15 Creative Photoshop Templates for Quick Photo Effects

Photoshop templates are a quick and easy way to give your photograph professional, creative effects with just a few clicks. With a template, you don’t need to do much: open up the file, swap out the placeholder artwork with your own, adjust to your tastes, and done!

Here, we’ll look at some of our favourites from Envato Market.

Top Templates

1. Duotone Photo Effect

Simply paste your image inside the smart object and pick a colour to create your unique, duotone image effect.

2. Dark Paint Effect Photo Frame

Give your photographs a cool, artistic look with this template. Unlimited colours and composition are just a brush away.

3. Gritty and Modern Polaroid Photo Frames

Fully scalable, the Gritty and Modern Polaroid template allows you to add a simple but effective vintage touch to your photographs.

4. Impressionist Canvas – Painting Template

Create a cool, impressionist painting from your image with this download. Simply paste your photograph inside the smart object to get started.

5. Comic Book Creation Kit Black & White

With 10 page layouts, 40 shape bubbles/banners and 12 comic book sound effects, you’ll soon be giving Marvel and DC a run for their money.

6. Disturb – Intense Distortion Effect Photo Template

Disturb creates a cool distortion effect using vertical lines. Select your colours, show or hide effects to suit and simply brush over to remove distortion where it’s not required.

7. Fire Effect Photo Template

No dracarys required, add a burning effect to portraits with the Fire Effect template. Just paste your image into the smart object to get started and create a photo that’s, well… lit.

8. Misty Photo Effect Template

With 6 colour options, the Misty Photo Effect Template will give you a high quality, flexible, soft misty look to your images. You can mix colour choices to create even more options, too.

9. Color – Double Exposure Photoshop Photo Template

Combine your images, apply a black and white filter from the provided folders and choose between 28 pre-selected colours – it’s as simple as that to achieve really effective looking duotone images.

10. Glitch Photoshop Photo Template

Reminiscent of old videotape, Glitch is a great way to achieve an unusual look for your photographs.

11. Dream Photo Template V3

Give your images a funky, futuristic effect with the Dream template. With two effects, the template is simple and quick to use.

12. Retro Comic Pack

A fun and easy way to transform your photographs into an 80’s comic-book style.Use the layout pack provided or experiment with running the action on its own for more flexibility.

13. Smart Out of Bound Frames

Photographer… sick of being stuck in the 2D world, but don’t quite know how to break out? Worry no longer, Smart Out of Bound Frames will lift your images off the page. Well, out of the frame, to be more specific.

14. Photo Sphere Templates

Spherical photos are just round the bend with this nifty Photo Sphere Template set. Create individual image globes, or montages.

15. 3D Film Strip Mock-ups 2

Including 2 variations, the 3D Film Strip Mock-ups 2 template is a great way to display a selection of your image portfolio for websites, social media and more.

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15 Creative Photoshop Templates for Quick Photo Effects