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Commercial and Free Adobe Photoshop Actions

Within the Adobe Photoshop Actions page below you'll find high quality commercial and free Adobe Photoshop actions. Included are commercial and free Photoshop CS3 actions as well as CS2 actions, CS actions, and actions for older Photoshop versions. The free Photoshop actions are also a great way to try out their work prior to purchasing their beautiful commercial actions and other graphics products. All listings below come highly recommended, and I've personally tried and used quite a few of the actions.

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Commercial and Free Adobe Photoshop Actions

ActionAddiction
Free custom Photoshop actions, tutorials, forum, and more for Photoshop 4 through the present version. Well organized, easy to use site that has actions, tutorials, reviews, and more related to Photoshop. [Actions by Graham Jupp, actionaddiction.com.]
ActionCentral
Photoshop action exchange with hundreds (or more) of free actions for Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS2, CS, and others. Organized by category: Basic image enhancements, Sketch actions, Black and White Conversion, Frames and mattes, Sharpeners and Correction Tools, Editing & Highlight Recovery Tools. Search available, too. [Photoshop Actions via ActionCentral, Web site by Jim Lewis.]
Adobe Photoshop Exchange (was Action XChange)
Major repository for Photoshop actions, now via Adobe's site. Well over 5,000 Photoshop actions available. Arranged in categories, (including New and Most Popular) or you can browse, or use the site search for what you need. Also has links to more sites with actions, a discussion forum. Upload your own actions here, download what's at the site. Very popular site, and many great, helpful actions. Examples: filmstrip, real sketch, titanium, gold, puzzle effects, 35mm frame, frames, photoglass, chrome, glass, solar fire, romance, sepia tone effect, burned paper, burnt edges, 3D photo effects, and literally thousands more. Most are free actions, and some are commercial actions. [Photoshop Actions via Adobe.]
Fred Miranda: Actions and Plugins
Fantastic, high quality, and highly regarded actions and plugins by Fred Miranda, FM Software. Especially geared for photographers or anyone working with photos or scanned film or images. Some of the actions available for all digital cameras or scanned film: Frames, Digital Warm-Cool, FM EdgeSharpen, Moirée Reducer, Digital Soft Focus, Digital Infrared, Canon HR. There are also plugins and actions for specific cameras, discounted actions and profiles, and more. Highly recommended. I've purchased several of these actions and find them to be of the highest quality and easy to use. They've been a helpful and valuable tool working with photos in Photoshop. [Photoshop Actions, Plugins by Fred Miranda, FM Software, FredMiranda.com.]
PanosFX.com: Free Photoshop Actions
Fantastic high quality Photoshop actions, easy to use, instructions within each action. Some of the titles: Paper Cube map, B&W and Desaturation, ALPHA EDGES, Rule of Thirds CROPPING, SnowWhite Text, Rubik's cube, Plasma TV, Embossed Label, Rainy Day, Spiral Bind, Spring petals, Cracked Wall Paintings, DECK, High Pass Sharpening, B & Big picture, 3D, 25Matrix, Sprocket feed border, Weaved Border, Edge effects, Tile Effects, Meander frame, B&B Animated, Photris, Rodax frame, The big picture, Stamp v.2, Scroll, Carved Marble Text, Big Blue, Photo Album, Video Wall, Snowed Text, Weave it, Puzzle Effects, B&B set of effects v.1.5, B&B Filmstrip. Editor note: I created the postage stamp to the right in less than 5 minutes using Stamp v.2 and Photoshop CS3 Extended. Trying and using the free actions gives a good idea about their high quality, adaptability, and ease of use, so consider purchasing their commercial products, too. [Free, commercial Photoshop Actions by Panos Efstathiadis, PanosFX.com.]
phong - Photoshop Time Saving Actions
Time-saving actions here designed for daily, practical needs. [Photoshop Actions by phong.com.]
Photoshop Actions
Quite a few free custom Photoshop actions in a wide range of styles, contributed by the DeviantART community. [Photoshop Actions via deviantart.com.]
Photoshop Actions by Addicted to Design (A2D)
Quite a few fabulous free and inexpensive actions here. (As of September 2007 majority are $15 US, with some $10, some $18. Check site for current pricing.) Free Photoshop actions include Lomo, Polaroid 600 Instant Film, Infrared, 1 Pixel Borders. Their commercial Photoshop actions include the following. Creative Blur: 6 actions similar to Lensbabies™ or Tilt-Shift lenses with full control over the strength, distance and direction of the blur. Katana Sharp: 10 sharpening actions, 1 custom action, using non-destructive sharpening techniques. “300” Effect: Based on the Movie 300, “4 actions ideally suited for portraits, bridal photography, fashion, abstract and almost any photo that could benefit from the dreamy look. 3 Color models to choose from: Sepia, Blue and Natural. 'Sky Enhancer' action is also included.” Velviator: will make your photos look like they were shot with Fujifilm Velvia film. Includes 6 color-enhancing actions that will maximize color without blowing out the detail. Halo: a “dreamy” version of Velviator. 3 actions give dreamy and vibrant color effects, fully adjustable settings. Resizer: 21 actions to resize multiple images utilizing Photoshop's Batch. Black & White Suite: 10 black and white conversion actions plus 4 contrast adjustment actions. Color Toning: 19 actions include Sepia, Selenium, Palladium, Cyanotype, Split Toning and many more. Works for RGB, CMYK, Grayscale images. “A Scanner Darkly” Effect: 4 rotoscoping actions to give that illustration look with “characteristic cutout gradients, rich colors and outlines with just one click. Create your own Rotoscoped videos. Export video frame-by-frame, apply our action using Batch and re-import the edited frames back into the video-editing software like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or After Effects.” Cross-processing: 6 actions that simulate processing negative color print film in E-6 chemicals and processing positive color reversal film in C-41 chemicals, and includes 6 color variations. Copyguard: 5 different copyright messages. Use on one image or in batch, and embed the copyright into the 'File info' descriptions. Instructions included with each action set. [Photoshop Actions via Addicted to Design (A2D).]
ScreamDesign Photoshop Actions
(Previously Andy's Art Attack). Their freebies section includes quite a few Photoshop actions. Categories include: Type effects (Starbursts effect, Plastic looking text, Hi-Tech Text, Grainy Text, Underexposed text, archaeological text) Image effects (tie dye, oil paint, magnifying lens), Texture effects (Hi-tech texture, Frosted texture), Miscellaneous (Auto buttons, Red marble, Smudgy blue, Gel stuff). More in the subscriber area, too. [Photoshop Actions via ScreamDesign.]
Photoshop Actions
Weblog posts with downloadable Photoshop actions and news and links of actions at other sites, too. Lomo effects, postage stamps, sharpening, puzzles, photo albums, filmstrips, comic art effects, automated banner sizes, automated common processes “timesaver” actions (convert to RGB, unsharp mask, transparency, TV lines, copy/create new document, add drop shadow, more), and many more. Note: site is in German. Aktionen = Actions. Aktion = action. Use Google's free Translate tool if needed. [Web site, Photoshop Actions by Manuela Hoffmann, Screenz.]