Adobe seemed to have met a development bottleneck, that is why you might have found that its many popular apps such like Photoshop are completely refreshing their version number in recent years. Because since the big version introduced 3D features, I haven't seen any significant functionality or usability improvements happened on Photoshop (it even stays in the level of 10 years ago, i.e.: the functionality of Photoshop CS6 ≈ Photoshop CC 2014/2015/2017...). In other words, all things happened to Adobe apps are merely patching in some inessential places. This case, some software developers saw this chance and took advantage of its weak points. One of them is Affinity Photo - which has become one of the most popular photo editing tools now.

3D Map Generator Pro is a popular cartoon-style and three-dimensional maps generation presets (serves as plugin/actions set) for Adobe Photoshop. 3D Map Generator 2 - Isometric made brand-new developments on the basis of 3D Map Generator Pro. It allows you to determine the size of 3D maps on your own. Apart from isometric orientations for 3D maps offering new possibilities in usage and design, it also comes with new surfaces, layer structures, ground & background effects and a Top-Layer-Designer (which enables you to design/redesign maps in an more flexible and more detailed way, whenever necessary).

As a famous plugins provider focusing on post-production effects to digital media, Red Giant has produced at least 6 excellent plug-ins suites: Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Shooter Suite, Effects Suite, Keying Suite and Universe. Due to the large number of plug-ins, powerful effects, and support of primary industry applications on multiple platforms, it receives the affection and pursuit from many video postproduction workers around the world.

ON1/onOne's Perfect Mask is an intelligent digital photo masking filter program. It can run as a standalone application, or be used as a filter plug-in of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, Apple Aperture! Its predecessor is just the Mask Pro 4 we were all familiar with.

onOne Software's Perfect Layers is a professional PSD (Photoshop proprietary) bitmap format file managing/editing application from Germany. It comes with a variety of special effects library, with which you can easily edit each layer of PSD file and modulate all kinds of special effects for them in real-time.