Photoshop Actions
I use a few from each of the following sites.
About.com = Links to other download sites:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshopactions
Action Central (Jim Lewis) – Home of many great actions:
http://www.AtnCentral.com
BytePhoto – Frames, art, utility:
http://www.bytephoto.com
Chainstyle.com - Robert Anselmi. Frames, patterns, photo-sphere and
more:
http://www.chainstyle.com/freebies.html
Cybia.co – Resizing:
http://www.cybia.co.uk/actions.htm
Eric’s FX – Text, arty, misc.
http://www.gormly.com/ericsfx/
Hoon’s - 2 frames and a watermark action:
http://www.imphotography.com/downloads/sampleactions.htm
NYPhotographics: Digital camera specific, interpolation and curve
settings for cross processing:
http://www.nyphotographics.com/ftppage.htm
Outdoor Eyes – Scroll down to “Digital Imaging”. Frames, art,
general purpose:
http://www.outdooreyes.com/photosection1.php3
Shan Canfield - Cross processing, sepia and others + Great
Tutorials. Click Shanzcan Tutorials button; action downloads are
included in the tutorials.:
http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html
The Light’s Right (Glenn E. “Mitch” Mitchell II) – Numerous general
purpose actions that compliment Glenn’s well-written tutorials:
http://www.thelightsright.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools.htm
Timo’s site – Various. Select language on the home page:
http://www.timo2000.de/
The DPReview Retouching Forum Action Collection, started by Dr.
Randall Smith. An exceptional collection (if I may say so myself)
of photo-art, digital frame and general purpose actions.
http://www.geocities.com/kafuensis/
Adobe’s site. Everything from soup to nuts (free, but registration
required):
http://share.studio.adobe.com/Default.asp
Mathias Vejerslev’s site. General purpose and all very good:
http://www.96ppi.net/photography/actions/
Trevor Morris’s site. Some real good ones here:
http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop20.shtml
Mike Finn – some of the best photo-art actions on the planet,
mostly free:
http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~mikefinn/action.html
Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Miscellaneous, including some photo-art:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2767
Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Mostly Photo-art:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2653
Retouch PRO (you must be registered before you can download):
Mostly digital frames, edges:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4298
Thomas Niemann’s site. BW toning actions. Click Black and White,
then Classic Tones:
http://epaperpress.com/psphoto/
Adobe Evangelists – Some scipts, too:
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/photoshop/actions.html
Chainstyle.com. Mostly textures.
http://www.chainstyle.com/… …/cd_content/downloads/free_downloads.htm
Bill Richardson’s actions (frames, edges, photo-art):
http://www.outdooreyes.com/photosection20.php3
Shouchen’s site. Lots of interesting stuff here:
http://www.photozo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
Edge effects which are compatible with Photoshop 5.0 and above:
http://www.liknes.no/photoshop
Scott Higdon actions. An interesting assortment:
http://www.cshigdon.net/
Johny Akerlund actions. Some great black and white and toning effects:
http://www.jakerlund.net/
Marc Jutras Digital Lith action:
http://www.marcjutras.com/
Bud Guinn frame and matte actions:
http://users.adelphia.net/~window/Actions.htm
also available at…
http://www.bytephoto.com/… …418c2c&name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=2
Photoshop Café; mostly text effects:
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/actions.htm
Several action collections:
http://www.elated.com/actionkits/
Al Ward’s site. Click the button labeled Downloads. Mostly text
effects:
http://www.actionfx.com/
Text, art, texture assortment:
http://www.actions.8m.com/actions_all.htm
Text effects, some free but mostly for sale:
http://www.actionaddiction.com/
Text, textures, image effects:
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/… …/vbforum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=33
http://www.nickgallery.com/web_pages/technical 7.htm
Olli Nuutinen’s Canon 10D 6MP actions. Extremely well organized.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ojn/6mpix/action_actionpack.html
Links to other action sites or forums:
http://www.websitetips.com/graphics/ - actions
http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Actions/Actions.html
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/actions/actions_download.php
http://www.digitalthread.com/photoshopactions/actionsets1.html
After the fun runs out at the above sites, do a search using your
favorite Internet search method such as http://www.google.com/ or
http://www.DogPile.com (or) and use “Photoshop actions” as a search
argument.
