Top-notch Free Photoshop Actions to Download

We all know how valuable Photoshop can be in the designer life we have and we all know what amazing things you can do with this impressive tool. But sometimes it is much easier to use some presets and just achieve different kinds of effects in a matter of seconds – especially if you need to apply the same to a bunch of images.

Photoshop actions can make lots of processes quicker and therefore today we browsed the web for quite some time to find for you the most amazing Photoshop pre-set actions there are. Downloading and installing them should take a few seconds and applying the effects should take pretty much the same, so you can move on to more important things faster.

New and Free Photoshop Actions for you Beautiful Photos

Lomo effect

The “Lomo” look and feel is quite popular and it has been for some time. Lomography is a movement that started more than twenty years ago and since then, with the help of cameras like Diana, Fisheye2, or the actual original Lomo camera, photographers brought us images like in the preview below. This is what you can do with this effect.

Vintage

This set of actions is comprised of six Photoshop files and all can be used on modern digital photos for applying an effect that some older photos came with for many years ago. There were no digital cameras back then, so you can relive the times by applying this effect on your current images.

IR effect

If you feel like applying an infrared effect on your images, then this Photoshop action should be the right choice for you, as it does it very well and quickly.

Grunge

Not only textures are grunge, pictures can be grunge as well. This effect makes your images old, like they have been stored in a drawer for many years and you forgot about them. Well, now you can apply this to pictures that haven’t been stored for twenty years.

Comics

If you are more of a funny type, you can also turn pictures of your friends into comics without any effort at all, and this effect is the reason behind it. You can, as always, also adjust the settings a bit, and then you can get some other results as well.

Soft skin

If you have lots of portraits to edit, this preset action will be golden for you, because it will allow you to soften the skin of your models in a matter of seconds. True, this is something you might be better off doing yourself, but in case you lack time, this action will do the trick.

TLR B&W toning

If you work with black and white images, this effect might be something you would like to have. The whole pack comes with 30 actions, all with different adjustments, and will make your black and white images look a bit livelier.

TLR Sharpening Kit

Sharpening your images can be done easily with a standard setting of Photoshop, but it won’t be as good as with any of these actions. You can sharpen RGB, CMYK and even monochrome images with any of these 33 actions.

Cross coloring

Images with applied cross coloring are always a pleasure to look at, because they have such a wonderful effect. This set contains four actions for dark, mid-range and light cross coloring of the image tone.

Large Set of actions

If you think Instagram is cool, you will definitely love this set of actions, because it comes with an amazing number of them: 40 to be more precise. There are all kinds of effects and your biggest problem will be finding out which one looks best, as all of them are simply amazing.

Postwork actions

As with the pack above, this one also comes with a huge number of actions. This time there are 50 of them and are grouped quite smartly into categories such as Color enhancers, Mood treatment, Final touch and framing, Smoothing methods, Old school or Camera damage – you will have a lot of fun with those.

Wedding Theme

You have probably seen how wedding pictures normally look – yes, exactly like in the preview below. You might be surprised or not, but all those effects are thanks to really good Photoshop post processing work. And if you want to reach the same effect, just go for the actions in this pack.

Lith print

Going back again for a second to older effect, this one is also really amazing and it reminds me of pictures I saw from the Second World War, that my grandfather brought home one day. Apply this effect on all kinds of pictures and you will be amazed of how impressive they can look and what feel you can get by just looking at them.

HDR Effect

You didn’t think I forgot about the most popular effect out there, did you? HDR, which stands for High Dynamic Range, is probably the effect which is the most difficult to reach, because you need several pictures of the same image with different exposure settings – and this requires a good camera.

Well now it is possible to have images with an HDR effect even if you don’t have several shots with different exposures by just using this pack.

Split Toning

Split toning is also one of the most popular effects photographers use to edit their images and now you can also edit your own images in a matter of seconds with split toning by using the Photoshop action presented here.

Bottom line

All the Photoshop actions above are free to use, however I actually advise you to give credit to the owners if you use them, as they have been spending a lot of time to fine tune all the settings and make sure they work, therefore it would be very nice if you would take the time to give them what’s theirs.

I hope you will make use of these actions and that you find them useful. Download and try some of them and tell us how pleased you are with the results.