65 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements

Resources By Steven Snell / January 5, 2009

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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 65 actions (actually more since many of them contain multiple actions) for touching up or enhancing photographs.

Free Photoshop Actions:

Photo Coloring Photoshop Action

Depth of Field Photoshop Action

Action Distortion Photoshop Action

Pro Sharpening Photoshop Action

Gritty Effect Photoshop Action

Photo Colouring 11.2

Soft Touch Action

Professional Photoshop Actions

Color Enhancing Actions

Cross-Processing

Photoshop Color Actions 2

Soften Skin Effect

Retro Action

Dazzle Effects

Dazzle Effects 3

Dazzle Effects 4

Black and White Photoshop Actions

Muted Fashion

Soft Sepia Effect

Actions Clyck 003

Black and White Photoshop Actions

Photo Coloring VI

sa-cool Action 1.05

Old Photo Action

Vintage Photo

Retro-Vintage Actions

Photoshop Dream Blur Action

Actions – 39

Photo Coloring II

Skin Smoothing

Color Balance

Photo Coloring

Cool Photo Effect Action

Cross Coloring

Noiseless RetroFit Actions

Photo Improvement

H.D.A. Soft Elegance

Lomo Cross Processing

Split Toning

CS3 Action – High Key

Action Pack 1

Black White Sepia

Cross-Processing Action

Hand-Colored Vintage Photo

IR Effect Look

Old Style Sepia Effect

Dim and Jade

Wedding Enhancers

Soft Focus Effect

Editorial Action

Photoshop Facelift

Velvia Portrait

Whiten Teeth and Eyes

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Lana

Wow this is sooo cool!!!
I love all the actions, thank u so much 😀
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very helpful
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thank you for this helpful shareing..
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Saj

Hilary nedded that!
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Saj,
haha, I agree.
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This is some pretty great stuff! I’ve only recently decided I should probably actually start learning to do these kinds of things with Photoshop, expand my horizons a bit, and this will DEFINITELY help!
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‘shopped
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Photoshop is amazing…
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Thats really neat the way they used photo shop. And you would think people would stop trying to look like those people they see in the magazine..
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this is a very neat compilation. My new PSD cheatsheet
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Cool! I’m thinking to learn one or two tricks.
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Great tutorials mate, ill be using them as a guide for doing my bebo skins.

Thanks again
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this one’s great.. mind if i cross post this one in my site

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http://designm.ag Steven Snell

Don,
You can link to this post, but it cannot be re-published in its entirety.
tona

GREAT!! thanx a lot
Faheem

It’s nice. I will use in my projects.
thanks!!!!!!!!
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I mostly like the retro style
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Velvia looks very nice
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DOBERMAN

Thanks they are all great However, one has to remember to take rather good pictures to start with
Prabhu

hi i’m prabhu frm tamilnadu in india

i’m a album designer

this is a site really use ful for creators ….and me also….

heartly thanks for all participants…..thanks all of u dears….
tom

stop playing with the hue correction sliders and uploading your junk onto valuebale web storage space.
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Thanks the original collections.
Photoshop tuts are quite helpful for me.
Just stumbled your post :p
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Very Nice.

I wish to be so creative.
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Yugandhar

Super’b’ collection man
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These are techniques that without action we take too long.
Great collection. Thank you
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azaluna

woww….
no comment…
keep share
Ajit KUmar

Deep dive in photoshop and discovered such a great features.. Thanks a ton…
Lizzie

omg! thanks!:DD
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wow these are all awesome.
thx for sharing.
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Wow! What a terrific round-up of actions! Thanks!
Ines

I love them sooo much, I cant wait to use them :O awesomeee, thanks. this website is soooo coooooooool.
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Rikki

Do these all work with CS4?
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few best photoshop action post . thanks for shearing this excellent post.
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Thanks!!! THis will help alot
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april

phony shit. always use the origional. you can’t get a photos personality with touch ups
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Good! Thanks!
Pandi v.

toooooooooooooooooo coooooooooooooooool
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really i like this aaaction coz i need this all actiond
thanks for givng me
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Nice Collection. Thanks
Jenn

Yaaay! I really like this actions!!! <33 Thank you so much for posting 😀
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muy buena coleccion! this is cool! thank!
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great way to see how photoshop is used, keep up the good work!
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Wow! Here I found a comprehensive long list of photoshop tricks. Thank you for sharing. I will try to learn them all.
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Let me say: I downloaded 98% from this list!
Cheers.
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Nice work. after & before version images are looking so nice. thanks for sharing.
shiro

WOW~ really love this site…. very cool and nice skills u have here!!
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Good resource for the photoshop learner.I already tried some of this technique specially Soften Skin Effect and i really enjoyed.
tony

Hey Buddy,
Ive enjoyed reading about your actions. Nice of you to offer them for free. I tried to download the Vintage but, just got some garbled type. I have a mac. Are your actions only for PC? Any idea why I got that page of garbled type?
thanks
t
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wow,amazing actions,thanks for sharing,give more please
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great works
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omg! thanks!:DD
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wow,amazing actions,thanks for sharing,give more please
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Photoshop coloring and other actions are really great. I like these actions. Thanks,
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Check out some other great PS ACTIONS on my homepage.
dex juzt

fantastic color efect… !!!! woooowwww
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great actions,thanks
http://www.jhpactions.com John

Great Resource! I would also recommend JHP Actions as they have some great free and premium actions for photographers.
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Wow Awesome collection of photoshop actions touchups. Very inspiring. Thanks for share this wonderful post.
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thanks
this is nice……….
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I know about photoshop action but it is more then beautiful from my knowledge.
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Beautiful actions! Thank you for sharing! I can see that you have put in a lot of effort. Great post.
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Beautiful actions! Thank you for sharing!
http://www.brettwidmann.com Brett Widmann

This is a really great collection of tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
http://tendollartouchup.com Sheryl

Wow thank you! Some of these will save me some time!
apple

Thank you
ibonk

helpful.. thanks a lot
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You might also want to check Cinematic Photo Effects – A pack containing 10 movie-like photo actions http://bit.ly/CinematicPhotos
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good job…..thanks 4 all…
neel

mind blowing actions thanx so much…
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Retro rocks! i like…
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Nice Collection. Thanks
sanjeevji

thanx…………………..:)
http://m masoud

hi I am from Iran . it was excelent
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Download link please!
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Wow,it is very beautiful,I think it is very useful for me!
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newcomers in web developing business. Remember to update yourself constantly with new knowledge, tips and tricks,
Padz

beautiful effects..
http://www.omgpop.com/?r=zc9 .

Shame some of them are 404d.
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these are amazing. i’ll save a ton of times with some of these actions.
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Great work and great collections too.
opik

its awesome.. greats.. thanks…
opik

its awesome.. greats.. thanks
http://www.evo.uk.com evodesign

Great. What happened to Muted Fashion, it’s one of the best but dead link…
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you really did a great job with lot of energy, these are beautiful and very attractive, i like some of them.

thanks brother.
kim

Download link please!
Download link please!
Download link please!
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All Tutorials is very Good i love your work thanks for the sharing Great waaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo………..

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