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Photoshop is a great software for the web and graphic design related works. It’s a great software with boundless options and resources. That being said Photoshop has its limitations too. So, we have to find additional ways to solve problems and boost our productivity. Now we will discuss some of the best Photoshop extensions for the front-end developers to accelerate the workflow. Most of them are free and some of them have a free trial version. So, let’s get started.

1. FlatIcon 

You can use the FlatIcon plugin to quickly find the icons. For this, you don’t have to leave your working environment. It has over 451,596 vector icons grouped in 8,366 packs. You can even generate your own font-face with FaltIcon.

2. Social Kit 

Be a social media expert with this extension. Create cover images, profile pictures and ad banners in a free up-to-date Photoshop plugin. This is one of the best extension for social media graphics.

3. CSS Hat 2 

This extension will help you to select any Photoshop Layer and get CSS instantly. If you are a front-end developer then you know how useful it is.

4. BlendMe.In 

BlendMe.in is a Photoshop extension which allows you to quickly find a high-quality icon without leaving Photoshop and you can simply drag and drop and then easily continue your work.

5. LiveShare 

If you want to convert your designs into attractive, interactive web & mobile mockups and prototypes then you can use LiveShare. Unfortunately, LiveShare PS is currently only available on OS X.

6. GuideGuide 

Need an extension which will help you with guides? GuideGuide is the extension for you. It creates guides and grids based on your selection.

7. Renamy 

It’s a Photoshop plugin which will help you to rename multiple layers. You can select as many layers as you want layers and rename it in one click. It has a powerful advanced mechanism of matching substrings.

8. Cut&Slice Me

You can use Cut&Slice me to transfer your assets to different devices in seconds. This will improve your workflow by just naming your layers. You can design at full resolution and export it to different sizes.

9. CSS3Ps

It’s a free cloud-based Photoshop plugin that converts your layers to CSS3. It supports SCASS and SASS.

10. Layrs Control 2 

FREE Photoshop extension. A collection of 7 scripts that make the tedious job easier. Compatible with Photoshop CC & CC 2014.

11. Web Zap 

This extension provides Photoshop with extra tools and functionalities. This tools and functionalities are designed to help web developers with their mockup and UI design workflow. At its core, WebZap has a powerful layout generator that lets you create web page mockups based on the 960 grid. With just a few clicks you will see your ideas come to life and because WebZap makes the process so simple it’s now even easier to experiment with layout ideas.

12. PixelDropr 

Whether its icons, buttons, UI kits or photos PixelDropr lets you create your own 100 piece collections of the pixels you need and allows you to instantly drop them into any PS document while you work.

13. Devine Elemente 

This Windows plugin converts Photoshop illustrations directly to WordPress themes, without any coding. Create from scratch or start from a template. Note that the download is a trial version providing reduced functionality.

14. Extensis 

Google Web Fonts is a must for front-end developers. Forget about the typical way of adding Google web fonts in your code. With the help of this extension, you can use Google Web Fonts right from within Photoshop.

15. Bounce 

If you want to integrate Dribble into your design apps you can use this extension.

16. Ink 

Ink is a Photoshop document plugin. Documents mostly used HTML5 effects.

17. SpecKing

You can use this plugin for measurement, design specs, and annotations. Supports Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014-CC2017, Mac, and Windows

18. Oven 

Developed by chrometaphore. It’s a Photoshop plugin which helps you generate layers. These layers are ready to be exported for iOS and Android.

19. Size Marks 

A great Photoshop extension for front-end developers. It’s a helpful Photoshop script for web designers and front-end developers. This extension use rectangular marquee to converts labeled measurement mark. Landscape marquee → horizontal mark. Portrait or Square marquee → vertical mark.

20. Subtle Patterns 

Imagine the immense library from Subtle Patterns which will feed directly into your Photoshop panel and always in sync! Finally, it’s possible with this Photoshop extension for both PS and Sketch.

21. Velositey 

This Photoshop extension has been designed to look and feel natural to Photoshop so it doesn’t affect with your workflow. The developers also made it smaller.

22. Duplllicator 

Clone layer or group and shift it horizontally or vertically with this extension. Works great with Photoshop CC & CC 2014.

23. Font Awesome 

Every front-end developers are familiar with font-awesome. Now you can sue Font Awesome icons easily with this Photoshop extension right inside of Adobe Photoshop.

24. render.ly 

One of the best Photoshop extension for front-end developers. Screens with alternate versions and web fonts. It can extract assets with a single click.

25. SplasHolder

Free stock photos are a big part of front-end developments. This is an extension which will help you to get the image of unsplash.com directly in Photoshop at any size you want.

These are the best extensions for front-end developers. Hope you will find these extensions helpful and they will boost your workflow.  But keep in mind that true productivity depends on your utilization capabilities.

Let us know how much you like them. If you have any personal favorite extensions then feel free to share with us in the comments section. Finally, don’t forget to share it with your friends.