Top 5 for $100 or Less – Photoshop Plug-ins

April 10, 2025

Did you know that Toolfarm carries tons of great products for $99 or less? Get the job done right, without hurting your budget. Here are the top 5 best selling/most popular Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins for under $100. It’s actually 7, cuz I added a couple of close runner-ups that I thought you might like.

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Battle Axe Anubis

MP4 compression simplified

Get H.264 video compression from all Adobe video apps quicker than opening Media Encoder with Battle Axe Anubis.

Export and compress quick MP4s from Adobe apps with zero concern for bitrates. Rule the underworld and banish hatred for Media Encoder. Be at rest upon the sacred mountain.

Compatibility: After Effects, Photoshop, Animate, Premiere Pro CC 2019+

MSRP: $20.00 Toolfarm Price: $19.00

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Boris FX Optics

Lighting Effects, Film Stocks, Color Grades, and More!

Created by Academy Award-winning effects artists, Optics brings Hollywood film quality lighting and lens effects, curated film looks, and realistic particle creation tools to photographers.

174 unique filters and 1000’s of creative imaging presets in 10 categories: Color , Diffusion/Blurs , Film Lab , Grads/Tints , Image , Lens/Distort , Light , Render , Stylize , and new Particle Illusion

Compatibility: Optics is a plugin for Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom CC+ and a standalone application. Available on macOS and Windows.

Annual Subscription: $99.00

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Battle Axe Timelord

Animating the hard way, but way easier

Transfer Photoshop and Animate layers directly into an After Effects comp and simplify frame-based animation, with Timelord.

Use it as a full frame-by-frame pipeline, or the easiest way to add drawn elements to After Effects, or like Overlord for Photoshop.

Based on layer transfer systems made popular in Overlord and AEUX, it is now possible to render timeline layers to disk and automatically import into Ae.

Compatibility: After Effects, Photoshop, Animate CC 2019+

MSRP: $45.00 Toolfarm Price: $42.75

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Frischluft Lenscare for Photoshop

Give your footage breathtakingly realistic depth of field and focus effects

Frischluft Lenscare for Photoshop provides an extensive range of high-quality camera blurs that can be used to transform your 3D images with the ease of 2D post-processing.

Lenscare for Photoshop has physically-based algorithms that blur pixels based on their depth value, so you can add high-quality camera blurs to your 3D renders in 2D post-processing without the extensive render times you’d experience in your 3D app. If you need to add some spectacular lens work to your image editing workflow, Lenscare’s results are unequaled.

Compatibility: Photoshop 2015+ Windows Only

MSRP: $89.00 Toolfarm Price: $84.55

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BangingJoints Waveloq Photoshop Plugin

Circuit Bent Effects

The Waveloq Photoshop plugin offers infinite possibilities for creating Circuit Bent and other CRT distorted glitch effects in Photoshop.

Waveloq has the power of extensive editing options, enabling you to meticulously customize and fine-tune each effect’s parameters to your taste, with the freedom and precision your creativity demands.
Recreate the image glitches, fuzzy distortions, and analog modulation effects easily.

Compatibility: Photoshop 2025, 2024, 2023

MSRP: $28.00

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Runner Ups

timeinpixels Nobe OmniScope

Nobe OmniScope is loaded with powerful features that make color grading easy

timeinpixels Nobe OmniScopeis a flexible and high-performing set of scopes loaded with powerful features that make color grading easy.

Nobe OmniScope highlights:

14 scope types
Blazing Fast Performance
12-bit signal support
Highly Versatile and Customizable
Built-in OpenColorIO
Native StreamDeck support
NDI® 5 support
Apple Silicon ready (M1 chip)

Compatibility: Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom

Photo Version: MSRP: $99.00 Toolfarm Price: $94.05

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BBTools Shadow 2

Lifelike Shadows

BBTools Shadow 2 is an extension for Adobe Photoshop that adds lifelike shadows to objects in a standing position.

• Compatible layer kinds: text, smart objects, and regular layers.
• Opt for an angle (manually set or utilize the “Sun position” choice), adjust scale, blur (for shadow dispersion), opacity, and color settings.
• Almost real-time automatic updates.
• Native UXP extension.

Compatibility: Photoshop 2025, 2024, 2023

MSRP: $19.00

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