Most free Photoshop actions will download as zip folders. They're an absolute lifesaver if you're in a rush, or if you have lots of projects to edit in a similar fashion – and of course, they're all designed by you, to suit you and your process. But you can also import Photoshop actions created by other people, saving you even more time. If you then assign that action to a shortcut key, it means you can perform an edit at just the press of a button, saving you minutes and hours of your time. This means that in the future you can quickly apply all of those edits at once rather than having to add all of the adjustment layers and masks one-by-one every time you want to apply the same kind of edit to an image. When working on Photoshop, there is a feature that allows you to track all your edits and save them as an 'action'.

This freebie offers a number of different styles that are more suitable for use in printed brochures and website design where you’re aiming for a stylised effect. This quirky action from JonasFan93 creates a pseudo 3D anaglyphic image by separating out colour channels within your image and offsetting them. Download Action3d from Deviant Art (opens in new tab).Get a fake 3D effect with this channel-juggling action

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