20 Popular photo effects you can recreate using free Photoshop actions

January 9th, 2017
Freebies

In this roundup where looking at popular photo effects that are commonly used by professional photographers from HDR to Lomo. We have found free Photoshop actions that can be applied to your designs or photography’s within a matter of seconds. This is a huge time saver rather than going through process of manually applying these effects to your designs or photography’s, especially in the scenario when you want to apply effect multiple times to different photography’s.

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1. Old film

Give your photos a film-inspired look with this free Photoshop action.

2. Vintage Matte

Give your photos a film-inspired look with this free Photoshop action.

3. Black & White

This Photoshop action will turn your color photos into bold and impressive black & whites.

4. Lomo Action

Multiple hard lomo effects actions.

5. Haze

Soft Haze is ideal for outdoor photos, including portraits. It will soften and lighten the photo to give it a beautiful look without an overpowering effect.

6. HDR

This free Photoshop action will give your photos a strong HDR-like effect.

7. Retro Cross

This free Photoshop action used a cross processed effect to give your photos a nice retro touch.

8. Vintage Light Leak

This Photoshop action is a free Vintage Light Leak Actions.

9. Pencil

An authentic pencil effect action.

10. Retro Style

his latest set named RetroFilters contains 10 preconfigured Action files that will dramatically transform your photos with retro style effects inspired by classic 35mm film and processing techniques.

11. Sepia

Dramatic Sepia Photoshop Action

12. InfraRed

InfraRed Photography PhotoShop Action

13. Comic

This action will turn your images into comic looking pictures.

14. Cinema

This action is for giving your photos a cinema-like feel.

15. Faux HDR

You can replicate HDR effects with this set of amazing Photoshop actions.

16. Intensify

The download includes two different versions of the Tension action. One version is for Photoshop users (for PS CS4+) and a separate version is included for Photoshop Elements users (for PSE 11+).