60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements

By Steven Snell | Published January 5th, 2009 in Resources

Photoshop actions can be a tremendous time-saving tool for designers and photographers. You can either create your own actions or take advantage of the many that are freely available from the community of Photoshop users. This post is a collection of 60 actions (actually more since many of them contain multiple actions) for touching up or enhancing photographs.

Free Photoshop Actions:

Photo Colouring 11.2

Photoshop touchup actions

Soft Touch Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Diabolic

Photoshop touchup actions

Professional Photoshop Actions

Photoshop touchup actions

Color Enhancing Actions

Photoshop touchup actions

Cross-Processing

Photoshop touchup actions

300 Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Photoshop Color Actions 2

Photoshop touchup actions

Eye Color

Photoshop touchup actions

Vivid Blur

Photoshop touchup actions

Retro Love

Photoshop touchup actions

Soften Skin Effect

Photoshop touchup actions

Retro Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Dazzle Effects

Photoshop touchup actions

Dazzle Effects 3

Photoshop touchup actions

Dazzle Effects 4

Photoshop touchup actions

Black and White Photoshop Actions

Photoshop touchup actionsPhotoshop touchup actions

Muted Fashion

Photoshop touchup actions

Soft Sepia Effect

Photoshop touchup actions

Actions Clyck 003

Photoshop touchup actions

Black and White Photoshop Actions

Photoshop touchup actions

Photo Coloring VI

Photoshop touchup actions

Action 004

Photoshop touchup actions

Action 003

Photoshop touchup actions

Dark Sepia

Photoshop touchup actions

sa-cool Action 1.05

Photoshop touchup actions

Old Photo Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Vintage Photo

Photoshop touchup actions

Retro-Vintage Actions

Photoshop touchup actions

Photoshop Dream Blur Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Actions – 39

Photoshop touchup actions

Photo Coloring II

Photoshop touchup actions

Skin Smoothing

Photoshop touchup actions

Color Balance

Photoshop touchup actions

Photo Coloring

Photoshop touchup actions

Cool Photo Effect Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Cross Coloring

Photoshop touchup actions

Noiseless RetroFit Actions

Photoshop touchup actions

Photo Improvement

Photoshop touchup actions

H.D.A. Soft Elegance

Photoshop touchup actions

Lomo Cross Processing

Photoshop touchup actions

Split Toning

Photoshop touchup actions

InFection

Photoshop touchup actions

CS3 Action – High Key

Photoshop touchup actions

Action Pack 1

Photoshop touchup actions

Black White Sepia

Photoshop touchup actions

Cross-Processing Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Hand-Colored Vintage Photo

Photoshop touchup actions

IR Effect Look

Photoshop touchup actions

Old Style Sepia Effect

Photoshop touchup actions

Dim and Jade

Photoshop touchup actions

Wedding Enhancers

Photoshop touchup actions

Pseudo HDR

Photoshop touchup actions

Soft Focus Effect

Photoshop touchup actions

Airbrush

Photoshop touchup actions

Editorial Action

Photoshop touchup actions

Photoshop Facelift

Photoshop touchup actions

Velvia Portrait

Photoshop touchup actions

Whiten Teeth and Eyes

Photoshop touchup actions

Vintage

Photoshop touchup actions

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146 Comments
  1. Lana on January 5th, 2009

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  68. Steven Snell on January 19th, 2009

    Don,
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  69. tona on January 27th, 2009

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  117. april on October 23rd, 2009

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  122. Inspire My Day on December 20th, 2009

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  128. imagenbruja on February 5th, 2010

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  129. canvas paintings on February 12th, 2010

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  130. Vic - TakingImages on March 5th, 2010

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  131. Garcya on April 25th, 2010

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  132. Al Kamal Md. Razib on June 12th, 2010

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  134. Clipping Path India on June 24th, 2010

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