80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look
Photoshop actions are great. If you’re not familiar with actions, they are simply prerecorded adjustments made to a Photoshop file that can be saved and applied to other projects. The concept is simple, but the process to create some actions can be very complicated. That’s why using actions can be a huge time saver. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a Photoshop file instantly. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos.
vintage wash ps actions (10 actions)
Vintage II – PS Actions (6 actions)
Old Photo
Photoshop Action 11
Vintage Colors (8 actions)
Victorian PS Action
Vintage Photo Action
Vintage Effect (6 actions)
Vintage meets lomo
Vintage Actions (2 actions)
photoshop actions – 63 (6 actions)
photoshop actions – 133 (12 actions)
photoshop actions – 136 (4 actions)
Slightly Vintage (3 actions)
photoshop actions – 41 (4 actions)
photoshop actions – 38 (8 actions)
Lith Print Action
Vintage
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Jan 11, 2010
Very helpful.
Jan 11, 2010
great action resources. Thanks
Jan 11, 2010
Thnaks for this huge ammount of actions
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Jan 11, 2010
Do any of these actions replicated the “cross-processing” filter that’s built into Paintshop Pro XI and XII? That single filter, which emulates the enhances contrast and saturation you get by processing film as a slide (or vice versa) resulting in a cool 70s look is SO important to my photo style, I haven’t been able to fully move to Photoshop for fear of giving it up. ideas?
Jan 11, 2010
Cool, they add instant age to these photos..will definitely try them out..
Jan 11, 2010
designing is becoming way. too. easy for people. i swear its like the time autotune was created.. now anyone can make just about anything.. UGH.
*goes back to coding on notepad, and mocking up on a pad of paper*
Jan 11, 2010
I’m trying to build a nice repository of actions, layer styles, etc. This is a nice collection.
Jan 12, 2010
The thing that gets me about some of these – is that some of the people that have created these try to claim copyright to photoshop actions (?!) – and say that they can’t be used outside of deviantart.
I believe that’s bullcrap. Actions are not like brushes and the like, they are simply a set of steps – if I use my own techniques to achieve the same look – are they going to come after me for using their “copyrighted” set of steps? It’s bull.
Jan 12, 2010
I haven’t seen “photoshop actions – 136″ before. Downloaded it asap.
Nice list!
Jan 12, 2010
Great stuff! just what i’m looking for. Thank you for sharing these photoshop actions to everyone.
Jan 13, 2010
Nice, bookmarked
Jan 16, 2010
love the Vintage meets lomo ps action! thanks a bunch!
Mar 5, 2010
The pictures are unbelievably gorgeous! excellent!