40 Photoshop Actions for Designers and Photographers

By Steven Snell | Published February 22nd, 2010 in Resources

Photoshop Actions allow designers and photographers to quickly edit photos in a specific way. The right action can save a great deal of time as opposed to doing all of the work manually.

In this post we’ll feature 40 free Photoshop actions (many are actually sets of multiple actions). Our past collections of Photoshop actions continue to draw interest, so we hope many of you will find these to be useful as well. If you see something that you want to try out, click on the image or the text link and you’ll be able to download the actions from the source.

This post is supported by MCP Actions, who offers original Photoshop Actions and Training to customers internationally, which enable photographers, at the click of a button, to enhance and enrich their photos in a fast and efficient way. The MCP Actions Blog is a great resource for Photoshop tips, video tutorials and photography related contests. Visit MCP Actions and join MCP on Facebook.

Action Set 1

One Less Lonely Girl Action

Polaroid Generator 2

Photoshop Action 15

Blue Action

Touch of Light/Touch of Darkness

Fearless Action

High Definition Sharpening

Photoshop Actions 105

Texture Applicator

Photoshop Actions 11

Photoshop Actions 2

Photoshop Action 18

Photoshop Actions 67

Burnt Edges Vignettes

sa-cool Action 1.06

sa-cool Action 1.07

sa-cool Actions 2.06

sa-cool Actions 2.07

sa-cool Actions 2.08

Darker Effect

Nature Actions

Photoshop Actions 133

Photoshop Actions 87

NoiseLess RetroFit Actions

Cool Photo Effect Action

Sarah Action 1

Sarah Set 4

Colorized Action

Black White Sepia Action

Hard Light Action

Photoshop Action 31

Vintage Actions

Photoshop Actions Pack 6

Action Pack 2

Photoshop Actions 14

Actions Pack 2

Colour

Action 01

Action 02

For more Photoshop actions please see:

• 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch Ups and Enhancements
• 30 Photoshop Actions for Touch Ups and Enhancements – Part II
• 20+ Photoshop Actions for Photo Editing
• 30 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Actions

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