100 actions for Photoshop Elements

The split toning look in the colors orange and cyan makes outdoor and fashion photos shine in a new and modern light. Double-click on the layer in the "Layer style" menu to mix both color layers and create variations.

The split toning look in the colors blue and red gives your photos a slightly surreal touch. You can also try out different layer modes such as color or copy into each other!

With the split toning look in yellow and blue, you can brighten up landscapes, still lifes and portraits with fresh colors.

This action creates a red lightleak, a spot of light that you can position as required using Transform and Move.

This action creates a blue, cool lightleak, a spot of light that you can position as desired by transforming and moving it.

This action creates an empty, neutral gray (50% gray, RGB 128) layer in "Soft light" mode. On this layer, you can use the "Dodge & Burn" technique with white/black or dodge/light with low opacity.

The "Microdetails" action brings out every last detail in your photo, resulting in enormous, dynamic detail. You can adjust the strength using the opacity.

This action adds a foggy texture to your photo. You can adjust the density using the opacity. Particularly suitable for landscape shots, but also for composings as a creative effect.

This action desaturates your photo by 50 percent. You can also reduce or increase the saturation using the layer opacity.

You can increase the contrast of your photo with this action at the touch of a button. You can also use the action several times to further enhance the effect.

This action calculates the average color in your photo and then applies it to your photo as a color look. This allows you to easily enhance the existing color mood.

With this action you can add a lens flare - backlight - to your photo. You can change the type, size and position via the start object.

This action creates the following retouching layers: a layer in Color mode for color correction, a layer in Luminance mode for luminance correction, a retouching layer for tools in "Include all layers" mode and a neutral gray layer.

This action creates a black and white conversion with moderate contrast. The advantage: Looks good with every one of your photos right away!

With this action, you can give your photos a strong contrasting look that is hard to beat in terms of drama.

You can use this action to make the mood of your photo warmer and therefore more positive in no time at all.

This dark, violet color mood is particularly suitable for atmospheric images with pronounced depths.

With this cyan/yellow touch, you can create a cool yet bright color mood in your photos.

This black and white action increases the contrast to the maximum acceptable level. Depending on the exposure, you may have to reduce the opacity of the layers you have created to avoid over-illumination.

With a strong sepia tone and contrast enhancement, this look adds a touch of nostalgia to your photos.

This action turns a photo into a photo with a sepia effect.

This action creates different structures on photos.

This action creates a vintage effect on a photo. The action runs from Photoshop CS3-CS5; in the German version.

This action sharpens your photo and increases the saturation.

3 different effects.

As the title says.

To achieve a good effect, you should choose a suitable photo. Preferably a shot from above.

Just take a look.

This action creates a watermark on photos; the text can be defined by the user.

The action runs from CS2-CS5 in the German version.

With just one click, your photo is black and white.

With this action you divide a picture into three parts. For CS2 and CS3.

In this stamp campaign, you can freely enter the country and the value of the stamp. You will be prompted to do so during the campaign. You can then also freely position the country and the value according to your wishes.

This campaign creates a map of Germany from a portrait photo of your choice. You have the choice of with or without text. The action is compatible with CS2, CS3 and CS4.

With this action you can create a fan with your motif. It is optimized for the 4:3 format, but also works flawlessly with other image formats.

This action creates various glass ball effects.

This action creates a snow globe with your photo. For CS2 and CS3.

This action creates a slide frame with your photo.

This action creates an LCD TV and places a photo of your choice.

This action adds adhesive strips to your photos. You can choose between 1 adhesive strip, 2 adhesive strips, 2 slightly curved adhesive strips and 4 adhesive strips. In the finished photo, you also have the option of rotating or scaling the photo and repositioning the adhesive strips. If you don't like the background - it is automatically created from the photo in the action - you can change it to a background of your choice.

This action generates a deckle edge around your photo, as is often seen on old photos. The action contains 2 jag variants: Prong 1 for old photos and Prong 2 for those who can use it. There are also two sub-variants: Photo edge old paper and Photo B/W. These two are additional actions: With the photo border old paper the border color changes and with photo B/W the photo is in B/W. Important: The units of measurement for the ruler must be set to percent and the sub-variants, if used, must be started in sequence.

This action creates a Polaroid from your photo.

This action creates an image in your picture. You can customize the selection in the action according to your wishes. Rotate, tilt, scale, etc. You can also adjust the layer style according to your wishes, e.g. the contour and drop shadow.

This action creates a photo stack showing a photo of your choice. The ruler should be set to percent.

Use this action to create a stack of three photos. Open the photo you want to see in full as the third photo.

Color matching the photo: The action creates five different backgrounds for your photo(s).

This action creates a metal frame around a photo.

Watch it, like it or dislike it.

Let us surprise you.

Frame action:

The frame width can be freely defined; the default is 200 pixels. The frame color and the layer style can also be freely adjusted.

This action creates a black frame around a photo of your choice. Different results can be achieved: Photo colored, Photo black and white and Photo sepia.

I was inspired by Stanlay72's "Floating free frame" tutorial to create an action for it to make it a bit easier for beginners. I think Stanlay72's tutorial is super ingenious. At this point, a big compliment to Stanlay72. Please take a look at the description of what the floating free frame is all about. (You can move the frame, the effect remains the same).

Just take a look.

This action creates a black and white background from a color photo and positions the photo. The effect can be customized by setting the layer style.

This action divides your photo into 5 parts and arranges them in the form of a coverflow with mirroring.

This action creates a picture wall with mirroring from a landscape format photo of your choice. There are a total of 10 different versions.

This action splits a photo and creates a white frame around the small parts.

This campaign creates a split canvas picture from your photos.

Three photos are beautifully presented side by side with this action.

Let the result surprise you.

After the action has finished, you can arrange and scale the photos as you wish.

This action creates a Polaroid collage.

This action creates a slide strip for a photo. You can choose whether you want the slide strip with or without text.

Start the campaign and be surprised.

This action creates various effects for flyers and photos.

This action creates a striped effect for flyers and wallpapers.

Your photo in a digital frame.

This action creates a wooden frame around a photo.

The action creates a soft frame.

This action creates a water drop frame.

This action creates a metal frame around a photo.

This action creates a mosaic frame for a photo.

This action creates 17 different frames for you.

This action builds your photo into a marble frame. Various colors for the landscape format are predefined and can also be set by the user. The color for the portrait format is freely selectable.

This action creates a frame around your photo in the color of the country. There are 15 countries to choose from in the action.

This action creates 5 different backgrounds for your photo(s). The backgrounds are colored to match the photo.

This action creates a creamy color effect on a photo.

This action creates a digital cross-development from your photo.

This action presents your photo with a beautiful contour and drop shadow.

This action creates a 3-split photo, curved and mirrored.

A really cool heart collage created this campaign.

This action creates a heart collage for you.

This action creates backgrounds for your photo - with beam effects.

This action creates a retro beam effect for flyers and wallpapers.

This action optimizes your photo in terms of depth and highlights.

This action creates a photo sphere from 16 photos.

This action creates a cover flow with photos in portrait format.

With this action you crop your photos with a fixed aspect ratio of your choice.

The following aspect ratios are available in the action:
3:2, 2:3, 4:3, 3:4, 7:5, 5:7, 9:7 7:9, 16:9, 9:16

This action creates a slightly different colorkey on a photo.

This action creates an old photo from a new photo; both photos are arranged on the image.

This action creates a wreath of honor (anniversary wreath). Different actions are included in the action, e.g. wreath of honor simple, with shadow, metal effect and color freely adjustable. You can change the appearance individually by changing the layer style.

This action creates a slide collage from six of your photos of your choice. Two versions are included in the action; the first is as shown in the preview image and the second is with colored slide frames. You can change the color of the slide frames yourself.

This action divides your photo diagonally. The action also contains a second one; it creates diagonal squares in landscape format and rhombuses in portrait format.

The golden ratio is a creative means of achieving the ideal proportions in a picture. If a picture is aligned according to this, there is a considerable gain in aesthetics and harmony. The action generates the basic lines of the golden ratio as a separate layer. The color and thickness of the lines can also be adjusted. The golden ratio can then be used very easily and conveniently for images and photos.

A photo in the foreground and an extruded effect in the background.

With this action you create a beautiful photo sticker.

Your photo on a beautiful poster holder? A piece of cake with this campaign.

This campaign creates an elegant stone frame for you.

This action creates a glass frame with drops around a photo.

This action adds a photo of your choice behind a door.

10 photos in one fan.