The Best Adobe Photoshop Plug-Ins for 2025
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Adobe Photoshop is an Editors' Choice award winner for image editing and one of the few products we've awarded a perfect five stars. However, there are still some things that it can't do or could do better. That's where its ability to work with third-party plug-ins becomes invaluable. PCMag has been reviewing image editing software for more than 30 years, so you can trust us to find the plug-ins that add the most value to Photoshop. We've collected our favorites here, which can assist with font edits, generative AI , noise reduction, special effects, and more. Read about all our picks below, and make sure to scroll down to our short guide for how to choose, get, and use Photoshop plug-ins.
Where Can You Find Photoshop Plug-Ins?
Picking the best Photoshop plug-ins for you depends on your needs and whether you're an artist, designer, marketer, or photographer. You can find many more plug-ins at , which lets you sort entries by popularity, rating, and recency. You can install these plug-ins through the Adobe Creative Cloud app. Many more plug-ins are available directly from third-party sites; you must install these externally. Third-party exchanges like Gumroad and Fixthephoto are other potential sources.
Plug-ins don't all appear in the same place in Photoshop. Some simply appear in the Filter menu, while others use the legacy extensions system. The latter is accessible from the Window > Extension menu—these plug-ins don't appear in Photoshop's Plug-ins panel.
Note, too, that you can use many of these add-ons in more programs than just Photoshop. Many also work in , , , and even , as well as in Adobe's (the newfangled Lightroom doesn't support plug-ins). Some plug-ins spawn a dedicated window and round trip the work to Adobe's app, while others add no more than a dialog box.
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