23 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

| January 12, 2010 | 35 Comments

Photoshop is a smart program that gives you extended capabilities to create new tips and tricks in many styles and many industries. Although learning Photoshop is easy process, but learning how to do Photoshop effects and Photoshop tips requires more practice and ability to get out the most of the tool.



In the following collection of Photoshop tutorials, you will find alot of the applied effects and tips with different  styles. Each of the tutorials give you the ability to create new ideas and new tricks. However, if you like the following tutorials you can more Photoshop tutorials in the Photoshop section and you may like to check these other collections as well:

Seamless compositing

Learn how to fake unbelievable fantasy images, like this giant warrior lizard, using some clever Photoshop trickery.

Behind the Scenes: Saw VI Poster Creation

In celebration of the release of Saw VI you are going to learn step by step how to make a dirty and disgusting Saw movie poster.

Create a Retro Photo and Background

In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.

Create a Mysterious Hollow Scene in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to show you to create a mysterious hollow scene.

Create a Scenic Photomanipulation

In this tutorial Andreea takes us through a very scenic photo manipulation. Using some provided stock images you’ll learn how to manipulate color effects using textures and contrasts, these techniques will provide a platform for creating future photo manipulations and will enhance your skills.

Surprisingly Easy Rainbow Light Painting Effect

Give your photos a unique look with this retro effect that’s super easy and fun. You will learn how to create this effect with just one layer and three colors.

Create an Amazing Flood Scene in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to teach you to create an amazing flood scene. The tutorial looks very simple, but it is not. To make it realistic, you have to be familiar with the shadow and light direction.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!

Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images.

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

Create mile-high type art

In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to achieve that glossy, detailed fantasy look through careful compositing, and control of layers and blending modes. You’ll extrude type in Illustrator and then composite on textures and other details in Photoshop.

The Making of “Constant Slip”

We will take you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. I’ll give you some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow.

Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design

Let’s design a mobile phone advertisement. It’s inspired by mobile phone posters, billboard designs, and magazine advertisements. We’ll be reviewing using Smart Filters and Objects in this tutorial, as well as multiple techniques to create this design.

Create a Catastrophic Tsunami, Impacting the Statue of Liberty

Human Statue Effect: Cursed by Medusa

In that photoshop tutorial we’ll make a Stone Cursed person effect in Photoshop.

Get Dynamic in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will look at HDR photography. HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) was originally used in 3D and is now in full force in photography. Basically it’s the process of taking multiple exposures and merging them together into a single 32-bit image.

How To Create a Futuristic Sci-Fi Scene

In this tutorial, We will guide you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene.
We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.

Creating a Dark Medieval Background Image

In this tutorial, we will learn an easy way on how to create a dark medieval landscape by the use of a few photos, adjustment layers, photo filters and a few brush strokes.

How To Create A Beautiful Indian Sunset Scenery

In this tutorial, we will learn to create a beautiful sunset, in a rocky scene with teepees.

The Making of Merry Go Wild

From this tutorial you will learn how to turn a picture of Merry Go Round into a grunge and muddy looking image with lots of motion. All was created using a single source image taken from PxlEyes stock.

High Clarity

Learn how to apply this abstract photo effect with Photoshop CS3. Your photos will have a high impact look and stronger focus.

Create Realistic Looking Rainbow Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will learn how to add a realistic looking rainbow to your picture. It’s very easy and simple and if you follow steps from this tutorial you will have your picture looking great.

Fascinating Watercolor Effect In Photoshop

This tutorial will be based around creating a really cool watercolor effect, but this technique works just as well when creating paintings in Photoshop.

n this tutorial Andreea takes us through a very scenic photo manipulation. Using some provided stock images you’ll learn how to manipulate color effects using textures and contrasts, these techniques will provide a platform for creating future photo manipulations and will enhance your skills.

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Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansy

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  1. Thanks a lot for all these great tutorials !

    I very much enjoyed and learning from it.

    I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.

    Muchas gracias!
    .-= Latia….I LOVE WEB DESIGN….´s last blog ..Website Navigation Tips =-.

  2. Thanks a lot for all these great tutorials !

    I very much enjoyed and learning from it.

    I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.

    Muchas gracias!
    .-= Latia….I LOVE WEB DESIGN….´s last blog ..Website Navigation Tips =-.

  3. Thanks a lot for all these great tutorials !

    I very much enjoyed and learning from it.

    I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.

    Muchas gracias!
    .-= Latia….I LOVE WEB DESIGN….´s last blog ..Website Navigation Tips =-.

  4. Charmaine says:

    Thanks for sharing the comprehensive Photoshop Tutorials. They serve as good references.
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  5. Charmaine says:

    Thanks for sharing the comprehensive Photoshop Tutorials. They serve as good references.
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  6. Charmaine says:

    Thanks for sharing the comprehensive Photoshop Tutorials. They serve as good references.
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  7. Really nice man! You’ve always got some of the best posts here, I love it. I’ll be back to check out more, keep up the great work
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  8. Really nice man! You’ve always got some of the best posts here, I love it. I’ll be back to check out more, keep up the great work
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  11. Jill says:

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  12. wow…nice collection of design

  13. wow…nice collection of design

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  16. Thanks for sharing the comprehensive Photoshop Tutorials. They serve as good references.

  17. Thanks for sharing the comprehensive Photoshop Tutorials. They serve as good references.

  18. thse graphic pics were amazing i like the statue of liberty most what a imagination hope i will not come true

  19. Reading your post was like taking a trip down memory lane, back to when you could get great stuffs for free on the Internet! I personally prefer FastStone to all the above for batch work, and simple image manipulation for the web. It’s free and does most everything, bar the fancy stuff of a full editor

  20. like this tutorial it was really fantastic and worth to visit this site will look forward for more such an amazing post here

  21. Beautiful collection! unbelievable pics nce imagination.Thanks for sharing.

  22. Really these pics are excellent !

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