Adobe Photoshop  has been one of the staple design tools that is used by designers due to it’s powerful speed, functionality and capabilities in design and editing.

As many good software our there you will see a lot of plugins and extensions that fill the gaps, and can help you gain new possibilities. Scroll down below and you will see that I’ve have collected some of the awesome plugins for Photoshop that you can download or buy (as some are paid plugins) and use.

1. Ink

Ink been built for team players. Designers need to know that the developer teams might not be as Photoshop savvy as you, so Ink helps you communicate your designs.

This is a Photoshop specs generator that allows you to include subtle information inside your Photoshop document.

Such as adding essential specifications such as text formatting, layer styles, typography, effects and sizes. All of this information is compiled into one handy folder to keep it neat and tidy.

2. Velositey V2

Velositey plugin is a simple and efficient as it makes short work of creating a website template. It’s comes with over 60 templates to choose from that will benefit both designers and developers.

It’s has been designed to fit in with the existing Photoshop setup, so it only takes a couple of minutes at most to create a suitable website template for your project.

But Unfortunately Velositey has been discontinued and will no longer be supported but i think this is still an awesome plugin that you can use if you want to use it.

3. Fonts.com Extension for Creative Cloud

Add Fonts Directly from Your Design Applications. By quickly selecting and adding fonts to your design projects just got easier with Fonts.com Subscription for Adobe Creative Cloud.

This pairs your Fonts.com Subscription, so you now have the ability to browse, add, and sync fonts directly from your favorite Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.

4. Render.ly

Render.ly enables you to export screens, assets and other design elements quicker and with ease. It has a simple but powerful design that lets you generate global elements that will merge with each screen.

5. Fontea

Fontea, It’s like a new kind of weapon in your hands. As it’s a free tool that allows you to easily apply all 700 Google fonts with one click in your Photoshop so yo don’t need to leave the app behind when it’s time to find a new and beautiful headline font.

With Fontea you can search fonts by name or browse different categories of typefaces. Beside this, you can create your favourite library of fonts, so you don’t have to search for them never more.

6. Pixabay Photoshop Plugin

Search for 600.000+ free stock photos and add them to your artboard at the click of a button without leaving Photoshop at all. You can Filter by popularity, recency, categories and more. Finding the perfect stock photo has never been this easy.

7. Social Kit Pro

Social Kit Pro an update of it’s old plugin. This update brings updated editable Retina desktop and mobile templates of 8 social media sites
(Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, VKontakte, Instagram, YouTube and Dribbble).

This plugin is here to make previewing of your brand identity in the templates even easier. Social Kit Pro includes an import feature where you can type your brand name and place profile and cover photo.

The feature then instantly import and fit the assets into every template. Then it’s up to you to pimp every social identity to perfection. When you are satisfied you can easily export profile and
cover photo for each of social sites.

8. Photoshop Art Packer Plugin

Photoshop Art Packer is a Photoshop Plugin which helps you copy used fonts, collect Linked Smart Objects & create package report directly in Photoshop.