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Hand-Picked Photoshop Tutorials

By Smashing Editorial, January 12th, 2007 in Tutorials | 76 Comments | Forum

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for designing various visual elements one can use for web-pages. However, sometimes it’s important to know what to do in order to achieve some effects. In such cases, step-by-step tutorials can provide help and save a lot of time you would have to spend on finding a solution otherwise. Let’s take a look at some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials we’ve found in the Web so far.
Links checked: June/17 2008.

Photoshop Tutorials

Aging Photos
Tips & Tricks for making photos look old
All about Layer Mask
It is often used to prevent some part of the layer from being seen.
Create Your Own Planets
The “Polar Panorama Effect” is one of ways to process photos into unique pieces of art. Tutorial by Dirk Paessler
Creating grunge brushes
by Veerle Pieters
Creating patterns in Photoshop CS2
“Have you ever wondered how you create a seamless pattern in Photoshop? It’s easy and it’s fun. Let me show you how.” by Veerle
Doug’s technique for creating curtains
Tutorial on generating fabric drapes (like curtains) in Photoshop (7, but should work in earlier versions too). Based on Doug’s “Fake satin” technique.
Glassy Orbs in Photoshop Tutorial
This Tutorial has come about due to a few requests. This starts with a fairly simple object, and finally ends up with the orb Design. Take it step by step.
A Gradient Tutorial
Written by Mike Rundle
Graphic Reporter
Digital Beauty Shop - Changing the color of hair
Hair and Fur
Tutorial: Realistic Hair And Fur
‘Me and Louie’s Sister’
A Step by Step Tutorial - by Daniel Hammonds a.k.a Wade/Haujobb & Fairlight
Melissa Clifton - Photoshop Tutorials, Animation, 2D, 3D and Illustration Galleries
Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein,Digital Candy, Vector Art with Photoshop, Turn Photos of People into Line Art, Create Basic Line Art from Your Photos
Painting Grass
Tutorial on creating photo-realistic grass in Photoshop - by John Shannon
Partial Color
Black and white photos with just a touch of color
Perfect Pixel Patterns
Create perfect pixel patterns in Adobe Photoshop every time!
PHOTOSHOP Matte Painting
Tutorial by Sebastien Gaucher
PHOTOSHOP Matte Painting : winter
Tutorial by Sebastien Gaucher
Professional changing of Eyecolor
It might seem complicated but is in fact really easy. There are various methods of changing the eye color…Colorizing Grayscale Image,
Ray of Light
Use Photoshop to create and add a dramatic ray of light to your photos
Replacing a Background
This is a tutorial in removing a background from a picture and replacing it with another. - Tutorial by Bud Guinn
Selective Color
How to create a grayscale image with just a touch of color
Softening Freckles
The magic of selective blurring
Super Silhouettes
Channel your way to a perfect silhouette
The Basics of Retouching People, Part 1
The secret to losing 5 pounds–digitally!
The Basics of Retouching People, Part 2
Banishing bags ‘n blemishes
The Basics of Retouching People, Part 3
How to whiten teeth
Vector Art with Photoshop
Learn how to use Photoshop to create OUTSTANDING vector art

Libraries of Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Weblog
Famous german blog full of videos and links
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorials are categorised to: Photo Effects and Retouch, Web Graphics and Layouts, Drawing, Animation, Text Effects…
AdobeTutorialz
Tutorials are categorised to: Photoshop Basics, Special Effects, Textures & Patterns, Designing, Buttons…
Computer Arts - 2D & Photoshop
Tutorials are categorised to: Latest tutorials, Photoshop & 2d, Web & new media, 3D & animation
FreshTuts
Fresh Tutorials For Photoshop. Find, search, submit and view fresh tutorials.
GFX-Tutor
More than thousand Photoshop Tutorials
Graphic Design tips, tricks, tutorials using Photoshop
A unique resource site for Photoshop® users with great tips, tricks, tutorials and graphics. Tutorials are categorised..
Good-Tutorials.com - Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Good-Tutorials.com lists 11,802 Adobe Photoshop tutorials
Heron Productions
Tutorials - TigerPig!, Comic Book Effect, The Warhol Effect..
Lunacore Photoshop Tutorials
Beautify a Face, Smooth Skin , Glass Ball, Water Drops, Realistic Clouds
PhotoshopCAFE
Free photoshop tutorials from PhotoshopCAFE
Photoshop Facelift
Tutorials for photoshopping people
photoshopit
HALF BLOG HALF TUTORIAL site and some freebies along the way….
Photoshop Lab
Tutorials
PhotoshopSupport.com
Free Photoshop Tutorials & Photoshop Tips
PhotoShopTutorials.de
Texteffekte, Interfaces, Fotoeffekte, Spezialeffekte, Buttons
Pixel Groovy
Pixel Groovy is the social bookmarking way of finding the best tutorials and lessons
Planet Photoshop
Tutorials are categorised to: Effects, Photography, Text, Web…
t-Tutorials.com
Tutorials are categorised to: Effects, Text Effects, Photo Effects, Photo Retouch, Buttons, Textures, Drawings, Basics, GIF Animation, Website Design.
Tutorialing
Tutorials Multilanguage Search Engine - Animation, Buttons and Interfaces Drawing, Icon Creation, Special Effects…

Published in Tutorials, January 12th, 2007
Tags: Graphics, photoshop, Tutorials

1.

uzbek (January 12th, 2007, 10:20 pm)

Great set of tutorials. Recently was thinking of making some vector photos. Now I know how…

Great tutorial: “Vector Art with Photoshop”. Recommended…
2.

grad (January 19th, 2007, 4:43 pm)

Thanks for this great collection!

Now, a set of tutorials for Illustrator should follow :)
3.

Kate Mag (February 4th, 2007, 3:00 am)

Wow, it’s very helpful. Thanks
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Anoop Kumar Gupta (February 15th, 2007, 1:52 pm)

It is really a great tutorial.

keep it up.

Thanx
5.

dave (April 11th, 2007, 1:27 pm)

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6.

bone61 (May 10th, 2007, 11:17 pm)

Great list of tutorials.
Helpfull, and clear.

Thanks
7.

jonny55 (June 2nd, 2007, 7:13 am)

Good job!

I save a lot of time with you!

Thanks!
8.

Ruzzeh (July 9th, 2007, 8:25 am)

=/, I don’t understand most of them because I have elements 2.0…
9.

igre (August 8th, 2007, 9:36 pm)

thank you for this great list of Photoshop tutorials! The partial color tutorial is the greatest - also that orb tutorial.
10.

Bazullah (September 7th, 2007, 5:43 pm)

I wish you all the best.
11.

Lalit (January 24th, 2008, 2:04 am)

Thanks for this great collection!
12.

Raj (August 4th, 2008, 10:57 am)

nice list. Thanx!
Link [www.photoshophome.com]
13.

Adrian (August 15th, 2008, 7:39 am)

gracias por escribirme
14.

Sudip Sharma (August 18th, 2008, 1:57 am)

Thanks for the tutorial,
If u can bring on, then please bring the tutorial collection on free hand and page maker because i want to make a design of a book cover, calender, marksheet, and etc

Thank You
15.

Shirino (August 20th, 2008, 7:00 am)

You are amazin… its gotta be o great help for me .. am jus’new to Photoshop.. was jus’ strugglin’ where to get started…
thanks a lot
16.

Mike (October 13th, 2008, 6:10 pm)

Great list guys. Thanks for this great site
17.

Somine (December 24th, 2008, 3:23 pm)

Thanks for this great collection!
Now, a set of tutorials for Illustrator should follow
18.

rashi (January 3rd, 2009, 11:38 am)

hi
u hav a gr8 collection but it would be helpful if u tell us about hw to make marksheets since its not in the list
19.

florencia (April 22nd, 2009, 9:34 am)

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hemjit yambem (May 14th, 2009, 11:31 pm)

thanx for these tutorial site. i have gain lot of knowledge by analysing with photoshop tutorial n with my wok
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Nik (June 21st, 2009, 7:33 am)

Very Helpful!! I found a website with some more gr8 amount of tutorials, of photoshop and other designing softwares. Link [www.tutorialized.com]