Awesome Freebies: 30 Useful Photoshop Actions
The power of Photoshop actions can many times be underestimated by designers and photographers. Once you learn how to make them and load them, you will discover a whole new powerful aspect of the Photoshop software. Actions can be used for almost any task and they will save you a lot of time too. By recording a set number of things that are done inside the software, you can do those things over and over with a single click instead of having to do every step on all of your photos/designs. Not only can you make photos look better, you can also use this for making frames, saving designs in various formats and almost all tasks imaginable.
This time we’ve put together a great collection of free actions that already have been made.
Enjoy!
Page curl
Photo cube effect
Polaroid generator
Pencil draw
Filmstrip
Puzzle
Embossed label
Vintage photo
Out of bounds
Create an oriental fan
Cracked wall painting
Comics
Tackit Mini
Diabolic
Rule of thirds cropping
Stylized: Retro Set
Grunge
Fix zoom to print size
e-Cover
Convert white to transparent
Glass n’ plastic spheres
Black white sepia PS action
IR effect
Photo effect
3D action with fund of color
i-Dark 3.02
Pink touch
Action set 006
Color your life
Fake HDR
Those were our 30 picks for you this time. There are lots and lots of available actions out there and we hope you’ve enjoyed these.
Finally we have a link for you on how to use actions and all you need to know about them.
Read more here: Using actions to automate tasks in Photoshop.
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August 20th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Interesting, I am an Illustrator and know several methods of deleting the white from my lines. The one above may save me a lot of time, thankyou!
August 21st, 2010 at 3:16 pm
The page curl is a really useful technique. Thanks for posting.
August 21st, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Wow. Tank you for sharing.
Great post
January 25th, 2011 at 12:55 am
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