Adobe Photoshop Actions are a great feature of the app, allowing you to create a process or workflow, record how it worked, and then easily repeat the process again for other photographs or design elements.
Today we’ve collected some of the best Photoshop actions out there, for photographers and graphic designers alike. They cost just a few dollars, but give you an incredibly powerful toolkit to easily repeat complex and intricate processes.
CineStock Photoshop Actions
This is a collection of high-quality Photoshop actions that features a series of cinematic effects. You can use these actions to enhance color, adjust contrast, and do much more to give a dramatic look for your designs. The pack includes 18 different actions.
- Price: Envato Elements Subscription
Dust Photoshop Action
This is a very popular effect these days. The dusty effect is commonly used for many types of marketing and designs. You may have seen it in the official character posters for Thor Ragnarok as well. This quick and easy to use Photoshop action lets you achieve that same effect instantly with a few clicks.
- Price: Envato Elements Subscription
Cloud Photoshop Action
The cloud effect is also a great option you can use to give an urban hipster look to your portraits and graphic designs. This Photoshop action is compatible with Photoshop CS6 and you can apply the effect to your design with just one-click.
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Black & White Photoshop Actions
Achieving the perfect black and white balance for B&W photography is no easy task. Only the professionals can get it just right. This is a collection of 31 B&W Photoshop actions you can use to get that perfect Black and White effect in your images.
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Christmas Photoshop Action
If you’re working on a Christmas or a New Year’s related design, this Photoshop action will help you add that special holiday-themed look to your designs with just a few clicks. This action works with Photoshop CS4 and above.
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Glitch Photoshop Action
This Photoshop action adds a digital futuristic look to your portraits and various other graphic designs. You can simply use the Brush tool to apply the effect to a specific area and use its multiple layers to customize the effect to your preference as well.
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Portrait Series Photoshop Actions
Retouching portrait photos can be a time-consuming task. If you work with a lot of portrait photos, this collection of 10 Photoshop actions will come in handy. These actions let you enhance your portrait photos in an instant.
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Water Photoshop Action
It’s like Bruce Lee once said, “be as water my friend”. This cool Photoshop action lets you add a realistic water effect to your portraits and photographs. It comes with 3 different actions with different water splash graphics. You can also customize them to your preference.
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Broken Photoshop Action
This is an effect you mostly see in video game and movie related promotions. This Photoshop action makes that effect look even better. The action uses lots of particles with different sizes to achieve a realistic broken glass effect.
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Photo Retouching Photoshop Action
Looking for a way to enhance your portrait photos in a professional level? Look no further. This Photoshop action will give your photos a beautiful color explosion effect to enhance your photos and make them look more professional.
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Color Spread & Equalizer Actions
This Photoshop action quickly enhances the colors of your photos with a cinematic effect. The action is created in its own group of adjustment layers so you can easily edit and customize the effect to match your images.
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HDR Effect Photoshop Action
Is it possible to make an iPhone photo look as good as a DSLR quality photo? This Photoshop action makes it possible. This effect adds a stunning HDR effect to your photos adding a professional tone to your images.
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Low Poly Art Photoshop Action
Turn your graphics and backgrounds into low poly art with this Photoshop action. You can use this action to create your own unique low poly backgrounds or even create artistic portraits. The effect is completely customizable.
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Smoke Photoshop Action
Add a realistic smoke effect to your photos using this simple Photoshop action. It comes with 5 different brushes that allows you to easily apply the smoke effect to your photos without much effort.
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Analog & Retro Photoshop Actions
Give an old-school retro look to your photos using these Photoshop actions. This pack comes with 10 Photoshop actions featuring different styles of analog and retro effects.
- Price: Envato Elements Subscription
Premium Photoshop Actions Bundle
- Price: $59
We’ll start the list with an all-in-one bundle that comes with 520 Photoshop actions for adding effects and automating all kinds of enhancements in Photoshop. It includes several types of actions, including effects for wedding photos, HDR, matte, vintage, and much more.
Double Exposure Photoshop Action
The double exposure action is a great tool for a photographer or designer. Create the wonderful effect of double exposure in a few seconds. After the action finishes work, you can add a color tone, or gradient to your composition.
- Price: $6
Gypsy Portrait Photoshop Actions
- Price: $12
This pack includes 4 Photoshop actions for adjusting and toning different conditions in portrait photos like cold moody toning, rich and warm toning, and faded matte toning.
30 Pro Portrait Retouching Actions
- Price: $25
Using this bundle of Photoshop actions, you’ll be able to easily retouch many types of portrait photos to airbrush skin, correct skin issues, adjust highlight & contour, and do much more.
Poetry Photoshop Landscape Actions
- Price: $12
The stylish toning actions in this pack are crafted to improve and enhance your landscape photos. But, they can also be used with portrait photos as well. There are 5 different Photoshop actions in this pack.
Gradient Photoshop Actions
- Price: $14
A simple yet an effective Photoshop action that uses duotone and gradient overlay effects to give your photos a unique look. The bundle includes 22 actions.
Product Photography Editing Actions
- Price: $100
An incredibly useful bundle of Photoshop actions for photographers who works with jewelry and product photography. The 40+ Photoshop actions in this bundle will allow you to enhance your product photos by removing color cast, enhance colors, add more sparkle to jewelry photos, and more.
Redwood Photoshop Actions
- Price: $9
The 3 different Photoshop actions in this pack adds a dreamy fantasy-like effect to your portrait photos. It includes a soft morning haze effect, a warm evening sun effect, and a dusk/twilight haze effect.
VISIONS Actions – Divinity Series
- Price: $10
This bundle includes several different types of Photoshop actions, such as light leaks, textures, grain methods, sharpening, and more. It comes with a total of 28 actions.
Sand Photoshop Action
- Price: $7
This fun Photoshop action makes your typed text look like it’s been drawn into sand. It includes 3 versions of the action to be used with Medium, Bold and Thin font weights.
Watercolor Photoshop Action
- Price: $5
Another artistic Photoshop action that makes your photos look like watercolor paintings. The action is fully customizable and comes with 5 different color options.
Pro DOUBLE EXPOSURE Action
- Price: $12
The double exposure effect is quite popular among Photoshop designers, however most beginners still can’t get this effect right. This easy to use action will make that process much smoother.
Food Photography Photoshop Actions
- Price: $19
Travel and food bloggers and photographers will definitely love this Photoshop action bundle as it allows you to easily enhance your photos with just one click. The bundle includes 40 actions.
FilmTone Natural Photoshop Actions
- Price: $19
This action adds a subtle film toning effects to your photos to make them look more professional. The pack comes with 25 film toning effects and 10 faded pastel effects.
Draw effect | Photoshop action
- Price: $5
The hand-drawn effect is not an easy one to achieve, but this Photoshop action will let anyone turn their photos into drawings with just one click.
Peony Photoshop Action
- Price: $9
A natural and a soft toning effect for giving your portrait, fashion, and fine-art photos a professional touch. It will also work great with outdoor portraits and wedding photos.
Gold Effect Photoshop Action
- Price: $12
Turn everything into gold using this cool Photoshop action. It also comes with actions for silver and black effects as a bonus.
Photoshop Actions Creator
- Price: $15
This is an interesting bundle that comes with over 200 Photoshop actions that can be used to create your own effects. It includes a simple 5 steps PDF tutorial that teaches you how to create your own effects as well.
SandStorm Photoshop Action
Create this highly detailed effect from your photos with little effort at all. This action is designed to save you an immense amount of work per photo.
- Price: $6
Dispersion Photoshop Action
This action will break apart pieces of your photo and shoot them into a direction of your choice. Don’t spend lots of time trying to create this effect manually, get it done in seconds with only a few clicks.
You simply brush in the areas that you want to disperse and play the action. You can choose from Up, Down, Left or Right directions to shoot the broken pieces off into. Creating such an advanced effect has never been this simple and fun.
- Price: $6
90 Premium Actions Set
This set of 90 premium actions is perfect for photographers and graphic designers. All have been created with precise calibration adjustments to bring your images to life using powerful tools & professional methods.
- Price: $10
3D Map Generator – Action
Easily create your own 3D maps with only one click. Every shape is possible and delivers a professional result. Ideal for web graphics, infographics or presentations.
- Price: $6
Shimmer Photoshop Action
Creating stunning light effects from your photos with this easy to use action. Every time you run the action you will get a different result, even if you use the same brushed area. You then have full layer control, so if there is a sparkle you don’t want then simply hide the layer, or you can even duplicate layers to build more sparkles. Ten color options are also created by the action.
- Price: $6
Realistic Embroidery – Photoshop Actions
Transform your text or logo in a realistic embroidered/stitched element in few clicks.
- Price: $6
Dimensions – 3D Generator Action
The Photoshop Action ‘Dimensions’, helps you to generate whatever you want (text, image, shape, etc,) in 3D.
- Price: $5
ModernArt Photoshop Action
Give your photos a professional new artistic look with this action. Typically an effect similar to this could take you hours, but now it can be done in under 1 minute.
- Price: $6
PROActions Bundle – Film & Special Effects
These actions are not simple, filter-playing actions. The steps they take have been studied and thoroughly tested, making these actions true image enhancers. The results of these actions are realistic re-creations of traditional effects, without any gimmicks.
- Price: $8
22 Vintage Letterpress Photoshop Actions
This pack includes 22 high quality seamless texture patterns to be used with actions in Photoshop.
- Price: $6
Fury Photoshop Action
Give exquisite fury look to your design with this amazing action. It’ll bring spark to your work like never before. Can be used both for designs and photography.
- Price: $6
Dispersion 2 Photoshop Action
Create a beautiful liquid effect action for images and graphic designs.
- Price: $6
Retro Vintage Text Effects
This graphic resource gives you a quick & easy way to apply an high quality retro / vintage / old style to your text. You can use it on simple text, shapes and vector logos. You just need to place them into the smart object.
- Price: $5