I have a mixture of actions, but some of my favourites are the PW boost/warmer/cooler/slight sharpen, the free TRA actions and from M4H the Vintage Primer from the colour play set.
My problem with most actions is, that I don't like "overdone" photos. So usually tweak quite a bit and rarely use an action at 100%. It's a problem I have with most of the photographer/action blogs and homepages. I hate it, when the first thing I see is a picture with extremely deep colours and kid's eyes that I find outright spooky. IMO about 80% of all edited kid portraits on those sites have "creepy kid" eyes.
That's what makes it hard for me to judge, how good I'll like their actions and how drastic they will be on my photos. I am still looking for one homerpage, I lost the link some time ago. And go mad over it now (because now I may have the money to buy the stuff). It had lots of wonderful, balanced portrait actions, and I think it was somethink like "Perfect Powder" or something in the set names. I cannot find it again whatever I search for and it wasn't one of the standard ones from the scrap world.
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