The best skin smoothing plugins (2026)
13 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
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.
Retouch4me Dodge & Burn
Applies automatic dodge and burn to even out skin texture, nasolabial folds, eye bags and uneven light and shadow on skin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.