Photoshop actions can be a tremendous time-saving tool for designers. An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. The easiest way to install actions in Photoshop is to drag and drop the actions file on the opened photoshop window. This should work both on Mac and on Windows. Photoshop actions can be installed and manual opening actions palette and click the tiny triangle in the upper right corner. From the appearing menu choose ‘Load Actions’, then choose the file from the file open dialog.

On windows there are actions in some subfolders of the photoshop installation folder depending on photoshop version, preferable in ‘Required’ and ‘Presets\Photoshop Actions’. You can also keep your actions in a different folder, even on a different drive. Just tell PhotoShop to load the actions, and navigate to their location. This way you can keep your downloaded and custom actions in a safe place.

1. Image Flow Photoshop Action

2. Image Flow 2 Photoshop Action

3. Image Flow 3 Photoshop Action

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