Free Photoshop Actions to Enhance Your Designs
06. Mar, 2011 
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In this post, Designing Mall is presenting a great collection of such actions which gives a professional, more effective and unique look to your graphics and enhance your designs.
What is Photoshop Action?
An action is a bundle of numerous tasks that can be record and play back on a single file or batch of files. This bundle can have menu commands, palette options, tool actions and many more, almost anything that you do in Photoshop.
Find in Photoshop
Actions can include stops that let you perform tasks that cannot be recorded (for example, using a painting tool).
When you are working in Photoshop, so many times you may have observed that a particular sequence of effects or actions you have to perform. So you can record those actions and just play again no need to waste time, avoid some labor work.
JHP Actions Complete Set
The JHP Actions Complete Set is all 8 of JHP’s popular action sets featuring over 100 unique Photoshop actions including 3 texture actions and 107 JPG texture images. Take your photography to the next level and Satisfy Your Creative Mind!
Included in complete set: Color Lab – 27 Actions, Creative Lab – 27
Actions, Retouch Lab – 12 Actions, The Essentials – 24 Actions, Textures
– 3 Actions and 107 HR JPG Textures, Mini Lab – 9 Actions, Mini Lab 2 –
9 Actions, Vintage – 16 Actions.
PanosFX: 3D
Out of Bounds free action, an advanced tool which simplifies the steps needed to create popular Out of Bounds effects.
The action is very flexible, at the beginning you define the border
size & perspective, then you define the out-of-bounds areas and add
the shadow effects.
Out of Bounds action work in Photoshop CS5, CS4, CS3, CS2 and Photoshop Elements PSE9, PSE8, PSE7 and PSE6.
Turning Turnip: Photo Cube Effect
Apply photo realistic 3D photo cube effect to any image. You’ll need to play a little with the source image hight and weight to get the desired result.
Turning Turnip: Soften skin effect
Produces a natural ‘clean’ appearance whilst retaining important skin textures.
Page Curl Photoshop Action
Create a page curl effect in any of the four corners of an image.
PanosFX: Big pictures
A 3-D collage effect, comes as free & commercial version.
The free version of this Photoshop action
(and Photoshop Elements action) contains the 25 flat polaroid & the
25 curled polaroid actions of the ‘Big Pictures’ set plus the 25-photos
version of the ‘Matrix Collages’ actions.
Download link can be found somewhere in the middle of the page.
PanosFX: Border and bend
2 sets of free actions
to make your images visually more appealing. These Photoshop actions
play tricks with borders and shadows to give your images a pseudo-3D
look.
PanosFX: a collection of free good old actions
This is a free collection of older yet very good PanosFX actions.
The actions collection includes the following 8 sets of free actions: Big Blue,The Deck, Photo Album, Plasma TV, Scroll, Spiral Bind (sample image below), Video Wall, Weave it!
Most of actions are for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, and
work in Photoshop CS5, CS4, CS3, CS2 and PSE9, PSE8, PSE7 and PSE6.
PanosFX: Postage Stamp
A highly customizable stamp action to turn your images into very realistic postage stamps.
Finesse FX: Old Parchment action
Create your own famous document or treasure map. Just play the
action and then print it out. You’ll get an 8 1/2×11 inch piece of paper
with tears, yellowed edges and other artifacts.
Old Parchment action is compatible with Photoshop CS and higher.
Finesse FX: TackIt! Mini action
Creates a web-ready picture tacked up on a bulletin board, with a
plenty of customization options, including the width of the picture
border, the amount of shadow for both the photo and tack, and the color
of the tack.
In the free version of this action, final output is limited to 600px
width. TackIt! Mini is compatible with Photoshop CS and higher.
Portrait Magic Pro Actions
The Portrait Magic Pro Actions include 12 different and extensive retouching techniques.
5 Different skin smoothing Actions including: General Smoothing,
Naturally Smooth, Surreal Smooth, Male Skin Smoothing, Headshot
Smoother, and 5 “Skin Glow” effects. Compatible with Photoshop CS2 or
higher.
Killer eCover actions
70+ unique and creative photoshop actions (CS2 or higher) to create a variety of 3D product covers like book cover, cd, dvd case, brochure covers.
The result PSD is layered so you can easily drag or
delete the layer you don’t want, like shadow or reflection, or to create
a combination of your product into a new attractive design.
A high resolution result for every type of product (300 dpi) is also suitable for print publications.
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Great, thanks! Here are some free photoshop cs5 actions I created, on my site:
http://risingspiritphoto.com/photoshop-actions