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Free Actions

• JGG Sunset Optimizer
• Floating Frame
• Ethereal Effect
• Kent's Noise Reduction Brush
• PhotoSketch
• Velvia Portrait
• Flaming Text
• Orton Effect Actions
• Midnight Actions, v.3
• Airbrush
• Bloom Effect
• Dodge & Burn
• Morning Mist
• Photorealistic Clouds
• Selective Focus
• Tilt/Shift Effect
• Twirling Abstract Art
• Watercolor

Over 170 others available in Downloads

The FAQs

Answers to frequently ignored questions:

• Loading actions in Photoshop

• Troubleshooting problems

• Photoshop Elements

• Commercial use

Feedback and Submissions

I welcome your reactions ... or your submissions via email. If submitting actions, please send the action file, a brief description, and, if possible, before and after examples illustrating its effect.

New HDR Program Debuts

Essential HDR is straightforward, inexpensive, and gives great results. Read our capsule review.

Where Are They?

Danny Raphael's Mother of All Tutorials on Photoshop Actions.

Mike Warren has a new site in which he offers both free actions and actions for sale.

Kent Christiansen's archive of tips and tutorials for Photoshop is on Ken Leonard's Photography Resource site.

  Other Useful Links

• Stock Photos
• DPReview
• Katrin Eismann's Photoshop Masking and Compositing
• Katrin's Restoration and Retouching
• Lightroom News
• The Luminous Landscape
• MultimediaPhoto (See review)
• Photography Online Resource Guide
• Photoshop News
• RetouchPro
• The Russell Brown Show
• VueScan