The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

56. WORKING WITH PLUGINS

PHOTOSHOP HAS AN incredible set of tools to help you make amazing work, but there are plenty of programs—or plugins—out there that can take that work even further. I could never list all of the plugins available that augment Photoshop’s amazing capabilities, but I want to inform you about how the plugin process works by highlighting one of my favorite plugins. Almost all of the plugins that you install will be found in the Filter menu (Figure 56.1).

Let’s go over some of the different looks that you can get with the Nik Collection. I’ll start with Color Efex Pro 4, which provides a bunch of different pre-canned looks that ...