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20 Must download free Photoshop Plugins

Photoshop is an incredibly powerful tool with a wide range of features that make it a popular choice amongst designers, photographers, and other creatives. However, did you know that you can extend its functionality even further with plugins? Plugins are essentially add-ons that give you access to even more features and tools that can help you streamline your workflow and improve your overall output.

There are a plethora of free plugins available that can help you supercharge your Photoshop experience. From plugins that allow you to quickly and easily access a library of thousands of high-quality stock photos, like Pexal, to plugins that give you instant access to a vast array of free fonts that you can use directly within Photoshop, there’s something for everyone.

In this post, we’ve rounded up the very best free Photoshop plugins that are worth adding to your arsenal. Whether you’re a photographer looking for tools to enhance your images, a designer looking for ways to speed up your workflow, or a web developer looking to optimize your designs for the web, there’s a plugin on this list that can help you achieve your goals.

We hope you find this post informative and useful, and we would love to hear about your favorite Photoshop plugins.

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1. Swatchy

Folders for your swatches in Photoshop.

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2. Tych Panel 2

Tych Panel is an extension for Adobe Photoshop that automates diptychs and triptychs creation. It supports an arbitrary number of layouts using a powerful row/column compositing paradigm. Together with a super easy panel interface, Tych Panel is the ultimate diptych, tripych & ntych automation tool.

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3. Guide Guide

GuideGuide is an extension that lets you quickly and easily create grids and manipulate guides with a consistent UI in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and Adobe XD

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4. EasyMockups

Create mobile app mockups in seconds

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5. Layers

A collection of 7 scripts that make tedious job easier

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6. Fontea

It’s like a new kind of weapon in your hands. Powerful but easy to use. Design differently. You don’t have to leave Photoshop when you need to find your new and beautiful headline font. Don’t guess which font will fit in your design. Try it. It’s simple. You click the font, and it’s applied.

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7. Flat icon

Use the Flaticon plugin to quickly find the icons you need for your design, without leaving your work enviroment.flat-icon

Font Awesome icons right inside Adobe Photoshop

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9. Pexels Photoshop Plugin

Improve your workflow and access the whole Pexels library of thousands of free stock photos within Photoshop.

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10. Ink

Handling mockups to developer teams can be tricky. As a designer, sometimes I wrongly assume that everyone knows about how photoshop shapes, effects, and typography works. Sometimes lack of specifications leads to inaccurate front-end outputs. Sometimes the final product just doesn’t look exactly as expected. Ink is a plugin that helps you providing few extra important informations about your mockups by documenting your layers, from typography to effects and shape sizes. Now with arboard support! ink

11. Adobe Exchange Assets

This Photoshop template (in PSD format) will help. It includes correctly sized Smart Objects for each icon and preview you may need when submitting a product to Adobe Exchange. Included slicing makes for easy one click export through Save for Web.adobe-exchange
Parametric Curves is a free Photoshop script that lets you plot mathematically defined (Javascript) Curves Adjustment layers.

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13. Google Photos Panel

Google Photos Panel is a small panel that loads Google Photos and allows you to browse images that you have uploaded to Google Photos, you can also upload images from your computer using either the Finder (Mac) or the File Explorer (Windows).
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A great Photoshop plugin for easily creating long shadows.
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15. Composer

Update multiple layer comps in Photoshop with just one click. Less maintaining, more designing.composer

Hundreds of stackable filters, presets, and more! Adding style is part of what defines you as a photographer. Effects 10 includes hundreds of stackable filters, presets, borders, and textures to help create your style. Whether you’re looking to add an HDR look, convert to B&W, bring out more detail, reduce noise, or enhance a portrait, don’t use five different plug-ins when ON1 Effects 10.5 is your one-stop solution.

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17. CSS3ps

CSS3Ps – free cloud based photoshop plugin that converts your layers to CSS3.

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A libary of photoshop mock ups to insert

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Size Marks is a helpful Photoshop script for web designers and front-end engineers. Script converts rectangular marquee to labeled measurement mark. Landscape marquee → horizontal mark. Portrait or square marquee → vertical mark.

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You know that feeling, when you look at your old works and think “What was I thinking!”. So, I looked at Transform Each script with same thoughts and decided to make an update for it.transform-each

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