01. Unspoken
This simple action creates a beautiful blockbuster-film look, heightening details in your photographs and increasing contrast, while introducing a blue/green tint.
- Good for: Photographers
02. Action 3D
This quirky action from JonasFan93 creates a pseudo 3D anaglyphic image by separating out colour channels within your image and offsetting them. This freebie offers a number of different styles that are more suitable for use in printed brochures and website design where you’re aiming for a stylized effect.
- Good for: Designers, photographers
03. Black and White Action
This action creates a lovely black and white effect with a rich vignette and nice silver/sepia tint to the final treatment.
- Good for: Photographers
04. Holgarizer
If you’re after a toy-camera-style effect, this action produces just that. Nice and simple to use, but very effective and convincing results (similar to Instagram images) including over-saturated colours, bleeding and heavy vignettes.
- Good for: Photographers
05. HipstaRev - Pack 1
This set of actions creates hipstamatic-style images inside Photoshop. The download includes three actions, each of which creates a recognisable treatment including borders and noise.
- Good for: Photographers
06. Art of Decay
This excellent free action creates a simple heavily-aged photo effect.
- Good for: Photographers, designers
07. Black and White
This action adds a punchy high-contrast black & white effect to your photographs. It produces a nice grittiness with heavy grain and over-saturated blacks. Great for creating a stylized image.
- Good for: Photographers
08. Page Curl
This simple action is based on a tutorial on how to create a convincing page curl effect in Photoshop, but with the action there’s no need to take all the suggested steps - simple click and run for a handy time-saving effect ideal for web designers.
- Good for: Designers
09. Dramatic Sepia
This superb action offers a slightly more refined version of the standard sepia effect by adding a contrast curve to age the final result so that it feels like a faded photograph. Dramatic Sepia offers a great way to communicate a sense of age.
- Good for: Photographers
10. Thinking of You
This is another stylized photographic treatment that adds a filmic, green-cast and heavily saturated shadows effect. The end result feels both blockbuster-movie-like, and very fashion orientated.
- Good for: Photographers
11. High Key
This action requires a credit if you use it, but offers a very simple way to convert a regular photograph into a stunning high-key portrait with clean lines and an almost dreamy finish, without compromising essential areas of contrast.
- Good for: Photographers
12. Teeth Whitening
Quickly and easily whiten teeth with a natural-looking result with this handy action from ModernActions. The script targets particular tones, brightening off-whites for a simple way to achieve a more pleasing set of gnashers!
- Good for: Photographers
13. High Definition Sharpening
The final stage of image preparation should be to sharpen your images according to the final delivery method - you sharpen differently for print or screen. This free action from MCP Actions offers a simple one-click solution to sharpening, with the ability to control the degree of sharpening that’s been applied after the fact by adjusting the opacity and masking of layers.
- Good for: Photographers
14. Bella Action
This action adds a beautiful warmth to your photographs, bringing out rich tones in hair and skin, and softening colours with a pink cast that creates a romantic, nostalgic feel.
- Good for: Photographers
15. Contact Lenses
This simple set of actions allows you to quickly change the colour of eyes in your photos. Choose from a set of different actions according to the colour you’d like, and adjust for a final result. Great time-saver when you need to alter eye colour.
- Good for: Photographers
16. Magic 3D
Want to go 3D with Photoshop actions? Create sophisticated pseudo-3D extrusions from text, shapes or layers with gloss and highlights using this great tool.
- Good for: Graphic designers
17. Polanoid Generator 3
Turn any image into a Polaroid instantly with one of 10 different effects. Includes colour treatments and shadows automatically, and it's one of those Photoshop actions you'll use again and again.
- Good for: Graphic designers
18. Soften Skin Effect
Used in combination with an existing selection or mask, this smooths skin while retaining textures and colouring saving clean-up time.
- Good for: Photographers
19. Comic Action
Automatically turn your images into half-tone comic cells with hard outlines and simplified colours. Quirky and fun results!
- Good for: Artists, graphic designers
20. Skin Glow Enhancements
That's right: Photoshop actions can improve your skin! Skin Glow Enhacements is an action that brings skin tones to life with a healthy glow. Also has the effect of warming the entire image slightly, making for a sun-kissed tone.
- Good for: Photographers
21. Lithprint
Create a lithograph-style image from your raw photos. This works best on larger images that have already been given a medium-contrast treatment.
- Good for: Artists, graphic designers
22. Reflections
Automatically create reflections of your images, either against a plain background or a fake horizon. Free registration is required to download.
- Good for: Graphic designers
23. Wedding Enhancers Kit
Photoshop actions are extremely useful for wedding photographers, dealing with a huge number of shots. Here you get a set of eleven actions that automatically create common portrait effects, especially around the theme of wedding photography. Includes skin smoothing and soft filter effects as well as b/w conversion.
- Good for: Photographers
24. Pencil Draw
This action uses contrast to find the edges in your image and automatically render a pencil sketch effect. Start from a full-colour image with no need to convert to black and white first.
- Good for: Graphic designers
25. HDR Action
Remove the lack of contrast that comes with HDR photography with this set of four actions; HDR fix light, normal, heavy, and clicker.
- Good for: Photographers
26. Old Photo Action
Want to make your images look like they've through a time warp? Then get experimenting with this old photo action, which adds colour and contrast.
- Good for: Photographers
27. Cross-Processing Action
Create highly stylised images with drastically different colours and contrast.
- Good for: Photographers
28. Portrait Action
Desaturate the colour in your photography with this portrait action, which creates a gorgeous vintage effect.
- Good for: Photographers
29. Split Toning Action
The area between greyscale and colour is split toning and adding this slight change to your photos can have a dramatic effect. You can also create retro and abstract images with this technique.
- Good for: Photographers
30. Amatorka Action 2
Create an instant action-movie-style colour treatment with a blue-green cast, rich saturation and increased contrast.
- Good for: Photographers
31. Photoshop Color Actions 2
A nice range of colour treatments including rich grainy black and white, bleach bypass, and some heavy casting effects. Great for experimentation.
- Good for: Photographers
32. Rusty Vintage
Vintage Photoshop actions are extremely popular. This one applies selective desaturation and colour correction to create a distinct vintage feel to your images.
- Good for: Photographers
33. Hand-colored Vintage Photo
This action creates a heavily stylised vintage look, complete with rough paper edges and cracking. Produces really beautiful results ideal for retro-styled images.
- Good for: Photographers
34. STICKERS n TAPE
Create round stickers with a curl in the corner, or polaroid-style images with clear sticky tape holding it in place. Site requires free registration to download action.
- Good for: Graphic designers
35. 1930s Glitter Text
Automatically convert your text into a snazzy 1930s-style retro treatment with shiny sequins and a nice 3D effect. It’s also easy to adjust after running the action as all the layers are retained.
- Good for: Graphic designers
36. Gum Bichromate Print
Emulate 19th Century gum bichromate prints with this straightforward action that produces beautiful textured effects.
- Good for: Graphic designers, photographers, artists
37. Outer Space
Create an outer space background automatically complete with space dust and nebulous gases. Randomly colours the scene to produce a different effect every time.
- Good for: Graphic designers, game artists
38. Flyers and Posters
Render A3, A4 and A5 artwork as posters and flyers automatically with this excellent action. Site requires free registration for download.
- Good for: Graphic designers
39. Paper Cube
Render your images onto a net ready for cutting and gluing together. The final result is a cube with six different images. Site requires free registration to download the action.
- Good for: Graphic designers
40. Sticker
There's always room for slightly cheesy Photoshop actions, right? Turn any layer into a cut-out sticker with border and shadow automatically. Allows you to customise the colour of the sticker easily.
- Good for: Graphic designers
41. Stamp Generator
Turn an image into a stamp automatically using an included Photoshop brush to define how the frill will sit along the edge of the final artwork.
- Good for: Graphic designers
42. Denim & Leather
Automatically generates a blue denim texture, 'sews' on a leather patch and embosses your own artwork onto the leather. Nice, simple and effective output that could be adapted for a variety of purposes.
- Good for: Graphic designers
43. Modelize
Automatically make any portrait look like you’ve used a model with this action. A series of effects are built up to produce a soft-glow effect around your portrait for a magazine cover-image result.
- Good for: Photographers, graphic designers
44. Remove White Background
Automatically remove white backgrounds with this suite of three actions that allow for different automated processes to strip out the background of your isolated images.
- Good for: Graphic designers
45. Die-Cut business card mockup
Turn your business card mockup artwork into a 3D-style render for previewing with this useful action from ArtBees. Accepts a matte and texture to create a final render complete with depth-of-field.
- Good for: Graphic designers
46. Texture Applicator
Apply textures easily with this free action from MCP Actions. Allows you to import and use textures from any source.
- Good for: Graphic designers, photographers
47. Pinhole Camera Effect
Create the effect of a pinhole camera from any image with this simple action that reduces your image to a sepia, slightly soft and vignetted photo.
- Good for: Photographers
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