This list is only about plug-ins, even though some may run stand-alone in addition to being a plug-in.

You can compare that with my advice to come up with the best plug-ins on the market to help make you more productive. With this information available to you, you can then look at your budget and make your selections based on either your own research. What this means is that if I could only use X (i.e., 5) then you could look at numbers 1 through X (i.e., 5) to see which ones I’d keep. As a result I’ve decided to finally throw down the gauntlet and rank the products that I have on my machine in order of importance to my personal workflow. I have found an awesome collection of products that do really make my editing process quite enjoyable, but I must admit that as much as I love most of the products I have it is hard to find time to use them all.

The products I focus on are mainly what I determine are the best products and what I’m hearing my Top Photographers and other industry experts are telling me that they use. I’ve tried to be selective about what I review on this blog based on my own research. There are just so many choices and so much overlap that it can make your head explode trying to figure out which ones you really need! What’s more, there are a lot of very good ones available that do save you lots of time, but you may waste a lot of time tinkering around with all of the options they offer! Even if you were and you have all the time on your hands to learn new things, I still doubt that any one normal human could use all of the great plug-ins available for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom. Imagine that you were as rich as Bill Gates and retired. Ron Martinsen’s December 2015 Best of the Best Ranking of the top Photography Plug-ins

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