20 Free Web Design Photoshop Plugins

Monday, June 27, 2016

Although Adobe Photoshop is an incredible program for creatives with tons of amazing tools, it sometimes lacks some features that can help boost the workflow. Fortunately, Photoshop supports various plugins, which help extend its efficiency.

These free web design Photoshop plugins will help you save time and automate boring processes and much more. You can use a Photoshop plugins to quicken repetitive or dull tasks such as generating long shadows, converting Photoshop text to SVG, converting PSD to CSS3, etc.

There are a bunch of Photoshop extensions available, but fortunately for you, we’ve made a list of 20 awesome free plugins for web designers. These will help you manage your layers, colors, guides and will certainly ease your work.

We hope this article is useful for you. If you know other Photoshop plugins or extensions, let us know in the comments section. Enjoy!

Lorem Ipsum Generator

With this lorem ipsum plugin, you can generate words, sentences or paragraphs in no time. This plugin requires to be installed only once, and then you can utilize it within multiple Adobe applications.

Swatchy

Swatchy is a plugin which allows you to organize color swatches into folders. With the help of this simple swatches manager for Photoshop you can save and easily access your color schemes, and also preview colors you use frequently.

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Flaticon

FlatIcon plugin is the fastest solution to find any icon you need. This amazing item comes with over 40,000 icons available and with a database which is always synchronized.

Random User Generator

This smart random user generator plugin helps you looking for random photos of persons to put into the mockup or creating credible usernames. If you are facing these problems when making an app/web design, you will love to use this plugin!

Guideguide

This plugin lets you measure exactly how wide a navigation element should be to fit constantly across the width of a site. It also allows you to save often used guide sets that you may need for future help.

Long Shadow Generator 2

This plugin can create a long shadow with just one click. From the panel setting of this Photoshop extension you can adjust the shadow length, shadow opacity, flatten or apply a gradient to a shadow, and much more.

CSS3Ps

This intriguing Photoshop plugin is able to convert layers into CSS3. All you need to do is select the layers and then click the CSS3Ps button. It also supports styles such as border radius, gradient overlay, bevel, emboss, etc.

Pixel2Vector

Pixel2Vector is a very thrilling plugin which converts any pixel graphic to a fully scalable vector shape. This plugin also comes with a function which converts every chosen layer or layer group into a custom shape tool.

Renderly

Render.ly will help you export screens, assets, and detailed designs. This plugin lets you add variants to screens, manage assets, detailed design specs and it automatically exports all of them with just one click.

Save Panel

Save Panel is a file-saving Photoshop plugin that allows you to create and customize limitless buttons. This also helps you set up save options with your favorite settings.

Divine Elements

The main purpose of this great plugin is to convert a design from Photoshop to HTML / CSS / PHP code. No coding. Fast & easy.

Pictura

If you want to insert images in your design, Pictura is the perfect plugin to install. This enables you to search and insert images to your Photoshop without leaving your workspace, thanks to a panel on which you can search any image in any License you desire.

Oven

Oven is a handy plugin that helps you to be in charge of your assets. This plugin is compatible with Photoshop CC and CC 2014

Ink

Ink will help you convert PSD to a functional website. This plugin will easily generate information about layer styles, font size, font family used, element size and position of other elements, and much more.

LayerCraft

This nifty Photoshop plugin lets you export layers into multiple scales. With this plugin you are able to export images into @1x, @2x and even @3x , or mdpi and xhdpi for Android.

Composer

Layer Comps lets you store and manage multiple separate files in a single file. This plugin performs very much alike as a Smart Object.

QuickGuide

QuickGuide comes with 12 presets for easy inclusion of guides on one side, two adjacent sides, or all sides of each object. It is also available with toggle locking guides.

Composer

This is another Composer plugin that will give you total control over changing positions and visibility of layers at the same time. You just have to select the layer comps you want the modify and choose any of the four commands available.

Griddify

This cool plugin will allow you to compose custom grid systems, vertical rhythm, and much more. Griddify works by adding an intuitive panel to Photoshop, which includes three the following options: Griddify, Divide, and Wrap.

Font Awesome

This is another powerful icon finder which will allow you to search and add an icon right inside Photoshop. This plugin will let you search for any icon by typing the needed keyword.