60+ More Awesome Photoshop Actions for Photographers

60+ More Awesome Photoshop Actions for Photographers

on Mar 8th 2011 with 27 comments

Last year we featured an article with over 100 Free Photoshop Actions for you to use. Many of you you asked for more, so today we’re back with another 60 handy Photoshop actions to save time and effort. Each offers an interesting and unique effect, so click through to take a look!

Making Your Own Actions

This is a follow up from 100 Free Photoshop Actions (And How to Make Your Own). If you wish to learn how to make your own actions, be sure to take a look at this post. Alternatively, you could check out our Quick Tip on Automated Watermarking with Photoshop, which covers many of the same techniques!

kalifbanane – Cross Colouring Tool 1.1

Color enhancing actions

Facebook Fix – Add a watermark/resize/rotate

Photoshop Action: Diabolic

Photoshop Action: Foliage

Photoshop Action: FrostBite

Infection

Action set #1

Oscar’s Pitch Photoshop Action 1

Tony’s Soft Face #2

Soften Skin Effect

Polaroid Generator V2

Night Fate – Photoshop actions

Black white sepia PS action

LT’s Marshmallow action

Magic effect 4.2

i-Dark 3.02

PS actions – 5 in 1

PS actions – Cool vintage

PS actions – Snow, summer and winter

Ghost Stories - 9 Awesome Actions

Colour changing actions

My Dark Desire – 18 Free actions

3D actions pack

Daisy actions

Cute Actions

Hipstamatic- "Purple glitter"

Oldmatic

Act 01 Actions Away

Photoshop actions – 86

Rainy Day

8 Useful actions

Canvas effect

Purple actions

Photoshop action 3

Vintage

Night Action

100 Photo styles action

Photoshop actions – 101

Our Love

Actions: "Retro-Vintage"

Warm light action

2011 New Year Action

Enchanted

Unwritten Action

Break Out Action

Hebah Photography – Action pack 7

Nature Effect

Photoshop Actions 27

Hard Candy Action

Lomita – Action 11

Landscape Effect PS Action 0.2

HDR fake action

PS Actions – HDR Post Effects

PS Actions – ReColor Old

Photographers Toolkit Vol 1

Holga action

Urban Blue

Wedding Enhancer Kit

Professional Actions at GraphicRiver

For just a few dollars you can find many professional actions over on GraphicRiver. This is another site in the Envato network, with plenty of relevant content for photographers! Here are a few examples of what you’ll find:

Photo Effects Actions

Images Essentials Photoshop Actions

Glow Actions

PRO Actions – 30 Film Effects

PRO Actions – 42 Special Effects

Thanks For Reading!

I hope you enjoyed looking through these fantastic Photoshop actions. Be sure to click through to each site, and take a closer look at what’s on offer. If you know of a great action that we didn’t feature today, be sure to share it in the comments!

 
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  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erie-House-Pictures-Photography/119035118122847 Kurt

    I feel like these photoshop ‘actions’ take away from people being creative and learning how to do things on their own.. I vote they should stop posting these things.. it contradicts the point of people being here trying to learn… its like putting a liquor store next to an AA meeting spot.. maybe im just being critical but either way..

    • http://www.peewee1002.co.uk Peter Sawyer
      Author

      I agree with what you say to a point.

      I personally think actions are a way people can become more creative…. you can download an action and use it in seconds and transform your dull photos in ways you never thought possible….

      If you learn from them and see how the user has created that effect you can then tweak it to fit your style.

      Rather than being spoon fed a tutorial, you have to look a little harder and learn what the artist has done with each layer and why they choose to use it.

      • http://zdesignstudios.com JP

        I agree with you to. Most of the stuff that I learned was actually reverse engineering other peoples actions. I can see the cause and effect of using certain adjustment layers and what effect it has after I tweak and re tweak it. At the end of the day the action never turns out to be the original that I started with. Tanks for the collection, you just gave me so much more to do.

    • Savvy

      @Kurt, I second that, nice one ..haha…the AA next to a liquor store.

  • http://owenconti.com Owen Conti

    Someone should do all of us a favour and compress all these actions into a .zip file :D

    • http://peewee1002.eu Peter Sawyer
      Author

      Would be awesome, but remember you would have to get permission from over 60 artists!

  • http://www.jdsfotographie.com John S.

    The link for Holga is Broken. Do you happen to have the user who made it?

  • Caren

    Excuse me in advance for this being jumbled.

    I disagree with you Kurt, and those that agree with you. Actions don’t take away a person’s creativity; for one a person must choose to use them so nothing is being taken away, and for two many people aren’t inclined to be pro-Photoshop users. Some people prefer to focus the time they spend “learning” something to learn how to successfully take a picture. Some people do enjoy learning about & using Photoshop and the actions come in handy for them. And others who feel that actions should be outlawed won’t use them and shouldn’t take them away from everyone else.

    The argument that people should learn how to do things on their own goes even further in the wrong direction when applied to the fact that you are using Photoshop in the first place. I have heard many hard-core photographers who feel that Photoshop makes it easy to not have to take a decent picture-it can be fixed in editing.

    If someone has done the work already to create a fancy border, texture and color effect and wants to share it they should be allowed to. Just as the person who figured out how to use shortcuts to create a great tasting risotto should be allowed to share the recipe with those who don’t have the time/desire to spend the time guessing at how to make one.

  • xp1

    Hi There,
    I think this is pretty bad from PhotoTuts considering it is a sister site to GraphicRiver where authors such as myself create these type of actions to sell on the market place. The package is great and yes I will be downloading them but only to compare with my own actions. So Envato all I can say as an author for Envato well done for a home goal and thanks for making it harder for authors on GR to generate sales.
    From a buyers point of view then great who needs GraphicRiver.

    • http://www.peewee1002.eu Peter Sawyer
      Author

      Alot of people are not aware of actions. By doing a free roundup and getting people use to the idea of actions they might then think about purchasing premium actions.

      I also sell on the envato marketplaces……but like the free content when I can take it.

      PSDtuts+ offer loads of freebies, such as icons and textures but this never seems to effect sales on graphic river or themeforest.

      People don’t mind paying for premium content……… Also why not post a link? I am sure users would like to see your actions.

  • sushi

    well these photoshop actions can be helpfull in some cases, like if you are in a rush or sth…
    but you’d better learn to make your own actions and really use photoshop.

    I’m tired to see on every photo blog the same toning, same colors and same shit. It’s like i’m taking a photo of this thin cute teen with a sad face, adding some “vintage” color and voilà !

  • Brian

    Thanks for the post. I appreciate the arguments of those who disagree with downloading actions but here’s another point of view.
    I’m just beginning with photography and work in a technical field. I struggle to be creative with my photos and am often disappointed when my pictures don’t look as good as others I’ve seen. By exploring the boundaries of my captures with the aid of someone else’e actions I believe I’ll either gain a confidence in my work and experiment with my own post processing or realize that my shots really aren’t that good and make changes there.
    It all depends on what type of photographer you are.

  • http://ariesit.ru mobdick

    Grand senks (:

  • http://www.shanemcdonald.me/ Shane McDonald

    Excellent post – I have gone to download 5 of these and look forward to trying them out.
    Actions are really useful for speeding up your workflow.

  • Luiz

    I always thought on actions on Photoshop as a group of commands that I don´t have to make continuously on a big set of photos, and when I don´t have to be creative on that.
    To make these effects I’ve seen above, it´s easier or to go directly to an Effect (wish I don’t like), or going into each one of the options (kind of layer, levels, etc.) and try one by one. That’s the way I keep on learning post processing, and keep discovering that we have two ways on Photoshop, or you do something that “nobody” sees to enhance an already good photo, or something that makes a “not so good” photo seem artistic at least.

  • http://www.jhpactions.com John

    Nice list of actions! I would also recommend JHP Actions! Some of the best actions you will find online and there are some free ones.

  • rihanna

    so good thank you so much

  • http://www.ilovesouthdevon.com ilovesouthdevon

    Great collection of Photoshop actions. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to trying some of these on my publishing projects.

  • http://www.cotswoldbedandbreakfast.co CotswoldB&B

    Wow! Very nice collection of actions. Really inspiring for a newbie designer like me. Thank you for posting.

  • http://www.rakeshramola.com rakesh ramola

    I am graphic designer

  • http://www.posterjack.ca/ Posterjack

    I really LOVE the fake HDR actions.
    Thanks Peter, I’ll be adding a few of these.

  • yuren

    Very nice collection. Thanks for sharing.

  • http://www.blogkaji.com ajie

    WOW!! amazing..
    BIG thanks dude!

  • Javi

    Thanks for sharing these incredible actions. I researched a bit more about some of them. I recommend to take a look too:
    http://janawerner.com/psresources/

    She is the author of some of the Ps actions published in this article.

  • Amritanshu

    i like i like !!!

  • Jiab

    Thank you very much.