Moody Blacks Photoshop Action

The Moody Blacks Photoshop Action was designed to give your photos a bold, dramatic, and stylish look with 15 different preset effects while keeping your original image intact — all with just one click. Perfect for fashion, portrait, lifestyle, and editorial photography, this action enhances depth and mood by emphasizing dark tones and rich contrasts.

All you need to do is open your image, select the Moody Blacks action, and hit the play button. The action works with any image size or resolution, ensuring consistent, professional-quality results. Once the process is complete, you can choose from 15 unique variations, adjust the layer opacity of each effect, or even combine multiple presets to create unlimited possibilities.

Additionally, the action organizes all adjustments into a single layer group, giving you full control to fine-tune blacks, neutrals, whites, shadows, highlights, and contrast to achieve the exact mood and finish you envision.

How to install

Open Photoshop.
In the Actions Panel click on the top right icon and from the dropdown menu select "Load Actions".
Locate the "Medialoot - Moody Blacks.atn" file on your computer and click on Load.

How to use

Open your image. Be sure that is set as the background (if not, go to Layer > New > Background from Layer).
In the Actions Panel expand the "Medialoot - Moody Blacks" action container.
Select the "Moody Blacks" action and click on the play button.

Note: Before using this action, be sure that you have the Camera Raw Filter installed. To do this, open Photoshop and under the Filter menu be sure that "Camera Raw Filter" is present.