In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. (Once you've found the one you need, and see if you can grab a bargain on it – or any other top design and creative gear.) Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and passable renders for. • All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away.

Promoted: • Publisher: • Price: $149-$399 (now $37 - $99 at a 75% discount) • Good for: Photographers, photo editors, graphic designers, 3D artists Filter Forge offers 12 thousand of effects and textures, covering almost every use case you can imagine. In version 7.0, the new copy-paste function makes it possible to use Filter Forge with any host. Just copy a processed image from the standalone Filter Forge application and paste it anywhere you want. Need to work with render channels? Now you can preview all active channels during rendering and export all of them to files at once..

Have fine colour control right at your fingertips when you need it • Publisher: Rico Holmes • Price: $16 • Best for: Artists and designers If you've ever wished that Photoshop's colour picker was just a little less ugly and cumbersome, Rico Holmes' Hover Color Picker might be what you've been waiting for. It's there when you need it with a good-looking set of customisable sliders that give you a lot more control than the standard picker, and when you're done it'll minimise itself automatically. This panel delivers professional retouching functionality • Publisher: Pro Add-Ons • Price: $29 • Best for: Retouchers and photographers For professional retouching results that go a lot further than the default Photoshop filters, it's hard to go wrong with Ultimate Retouch Panel. Now on version 3.7.5, the developer's been taking on board suggestions from pro clients about what they need from it, and it features over 200 functions in one panel, including seven frequency separation methods, four fast retouch methods and 15 tools for local retouching. Use local contrast enhancement to bring out unseen detail in your photos • Publisher: Davide Barranca • Price: $34.95 • Best for: Photographers Local contrast enhancement is a useful method for bringing out extra details in photography, and while you can do it in Photoshop using the Unsharp Mask filter, it can be a bit hit-and-miss if you don't really know what you're doing. ALCE 3 takes all the guesswork out of it, adding shape and depth to your shots without losing detail across shadows and highlights. The Fontself Maker Photoshop plugin brings you font creation superpowers • Publisher: Fontself • Price: £43 (around $57) • Good for: Designers Ready to start creating your own fonts?

It’s easier than you think with this handy Photoshop plugin. Fontself Maker lets you turn any image or vector layer into colourful OpenType fonts using Photoshop CC 2015.3 to CC 2018. You can drag and drop layers to create new characters, and capture any colour, shade or texture you want. The makers are working on updates all the time – think kerning, ligatures, alternates and so on – which they distribute to Fontself Maker owners for free.

ParticleShop brings Corel Painter tools to Adobe Photoshop users • Publisher: • Price: £44.99 • Good for: Illustrators and Photographers Painter is a long established digital art favourite among illustrators, but, thankfully, Corel has finally brought its brush technology to Photoshop with ParticleShop. Brushes can make a huge difference to your creativity and productivity, and this powerful plugin offers non-destructive brushstroke layer support and includes 11 great brushes, including Debris, Fabric, Fine Art, Fur, Hair, Light, Space, Smoke and Storm. Ink is a must-have for designers working with developer teams • Publisher: • Price: Free • Good for: Web designers Ink is built for team players. Sometimes developer teams might not be as Photoshop savvy as you, the designer. Ink helps you communicate your designs.

This Photoshop specs generator allows you to include subtle information in your Photoshop document. Sonic R Full Game. You can add essential specifications such as text formatting, layer styles, typography, effects and sizes. All this information is then compiled into one handy folder to keep it neat and tidy. This all ensures that your final product looks how it is expected to look when handed over to developers. Contrastica is a smart contrast intensifier that targets both local and global contrast at the same time • Publisher: Fixel Algorithms • Price: $29.99 • Good for: Photographers Available for both Photoshop and After Effects, Contrastica is a smart contrast intensifier. From Fixel Algorithms, a company specialising developing and implementing 'Advanced and Innovative Image and Video Processing Algorithms' in order to expand image and video manipulation abilities. Contrastica is a simple to use, focused and highly tuned filter.