The best manual brush plugins (2026)
8 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.
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.
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.
Beauty Pilot
A Windows face editor and Photoshop-compatible plugin for smoothing skin and removing spots such as moles and pimples by dragging a circle over them.
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.