Awesome Freebies: 30 Useful Photoshop Actions

August 20th, 2010 Posted in Graphics, Photoshop, Resources, Various

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.

Good luck :)

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Hilde Torbjornsen is a graphic designer from Norway. She loves everything Adobe, photography, freelancing and music. She owns the website Designer77 and you can follow her daily updates on Twitter @Hildy77.
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4 Responses to “Awesome Freebies: 30 Useful Photoshop Actions”

  1. Tom Buch Says:

    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!


  2. Web Designer, Leicester Says:

    The page curl is a really useful technique. Thanks for posting.


  3. Canal Adobe Photoshop Says:

    Wow. Tank you for sharing.
    Great post


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