The best ai plugins (2026)
20 of the 30 plugins we score fit this filter, in the same order as the full ranking.
Ranking created by SGM Creative · How we rank
Retouch4me Retouch Plugins (suite and subscription)
A family of single-task AI retouching plugins (healing, dodge and burn, skin tone, eyes, teeth and more) sold one by one as perpetual licenses or together through yearly credit-based plans.
Retouch4me Apex
A cloud-based all-in-one app that combines the Retouch4me skin, eye, teeth, hair and clothing tools with adjustable strength and a real-time preview.
Retouch4me Dodge & Burn
Applies automatic dodge and burn to even out skin texture, nasolabial folds, eye bags and uneven light and shadow on skin.
DR5 SKIN
A Photoshop plugin that smooths and cleans up skin texture with sliders for smoothing, healing and texture clarity, using face detection to set filter radii.
ON1 Portrait AI 2023.5
An AI portrait retoucher that finds each face and applies skin smoothing, blemish removal, eye and mouth enhancement and face sculpting, as an app or plugin.
Retouch4me Portrait Volumes
Adds depth to portraits by brightening eyes and emphasising lips, nose and facial contours.
Retouch4me Skin Tone
Finds exposed skin, calculates its average tone and evens out colour differences, including on ears, hands and elbows.
Luminar (Neo) as a Photoshop plugin
A general AI photo editor with portrait tools (Skin AI, Face AI, body sculpting) that also runs as a plugin inside Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.
PortraitPro 27 (Studio / Studio Max)
Portrait editing software that detects faces and adjusts skin, face shape, eyes, mouth, hair and makeup; the Studio editions also work from Photoshop and Lightroom.
Retouch4me Mattifier
Finds shiny areas on skin and reduces the highlights to give a matte look.
Retouch4me Fabric
Detects clothing in a photo and smooths creases and wrinkles in the fabric.
Photoshop Neural Filters: Skin Smoothing
A built-in Photoshop neural filter, not a third-party plugin, that smooths blemishes, skin spots and acne on faces in one step.
Imagenomic Portraiture 5 (Photo)
A skin-smoothing plugin that softens skin while keeping texture, using AI masks for skin, hair and eyes plus settings for consistent results across a shoot.
Infinite Skin
An AI-assisted Photoshop plugin that builds a softened frequency separation stack in one click, with separate Clarity and Smoothing sliders.
Retouch4me Heal
Automatically finds and removes small skin defects such as blemishes, pimples, post-acne marks and enlarged pores while keeping skin texture.
Retouch4me Color Match
Copies the colour scheme of a reference image onto your photo and can save the result as a LUT.
Retouch4me White Teeth
Automatically detects teeth and whitens them without manual selection.
Retouch4me Clean Backdrop
Removes dirt, small folds and sensor dust from evenly coloured studio backdrops while keeping shadows.
Retouch4me Eyes Bundle (Eye Vessels + Eye Brilliance)
Two eye plugins in one purchase: Eye Vessels removes visible blood vessels and redness from the whites of the eyes, and Eye Brilliance uses dodge and burn to make eyes stand out.
Topaz Photo (formerly Topaz Photo AI)
An AI image enhancer for noise, sharpness and upscaling that includes a Recover Faces tool and runs standalone or as a plugin.