Photoshop Plugins for Every Day ‘Wear and Tear’

Creating something new in Photoshop, I mean designs, sometimes turns into real torture, especially during creative crisis...In such periods you got to excel as hard as you can. Using various add-ons, plugins and actions you can easily refresh your work process and lift your spirits up.

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There are hundreds of plugins to choose from, but many of them are already outdated and no longer work with the latest versions of Photoshop. In this blog post we've collected best free plugins you can download, install and start using right away. Let's start:

Blend Me In

Installing this plugin automatically you will get access to the largest collection of vector assets for free.

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Render Ly

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Render.ly plugin lets you add variants to screens, manage assets, detailed design specs and in the end automatically exports all of them with a one click. Thanks to the latest Adobe Generator technology we are the fastest plugin out there and the only one that works seamlessly in the background.

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Composer

One click layer updates will be available for you after installation of this plugin.

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Flat Icon

Most of designers are involved into creation of flat designs and interfaces, if you're one of them, than get this plugin right now. It opens an acess to a great amount of flat vector icons. Download now!

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Social Kit

Being involved into SMM probably you need to update covers and userpics at these profiles. Unfortunately sizes differ much and all the time you have to google the size of a specific cover image. From now on all you need is a Social Kit plugin. Just pick a line of a specific social network and start designing the look of your social account.

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Layrs Control

FREE Photoshop extension that includes a collection of scripts that make tedious job easier.

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Cut&Slice Me

Not all designers name their layers properly, well while using this plugin adding just a few characters into the name of each layer will give you extra productivity boost.

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CSS3Ps

Free but a really powerful plugin to turn your layers into CSS.

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PSD to WordPress Photoshop Plugin

A powerful converter to turn your PSD into html. All you need to do is to install Elemente and start "coding" your layouts. Easy as a pie.

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Sitegrinder

Here comes another one PSD into HTML converter, simple and effective tools will help you code your own layout without using services of developers.

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Subtle Patterns

Patterns are really helpful an almost any design, no matter what kind of design you are going to create pattern can turn something boring into outstanding.

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Skeuomorphism It

The motto of this plugin is "When in doubt, flat-it-out", sounds funny but in realms of current web design state this is a must have.

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Tych Panel 2

This plugins will be really helpful for designers creating photobooks, with Tych Panel 2 you'll be able to alight number of images one by one without using grid or counting pixels. Just like that.

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With Suitcase Fusion 5

If you're working of various interface designs probably you have a whole load of various fonts in your storage. Unfortunately built-in Photoshop font manager is quite unhelpful; here comes Suitcase Fusion 5 - the outstanding font manager for your Photoshop - feel free to use it.

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Wire Worm

How many times have you cursed those wires and electric power lines for spoiling your shots. Now you can forget about them and breathe freely, this plugin will help you get rid og the wires and power lines without any damage to your photos.

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Effects 8

Photo editing can be really boring, using this plugin you can make use of 125 awesome effects, one-click customizing will help you transform your regular shots into outstanding ones.

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Stereogram Lab Filter v1.0

In the beginning of 2000-s stereograms were really popular. With this plugin you can easily create such images with just a few clicks. Enjoy!

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Retinize It

Designing for retina is still relevant, using this plugin you'll be able to optimize your designs for hi-resolution screens.

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That's it, of you have any other plugins on your mind feel free to share some links in the comments below. Thank you.