200+ Free Photoshop actions : create awesome special effects

Free Photoshop actions! Hooray! You've reached our large collection that includes hundreds of creative effects for Adobe Photoshop. The free actions are available for download as zip files. Each zip file contains two versions:

The free Photoshop actions for Adobe Photoshop CC.
The free Photoshop Elements actions (unless a particular Photoshop feature isn't supported in Photoshop Elements).

The free Photoshop actions in this category can be used both in your home or commercial projects, except for the "Calendar" that requires a permission to use it in commercially.

Most free actions are available for download by everyone who visits this site. There are six advanced free addons (the "Reflections", the "Magnifying Glass", the "Calendar", the "Projection Screen", the "Photo & Envelope" and the "Tablets"), which are offered exclusively to the subscribers of our newsletter.

Your Tablet

Create portrait & landscape tablet PCs and place your photos and text on the screen. Customize the tablet color, notification bar, etc.

Winter Wonderland

Create and share beautiful animated and static snow globes, bulbs, and images with moving mist & snow!

Your 2023 Calendar

Create 2 types of beautiful, personalized calendars in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

Reflections

Create a range of unique reflection effects with elegant details. You can create classic reflections, water reflections, as well as complex scenes.

The 9 Muses

An awesome set of very sophisticated actions that create a 9-photos template, inspired by an ancient Greek mosaic.

Bricks!

Transform your photos into interlocking LEGO-style bricks! You can change the bricks' size or even detach and move individual bricks!

Bent photos

These free Photoshop actions turn your photos into bent polaroids with very elegant shadow effects. 3 styles included.

Out of Bounds

Create easily the Out of Bounds effect, where parts of your photos appear to pop out from the frame. 2 different effects included.

Page curls

Create 4 beautiful page curl effects. You can change the size of the curls and place them on any photo corner. You can even add different curls on the same photo!

Projection Screen

Create a projection screen from scratch and display your photos on it. The animated version produces an impressive slideshow with a retractable screen and light beam effects!

Interweaving magic

Apply highly customizable basket weave (interweaving strips) effects to your photos in Adobe Photoshop

Chromantic

Apply 7 beautiful color processing effects to your photos.

Photo and envelope

Create a scene that shows a paper envelope with your photo sliding out from its open top flap. Animated version included.

Magnifying Glass

Create a magical, dynamic magnifying glass effect!

Text Effects

A collection of creative effects that will transform your custom text & vector shape layers into a variety of different objects.

Bars and Tiles

The Bars & Tiles actions transform your photos into 3D collages made up from objects such as domino bars or 3D tiles. Three effects are included.

Nested

The Nested free Photoshop actions create two imaginary compositions that show 8 boxes drawing out from each other. Your photo is displayed on their surfaces.

Symmetry

Add any content (brush strokes, vector shapes, text) and create images that exhibit radial symmetry with multiple symmetrical folds that contain your artwork.

Hand Fan

Turn your photos into static and animated hand-held fans. Create amazing photo slideshows easily. 3 different fan styles included.

Stickers and Tapes

The "Stickers" action places your photo on a round sticker; its upper-right part is curled up. The 'Clear tape' action adds sealing tapes to the photo corners.

Print - Cut - Glue

Let's do some paper work: design, print, and glue beautiful personalized objects, such as paper photo cubes, photo pyramids and paper envelopes.

ASCII art

Turn your photos into ASCII-art images. These images, popular in the 90s & 80s, are pieced together from many ASCII characters. The set creates 5 variations.

Binder clips

Create two different binder clips from scratch and use them in your projects. The actions create also a PSD image that shows your photo being suspended by two binder clips..

Cosmos

Create spectacular space scenes from scratch: star-fields, interstellar clouds, red dwarfs, spiral galaxies, gas giants and terrestrial planets, moons, plus a fully 3D model of Saturn!

Unfolded paper

The "Unfolded Paper" Photoshop actions will transform your images into unfolded paper sheets. The set includes two different styles (4 and 9 folds, respectively).

Spooky

Halloween-inspired vector graphics and actions

Split-flap displays

Create split-flap displays (a.k.a. Solari boards) with your custom text. The set produces two different effects with customizable colors.

Old goodies collection

This is a collection of some old, yet very good PanosFX free Photoshop actions, that create rain drops, scrolls, wristwatches, cracked frescoes, and more!

With a little extra money, you can get the entire collection of PanosFX add-ons, at a small segment of their total cost. In addition:

You also get 5 exclusive products (they are not sold separately).
You get for free any new products that will be released in the next 12 months after your purchase. Yes, for free!
You are granted a 12-months free download period, during which you can download any updates released for your products.
You get 50% off, if you wish to renew your license when the 12 months free download period elapses.

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