Massive Collection of Photo Editing Tutorials and Photoshop Actions
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If you have Photoshop (or something similar) editing your dull photos using simple techniques or actions can make a huge difference. This post has a great selection of tutorials to help improve your photo-editing skills, and if you don’t want to or just don’t have the time to edit hundreds of photos, there’s a huge selection of great actions which you can download and use on all your photos!
Part 1: Photo-Editing Tutorials
Learning how to correctly edit your photos is great if you want to add that extra something to your photography, whether your a complete amateur or a long-term professional photographer. To learn those skills, we have made a small selection of tutorials on various subjects such as how to recolor your old black and white photographs, how to fix the common problem of over-exposed sky, and how to add dynamic lighting to your flat photographs.
Edit an Image in Photoshop to Add Some Pizazz!
Return Colors to a Black and White Photo
Create a Colorful Portrait with Easy Lighting Effects
Fixing Over-Exposed Sky
Colorizing a Vintage Photograph
Vintage Effect in Photoshop
Restoring Color in Bland Images using Photoshop
Neutralizing Color Casts with the Photo Filter
Low Vibrancy Photo Effect in Photoshop
Retouching a Studio Portrait
Coloring an Old Black and White Photo
Selective Sepia in Photographs
Dark Light Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Exposure Blending in Photoshop
Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph
Hand Coloring a Black and White Photo in Photoshop
Infrared Photo Effect in Photoshop
Using Masks to Improve Landscape Images
Coloring Effects in Photoshop
Part 2: Photo-Editing Photoshop Actions
If you find you don’t have enough time to edit every one of your photographs you can use actions. Photoshop already has a small selection of built-in actions, but there simply isn’t enough choice! For that reason, we have compiled a huge collection of some of the best free Photoshop actions on the world wide web.
Simply download the actions, drop the file into your Actions Preset folder, and away you go! Don’t forget you can run actions automatically using Photoshops Automate feature by going to File > Batch > Automate – although be sure to make a back-up of your original images in case something doesn’t turn out right!
Photo Coloring 11.2
Diabolic Action
Soft Touch Action
300 Action
Cross-Processing ATN
Retro Action
Vivid Blur
Eye Color
Color Enhancing Actions
Retro Love Action
Color Actions 2
Dazzle Effects
Dazzle Effects 3
Dazzle Effects 4
B+W Edition
Action 004
Action 003
Stylish Sepia
SA-Cool Actions 1.05
Old Photo Action
Vintage Photo
Retro Vintage Action
Dream Blur Action
Photoshop Actions
Skin Smoothing
Photo Coloring II
Photo Coloring 11
Cool Photo Effect Action
Noiseless Retro Actions
Photo Improvement v1
Soft Elegance Actions
Split Toning Action
InFection Action
High Ke Action
Action Pack 1
Black and White Sepia Action
Actions 2.06
Cross-Processing Action 1
Hand-Colored Vintage Photo ATN
IR Effect Look
Dim and Jade Action
Wedding Enhancers Action Kit
50 Photoshop Postwork Actions
Action 1.06
Pack Actions 01
Caitlins Actions
Photoshop Actions
Actions 1.07
Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions
Wedding Theme Actions
Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions
Action Set 1
Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions
Action Set 3
Photo Enhancement Actions
Enhancing Skin Color Action
Polaroid Generator v1
guteCharlotte Color 02
Color Actions
Rather Large Set of Actions
Photoshop Action 2
Lovely Action
Your Turn To Talk
I hope you enjoyed this post and found some great resources. Please take a minute to share your thoughts by leaving a comment below :)
About the author:
Callum Chapman is a self-employed blogger, author, graphic designer and illustrator. He is the founder of Circlebox Blog, and is also the founder & co-owner of DesignGiveaways.com, a design blog dedicated to giving cool products away! Drop him a line at Twitter!
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March 23rd, 2010
Cheers Callum should surely be useful for those needing to brush up on their retouching skills. Its good to see people that havent surfaced before in the list – and actions are underrated but make batch processing painless
March 23rd, 2010
Wow and Wow!!! This is a great collection of resources. Definitely I’ll try them (not all ha ha :D). At least 10 or 20. Great work. Thank You very much. Keep up the good work.
March 23rd, 2010
WOW! nice collection, thanks that was very useful :))
March 23rd, 2010
Massive indeed!! really nice collection, thanks Callum.
March 23rd, 2010
Wow !! huge resources for me. Great collection. No doubt that this post really helpful for any graphics designer. Thanks for sharing this huge list of photo retouch and photoshop tutorials. :)
March 23rd, 2010
Glad you guys are finding this collection useful, it took a while to compile as I’m sure you can imagine! :D
March 23rd, 2010
Splendid collection, Callum. You must have spent a lot of time collecting these.
This post really means business :) Bookmarked!! and promoted :)
March 24th, 2010
Wow! This collection is good. Thank you for putting all the time to create this amazing collection.
March 24th, 2010
Very nice list. I love the variety of different styles and including both tutorials and actions.
March 25th, 2010
AMAZING tuts and actions list. Thanks:-)
March 26th, 2010
Wow! Thanks!!!!
April 12th, 2010
These are awesome. I’m fond of editing my photos using Picasa. I really enjoy all of them.
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