Commercial Photoshop-compatible Plugins If you should know some companies or plugins which are missing on this page, please contact us. Number of Companies: 183 ABSoft - Neat Image (Home+/Pro+ Version): Reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images.
Adobe - Gallery Effects: Enhanced versions of the native Photoshop plugins. Not sold anymore.
- RAW and JPG2000: Import RAW files from various cameras and open and save JP2 files. Not sold anymore. Included in Photoshop CS.
AFH Systems - Filter Meister: Sophisticated tool for creating your own plugins
AGD - Color Temperature Plug-in: Correct color temperature with floating point precision.
Age Technologies - PlaidMaker: Create any type of yarn dye fabrics like plain, sateen, diamond, twill, basket, herringbone and more
- QuickRepeat: repeat images, including cascading repetitions, rotations, superimpositions, and horizontal or vertical image inversions
- ColorVision: create new colorways from a scanned fabrics without losing there original textures or shadings
- StyleDraper: Apply new fabric instantly to existing models, then start building a catalogue without actually producing any sample garments
AKVIS - Retoucher: Eliminates dust, scratches, texts and even small objects with a mouse click
- Chameleon: Automatic adjustment of inserted objects to the target image color range
- Stamp: Allows retouching image imperfections (stains, scratches, dust) using similar parts of the image
- Enhancer: Allows detecting details from underexposed, overexposed and mid tone areas of a photo without manipulating exposure
- Coloriage: Colorization of black and white photos and replacing of colors on a color photo
- Noise Buster: Reduces both luminance and color noise on digital images without spoiling other aspects of the photo
- Sketch: Converts an image into a pencil sketch or a watercolor drawing with a few mouse clicks
- Decorator: Change the surface of an object in a verisimilar way
- LightShop: Light effects
- Frame Suite:
Collection of easily adjustable frames for decoration of photos ALAP - PlateMaker: Exports DCS 2.0 files. Adds extra plates for varnishes, foil stamps, metallic inks, and spot colors to separations.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact: Create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections and more.
- Eye Candy 5 - Textures: A collection of ten seamless texture generators, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone and wood.
- Eye Candy 5 - Nature: 10 Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice and more
- Xenofex: Realistic natural phenomena and sophisticated distortions
- Splat!: combines frames, textures, edges, borders, mosaics and more
- Image Doctor: removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects
- Exposure: Recreate the look of traditional B/W and color films
- Blow Up: Offers high quality image resizing
- SnapArt: Creates natural media artwork in a single step
Algovision - LuraWave: reads and writes LuraWave compressed images
AliveColors - AliveColors: corrects up to eight colors simultanuesly
Allegorithmic - Mapzone: Complex pattern modeler
Altia - PhotoProto: automatically turns Photoshop artwork into a working, interactive prototype that can be packaged, emailed and executed
Andromeda - Photography: includes cMulti, Mezzo Line-Screen, B & W mezzo line-art, Diffract, Prism and Rainbow, Halo, Reflection, Star and Velocity filters
- Three-D: for 3D visualization, 3D scene creation, Surface wrapping and Package Design
- Three-D Luxe: Enhanced Version
- Screens: Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens featuring mezzotints, sharp contrast mezzograms, mezzoblends, ellipses, lines, circles, spokes, waves or any blended combination.
- Techtures: 500 hand rendered realistic textures to explore texturing effects
- Shadow: Perspective shadows with a Virtual Camera, Stereo 3D viewing, Multiple shadowing with four movable lights
- Velociraptor: Velocity trails ahead may arc, bounce, cascade, converge, curve, decline, diminish, jolt, jitter, loop, spiral, spring, streak, trail or wave.
- VariFocus: Lets you focus/defocus features in your image with custom control.
- Measurement: For Medical-Scientific Graphic Arts Images
- Cutline: Stamp directional screens
- LensDoc: Corrects the barreling and pin-cushioning image distortions produced by many zoom and wide angle lenses.
- Perspective: 360 degree rotation of images in any direction.
- EtchTone
- ScatterLight Lenses: digital lenses for scattering highlights
- RedEye Pro: RedEye removal
AmphiSoft - AmphiSoft Filters: Image correction and special effects
- Photosharpen: Sharpens photos by removing their edge anti-aliasing
- Photo Detailer: Recover detail from unevenly lit or poorly exposed photos
Antelligent MicroSystems - Color Darkroom: allows you to edit and fine tune your printer's color profiles
Ardfry Imaging - PNGOUT: Creates optimized PNG images that are usually smaller than those created with Save for Web and ImageReady
Artlandia - SymmetryShop: create repeat patterns rom scanned hand-painted motifs and high-resolution photographs
Asiva - Sharpen+Soft: gives the user the control over sharpening or softening image areas.
- Correct+Apply Color: change the color in your images.
- Shift+Gain: make nearly seamless selections then facilitates extremely accurate adjustments to the Hue, Saturation, Value and Red, Green, Blue Components of the image in one Filter pass
- Grain: allows you add grain to images on one or more color channels seperately.
- JPEG Deblocker: prepares a JPEG file for subsequent image enhancement by smoothing out the blocks in low saturation high luminance areas while preserving detail in the rest of the image.
- Selection: utilizes the Asiva technology and mapping techniques to create selections in Photoshop 8 or 16-bit files
Astroshed.com - FITSPlug: A file format plugin that offers support for FITS, a format for astronomical images.
ATS Graphics - Filter Formula: allows you to create your own filters by a simple language which is very similar to C
Aureleon - PhotoPro Tools : For coping with image distortions and digital photo artefacts.
- CoCo : Selective color correction without masking in RGB, Lab, CMYK and MultiChannels
- nColor Converter: Select a multi color ICC profile and color separate an image into a multi channel document that can be post-processed in Photoshop
Auto FX - Photo/Graphic Edges 5.0: adds torn, ripped, deckled, feathered, painted, film frames and darkroom styled edges to any grayscale or color image.
- DreamSuite Series One: 18 visual design solutions for type, graphics and photographs
- DreamSuite Series Two: 12 new plugins
- DreamSuite Gel Series: add reflective and refractive depth effects. Includes advanced brush based tools to let you paint on depth and translucent reflections, colors and textures.
- AutoEye 2.0: rebuild lost detail and color in images
- Mystical Lighting: 16 lighting and shading effects
- Mystical Tint, Tone and Color (MTTC): 38 color effects
Axion - Flare Effects: create a wide varitity of Lens Flares, Sparkles and other wild effects
- Glow and Sparkle: allows you to create a wide varitity of Glows, Sparkles and other effects
AV Bros - PageCurl: realistic and high quality turning page effect
- Puzzle Pro: lets you produce realistic and high quality jig-saw puzzle effect
BetterJPEG - Better JPEG Lossless Resave: Avoid recompression loss when editing and resaving JPEG images in Photoshop.
Bitmix - biTmiX: or creating impressive signs, reflections and other decorations and for plastic textures, foundations and backgrounds production
Box Top Software - Website currently down! - ProJPEG: JPEG tool for Web graphics professionals
- PhotoGIF: tool for Web graphics production
- ImageVice: color reduction
- ColorSafe: provides fully interactive color pickers for the easy creation of almost limitless hybrid colors from the base colors in the Web safe palette.
Camera Bits - Quantum Mechanics: Removes color noise and color artifacts while preserving maximum image detail.
- Band Aide: Removes luminance noise from high ISO and underexposed digital photos.
CGSD - Real Texture Tools: Dehaze Filter, Color Correction for Correcting Image Luminance and Chromaticity, AutoTile automatically creates seamlessly tileable texture patterns, Perspective corrects perspective distortions, Synthesis creates a wide assortment of synthetic textures using fractal geometry.
Chroma Graphics (out of business) - Chromatica, Edge Wizard, Magic Mask
Chroma Software - Shadow Control : Boost details in otherwise lost, dark areas of deep shadow of the image while preserving details in highlights
- Highlight Control: Extracts details from the highlights
- Photographic Filters: Variety of Cokin graduated and solid filters
- Smart Sharpen: Sharpening tool that works on the edges, while leaving the featureless areas intact.
- IR Film: Emulates the look of infra red film, or a photo taken with a digital camera and infra red filter
- WhiteBalance: Changes the white balance of JPEG photosds
CodeFritters - MRWFormat: The ultimate way to open Minolta raw files
ColorUtilities - JPEG 2000 Adobe Photoshop Plug-In: Load and save (8 bit and 16 bit signed/unsigned) JPEG2000 compliant files
Colorfield Digital Media - Insight: allows designers to predict image legibility for color deficient viewers by accurately simulating color blindness.
Color Science - i2e Photoshop plug-in: Allows Photoshop users to use the Colour-Science i2e image enhancement technology
Colorvision - DoctorPRO: Editing of output profiles using virtually all of the Photoshopglobal editing tools.
- ProfilerPro : Uses popular patch readers to create and edit CMYK and RGB profiles for color printers, PostScript printers and RIPs.
- PrintFIX: maintain consistency from your monitor to any number of RGB printers
ConGo - ConGo Plugins Import/Export/Filter Plugins: Allow you to open old C64 images in your image application. The C64 was the world's favorite home computer in the mid 80s and had a maximum color resolution of 160x240 pixel, 64K RAM and a 8bit processor.
Corel - KPT Collection: remarkable image transformations and original effects
- KnockOut: Masks hair, smoke, shadows, water, transparencies and any blurred or out-of-focus edges
CreoScitex - Powertone: dynamic and colorful images that can be printed with only two inks
CurveMeister - CurveMeister: image corrections with various curves and color models
CyberView - Image: advanced, interactive JPEG image compressor. It features selective (regional) image compression.
Cybia - Hotshot: A selection of image-enhancement controls one one dialog
- Retrogade: Recreate classic effects as if you were shooting with traditional black & white film
- Flueron: Ultra-violet/fluorescent style colour shifts
- Alienator: alternative approach to colour-modification effects
Cytopia (out of business, but web site is still available ) - Photo Optics: correction and color special effects
Diaquest - Digital Disk Recorder: Video capture/layoff for Digital Disk Recorders via ethernet and SCSI for image input/ouput
Diard Software - Universe Image Creator: Create realistic images of space including stars, nebula, galaxies, and more
Digi Effects - Web Euphoria: Including AgedFilm, an amazing old-movie effect, StarField, FogBank, VideoLook, Sabbatier and many more.
Digital Anarchy - Primatte Chromakey: Take a foreground image of any resolution shot against a single color background, and replace that color with whatever you want.
- Backdrop Designer: Create resolution-independent backgrounds
Digital Element - Aurora: add natural elements to any 2D PhotoShop image to enhance an existing picture or create new content from scratch
- Verdant: allows users to randomize, rotate, scale, and place plants and trees in Photoshop.
- Modelshop: Add 3D models to your images
Digital Film Tools - 55mm: Simulate glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, matte generation, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects
- Digital Film Lab: Simulates a variety of film looks, popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses and optical lab processes
- Light!: Adds light to the scene just as if you were adding a light at the time of shooting
- Ozone: Independently adjustes the color and brightness of 11 brightness zones
- Snap: Interactive image cutout tool using a coarse to fine editing approach
Digifrontiers/Spinwave - HVS ColorGIF, HVS JPEG: have been discontinued.
DreamText - DreamText: 3D fonts that can be rendered to your image with the help of a plugin.
DVP - Eye Fidelity Tools: specialized processing solutions for professionals using digital cameras, scanners and printers in proofing as well as production
DXO - DxO FilmPack: Simulates the colors and the grain of over 20 popular film types and transforms images into toned print
EPaperPress - PTLens: Corrects lens pincushion/barrel distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting
Extensis - Mask Pro, Intellihance Pro, PhotoFrame, pxl SmartScale: were sold to onOne Software. See below!
- PhotoTools: product was discontinued.
Fantastic Machines - FM Tile Tools: 21 image altering filters
FDR Tools - FDRCompressor: Compress the tonal value range of an image
FilterForge - FilterForge: Build your own filters for creating seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds and more
FixerLabs - FocusFixer: Restores out-of-focus images
- NoiseFixer: Designed to remove 'noise' or 'graininess' from images
- ShadowFixer: Corrects problems caused by differing exposure levels in photos.
- SizeFixer : Enlarge your photos up to A1 size
- TrueBlur: Blur regions of your photos just as your camera would.
Flaming Pear - Super BladePro: surface and texture generator
- Design Sextet: Six plugin filters to warp, recolor, abuse and dreamify your images. Includes Aetherize, Twist, Swerve, Lacquer, Silver, and Glare.
- Flood: realistic pseudo-3D watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective
- Melancholytron: Make pictures moody, nostalgic, and somehow sad
- Hue and Cry: Create abstract regions of color: vivid or pallid, structured or diffuse, endless weird imagery
- LunarCell: Instant planets. Fractal, reality-based, or just strange worlds
- Flexify: Bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes
- Glitterato: Stars and nebulas with lots of realism and little fuss
- SolarCell: Create suns in a fantasy style. Design your own sun with controls for every part of its appearance
- India Ink: Convert color images to unusual black-and-white halftones
- Mr. Contrast: Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail.
- Tesellation: turn any graphic into a seamlessly repeating tile
- Knot: Twisted 3-D abstractions
- Polymerge: Combine image gangs into bizarre composites
Flo's Filters - UnDistort: For correcting deformations of photos
Fo2PIX - Buzz.Pro: Helps find image high and low-lights over a large range of scales, helps find the 'artists line', simplifies to produce blocks of colour
- Buzz.X: Run a desired effect or style across multiple images allowing the creation of stunning artistic video. Create a living painting.
FocusMagic - FocusMagic: corrects both "out of focus" blur and motion blur
Furbo Filters - Furbo Designer Pack: Organic Edges, Vibrant Patterns, Boss Emboss, Wavy Color
Frischluft - flAIR: eight fast high quality filters
- LensCare: depth of field and out of focus generation
Geomantics - FabricWeaver: generate tens of thousands of different woven fabrics in photorealistic detail
Gamut Imaging - ImageBook: enables people to create proof sheets consisting of thumbnail images in any size and style
GoldPanner - AcuFilters: six filter plugins for blurring, sharpening, masking, removing noise and increasinf saturation
GraphicXtras (previously Sapphire Innovations) - Andrew's Plugins vol 19: Circus Daze
- Andrew's Plugins vol 18: Carnival gradient colors
- Andrew's Plugins vol 17: Edge / Sketch plugins
- Andrew's Plugins vol 16: Gradients
- Andrew's Plugins vol 15: 100s of Color effects
- Andrew's Plugins vol 14: Motion
- Andrew's Plugins vol 13: Distortions /patterns / tiling plugins
- Andrew's Plugins vol 12: Gradients
- Andrew's Plugins vol 11: Blend Blurs
- Andrew's Plugins vol 10: Colors Surreal
- Andrew's Plugins vol 9: Gradient Blurs
- Andrew's Plugins vol 8: Gradient Smears
- Andrew's Plugins vol 7: Gradients Patterns
- Andrew's Plugins vol 6: Color cutoff
- Andrew's Plugins vol 5: noise effects
- Andrew's Plugins vol 4: Blurs / lines
- Andrew's Plugins vol 3: Photo
- Andrew's Plugins vol 2: Distort/blur
- Andrew's Plugins vol 1: 26 mixed
GrowCut - GrowCut: An interactive image cutout tool designed to extract solid or opaque objects.
HDR Soft - Tone Mapping: Tone Mapping function of Photomatix Pro available as Photoshop plugin
Hot Door - Harmony: pick perfect color schemes right inside Adobe Photoshop
Human Software - AutoCorrect: Reclaim Lost Colors and Details in Photos
- AutoMask: Perform Precise Masking Fast... Hairs, Trees, Smokes, Transparencies, Blurred Edges
- AutoFocus: Denoise, deblur and sharpening tools
- AutoSelect: Change selectively colors in RGB without building Mask
- AutoSmooth: Smoothes surface and perform anti-aging while keeping image details
- CD-Q: Produce Ready-to-Print color separations from All your Photo CD pictures
ClassicFrames: tool to give the final classy touch to your images. MagicFrames: more than 400 ready made edges for all your imagesMagicStyles: More than 500 Ready Made EffectsMagicTrack: A Drawing Application as a plug-in, circles, stars, framesOttoPaths: Get and manipulate outline text within PhotoshopPhotoFixLens: Correct barrel, pincushion and perspective distortions, vignetting and fringing PhotoLight: Generate photographic lighting effectPhotoPatch: 200 ready made Patchwork/Weave/MosaicPhotoRepeat: Create your own Fabric / WallPaper PhotoSurface: 110 ready made textures or surfacesPhotoSpray: brush with natural imagesPhotoWeave: Create all kind of Plaids, Striped Fabrics or PatternsSelectPro: perform accurate, very smooth color corrections without creating any maskSquizz: all kind of distortionsSpiroMaker: Create Spirographs (Trochoids)SmartPicker: Professional ColorPicker for Photoshop or ElementsStarMaker: Create stars/bursts as paths, selection or layersTextissimo: 750 text effectsXFile: efficient Upsizing algorithms for very Important Image Enlargements I C Net - Filters Unlimited: A filter development system with 350 built-in filters
Imagedrome Imageskill - Background Remover: Select objects from images with complex background content by roughly marking colors inside and outside objects.
ImageXpress - ScanPrepPro: automates Photoshop's tools to produce top quality color separations, halftones, and line art
- Alius: takes posterization to a whole new level
- Deep Bit Filters: lets you work on 16-bit images
- AutoPilot: automatically turns that raw image into professional quality artwork, ready to publish on a printing press, a desktop printer or the web
Imagiam - MaskWarrior: automatic generation of masks and paths
- PathOptimizer: converts a mask into an optimized path
The Imaging Factory - Unsharp Mask: Leave skintones smooth, while sharpening other colors. Use this tool to selectively apply sharpening
- Debarrelizer: Barrel distortion can be corrected quickly and easily using this tool. As an added bonus correct Chromatic Aberration as well
- Perspective: Use Perspective for those pictures taken with a slightly tilted camera. This tool corrects perspective distortion while providing live visual feedback
- Vignette: This tool is built to quickly & easily remove lens and telescope vignetting defects or uneven flash patterns.
- Squeeze: With too many people in a groupshot, the subjects at the side tend to become "larger than life". Use this tool to squeeze them back to normal proportions
- White Balance: Convert the color temperature in pictures quickly and easily using this tool which even allows you to retain the original white point
- White Point: A simple tool for adjusting white balance while selectively retaining the original colorcast
- Color Equalizer: Change saturation and brightness at different colorhues
- Chromex I: Selectively change an entire color to a completely different one, while retaining the original contrast
- Convert To B&W: Tool for customized color to B&W conversion that carries your personal signature
- Noise Reduction: Tackle any type of digital noise using this tool. Featuring separate controls for both luminance noise, as well as color noise.
- Gaussian Blur: Precision gaussian blur, the base for many image enhancement filtering, including anti-aliasing actions
- Simulated DOF: By simulating a shallower DOF, this tool helps to enhance the perception of depth in pictures, and to bring the focus of attention to a selective area
- Soft-Focus: Conventional Soft Focus lenses add a "romantic glow" and disguise unwanted detail, yet somehow retain sharpness.
- Graduated Color: digital equivalent of millions of graduated color filters
- Graduated Fog: digital equivalent of a graduated mist filter, except you interactively decide on the amount of mist
- Color Correction: Original Selective Color Correction in RGB, CMYK, and Lab. Allows you to exactly define those subtle color corrections
Imagenomic Import EPS Infinitimages - PhotoPage: create high-quality digital and printable contact sheets
InTouch - Jpeg It!: allows easy baseline and progressive JPEG conversion
Intrigue - Shadow Illuminator: Restores details in shadows through physical modeling of light and surfaces.
July 20th - DynamicRange Workshop: Enhances details and contrast, recovers highlight/shadow andincreases dynamic range of images
Kelby's Notes - Kelby's Notes: The answers to the top 100 most-asked Photoshop questions right in Photoshop
Kekus Digital Home - LensFix and Panotools: Extract flat images from panoramas, correct for lens distortions, re-map images between many different image projections. Based on Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools.
Kinnetic FX - Color Swap Deluxe: Three types of grayscale conversion which comes in handy when regular grayscale conversion and desaturation don't cut it
Kodak - KODAK Photo CD Acquire Module: lets you select, customize and import Photo CD images
Kodak AFS - Digital ROC : automatically restores color quality to digital images by removing the color cast from faded images and effects of tungsten and fluorescent lighting.
- Digital SHO: The Digital SHO software plug-in automatically reveals details hidden in shadows commonly caused by exposure problems such as backlit subjects, uneven flash illumination and partial shade.
- Digital GEM: Noise reduction plugin
Kuvic - Kuvic Filters: 13 special effects plugins
Lastolite - Foto Effects: Makes grads, corrects colours & distortions, softens and sharpens
Licentia - Imagenie: Automatic colour correction.
Little Ink Pot - Sketcher - Create pencil and pen-and-ink sketch effects
- PhotoGrey - Simple yet powerful greyscale conversion with extra features
- Thredgeholder Pro - Very effective edge detection
- Chalkaholic Pro - Powerfulvirtual art effects are possible with this one.
LizardTech - Genuine Fractals: was sold to onOne Software. See below.
Lokas Software - Artistic Effects: Aqua, Chrome, Drop, Ice, Metal and Snow effects
- 3D Maker: Allows creation of pseudo 3D graphical elements out of 2D drawings
Lucis Art - Lucis Art: Correct scans and repair improperly exposed images, Accurately enhance the smallest image detail, Create a surrealistic, brilliantly colored image, Mimic a watercolor painting, Add a textured and sculptured appearance
Luxology - imageSynth: Generates high-resolution, tiling images from low-resolution sources using advanced image synthesis algorithms
MatchLight - Digital Photography ToolKit: create realistic image composites at a fraction of the time and cost compared to conventional compositing methods
Magic Software Mediachance - DCE Tools: seven plugins for correcting, enhancing and fixing digital photos
Medialab - SiteGrinder: Produce entire web sites from image layers in Photoshop
Mehdi - Quick Enlarger: Enlarges pictures with a better quality than the resize tool of Photoshop
Metacreations (see Corel) - Kai's Power Tools 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and KPT Convolver: Some are sold by Corel.
Microfrontier - Pattern Workshop: create and edit patterns and use them to fill a selection
Microsoft - Impressionist: A plugin for creating impressive brush effects. Isn't available anymore. It was once delivered with Image Composer as a part of Frontpage 98 and Frontpage 2000 Standalone.
Multimedia Lab - 3D Texture Painter: not sold anymore
Fred Miranda - DRI Pro: Dynamic range increase automation plugin
- BW Workflow Pro: B/W Conversion automation plugin
- CSpro: Sharpening for specific DSLR camera files
- ISOx Pro: Noise reduction automation plugin
- SR Professional: Shadow recovery automation plugin
- Intellisharpen II: Sharpening automation plugin
- Stair Interpolation Pro: Image enlarging automation plugin
- Web Presenter Pro: Image downsampling automation plugin
- Velvia Vision: Enhance color and tone in your photographs
namesuppressed - Softener: add soft, glossy effects to your images
- Autochromatic: creates colorized, greyscale, duotone and tritone style images.
- Autointerlace: automatically creates the interlace effect you see on television screens
nik Multimedia - Sharpener: sharpening tools for images of any size and for any output/print process
- Color Efex: Fifty-five filters, including Sunshine, Polarization, Skylight, Graduated Sky Blue, Solarization, and many more
- penPalette: allows you to apply filters selectively to any image
- Dfine: a noise and JPG artifacts reduction and a detail enhancement plug-in.
NovaDesign - Cinematte: blue screen keying/chromakeying
NVR - Bordermania: create a variety of basic borders around images
- PhotoSwizzle: starts at the borders of BorderMania and continues boldly into new territory, not limited to just buttons and borders
OnOne Software - Genuine Fractals: enables you to create resolution-independent images from any size file and lets you print superior quality enlargements without any degradation in image quality
- Mask Pro: Versatile masking in Photoshop
- Intellihance Pro: Fast and easy image enhancement
- PhotoFrame: Endless border effects in Photoshop
- pxl SmartScale:Creates high quality scaled images by preserving the color and brightness data contained in the original image
Outbackphoto - EasyS SharpeningToolkit: Filter/action set to help sharpening your pictures
- Tonality Tuning Toolkit: Filter/action set to help tuning the tonality of your pictures
- EasyMask: Create alpha masks that can be used to sharpen images without sharpening the noise
- EasyS Sharpening: Improved version of Simple Sharpening
- Simple Sharpening: Simple sharpening filter
- Smarter Sharpen X: 16-bit sharpening filter with many options for optimizing sharpening quality
OutdoorGrace - ResizeIT: for resizing your images
Pangea Software - PanoPreviewer: Lets you preview equirectangular images as VR panoramas
Panopticum - Alpha Strip: a unique set of procedures for cutting the images on alpha channel.
- Digitalizer: image can be represented by a letter matrix, the elements of which will form the shape of initial image
- Engraver: cutting through images with thin lines that will form a geometric pattern as if engraving
- Fire: realistic fire effects
- Lens Pro: designing realistic lenses and 3D-crystals as well as crystalline 3D-models
Pantone - Colors and Black: create duotones in Photoshop
Paravue - Turbo Mask: Cutout objects with one mouse click
Paurex - Image Styles: Away to make an unlimited amount of beautiful and photo realistic graphic images in a minimal amount of time.
PCDip - PCDip: creates indexes for Photo CDs
Perforce - P4GT: Enables seamless access to version control for artists, developers and everyday users Photoshop
Pegasus Imaging - JPEG Wizard: create smaller, faster downloading images without compromising quality
- ImagePress JPEG2000: compress images to 100% compatible JPEG 2000 format
PhotoLightning - PhotoLightning: Makephoto prints, send emails without attachments, create slide shows, burn CD's, post photos to web logs, and make enhancements to photos
PhotoPurify - PhotoPurify: Makes the colors of a print match the colors on the screen.
PhotoTune - 20/20 Color MD: a photo correction wizard.
- SkinTune: Automatically correct skin color using 5 racial libraries
Photron - Primate: remove objects from solid-colored backgrounds and composite them into new backgrounds
PictoColor - iCorrect OneClick : Automatic white balance, exposure, and saturation correction with a single click
- iCorrect Portrait: Point-and-click color correction software for portrait, wedding, school, sport, and event photographers
- iCorrect EditLab Pro: High Speed Professional Color Correction and Color Management Software
- inCamera: Create ICC profiles for digital cameras and scanners
Picture Code - Noise Ninja (Bundle Versions): Solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images.
PixelGenius - PhotoKit: Provides digital replications of common analog photographic effects
- PhotoKit Sharpener: Provides a complete sharpening workflow
- PhotoKit Color: Precise color corrections, automatic color balancing and creative coloring effects
- PhotoKit-EL: Gives you all the wonders of a darkroom without the chemicals
PixelRibs - McFilters: Nine plugin filters, which use information from the selection mask to modulate filter parameters
PixelVistas - PhotoLift: Enhances local contrast and amplifies fine detail
PluginCreativity.com - blender: An interactive blend tool to fade images into each other quickly and easily.
- elemental: Creates seamless patterns and textured designs which are entirely independent of resolution.
- splatter: Scatter rain, snow, confetti, clouds or any other image across your picture.
The Plugin Site - ColorWasher: Corrects the colors, the contrast and the exposure of photos with revolutionary algorithms and provides an arsenal of photo correction tools.
- FocalBlade: Automatically sharpen photos for screen display and print, deblur them and also add blur, soft focus and glow effects.
- LightMachine: Perform shadow/highlight, lighting and color-based corrections without the need for time-comsuming selections and layer stacks
- B/W Styler: For B/W conversion, for creating traditional B/W effects and for enhancing B/W photos
- ContrastMaster: For effective contrast enhancement as well as creating dramatic contrast looks, photorealistic paintings and HDR-like effects
- Plugin Galaxy: 20 filter plugins with 150+ basic effects like like transparency manipulation, blurring, texture and pattern generation, noise creation, mirroring, warping, metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, rainbow, sunshine and star effects. Colorize, add edges to your photos or even encrypt them.
- HyperTyle: Generates texture, surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame and shadow effects with the help of seamless textures.
PowerRetouche - Anti-alias Filter: Filter edge roughness and jagged edges in graphics and images.
- Black Definition:Control black in photos and graphics as if it were a colorchannel.
- Color Correction: For color correction and removing colorcast
- Contrast: Control black-white contrast independent of color-contrast and without changing color, hue or saturation
- Radial Density: Correct radial exposure and radial brightness independently.
- Dynamic Range Compression: Shadow illumination without artefacts like edge halos or fake illumination.
- Edgeline: Convert photos and images to line-drawings
- Exposure: Correct under- or overexposure
- Golden Section: Instantly draw any divine proportion on your image or a transparent layer as an aid for cropping and composition
- Lens Correction: Fix distorted photos with our lens tool.
- Noise Filter: Five different methods to filter noise in digital photographs and images
- Posterize: With this plugin you can posterize color hues and values independently and freely select any number of levels for either
- Saturation: Now you can edit saturation without splitting the image up into primary colors
- Sharpness Editor: Sharpen photos and get sharper edges with our plugins novel unsharp masks
- Soft Filter: This plug in does exactly the same as traditional lens soft-filters
- Studio Black & White: Convert digital color to black and white photography.
- Toned Photos: Tone your colorphoto or B/W photo sepia or like any other toned print.
- Transparency: Transparent backgrounds and masks can easily be made for graphic design
- White-balance Correction: Auto-mode calibrates the correct color-filter for any lightsource
Proxel - Lens Corrector: Corrects your lens aberrations; barrel, pin cushion, fish eye, translation or a combination of all.
Puffin Designs - Lens Flare Pro: doesn't seem to be sold anymore after the company was acquired by Pinnacle. See Red Giant Software for Light Factory which is an enhanced version of it!
Ransen Software - Repligator Pro: 100 image effects
Redfield Plugins - Sketch Master: Create realistic looking hand-drawings from photos
- Emblazer: Futuristic patterns and ornaments
- Plasteroid : Tool for texturization of plain pictures and photo-frames making
- Ripples Magic: Creates composite 3D surfaces
- Texturation 3D: A multilayer texture mapper
- Lattice XP: A 3D structure maker
- Jama 2000: A deformation tool and pattern/texture generator
Red Giant Software - Knoll Light Factory 2 for Photoshop: 25 individual lens filters that allow you to design a wide array of light effects from simple flares to glows to a photon torpedo
Red Paw Media - Process FX : Digitally simulate traditional film cross-processing techniques
- BleachBypass Pro: Recreate the atmospheric effects as seen in motion pictures
- B&W Pro 2: Convert colour images to black and white the easy way
- GradFilter: Apply solid and colour graduated density filters easily in post processing
- Fog: Adds gradient fog effects to your photos
Red Prince - Pixie Dust Pro: Various color effects
Richard Rosenman - Advanced Color Corrector: Provides color correction controls
- Lens Corrector PRO: For correcting camera lens distortion
- 3D Sphere Pro: Generates 3D spheres with fully customizable object, surface, lighting, transparency and masking prope
Right Hemisphere - Deep Paint: integrates stroke-by-stroke artistic photo cloning, fully editable brush and canvas settings, and powerful paint functionality
Reindeer Graphics - Optipix: for enhancing digital photographs
- Fovea Pro: for the computer-based image processing and measurement of images
- Focus Extender: Combine an extended depth of field image stack into a single image
- The Image Processing Tool Kit: tools that include most of the functions of Fovea Pro for 8 bit per channel greyscale and RGB color images, excluding those that deal with surface images, automation, and feature classification
RKD (not sold anymore?) - SmarterAR: removes artifacts and enhances detail in digital camera images.
- SmarterNR: removes noise and grain from images
- SmarterResize: Photoshop automation plug-ins that resize and set the resolution for images as the second to last step before printing or saving to the web
- SmarterSharpenX: edge-sharpening tool
- ChannelMixer: custom conversion to B&W
Sakurai Optics - IrisFilter: Gives the natural taste of camera lens to your images
Satori - PaintFX: real-time 64-bit vector paint effects
Sattwa (Russian web site) --> For a translated version see here: Sattwa - Descreen: Removes moire patterns from scanned images
- Noise Reduction: noise reduction plugin
SCC - SCC Plug-In Kit: an IPTC caption editing interface for Adobe Photoshop
Schneider-Kreuznach - B+W Portrait & Family: six filter plugins for optimizing your photos
- B+W Outdoor: six filter plugins for optimizing your photos
Second Glance - ScanTastic: Scan directly into Adobe Photoshop or onto your desktop
- PhotoSpot: creates continuous tone separations using spot-color inks
- Chromassage: color table manipulation and palette rotation as well as color 'injection' to colorize images into 24 bit space
- PhotoCell: designed to provide animation from Adobe's popular image editor by converting Photoshop layers into animation files
Sharptype - Sharptype: Provides ultra-clear type at small point sizes, which will improve your compositions' readability dramatically.
Signum - SureSign Plug-ins: Allow you to embed and read SureSign watermarks in your digital images.
SilverFast - Silverfast : Application and plugin for scanning
- DC VLT/Pro: RAW Converter and digital camera tools
- HDR: Read raw files and process the data as if he had access to the original image on the scanner
SilverOxide - Silver IR: emulate the look of IR images
- APX 25, APX 100, Tri-X, PanX, TMAX, PlusX etc.: Turn your images into B/W
- Warm/Sepia Toning Filter: For toning B&W photographs
SimpleFilter - TransluSense : Creates soft crossings between foreground and background and between different picture elements
- Maskerade: Creates luminance masks, color masks, saturation masks and edge masks
- ColorMixer: Somehow different channel mixer
- GreyMixer: Converts color images into gray tone images
Sitejazz - smartGIF: lets you divide a single Photoshop file into multiple Web ready GIFs
Stellar Science - NITF Escalator: File format plugin
- J2K Escalator: File format plugin
- ECW Escalator: File format plugin
Stoik - ArtGallery: Oil-paint, Engrave, Hand-Draw and more
- Rubber: deformation and plasticity effects: Rubber, Warp, Page Curl, and more
Supporting Computers - Artizen: Various tone mapping operator plugins
Sur-Reality - Distort: curve-lines gradient morpher-distorber, that use Photoshop paths like shape lines
SWCC - SCC's Plug-In Kit: Provides an alternate and greatly improved IPTC caption editing interface for Adobe Photoshop.
Tech Pool - Transverter PI: brings PostScript rasterizing to Photoshop
TeleGraphics - Rastus: Creates high resolution stochastically screened bitmaps from halftone images
Tools for Televison - Tools for Television PRO: Adds an additional palette to Photoshop that is loaded with video specific functions for Photoshop
- Title Builder : A database of text information that automatically gets passed to your text layers in Photoshop
- Framer Grabber: A realtime frame capture tool for Photoshop
Topaz Labs - Vivacity: set of Photoshop plugins for image scaling, noise reduction, JPG artifact removal and sharpening
Total Integrations - IRIS CT: allows reading and writing of IRIS Front End Processor (FEP)
- HandShake LW: reads and writes files in Handshake linework (LW) format
Tribeca - DCF Full Spectrum: Makes the colors in your photos look more accurately
TrueView - PhotoFlair: Correct under-exposed dark areas of an image without affecting correctly exposed areas.
Two Pilots - Color Pilot: for color correction
Ulead - GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, Type.Plugin, Web Razor, Web.Plugin, Web Extensions: (Have become part of PhotoImpact)
UltraSharpen - UltraSharpen: a sharpening plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
Van Der Lee - Old Movie: transform all your digitized images into photographs and films of the old days
- Halftone: apply perfect-quality halftone dithering to any image
- UnPlugged-X: Enhanced version of the free UnPlugged plug-ins
Vertigo - HotTEXT: Create real 3D text right inside Photoshop.
- 3D Dizzy: Work with real 3D models and select camera angles and lighting
- QuickSpace: Little brother to Dizzy
Vertus Vicman Software - Anti Red Eye: remove the common red-eye effect from your images almost automatically
Vismas - Web JPEG: superior JPEG compression and thumbnail generation
Virtual Painter - Virtual Painter: Turn your favorite digital photos into realistic-looking paintings in seconds
Vivid Details (was renamed to PhotoTune) - Test Strip: color correction (discontinued)
Vizros - Vizros Plug-ins: five filters that provide an interactive environment to make real three-dimensional page wrapping effect.
Wasabi (out of business) - SkyPaint: paint tool for creating and editing 3D, seamless, 360° panoramic images
Xaos Tools - Segmation: converts your Photoshop images into intriguing vector based line art, paint-by-number, and Escher-like patterns
- Paint Alchemy: transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist or Pastel
- TypeCaster: turns ordinary type into broadcast-quality 3D titles with depth, texture, and contours
- Terrazzo: creates symmetrical tiled backgrounds
- Total Xaos: Bundle of Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo and TypeCaster
Xe847 - Xe847pro: Produces digital photos and video that appear as seen through the human eye
Xero Graphics - Quasar: Give your images some sparkle with this starmaker plugin.
Xinet - FullPress Versioning plug-in for Photoshop: Automatically creates, saves and manages versions of files
XtraSens - Retina: Enhance perceived contrast, brightness, sharpness, depth and resolution.
YouSendIt - YouSendIt: Allows designers to send files of any size directly from Photoshop. Files delivered are secure and can be tracked.
ZaxWerks - 3D Invigorator: Takes any Freehand, Illustrator or Vector clip art or Type 1 font, turns it into an ornamental 3D model and renders it
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