Essential photoshop actions for photographers free download

Continuing the wacky effects theme, this halftone Action can provide you with a printed, dotty pattern overlay that's perfect for creating a comic book effect. It's also adjustable, making it a useful alternative for adding noise to your images. Almost everyone seems to love Lomography-inspired filters, and if you're one of them, you'll definitely want to download this free Photoshop Action.

This subtle adjustment instantly gives your shots a defined style that'll make them instantly recognizable. This classy set of free Photoshop Actions produces beautiful monochrome with clear contrast and gorgeous tone. While you do need to create an account in order to access these Actions, they're perfect for your black and white snaps and easy to tweak. This vintage light leak Photoshop Action evokes the mystique of an analogue camera without losing any of the quality of digital.

It's a great option to experiment with, either as a final finish or to build on with adjustments. You'll find vintage, portrait and radiant Actions here, and they're a great springboard to help you discover more styles. Landscapes can be some of the hardest photos to edit, as they require boosts in color and contrast with a degree of subtlety. These free Photoshop Actions are a great starting point and can help inject some feeling into your sprawling vistas.

Split tone effects can be really powerful and this pack can create just that effect. These free Photoshop Actions are adept at adding warmth and can be reduced in opacity, should you wish to strip the effect back slightly. Vintage shots are part and parcel of modern photography, and this free Photoshop Action is one of the most nostalgic-looking around.

It's good for summery images and allows you to evoke the past with just a click. Break of Day is a light leak Action, strictly speaking, but it's so subtle that it doesn't really seem it.

It just throws a gentle golden tone over the corner of your image, making it pretty versatile for your pictures. This free pack is perfect for nature shots, keeping your contrast sharp and your saturation deep. It contains a PSD too for even more control. For a warm, vintage look with a tint of purple, download this free Photoshop Action. Perfect for landscapes, portraits, cityscapes and more, this is a super versatile Action with a beautifully retro vibe.

This free Photoshop Action is a desaturating, slightly sharpening fix for your portraits to really bring the tone to the fore.

Use it as an overlaying layer itself for an HDR effect. Exactly what it says on the tin, this free Photoshop Action will help you correct all kinds of model shots. Why not think outside the box and see what else you can turn red with this? This free Photoshop Action is a gorgeous cross-process style effect that can really deepen your images and transform the darker colors in your image. It's great for retro photos, and can be reduced in opacity and used as a split tone-style effect too.

Since the weather never does what it's asked to do, this free Photoshop Action can come in very handy when it comes to giving wintery images a touch of pizazz. Just note that you'll need to subscribe to their YouTube channel in order to access this action a handy one-click button is provided.

You can never have too many retro filters for your images, and this pack of free Photoshop Actions contains a complete range, from the old school brown overlay to the color pop of a toy camera. Another retro-inspired pack, this set of free Photoshop Actions can create a vignette around your photos. A useful effect for any kind of image, retro or otherwise. This free Photoshop action is great for injecting a splash of purple in the darker tones of your image, to give it a boost of color.

It has a bit of a lomography feel, but you can also tone it down to create wonderfully subtle effects. Black and white Photoshop Actions can be tricky, as you can often come away with either too much contrast or not enough. Luckily, this one strikes the perfect balance, creating a beautiful mono conversion that retains the mid-tone grays perfectly. If you love capturing smoke bomb photos, then you'll certainly want to try out this free Photoshop Action. This effect will give a subtle blue tint to your photo and a lovely softening effect to the scene.

It also renders blacks as dark browns, giving some warmth to your shadows to contrast with the cold highlights. For big, bold colors that draw immediate attention to your photos, try Hipster Rev.

These retro effects may be a little niche, but they're a great way to experiment with your own personal editing style. Ever wanted to turn your photos into comic-book like images? If so, this cool and clever Photoshop Action is for you. A soft glow can often complete an image, and it's really easy to apply with this free Photoshop Action. It combines a simple vignette with a touch of vibrancy for that titular dreamlike effect.

We find that it works with most images. For monochrome enthusiasts, this set of black and white Photoshop Actions contains an interesting array of black and white filters for your images. From high to low contrast, they give you ultimate control over your mono shots. Complete with grainy texture, this lithograph Action is great to recreate that classic printed effect. Plus, it's really simple to apply. It doesn't take out too much detail from your image, and we find that it works particularly well with scenic shots.

Capture perfect double exposure photos without having to mess around with your camera settings on your shoots. This free Photoshop Action enables you to create double exposures using different techniques in different intensities in just one simple click. Fantasy is a unique Photoshop action that beautifies your portrait photos with a colorful fantasy-inspired toning effect.

This effect is ideal for optimizing your photos for Facebook and Instagram. It usually takes hours of careful adjustments and brushing for retouching portrait photos. This is a great free Photoshop action that will help you save a lot of your time. This action automatically does all the basic skin retouching and enhancements with just a few clicks. This free Photoshop action allows you to easily bring out the true colors in your ordinary smartphone photos to make them look more bright and colorful.

Shimmer is a free Photoshop action made for enhancing your portrait photos. The effect automatically adjusts the brightness and contrast of your photos to make them look more authentic and stand out from the crowd. Add a dreamy and a colorful moody effect to your portrait photos using this free Photoshop actions pack.

It includes 3 different actions you can use with various types of portrait photos. Looking for Photoshop actions to improve your family photos? Well, look no further. This bundle comes with 50 different effects and adjustments for improving your family photos, including portrait and landscape photos. A collection of free sharpening Photoshop actions for easily enhancing your photos by adjusting the sharpness. These actions are ideal for improving smartphone photos as well as photos taken with digital cameras.

A massive bundle of different Photoshop actions for professionals. The actions in this pack are designed for making adjustments, adding filters, and processing professional photography much easier and quicker. With this free Photoshop action, you can apply an Instagram-style filter to make your portraits look more professional. The moody effect it creates is ideal for giving a vintage look to your Instagram posts.

This free Photoshop action lets you create a high-quality dispersion effect with just a few clicks. It allows you to transform your images into modern works of art by adding various design elements. It also includes more than 40 color presets. It includes 30 different filters you can use to improve all kinds of portrait and landscape photos. Use this beautiful Photoshop effect and transform your pictures into red watercolor sketch drawings in just a few clicks.

Here we have a collection of Photoshop actions consisting of warm, glowing, and moody filters that will give a beautiful romantic feel to your pictures. You can use these effects for indoor, outdoor, wedding, newborn, urban, portrait, travel, and fashion photography. A stylish effect for improving your portrait and close-up photos. The free Photoshop action adds a deep matte filter to give your photos more depth and mood.

It also includes a Lightroom preset as well. This free Photoshop action is perfect for improving your photos for winter and Christmas-themed designs. It creates a realistic snow effect to give your photos a true Christmassy look. The pack includes 6 different snow actions. A unique Photoshop action that allows you to turn your photos into an animated GIF with a glitching effect.

This free Photoshop action allows you to give a realistic engraved look to your photos. Just as the name suggests, this is a Photoshop action you can use to add a dark and moody tone to your portrait photos. It features a fully adjustable effect you can edit to fit different kinds of photos. The effect is fully customizable and works with all modern versions of Photoshop. Give your portrait photos an old-school comic book look and feel using this free Photoshop action.

The action simply makes your photos and graphics look like a page out of a retro comic book. The retro-themed glitch effect is quite popular in poster and graphic designs.

This free Photoshop action lets you create that same effect instantly with just a few clicks. It includes a PSD file and a pattern file you can grab for free to create the effect. Give your portrait photos a cinematic look and feel using this free Photoshop action. It lets you add a creative cinematic toning effect to your portraits to make them look like a scene out of a movie. This action works best with outdoor photos.

The dispersion effect is a widely used effect in poster and flyer designs. These files will be acknowledged by Photoshop as actions. After you download a particular action or an action set that you want to use, you will need to load them in the actions panel.

If you need help doing this, check out this easy tutorial by Lesley Yarbrough. After loading your preferred actions, choose the one you like and click the play button.

Photoshop will instantly start altering your image and you will witness the changes in a few seconds. Thankfully, fellow designers and photographers frequently share free Photoshop actions.