The Works : Photoshop Plug-In Filters
This filter pack has been around the block, but it’s still good. The Works Photoshop Plug-In Filters give you a bunch of very simple effects that can be handy for web design. These simple filters or combination of filters can be used to create many awesome effects.
Deep Paint – pseudo-painting effects
Deep Paint offers a realistic painting experience for digital artists and graphic designers. Deep Paint integrates stroke-by-stroke artistic photo-cloning, fully editable brush and canvas settings, and paint functionality for realistic and stunning paint effects. Experience thickly textured oils, bold acrylics, and dramatic watercolors.
3D Shadow plug-in
This handy tool easily creates more realstice shadows, various types of 3D shadows from objects such as letters, numbers, shapes and so on. All settings are present in a single window – transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others. Even the seasoned designers are surprised by the simplicity of the plug-in and excellent results it generates. The text, processed with this tool immediately grabs the attention of the viewers. And the fact that 3D Shadow is a freeware makes it very popular among both amateurs and pros.
Luce Lighting Effects plugin
Luce is a very effective lighting effects plug-in for Photoshop. The volumetric light effects can be created for point or directional Light source. A downloadable manual is included which explains each functionality.
Seamless Workshop
Seamless Workshop helps you create seamless tiles from any image. Also, a “surrealistic modification” of a picture can be produced. It is a powerful tool for texture creators, and a must have for web designers trying to crate a background image for a website. An advanced tileable algorithm is used. The unique ‘Seamless Blur’ effect can be useful for any available tile-able pattern.