Photoshop actions, allow designers and photographers to automate common sequences for increased efficiency. This is especially if you do a lot of work with photo editing, so you can definitely benefit from having some time saved by having a good stack of Photoshop actions in your arsenal. You can see that you can have many different types of actions that you can use from using vintage effects, to black and white, to HDR and more.

In this roundup you will see feature are just a small pack of 12 of many different Photoshop actions both free & paid ones. Please note that this roundup may only be showcasing 12 different actions but you will see some individual actions and sets that include multiple actions.

All of these actions have been created by various designers and photographers and have been made available for free & paid downloads, so keep in mind that these and all other Photoshop actions can be useful and helpful, the results will vary from one photo to the next and not every photo will look great with every action, so experiment with them and you’ll get a good feel for which actions suit best with your  types of photos.

1. The Starter Pack Photoshop Actions Collection

The first one to start of this roundup is this free starter pack that is fill up with photoshop actions, the actions included in this set includes 12 Premium Starter Photoshop actions, built with the same quality as Sleeklen’s premium workflows, these are fully compatibility with Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6 and Adobe Creative Cloud. Work on both JPEG and RAW images Compatible with both Mac and PCs Installation instructions are also included in the download Adjust each action to fit your own style.

2. Vintage Matte Photoshop Action

This free Photoshop action will makes it easy to give your photos a nice vintage effect. Vintage Matte is a free sample from Shutter Pulse set of Vintage Photoshop Actions – Vol. 2.

3. 5 Skin Retouching Actions

Retouch skin like a pro with these 5 Photoshop retouching actions that will let you heal, mattify and airbrush skin with one click. It also includes retouching actions for brightening eyes and increasing contrast; the former reduces redness and increases brightness in the eyes while the latter increases contrast without clipping highlights/shadows.

4. Light & Bright Lightroom Preset & Photoshop Action

The Light and Bright preset/action is ideal for use with photos that are on the darker side. It it lighten the photo and give it a nice, bright look. Like all of our presets and actions it works with Lightroom 4, 5, 6, and CC as well as with Photoshop CC, CC 2014, and CC 2015.

5. Lomocam

Generate retro effects, Lomography effects, and Polaroid/Square frames with this Photoshop Action, this actions work with photos of any size (even 100 megapixel photos!) and does not resize your image. All layers are fully-editable and non-destructive.

6. Corrupted VHS 3D Photoshop Action

Corrupted VHS 3D Photoshop Action, this set contains 1 Photoshop action that will allow you to create glitch and retro VHS effects for your images. The final result has merged layers but it allows you to edit the effect as you go through it

7. Halloween Text Photoshop Actions – $5

This premium 5 Photoshop Halloween actions will make your own text, title or logo in seconds into a Halloween type of text! It works in Photoshop CS2 and above.

8. Cinematic Effect Photoshop Action – $3

These actions are designed to transform your photos into Cinematic Effect PS Action. These actions are specially made for photographers, graphic designer & artists..  These actions has been tested and working on Photoshop (English versions) CS3,CS4,CS5,CS6,CC,CC+.

9. Double Exposure Photoshop Action – $6

This action effect turns your photo into a super Double Exposure composition, a lot of Double Exposure and light create a cinematic effect, with this Photoshop Action you can change the colour of smoke, background, particles, lighting your subject and more.

10. Photoshop Actions Mega Bundle Vol 1 – $29

This actions Mega Bundle contain a pack full of 68+ Photoshop Actions comprised of 10 items. This bundle includes the variety of actions which can be used to achieve different sets of image effects. These actions could be bought individually, but buying this bundle will provide you great value and discount. This bundle includes the following actions.

11. Grand Photoshop Action – $6

Create this highly detailed, advanced, GTA art style effect from your photos with no work at all. Don’t spend a lot of time trying to create this effect manually, get it done in seconds with only a few clicks. Creating this effect has never been this simple and fun.

12. 50 Photoshop Actions – $6

The last Actions for this round is this pack of 50 actions that let you create stunning photo Effect simply by just one click, All of these Actions have been tested and works in CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, CC, CC2014, CC2015, been tested and works on pictures with 1000-5000px width images, any resolutions. Proper Grouped and structured layer and you can see different result every time