Workflow & Tools
The Plugin Tax: How to Audit Your Photoshop Stack Before It Audits You
Last spring I inherited a plugin folder from a commercial studio that was shutting down. The lead retoucher had accumulated 34 installed plugins over about six years. Some were licensed, some were trial versions that had quietly stopped working, and at least three were duplicates of each other doing the same luminosity masking job. The folder was a archaeological dig through every trend in retouching from 2018 onward. And the studio had been paying for most of it.