80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look

Posted by Henry Jones on Jan 11, 2010 | 21 Comments

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.

21 comments

Jordan Walker
January 11, 2010
Very helpful.
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Texturezine
January 11, 2010
great action resources. Thanks
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TutsBot
January 11, 2010
Thnaks for this huge ammount of actions !
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Brandon
January 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?
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Melody
January 11, 2010
Cool, they add instant age to these photos..will definitely try them out..
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bronwyn
January 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*
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Free Textures
January 11, 2010
I’m trying to build a nice repository of actions, layer styles, etc. This is a nice collection.
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Brandon S. Adkins
January 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.
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Vunky
January 12, 2010
I haven’t seen “photoshop actions – 136″ before. Downloaded it asap.

Nice list!
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Steve Martin
January 12, 2010
Great stuff! just what i’m looking for. Thank you for sharing these photoshop actions to everyone.
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PVC stolarija Elatio
January 13, 2010
Nice, bookmarked
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Zine Creative
January 16, 2010
love the Vintage meets lomo ps action! thanks a bunch!
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Aldon
March 5, 2010
The pictures are unbelievably gorgeous! excellent!
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CSSReX
May 1, 2010
Hey! Nice. I am loving the graphics
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safwen
May 20, 2010
See more :
http://www.design2arts.blogspot.com/
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PsdDude
June 22, 2010
Beautiful vintage tutorials!
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Sarah Samways
July 21, 2010
Great for the consumer that wants just a little bit more. Thanks for posting!
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Brett Widmann
October 29, 2010
Great set of tutorials. Thanks for sharing.
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Lynet Witty
September 26, 2011
Ummm, some of these links go to a DevianArt page that aren’t available–therefore there are no actions can you please fix these? This a really good list of actions for Photoshop. thanks.
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Fox
December 27, 2011
This page would be wonderful if the DeviantArt links worked. Hope that these can be fixed soon. Thanks!
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Casey
January 5, 2012
Great post! Really needed one of these effects today.
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