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The best plugins for beauty photography (2026)
20 of the 30 plugins we score fit this filter, in the same order as the full ranking.
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RetouchLab Skin Pro
RetouchLab Skin Pro is a Photoshop plugin that turns one brush stroke over the skin into frequency separation plus dodge and burn on editable layers.
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.
FSX Plugin
A UXP Photoshop plugin for building and working on frequency separation layers, with a setup tab, live preview and a control workspace.
Beauty Retouch Panel 6.0
A Photoshop panel of scripts and brushes for frequency separation, dodge and burn, skin tone, eyes and makeup, aimed at beauty and portrait retouchers.
Retouch4me Dodge & Burn
Applies automatic dodge and burn to even out skin texture, nasolabial folds, eye bags and uneven light and shadow on skin.
Ultimate Retouch Panel 3.9.15
A Photoshop panel with over 200 actions-based functions for frequency separation, dodge and burn, local fixes, sharpening and colour styles.
Retouch4me Frequency Separation (free)
A free plugin that splits a photo into 2 or 3 frequency layers (fine texture, medium spots, low-frequency tone) for manual skin retouching.
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.
Retouching Toolkit
A set of customisable Photoshop panels by Conny Wallstrom that automates repetitive steps of manual retouching workflows.
MUA Retouch Panel v2.1
A Photoshop panel focused on makeup retouching, with colour-corrector scripts, digital makeup palettes and lash and brow brushes.
Beauty Box Photo
An automatic skin-smoothing plugin that detects skin tone, reduces blemishes, wrinkles and shine, and evens skin while trying to keep texture.
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.
Retouch4me Mattifier
Finds shiny areas on skin and reduces the highlights to give a matte look.
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 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.
Infinite Retouch
A Photoshop panel that builds a configurable retouching workflow of layers and folders in one click, with help layers, sharpening, grain and export presets.