This simple action creates a beautiful blockbuster-film
look, heightening details in your photographs and increasing contrast,
while introducing a blue/green tint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Create an outer space background automatically complete with
space dust and nebulous gases. Randomly colours the scene to produce a
different effect every time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Similar to Action 2 in our list, this one enables you to turn any image into a pseudo-3D anaglyph effect by creating two separate channels for cyan and red, and overlapping them to lift the image off the page.
Automatically render your artwork onto a trifold paper
design in pseudo-3D, complete with shadows and shading on the image.
Ideal for rendering paper designs ahead of presenting them on-screen to
clients.
Turn flat artwork into a 3D box-render complete with shading
and shadows using this free action. Includes multiple light points for a
believable final effect.
Good for: Graphic designers
This free Photoshop action allows you to create a long
shadow from your text content and leave it as it is, as you can set the
Opacity manually as per the desire.
Good for: Photographers
Generate standard 3x triptych panels for print, with a 3D
effect visual triptych generator also available. Print sizes include
1000x600mm, 1300x800, 1600x1000 with 50mm depth @ 288dpi.
