80+ Time Saving and Free Photoshop Action Sets To Enhance your Photos
- By Aquil Akhter
- Posted in PHOTOSHOP
- 25 comments
Photoshop is a wonderful tool that not only lets you create amazing graphics but also automate your work and improve your workflow. With Photoshop Actions, you can perform your repetitive tasks with a simple click that not only saves you time but helps improving your efficiency.
Photoshop actions allow you to record a sequence of commands and operations that you can set aside and can access afterward. They can also perform some extremely complex techniques with just a push of a button.
Here we have compiled a list of 80+ top-quality Photoshop actions to share with you, so you can expedite your design work. Before presenting our hand-picked collection of downloadable Photoshop Actions, however, we would like to offer a short explanation on how to install and create your own Photoshop Actions.
Creating Photoshop Actions
Creating Photoshop actions is very simple. All you need to do is open up the “Actions” palette and click the New Action button as seen in the picture below:
A new window pops up giving you different options for creating actions. Name the action and then place it in a set. For quick access, you can assign a shortcut to your action that will immediately activate it in Photoshop. This is a useful option to be used for those actions that you use with regularity.
Hitting the “Record” button allows you to record your desired actions by carrying out the necessary steps. The only thing that needs to be remembered here is selection sizes, saving and other specific steps will be duplicated precisely as you perform them in the action. So, you need to keep your steps as generic as possible so that they will work on the complete range of the images you want the action to apply to.
Once you’re done, hit the “Stop” button in the action menu. Your action has been recorded. Now you can hit the “Play” button if you want to perform the action on another file.
Installing Photoshop Actions
There are numbers of ways to install Photoshop actions. Dragging the downloaded actions into the ‘Actions” folder enclosed within the “Presets” folder in your Photoshop application folder is the easiest way. Note: you may need to restart Photoshop so that the installed actions can appear in the actions menu.
On the other hand, hit the little arrow on the right of the actions menu and then click the “Load Actions” option to quickly install the downloaded actions into the Photoshop.
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Ghost Stories Photoshop Action
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Create round photo stickers or add sticky tapes!
OUT OF BOUNDS Photoshop actions
2011 Calendar – Photoshop Action
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About the Author
Aquil Akhter is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration for designers and developers.
Christina, 03 June 2011
This is absolutely amazing photo’s…
Emprego, 03 June 2011
Excellent collection of actions. I’ve been testing some, but sometimes exaggerates the effects. Still nothing better to do by hand.
Tom Ross, 03 June 2011
These are beautiful! I always tend to create my own actions, but these look like a real time saver.
S.K. (Insfired), 03 June 2011
Some of those are just what I was looking for! will surely save us a lot of effort and time, thanks!
gohewitt, 03 June 2011
These are some best images I’ve ever seen!
lee, 04 June 2011
you havnt seen much!
Abhi, 04 June 2011
This is really amazing..Awsome Pics
Parth, 04 June 2011
This is a great collection! Thanks!
Snoggle News, 06 June 2011
Yes truly great time saving suggestions. I often feel struggling to work in Adobe Photoshop without some sort of enhanced agenda. These actions will do the trick!
Doug Peters, 07 June 2011
Great collection of actions. Thanks for putting these together.
inspirationfeed, 07 June 2011
Very helpful resources, thank you!
Ramya S, 08 June 2011
This is just a great collection… Extremely time saving for people like me who spend lot of time in image editing…. Red and blue action are the simple yet useful actions.Thanks!
R.sarwes, 28 September 2011
This is just a great collection… Extremely time saving for people like me who spend lot of time in image editing…. Red and blue action are the simple yet useful actions.Thanks!
Kirill, 10 June 2011
Wow! Tnx for this helpful resources
Stacy, 21 July 2011
One of the best lists I’ve seen in long time! I’ll definately be using these. Have you seen wbactions.com free photoshop actions? They are awesome too.
Scott, 15 September 2011
Sick list! =D Thanks for putting this together.
Orlando, 21 September 2011
Some beautiful effects. How far back does this work on photoshop versions? I have 5.5 at work but ony my home ocmputer I have CS2….
Mark Armstrong, 03 October 2011
A truly astounding collection– some of the best PS actions I’ve seen. Thank you, Aquil, for your wonderful kindness and generosity in making these resources available– very sincerely appreciated.
Kevin Pham, 29 October 2011
Wow! Thanks for helpful post
chinnu, 29 December 2011
Sick list! =D Thanks for putting this together.
Mubariz, 30 January 2012
It’s amazing <3 Thanks alot :]
Daniel, 03 September 2012
This is a really cool collection of Photoshop action, thanks!
AfroMerry, 01 November 2012
Beautiful collection of Photoshop actions you’ve got here. Thank you for sharing!
Danielle, 22 November 2012
These are great and thanks, but, the only problem is, these are all professional looking photos that don’t need any tweaking in the first place. My regular old photos (even with similar lighting) don’t look the same with the actions applied to them.
Deanne, 04 December 2012
Thank you, much appreciated… beautiful work