In Photoshop, a plug-in (or plugin) is a set of components that adds specific effects to a motion picture or still pictures. There are a lot of filters and plugins available in web for great multimedia softwares like Photoshop, Avid, FCP, Aperture etc. Here we showcase a collection of plugins and filters used in Photoshop software.
This enormous collection of the best Photoshop plugins for print designers takes something good and makes it even better by giving you more control, more power and more options than what’s available in your standard Photoshop toolkit.
Exposure 3
Exposure provides all the tools you need to create beautiful images. Hundreds of tasteful presets, extensive retouching tools, non-destructive layering, and gorgeous special effects make Exposure the only product you need to finish your work.
Blow Up 3
Blow Up keeps photos crystal clear during enlargement. Especially in large prints hung on a wall, the difference between Blow Up and Photoshop is astounding. Version 3 makes pictures even sharper without computer artifacts.
Topaz Labs (Photoshop Plugins)
Topaz Studio is built with the photographer in mind, providing powerful tools for perfecting your images, in an easy to use editing platform. Quickly make basic adjustments to Exposure, Color and Detail in a few clicks or add more artistic adjustments to make art that is truly your own. Topaz Studio is built to effectively and efficiently create results you want, without complicated tools slowing your workflow.

Redynamix HDR
HDR-like effect from a single image using a single click from ordinary to extraordinary pic.

Filter Forge
The final version of Filter Forge 7.0 is now available! It features improved rendering engine that speeds up image processing, adds support for copying and pasting image from and into Filter Forge, improves the logic of render map export, and updates over 40 components. It also includes support for the latest host applications and OS versions.

Portraiture
Portraiture is a combined plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture that automates the process of retouching portraits for a perfect-skin look. The plugin automatically smooths skin tones while removing blemishes and, crucially, avoids softening or destroying detail areas such as eyelashes and skin texture.Portraiture for Photoshop eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching.

Alien Skin
The most advanced version of our award-winning RAW photo editor is now available. Exposure enables you to quickly create beautiful images and organize your photos. Its blazing fast workflow speeds up image culling and organizing. Exposure’s powerful creative tools include hundreds of adjustable presets, portrait retouching tools, and many advanced special effects. Its flexible approach supports Photoshop and Lightroom workflows, too.

Autofx
Automatically Create Amazing Photo Effects with our Photoshop Plugins and Filters.Auto FX Software – Creative Image Enhancement and Filter Plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom 6 & Apple Aperture.Customized Creative Photo Software Solutions For More Than 20 Years
Nikon Color FX
Color Efex Pro 3.0 has been significantly updated from earlier versions to provide photo enthusiasts and professional photographers alike with the most powerful yet easy to use set of photographic filters ever created.

Pixel Blender
Adobe Pixel Bender technology delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters.

Knoll Light Factory
This is one of the most popular Adobe Photoshop Plugin used by creative movie and photo studios for the last decade and still going strong. An integration to Photoshop has been recently introduced along with movie software support. Over 100 realistic presets for lens flare will make your composite extra ordinary in a few clicks.

Knockout
KnockOut dramatically increases the quality of your photo composites by letting you preserve fine image details that were once impossible to mask precisely. Hair, smoke, shadows, water, transparencies and any blurred or out-of-focus edges can now be masked with incredible precision, speeding up the entire design process. Plus, KnockOut is an ideal plug-in for Adobe Photoshop , Corel PHOTO-PAINT or Painter 7, so it fits seamlessly into your workflow.
