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Hand-Picked Photoshop Tutorials
January 12th, 2007 in Tutorials | 52 Comments
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.
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 - Magnifying Glass Tutorial
This is a nice easy method to create the illusion of a magnifying glass which you can lay over any background you like. - ‘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 - Mizuno’s Super Airbrush PP Tutorial!
The name says it all.

- 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

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- Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials & Lessons
Computer Graphics Illustration Tutorials, Tips, & Tricks for Students by Kevin Hulsey - 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… - PS Workshop
Find That Exact Photoshop Tutorial, Photoshop Tips, Tools, Plug-ins and Blog, Adobe Photoshop - 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… - Worth1000.com
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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…
Cristian Eslava (January 16th, 2007, 7:57 pm)
fantasti links, I posted myself in my blog.
For spanish readers I´ve got a complete free online course os Photoshop Cs in Campus Online.
Congratulations for your great site,
Cristian Eslava
grad (January 19th, 2007, 4:43 pm)
Thanks for this great collection!
Now, a set of tutorials for Illustrator should follow :)
*D* (January 27th, 2007, 1:17 am)
Not a bad list, but your forgetting Link [www.pixel2life.com] which has more tutorials than any of those other sites
Kate Mag (February 4th, 2007, 3:00 am)
Wow, it’s very helpful. Thanks
Anoop Kumar Gupta (February 15th, 2007, 1:52 pm)
It is really a great tutorial.
keep it up.
Thanx
dave (April 11th, 2007, 1:27 pm)
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.It is very interesting article click on the link Link [www.aaaphotoshop.com]
mahesh (April 12th, 2007, 1:41 am)
Hi this is mahesh dng photoshop i need sm good ideas abt tamplets so can u kindly help me out
Enrique (April 25th, 2007, 9:02 pm)
How about The Photoshop Roadmap: Link [www.photoshoproadmap.com] and the new Photoshop Mosaic with its tempting mosaic of images: Link [www.photoshopmosaic.com]
bone61 (May 10th, 2007, 11:17 pm)
Great list of tutorials.
Helpfull, and clear.
Thanks
jonny55 (June 2nd, 2007, 7:13 am)
Good job!
I save a lot of time with you!
Thanks!
Ruzzeh (July 9th, 2007, 8:25 am)
=/, I don’t understand most of them because I have elements 2.0…
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.
Bazullah (September 7th, 2007, 5:43 pm)
I wish you all the best.
Lalit (January 24th, 2008, 2:04 am)
Thanks for this great collection!
minikperi (March 8th, 2008, 2:10 pm)
This is really great list of tutorials. Some of them really I need.
Thanks