Photoshop Actions

What is a good set of actions to purchase for people photography

Don't buy any at all - just record them yourself. They're not too hard.

If you're asking because you're hoping for a set of magical actions that make all your photos perfect, you're going to be disappointed.

90-odd percent of the time, actions are just tools for speeding up the simple repetitive tasks you already do.

although Not Actions - these are PLUG-INS from.

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Withoug hesitation I can recommend their products


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Portraiture eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.

IMPO - if you not using these products your not seeing the full picture

I agree that you might be better off with a set of plugins. They can complete the same thing as actions in alot of cases. I would have a look at 55mm and Nik Software.

If you aren't sure exactly what you want I would suggest that you find the look that you are after and then google this. There are several photographers that share/sell their actions but you have to work your way through what they offer to see if it fits. Our camera club had a demonstration by a person that was using Craig's Actions on wedding images. They seemed to be pretty good. I do agree though that the best thing is to record them yourself.