | Power Stroke introduces a simple, interactive stroke-based interface to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments. |
| Rays | Create stunning and realistic light ray effects quickly and easily |
| reFine | reFineperforms selective sharpening, detail enhancement, edge aware smoothing, cartoon, and pencil effects. |
| zMatte | zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. |
| Tiffen DFX | Simulating 2,000+ popular Tiffen glass filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction, plus natural light and photographic effects. |
DXO
| Plug-in | Description |
|---|---|
| Explore the look and feel of classic cameras, films, and lenses. | |
| A comprehensive set of filters for color correction, retouching, and creative effects. | |
| Master the art of black-and-white photography with darkroom-inspired controls. | |
| Selectively adjust the color and tonality of your images without complicated masks or selections. | |
| From natural to artistic, explore the full potential of HDR photography. | |
| Bring out hidden details consistently with the professional's choice for image sharpening. | |
| Improve your images with noise reduction tailored to your camera. |
Exposure Software - Formerly Alien Skin
Current versions work with macOS Catalina
| Plug-in | Description |
| Featuring the creative focus effects of Bokeh, and a slew of new film presets and textures. | |
| Transform your photographs into beautiful works of art that look they were made by a human, not a computer. | |
| Keep photos crystal clear during enlargement. | |
| Render realistic effects such as Fire, Chrome, Animal Fur, Smoke, Reptile Skin, and the new Lightning. |
Extensis
| Plug-in | Description |
| Organize your entire font collection into a single, searchable location with a professional font manager. |
Flaming Pear Software
| Plug-in | Description |
| Flood 2 | Create realistic watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective. Now with improved 3D realism. |
| Flexify 2 | Bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes. |
| Melancholytron | Make pictures moody, nostalgic, and somehow sad. |
| India Ink | Convert color images to unusual black-and-white halftones. Or use its color modes to produce strange etched effects. |
| SuperBladePro | The best surface and texture generator anywhere. |
| LunarCell | Instant planets. |
| Mr Contrast | Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail. |
| SolarCell | Create suns in a fantasy style. |
| Hue and Cry | Create abstract regions of color. |
| Glitterato | Stars and nebulas with lots of realism and little fuss. |
| Free Plug-ins | Ornament, ChromaSolarize, Tachyon, Ghost, Solidify, Vitriol, RGB/HSL, Circle to Square, Make Cube Tile... |
fnord
| Plug-in | Description |
| Access all the capabilities of OpenEXR from within Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro usingProEXR. | |
| SuperPNGis a free, open source Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG ("ping") files. It has more comprehensive support for the format than Photoshop's included plug-in and provides control over alpha channel handling. | |
| j2kis a free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in set for reading and writing theJPEG 2000file format, the successor to JPEG. |
Google Nik Collection
NOTE:DXO has purchased the Nik Collection and has released new versions.
NOTE: Google no longer provides download links for its versions of the Nik collection. Google also no longer supports or updates its Nik plug-ins for current versions of Photoshop on current operating systems and hardware.
Customers may experience incompatibilities (including freezing and crashes) using Nik plug-ins. We recommend uninstalling problematic plug-ins.
- See:Google Nik plug-in compatibility with Photoshop - Known Issues
| Plug-in | Description |
| Analog Efex Pro | Explore the look and feel of classic cameras, films, and lenses. |
| Color Efex Pro | A comprehensive set of filters for color correction, retouching, and creative effects. |
| Silver Efex Pro | Master the art of black-and-white photography with darkroom-inspired controls. |
| Viveza | Selectively adjust the color and tonality of your images without complicated masks or selections. |
| HDR Efex Pro | From natural to artistic, explore the full potential of HDR photography. |
| Sharpener Pro | Bring out hidden details consistently with the professional's choice for image sharpening. |
| Dfine | Improve your images with noise reduction tailored to your camera. |
HDRsoft
| Plug-in | Description |
| Create HDR photos and adjust them to get the look you want, from realistic to creative, using one-click presets and a large range of settings. |
Imagenomic
| Plug-in | Description |
| Automatic skin smoothing, healing, and enhancing effect plug-in. | |
| Award-winning plug-in and stand-alone for photo noise reduction. | |
| Inimitable toning, film, and grain effects plug-in. |
Monotype
| Plug-in | Description |
| FontExplorer X is the simple, speedy way to find and organize all of your fonts. |
Mister Retro
| Plug-in | Description |
|---|---|
| Now you can add authentic light leaks to any photograph with Light Leaker. | |
| Create professional quality halftone textured weathering, surface and tactile effects with Spot Wash Halftone. | |
| Create professional quality weathering, surface and tactile effects with Spot Wash Dirt. | |
| Create professional quality vintage offset, letterpress and silkscreen analog printing effects on any image with Permanent Press. | |
| Create stunning and authentic vintage photography effects with Retrographer. | |
| Create professional quality image texture, aging and weathering effects with our Machine Wash Deluxe. |
Neat Image
| Plug-in | Description |
| Neat Image software is engineered to reduce the noise in your digital images. It can also minimize film grain, JPEG compression artifacts and other imperfections. |
OnOne
| Plug-in | Description |
| Our entire collection of apps are included in ON1 Photo 10. Browse, Effects, Resize, Portrait, Enhance, and Layers | |
| Effects 10 includes hundreds of stackable filters, presets, borders, and textures to help create your style. | |
| Get the highest-quality photo enlargements with Genuine Fractals® technology—patented, fractal-based interpolation algorithms—that quickly enlarge your images without loss of sharpness or detail. |
Portrait Pro
| Plug-in | Description |
| Photoshop plug-in to make portraits amazing. |
ProDigital Software
Note:
Supports installing and loading the plug-in from the Shared Creative Cloud Locationfor all installed versions of Photoshop without having to reinstall the plug-in.
| Plug-in | Description |
| StarFilterPro4to add beautiful star filter effects to your images digitally, eliminating the need for expensive glass. | |
| You can useStarSpikesPro4to add sparkling star effects to your images digitally in your finishing image processing. |
Topaz Labs
| Plug-in | Description |
| Adjust AI | With one click, Adjust AI leverages thepower of machine learningto transform your photos into something incredible. |
| DeNoise AI | DeNoise AI works like magic to eliminate noise while recovering detail. |
| Gigapixel AI | Use deep learning to get better photo quality by enhancing detail. |
| JPEG to RAW AI | Use machine learning to convertJPEGto high-qualityRAWfor better editing. Prevent banding, remove compression artifacts, recover detail, and enhance dynamic range. |
| Mask AI | With Mask AI’s machine learning technology and easy trimap technique, you can power through image masking in record time. |
| Sharpen AI | Naturally sharpen your images with no artifacts. |
Totally Rad
| Plug-in | Description |
| 30 Brand new effects plus 50 classic favorites come together in RadLab for endless creative possibilities. | |
| Dirty Pictures features 21 custom-designed image overlays that add dimension, grit, and depth to your photos. |
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