1. Blendme.in plugin
2. CSS3Ps plugin
This nifty plugin is amazing for web designers. What it does is convert your Photoshop layers to CSS3 so you can put them onto your website. It installs a single button that you press and make it all happen. It’s a great shortcut and it’s absolutely free.
3. Cut&Slice Me
4. GuideGuide
5. Pixel Dropr
Pixel Dropr is a unique little tool that lets you save various objects and elements separate from the whole project so that you can create a library of assets. This is great for pretty much anyone from web designers to regular designers and even UI designers. This one does cost money and it’ll set you back $19, $29, or $99 depending on how many features need.
6. SpecKing
SpecKing is a tool that will measure your various designs and create annotations so that you can see the measurements of your designs. This is useful for those who need to distance and design things to precise measurements and it’s also pretty nifty to see how far your various resources are from one another. It’s $19 but it can be fairly useful for you professionals out there.
7. Perspective Mockups
8. Subtle Patterns
9. Layer Style Jailbreak
10. Improve Photoshop speed
11. Photoshoptimizer
12. Sprite Generator
13. Punchcut
14. Photoshop Secret Shortcuts
15. ColoRotate
16. Layer Vault
17. HSL Picker
18. Social Kit
19. Layrs
20. The top 15 features all photographers should know
We hope you have a couple of hours on your hands. In the YouTube video embedded above, there is a two hour lecture on 15 of the best Photoshop tools for photographers. It goes over things like cloning, retouching, 3D effects, and a lot more. Again, it is two hours long so make sure you grab the laptop with Photoshop on it and a bag of popcorn. There are hundreds of Photoshop plugins but there are few that provide more real world functionality than these plugins and tools. Even though other image editors are gaining steam, we don’t see Photoshop losing its place at the top of the mountain anytime soon. Featured photo credit: Wallpaper Stock via img.wallpaperstock.net
