Photoshop Actions ?

An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files – menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. You can create Photoshop action that changes the size of an image, applies a filter to the image for a particular effect, and then saves the file in the desired format. Nice, isn’t it !

Actions can include stops that let you perform tasks that cannot be recorded (for example, using a painting tool).

Photoshop and Illustrator come with predefined actions installed that help you perform common tasks. You can use these actions as is, customize them to meet your needs, or create new actions. PS actions are stored in sets to help you organize them.

You can record, edit, customize, and batch-process actions, and you can manage groups of actions by working with action sets.

Free Photoshop Actions

Turning Turnip: Photo cube effect – Apply 3D photo cube effect to any image.
photo cube effect ps action

Turning Turnip: Soften skin effect -Produces a natural ‘clean’ appearance whilst retaining important skin textures.
soften skin ps action
- 9 more Free Photoshop Actions from Turning Turnip

Page Curl Photoshop Action – Create a page curl in any of the four corners of an image.

page curl action effect

PanosFX: B & Big picture – A 3-D collage effect

bbig picture photoshop action

PanosFX: Discrete – Make your images visually more appealing.

discrete photoshop action

PanosFX: Spiral Bind – Make the creation of a spiral binding effect a very easy task

spiral bind effect

PanosFX: 3D – Out of Bounds Action

3d photoshop action

PanosFX: Stamp v.2 – A highly customizable stamp action

stamp photoshop action effect

PanosFX: The Big Picture – Make an image look as a collage made up of 25 individual photographs that are layed down in a ‘slightly untidy manner’.

big picture

- 32 more Free Photoshop Actions from PanosFX

Color Actions 2 – deviantART

color actions

Vintage Photo – deviantART

vintage photo

- more deviantART Photoshop actions

Finesse FX: Old Parchment action

old parchment

Finesse FX: TackIt! Mini action

tackit mini

- 65 more Free Finesse FX Photoshop Actions – image, text and custom effects

Liknes: FilmStrip Action

filmstrip perspective PS action

Liknes: Puzzle Action

puzzle effect action

- more Photoshop actions from Liknes – border, text and special effects

Shutter Freaks: Crystal Ball Action

crystal ball action

Shutter Freaks: Hayes Island Variant

hayes island variant ps actions

- more Shutter Freaks Free Actions

Additional resources:

Addicted to Design – Night Vision Effect, Polaroid 600 Instant Film, Lomo, Infrared and 1 Pixel Border effects

Atncentral – Comic Effect Action, Editorial Lomo, Kent’s LensBlur and more

Elated ActionKits – ActionKit 1-5

Mayhem Studios – Red Eye Removal, Productions Action, Sharpen Action and Center Guides Action

Veerle’s Creating a Photoshop Action.

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