45 Amazing and Free Photoshop Actions
Published in ToolsPhotoshop actions allow designers and photographers to automate common sequences for increased efficiency. If you do much work with photo editing you can certainly benefit from the time saved by having a good library of Photoshop actions. There are so many different types of actions that you can use from vintage effects, to black and white, to HDR and much more.
There are countless actions available that can be downloaded for free, and in this post we’ll feature 45 of them. Some of these are individual actions and others are sets that include multiple actions.
In addition to free actions, you can also get high quality premium actions at sites like PhotographyPla.net, GraphicRiver, and Creative Market. In this post, though, we will focus exclusively on free actions. These actions have been created by various designers and photographers and have been made available for free download. Many of them are available through deviantART, although some are available at the site of the creator of the actions.
Keep in mind that while Photoshop actions can be extremely useful and helpful, the results will vary from one photo to the next. Not every photo will look great with every action. Experiment with them and you’ll get a good feel for which actions work best with certain types of photos. One of the nice things about premium actions is that most of them are editable and can be customized to work with your specific photo.
Photoshop Action 15 (update: no longer available)
Action Pack 2 (update: no longer available)
Photoshop Actions 11 (update: no longer available)
Touch of Light/Touch of Darkness
Stylish Sepia (update: no longer available)
Sarah1 Action (update: no longer available)
One Less Lonely Girl Action (update: no longer available)
Color Enhancing Actions (update: no longer available)
Photoshop Action 31 (update: no longer available)
Action Set 6 (update: no longer available)
Crimson Glow (update: no longer available)
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Action Pack 2 is so good. thanks for share
Great list of photoshop actions.. it does make life a little easier..
These are wonderful, but so many of them pretty much replicate the same effects.
Nice one! I recently bought the complete adobe system with the paint shop and premiere from a garage sale. I’m used to corel but I’m willing to try this one out. I hope I get results as good as these!
Today we find photoshop applications in almost every website. The best thing about a photoshop application is that it makes website very beautiful and people used to stay on the website and thus reduces a bounce rate.
Also many companies used to outsource their web designing part to make it cheaper and more professional.
Thanks for these. Great displays. I can’t wait to use them.
Wow I had no idea you could do this stuff with photo shop. I will be using these.
this is a great action how do i get this one don’t understand
John,
Click through the links in this post and you will be able to download the actions.
polaroid generator and action 2 are really coooooooooll
Thanks!!! That touch of light/touch of darkness one looks really scary though
If you want take a look to my Photoshop’s actions collections: http://www.primaluce.deviantart.com/gallery/#Photoshop-Actions
Thanks!:)
Wow.. These are awesome. Will definitely be using some of these..
I am just so thankful that these photoshop actions existed. More power to the creators and keep up the good work.
HI there =)
Will any or all of these actions work w/ photoshop elements?
Thank you!
Grella
Same question as above– will these work in elements? Thanks!!!
Hazel,
I don’t have Elements so I can’t answer that question. You’ll just have to try them, or email the creator of the action and ask.
Great list! I just made an action that mimics film on my site… check it out if you like vintage/old looking photos!
http://www.grapherphoto.com/?p=567
I love all these actions but I don’t quite understand how I can use them? What program do I need?
Ashley,
You need Photoshop.
Thanks for the actions. Here’s to simplifying workflow. Cheers!
thank you so much for these great actions however I’m really bummed I cannot download the Stylish Sepia Dark Action. Is there some way I can? I’ve check online, no luck
I really would like this. Perhaps email me?
Thanks in advance!
Amazing collection here, it’s great to find this. This will help me a lot in learning new things.
Thanks,
Sahil
awesome Photoshop Actions….good image collection…nice one
thanks for the sharing…
great collection, thxs for sharing them.
Great list, here is a free action I made for creating step and repeat backdrops. Enjoy
http://davidhay.org/Tutorials/download-free-step-and-repeat-photoshop-action.html