Considered difficult to master, actions are often overlooked by most Photoshop users. It’s true that actions are not as simple to use as layer styles or even as Photoshop plugins, and that the concept of automation has always be beyond the scope of most users.
But if you take a closer look at Photoshop actions, you will find that they are easy to understand and can help you automate your hard work, such as applying a series of repetitive changes to a group of images, for example.
An action no more than a recording of a series of tasks performed in Photoshop. Once created, you can apply that action on an image or a series of images. You can even make an action to create an image from scratch.
The following list is a gallery of free special, color, photo and text effects actions ready to download an use in Photoshop. Although these Photoshop Actions are free, please read the terms of use in each download page.
Click on each image to go the download page
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The Designer’s Apprentice: Automating Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign in Adobe Creative Suite 3 |
Al Ward’s Photoshop Productivity Toolkit: Over 600 Time-Saving Actions |
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» Photoshop Support Actions Directory
One of the best Photoshop actions page available. It gathers links to some Photoshop actions tutorials and links to lots of other actions not featured in this article.
» Adobe Exchange: Photoshop Actions
Directly from Adobe, a Photoshop actions repository. Thousands of actions here.
» Deviant Art Photoshop Actions Section
What can I say about Deviant Art that hasn’t been said already. There are so many actions here that you will have to spend a lot of time to check them all.
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