20 Awesome Photoshop Actions

Explore the hottest photo effects released this year; transforming images into stunning creative.

What is a Photoshop Action

An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies an effect to the image, and then saves the file in the desired format.

The Photoshop actions in the post is a list of the most creative and powerful actions that were created for sale on graphicriver.net in 2016. use them to finish up your creative work or start a new one. Most of these actions are very easy to use with just one click of the play button. Have fun creating and don’t forget to experiment by combining more than one actions.

Dynamize Photoshop Action is a Photoshop Action that will transform images by creating effects of smoke and light centered around the Subject of the image. Every time you run the action an unique result will be produced, even if you don’t change your brushed areas.

Acrylic 2 Action turns your photos into a coloristic drawing in acrylic realistic style. Many settings will help you to change the colors of your composition as you need. Create amazing portraits with with Acrylic 2 Photoshop action.

Rock Photoshop Layer Styles can be used for variety of design projects, including Posters, Flyers etc. Great for projects that has a rocky theme and uses large typefaces. Use one click to apply or copy the style from the provided psd file – add a layer mask and then brush in the cracks with a grunge brush.

 Sparler Photoshop Action is a great action to create stunning sparkler effects on your photos!

Fracture Photoshop Action: Create advanced looking designs from your photos with little effort. After the action has completed, you have full control over each layer to adjust the design how you like. The layer structure is well organised with color coded groups/layers and named appropriately.

Geometric Art Action turns your photos into an abstract composition of lines, polygons and geometric shapes. Save hours of work with Geometric Art action. After action finish the work you get a well-organized and structured file with the many layers, folders and settings to improve the final result.

Flex Photoshop Action. Create incredibly detailed professional designs from your photos with just a few clicks! Every element remains layered giving you great creative control.

Watercolor Photoshop Action. Create professional watercolor artworks from your photos in the easiest possible way. Not only is it simple to generate the watercolor art, it then becomes lots of fun playing around with all the layers! Everything remains layered giving you lots of creative control.

Pen Sketch Action turns your photos into realistic Pen Drawn Sketch. Save hours of work with Pen Sketch action. After action finish the work you get a well-organized and structured file with the many layers, folders and settings to improve the final result.

Winter Photoshop Actions. Quickly add winter elements to your scenes with this set of actions. The download contains

Cinemagraph Photoshop Action. Create this amazing, cinematography effects with no work at all. Just open your footage, brush over the area that you want to stay active and play the action. Yes, it’s really that simple! After you play the action you can save it as a .gif, Full HD video or any other video format.

GlitterStorm Dust Photoshop Action. Create amazing glitter effects on your photos with just a few clicks! You can apply the effect in 5 different directions – left, right, up, down or middle. The layers are neatly organised and color coded.

Intense Background Remover v5. This Photoshop action will professionally extracts your image from dark/light and colored background without affecting some vital details. Different images have different edge sharpness. With this intense background remover ‘actions’, you can smoothly extract anything from a dark and colored background. Try and see! No skill required. This action will do all the hardwork.

UNIQUM. Extremely easy to use! Sketch & Painting PS Multi Action PRO transform your photo into professional sketch look with modern art painting effect. Highly detailed result, a lot of possibilities to easy customize and improve. One click action.

Canvas 2 Photoshop Action. Create high detailed abstract artworks from your photos the easy way.

Spectrum Photoshop Action. Create advanced designs from your photos with just a few clicks!

Broken Action add to your photo broken effect with many particles with different sizes. After action finish the work you get a well-organized and structured file with the many layers, folders and settings to improve the final result.

In the Clouds Photoshop Action by psddude – This set contains 1 main Photoshop action with styles intact that will allow you to create realistic sky clouds effect.

Magic Dust Photoshop Action. Quickly add colorful magic dust to your designs!

Smoke Photoshop Action. Create awesome smoke effects on your photos with this action. It only takes a few clicks to get setup and gives you a result that if re-created manually, would take hours and hours of work per photo! Everything remains layered giving you great control such as the ability to rotate the lights, move the smoke around, change colors and a whole lot more. Make sure to watch the video tutorial on how to get the most out of this effect.

Water Action adds to your photo amazing and ultra realistic water effect. Effect include splashes, water drops, bubbles and many more elements. After action finish the work you get a well-organized and structured file with the many layers, folders and settings to improve the final result.