35 Awesome Photoshop Actions that Enhance Your Work
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by bmackler in Photoshop, Resources
First we need to ask What is a Photoshop Action? Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually.
Photoshop actions can be very powerful and a great time saver because it automates a multi-step process to get the desired results. Sadly, they are often overlooked by the average Photoshop users because they find them difficult to do exactly what they want. Photoshop Actions are very useful for image-editing because in the blink of an eye you can achieve professional effects.
You can either create your own or just load ones that others have already made. Below take a look at the top 35 Photoshop actions. At the bottom you will find a tutorial on how to create your own Photoshop Actions.
Image Enhancement Actions
Photoshop Action 2
Alter the Hue and Saturation of your images with this action
Photoshop Action - Hue/Saturation
This action set includes the following photography effects for your pictures. Vintage, Lomo, Velvia, Sepia, Cross Processing, High-Pass, Dramatic, and Fake HDR Effects.
Photoshop Actions - Photography Set
This action gives you a retro color enhancement
Photoshop Actions - Retro Pop
Burnt Edges Vignette (click on try me under ps actions)
This action gives your photos burnt and high-key effects
Photoshop Actions - Burnt Edge Vignette
Hand-colored Vintage Photo ATN
Give your photos an antique look with this action
Photoshop Actions - Hand Colored Vintage
This action will allow you to get easy steps in the outline of an image with a style similar to drawing in pencil.
Photoshop Action - Pencil Draw
This action will brighten and give tonal depth to your images
Photoshop Actions - 05
This action will give your image a vintage appearance as if it is from the early 1900’s. It will only work on an image on a background layer.
Photoshop Actions - Vintage Effect
A simple and individual action to soften some skin
Photoshop Actions - Skin Smoothing
Give your image a comic book look and feel using this action.
Photoshop Actions - Comic Book Effect
This simple yet productive set of 12 actions will help you create several common portrait effects, and particularly wedding portraits. The set consists of 11 effects, plus an action with some brief instructions and pointers.
Photoshop Actions - Wedding Enhancers
An action which converts your pics into black and white
Photoshop Actions - Black and White
Give your images a “Lomo” look and feel with this excellent Photoshop action.
Photoshop Actions - Lomo
Turning Turnip: Photo cube effect
Apply 3D photo cube effect to any image.
Photoshop Action - Photo Cube
A Velvia-like effect for portraiture that doesn’t oversaturate skin tones .
Photoshop Actions - Velvia Portriat
Cool Photo Effect Action
As the name suggests, this action gives your images a cool lighting effect
Photoshop Actions - Cool Photo Effect
Actions colorBlance
Adjust the tones and balance of your images
Photoshop Actions - colorBalance
This Photoshop action gives photos an old and vintage appearance.
Photoshop Actions - Old Photo
Enhance the tone and color of your images using this set of actions
Photoshop Actions - TLR Tone Enhance
Dream Blur
Give your images that dreamy feel
Photoshop Actions - Dream Blur
Vintage Photo
Give your photos an aged look with this action
Photoshop Action -Vintage Photo
Set of actions including eye candy and frames.
Photoshop Actions - Photographers Toolkit 1
A simple action to whiten teeth and eyes.
Photoshop Actions - Whiten
Turn your images to old Polaroid photos
Photoshop Actions - Polaroid Generator
A variety of actions, such as “colorboost,” “softlight,” and “contrastboost.”
Photoshop Actions - Color Enhancing
This tool simplifies the steps needed to create the impressive and popular OoB effects.
Photoshop Actions - Out of Bounds
The RAINY DAY is a set of Photoshop actions that will make your images look as if they are seen through the window while it rains.
Photoshop Actions - Rainy Day
This is a free collection of older yet very good PanosFX actions.
Photoshop Actions - Old Goodies
An old Polaroid photo effect action
Photoshop Actions - Old Photo Effect
This action creates a beautiful reflection effect using one of your images. The image and reflection are presented before either a plain background (black by default) or a horizon.
Photoshop Actions - Reflection
Text Actions
This is an action set comprised of 6 different actions. The first creates the generic superhero text, the second gives a thinner 3-D effect, and the third takes the 3-D text into the distance. The last three actions are “Modifiers”. These actions create a different effect on the action you’ve already run.
Photoshop Actions - Super Hero
This action takes your text, batters it, tears it, and puts it through the ringer to create this grungy effect
Photoshop Action
Top Ten Photoshop Text Actions
There are 15 action: The Bllooz Action, The Bloo Action, The Blow Hard Action, The Cap’n Joe’s Action, The Charmed Action, The Chrome and Gold Action, The Double Action, The Krystl Action, The MAC-tastick!!! Action, The Poppin Action, The Road Rage Action, The Simply Sapphire Action, The Solar Panel Action, The Sunset Blvd Action, The Water Action.
Photoshop Actions - Top Ten Text Actions
Give your text a hammered metal look
Photoshop Actions - Metal Text
Create Your Own Actions
Photoshop Actions - Create Your Own
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Sandi
24. Nov, 2009
Awesome tutorials. Thank you so very much for sharing some terriffic ideas for us newbies.
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adie
24. Nov, 2009
good tutorial visit my blog http://suhardi-design.blogspot.com
and can i put you tutorial under my photoshop tutorial
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bmackler Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Happily. Thanks
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25. Nov, 2009
nice action sets. Easy to use and understand.
Thanks………!!
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