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Actions

10 Free Photoshop Actions Every Portrait Photographer Needs

Finding quality free Photoshop actions is like panning for gold — there’s a lot of mud for every nugget. After years of testing every free action pack I could find, these ten earned permanent spots in my portrait workflow. 1. Frequency Separation Setup Every portrait retoucher needs frequency separation, and manually setting it up every time is tedious. A good freq sep action creates your high and low frequency layers with the correct Gaussian Blur radius dialog, ready to paint.

February 11, 2026

Brushes

The Best Free Photoshop Brushes for Photographers in 2026

There are thousands of free Photoshop brush sets floating around the internet, and most of them are junk. Poorly made, oddly specific, or so low-resolution they fall apart at any reasonable canvas size. I’ve spent years collecting brushes that actually hold up in professional work. Here are the free sets that earned a permanent spot in my library. Retouching Brushes Kyle T. Webster’s Megapack (Included with CC) If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, you already have access to Kyle Webster’s massive brush library.

January 23, 2026