20+ Photoshop Actions for Photo Editing
By Steven Snell | Published May 10th, 2009 in ResourcesPhotoshop actions can be extremely helpful for experimenting with different effects and for saving time during the photo editing process. Of course, the ideal situation would be to take photographs effectively in the first place. However, as a designer you are likely to find yourself in situations where you won’t be the one taking the photos, and you’ll need to work with something that isn’t exactly what you need. In these cases, the actions featured here may be helpful for your photo editing.
For more Photoshop actions, please see:
- 60 Photoshop Actions fot Photo Touch Ups and Enhancements
- 30 Photoshop Actions fot Photo Touch Ups and Enhancements – Part II

























For a very first time I downloaded all the actions in such a collection.
I rarely find an premade action useful as it is so easy to make own yourself, but these ones definately are.
Great collection!! Thanks a lot!
Great list! Agree with FreelancerCrowd. I downloaded everything from the list. Thanks! Cheers!
Great resource, thanks! I just discovered DesignMag and have been very impressed. Keep it up!
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Great list of useful PS actions, thanks.
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the flower thing really cool.
love it so much.
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Man, *WHAT* is with all the generic action names? Imagine trying to pick between “Photoshop Action 41/71/63/16/25″ when editing photos. Come on, even a name like “Herman” would be better than a meaningless number.
yipyop,
I agree that names would make it easier. I thought about giving them names for the post but decided that would only make it more confusing when visitors click-through and find it with a different name.
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yipyop and Steven, I plan on going through and renaming them on my end once in Photoshop while adding a text file with the original name and new name (or something to that effect)… I agree it’s crazy naming. Steven, great posts and glad you decided against renaming to avoid confusion!
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hmm.. i don’t really like any of this effects. Except overcooked.
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really goodeffects for professionals
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nice thanks!!
Awesome set of actions! Thanks!
Hi! The actions seems be very cool. But I couldn’t download them.. Can somebody help me with this?
Absinthe,
Click through the links of the actions that you want to download. Most of them are on deviantART. On those pages you will see a download link on the left side of the screen.
Steven,
Thank you ! =) Can I use it also on my MAC based photoshop?
Adsinthe,
I think it depends on the action or action pack. If the creator does not specify you can download it and see if it works (I’m a PC user).
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I like it, Thanks for informations
oh my god very beautiful i want to learn