The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

By Radwa Samir   |   August 19, 2009   |   Posted in Photoshop   |   17 Comments

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. They can be used to speed up repetitive tasks, make quick work of time consuming edits, and give you a little creative inspiration . It is also a pre-recorded steps in Photoshop that you can apply on new layers and files.

Photoshop actions help you do your effects more fast and easier. In this post, I collected some amazing actions that I think it is useful in design process workflow.

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Color actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Set of 7 actions that I use very often in my works.
I really hope that you will find them useful.

How to work with actions?!

-Click download to save action to your PC.
-Open Photoshop and actions palette,click “Load Actions” ,choose action set.
-Click play to see the effect

Black and White ps actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

This set of actions have:

1) dark vintage actions,actions.
2) white contrast action,actions.
3) black contrast action,actions
4) blue-black-white contrast action,actions
5) dark contrast action,actions
6) glow white action. (actions)

HDR Fantasticalizers

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

The preview says it all, the one previewed is Overlayed HDR fix, you will have to adjust the saturation to fit the scene, or to taste, the preview has a +50 sat applied, enjoy.
Instructions: Complete the HDR, convert to 8bit, leave the shot with very low contrast, but with lots of detail, then run the action, then let me see the results

Photoshop Actions 3

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

There are 15 actions in total
The End of the Day set (red dots) is prefered for outside pictures.
The Dreary (the ones with green dots) can be used for anything.
Vintage set (white dots) look different on different pictures (as with all of them, but they vary more than usual).
And the B&W set (yellow dots) can be a bit bright for some photos…

Photoshop Action 22

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

you would be amazed that on some pictures the result is good.
click download to get the photoshop action

Photoshop Actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

some Photoshop actions that we use when we want to “touch up” photographs and add some extra effects.
For each of the actions, I’m going to use a photograph that started life as a 1600 x 1200 photograph shot on a Fuji Finexpix A201. I’ve reduced this down to 960 x 720 pixels to make it a more manageable download.

photoshop actions – 32

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

For photoshop elements 1, 2, and 3, I think this explains it well enough

Photoshop Action: Diabolic

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

set of 10 photoshop actions .

photoshop actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Basically, the original image on the preview shows the type of photo the actions might work best on. (by looking at the lighting whether it’s outside or inside, and also the color tones

Black And White

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

An action which converts your pics into black and white .

Glass n Plastic Sphere Actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Action Set includes 8 different sphere actions.
Gives better results on darker background.

Variety Pack Actions .3

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Preferably used for photos with already decent contrast to change colors and moods of the photograph/image.

White and black ps actions

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

This set of actions have:
1) vintage actions
2) white contrast actions
3) black contrast actions
4) blue-black-white contrast actions
5) dark contrast actions
6) glow white actions

Oscar Pilch Photoshop Action 1

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Oscar’s Pilch 1 Photoshop Action.

H.D.A.-soft elegance

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

soft elegance
*the first image is the original
*the second one shows you what you’ll get

Skin Smoothing

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

A simple and individual action to soften some skin.

Cross-Processing ATN

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

Cross-processing, briefly, is a photographic technique where (usually) slide film (E6) is processed in the set of chemicals usually used to process print film (C41). (Less common is cross-processing in the other direction — print film processed in slide film chemicals) The result is images with oddly skewed colors and increased contrast and saturation.

Eye Color

The Big Collection Of Amazing Photoshop Actions

An individual Action to color some eyes..

How to install the action:

1. Put the .ATN file from the zip in a directory of your choice. It does not need to be in the Photoshop directory.
2. Choose Load Actions from the Actions palette menu.
3. Select the action set file from die directory you saved it.
4. Click Load.
5. Have fun.

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Author: Radwa Samir (60 Articles)

My name is Radwa, designer, blogger and co-founder of Graphic Mania. I really love graphics and taking photos.Contact me at radwa (at) graphicmania (dot) net.

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