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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…