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.

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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

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29 Comments
  1. Xcellence IT on February 22nd, 2010

    Need to learn a lot in photoshop….

    Thanks for sharing this…

    Regards
    Xcellence IT

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  3. Tobi on February 23rd, 2010

    Great selection, thank you!!!

  4. Alexander on February 23rd, 2010

    Great list, thanks!

  5. hostessa on February 23rd, 2010

    wow thx for that!

  6. Neelakandan on February 23rd, 2010

    Excellent set of actions. Great post. TFS

  7. Rishi Luchun on February 23rd, 2010

    Thanks for these, some nice actions here

  8. Melody on February 23rd, 2010

    The images are the perfect setup for showing the difference with the actions. I always forget about trying this stuff out but I’ll have to make it a priority, looks cool…

  9. tografix on February 23rd, 2010

    some great actions. thanks

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  11. Logo Design on February 23rd, 2010

    Interesting to see how the different actions change the photo to create a compelling new image.

  12. Brian Jones on February 23rd, 2010

    Thank you for sharing these. These will be very helpful.

  13. Akbar on February 23rd, 2010

    Excellent Selection. I must learn Photoshop. These are awesome!!!

  14. Amberly | Web Designer on February 23rd, 2010

    Awesome Collection… Thanks for putting together this awesome List…

  15. Mahmudur Rahman on February 23rd, 2010

    Awesome collection of action sets. Great resources. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post. :)

  16. Webby freebies on February 23rd, 2010

    Allways great content! Thanks

  17. Nina on February 23rd, 2010

    Thanks for posting, downloaded a whole bunch :)

  18. The HD Blog on February 24th, 2010

    Great. Thank you

  19. viettel on February 24th, 2010

    Thanks for your great collection list. And so, i have made it a digg!

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  24. Daniel on March 10th, 2010

    Great stuff – thanks!

  25. Zine Creative on March 19th, 2010

    amazing stuff. very useful. thanks!

  26. ekitap on March 25th, 2010

    thanks perfect actions

  27. Me on March 26th, 2010

    Many are interesting, but for real photography work you’re better off learning how to do the modifications manually and doing them specifically for the photo. Actions are great for adding titles, correcting a series of photos in a similar way, or otherwise removing grunt work. And art is not just running an action to add noise, a false cross-process color effect, and vignetting.

  28. lv on August 10th, 2010

    awesome! thank you sooo much!