40 new Photoshop Actions For Vintage Effect

How to Create an Action in Photoshop

Creating Photoshop Actions is very easy. You only have to open up the Actions palette in Photoshop then you can click on the New Action button as seen in the picture.

40 Free Photoshop Actions For Vintage Effect

A new window will open that gives you different options for creating Photoshop Actions. Now, name the Action and place it in a set. For quick access, you can create a shortcut to your created Action. This shortcut will help you activate your Action quickly. Creating shortcut to your created Photoshop Action will save your time.

Now, click on the “Record” button and your desired Action will start recording. One thing to keep in mind here is that steps like selection sizes, saving and other specific steps will be duplicated exactly. Therefore, be careful and keep your step generic so that you can apply your action to a vast variety of images.
Click on the Stop button that is present in the Action menu. You can click the Play button if you want to apply the Action to another file.

Installing Photoshop Actions

You can easily install Photoshop Actions and there are many ways to do it. The simplest one is to drag the downloaded actions into the “Actions” folder present in Presets folder in your Photoshop application folder. In order to finish the installation process you need to restart your Photoshop application.
Another way to install Photoshop Actions is to use the little arrow on the right of the actions menu and click Load Actions option.