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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

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When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it’s not always clear when to use what tool and how to use it effectively. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before.

However, you don’t need to muddle through numerous Photoshop features and extensions for every design problem. You can use professional suggestions instead, e.g. professional step-by-step tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time.

One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. Now it’s time for a fresh portion of healthy Photoshop learning material. This article provides professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Although the authors of the tutorials rarely provide the information about the used version, we tried to pick only those tutorials that can be used with both CS 3 and older versions of Adobe Photoshop.

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Photo- and Picture Editing and Processing

  • MP3 Player Design
    In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.Mp3 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Magic Lighting Effect
    How to create a nice light and magic effect.Magic in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Beautiful Lady Effect
    Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.Lady in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial – Extraction Tips
    One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.Hairy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
    This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.Dreamy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Improving the Quality of Photos
    Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.Mountain in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Fake Model Photography
    With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.Fakemodel in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Displacement Water
    Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.Water in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Making Skin Beautiful
    Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak.Skin in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Photoshop tutorial and Post-producted glasses
    To save your time think to photo retouch especially frosted glasses.Door in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Professional “glamour style” photo retouch
    This is the first chapter of a main tutorial divided in six parts. In this one you will learn how to photo retouch the skin of a model in a few steps. Better results can be obtained by using a graphic tablet instead of a mouse.Skin2 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • iMouse — creating Apple mouse
    Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn’t want graphic like that? Let’s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop. 3 pages.Imouse in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
    How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.Comic in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Space and Planet Tutorial
    The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with alot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.Planet in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop
    This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR foto in Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot into RAW or take photos with different exposure – one JPEG is enough. If you can work with masks in Photoshop, you have an advantage. Part of tutorial is HDR action for download.Hdr in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
    11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos.Moviep in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • A movie-effect with Photoshop
    This tutorial explains how to turn your photo into the movie-like image using Adobe Photoshop.Movie in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Visual effects in the style of 300
    Here’s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup.300 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Reflective Bubbles
    For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way.Bubbles in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
    Learn how to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.Statue in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop
    “In this tutorial I will be demonstrating some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots. As far as I know, these methods should work for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.”Picpop in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Devil’s Eye
    Some eyes are just too pretty, but I bet some of you would change that if you could. I am going to try to explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer,so bare with me. Photoshop CS2.Eye in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
    This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.Circles in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Water Drops
    So simple, and realistic, these water drops (and optional ice drops) are also simple to do anywhere, anytime.Drop in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a glass ball
    In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques. Any version of photoshop can be used.Glass in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 3D Ice Cube
    In this tutorial we’ll try to build a realistic 3D ice cube. Usually this kind of stuff is done with the help of some 3D software like Maya or 3DMax, still we’ll try to use Photoshop tools to do the work.Ice in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Alienize: Transform a person into an alien
    In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it.Alien in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Water Spirit – Drawing Fire
    This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone’s hands.Flame in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
    Here’s how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.Car3d in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
    How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes.Box in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Super Fly Box Maker
    These boxes can be used to advertise almost anything (not just software). This is great if you want to catch a viewers attention, and it also gives your product display a more professional look and feel.Box2 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Flaming Hair
    Tutorial with some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photo.Phoenixhair in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect
    Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look. This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look.Paper in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
    This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn’t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!Mac-background in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons

  • Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
    This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.Sexygirl in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Skin Painting Tutorial
    Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.Boy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
    This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, it’s off from that period, but it’s the feeling of summer, childhood fascination and nature that I wanted to re-create. It’s also a tribute to music. 4 pages.Singer in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Fox Fire Tutorial
    Converting from hand-sketched picture to a digital masterpiece.Foxfire in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
    In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.Neth in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Soft Cell Shading
    Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.Manga in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Sketch to Paint
    Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.Sketch in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Portrait Painting
    Learn how to draw a portrait from a hand-drawn sketch.Portraitpainting in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Drawing a Cute BoyCute in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Drawing from a reference photo
    The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.Draw in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Comic art style
    This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.Comicart in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Texteffects

  • 3D typographic effects
    Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.Fresh in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Slow shutter text effect
    Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.Hello in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
    Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!Meteor in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Smooth Glass Type
    Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.Type in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect
    In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?Bee in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Plastic Jelly Style
    In this tutorial we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.Jelly in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Combine 2 text layer styles
    Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.Talk in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Buttons, Logos & Menus

  • Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop
    With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.Leopard in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Orb Button Effect
    This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts:Orb in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Interface Orbs
    Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.Gloorb in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating Logos on Glass Surfaces
    In this mini tutorial you will learn how to create a convincing logo that is embossed in the surface of a beer glass.Bud in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Photoshop Button Maker
    In this simple tutorial we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.Button23 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Design Watercolor Effect Menu
    This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.Watercolor in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge Photoshop Tutorial
    In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin’ a golden badge, pretty much like this one I’ve designed below. For this tutorial I’ve used the example ‘100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.Badge in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • A Little Window…Window in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set
    This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.Menu4 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • How to Design Mini Icons
    Numbers of people have asked me how to design my popular Mini Pixel Icon pack. In fact, they are relatively easy. All you need is just some basic Photoshop skills.Icons in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Designing a Safety IconSafety Icon in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Eye-Popping Banner Ad Tutorial
    Nobody clicks on them, but they still exist. This tutorials shows how you can create iPod nano Ads with Photoshop.Banner in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

  • Color adjustment tutorial
    This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.Coloradj in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Vector Polishing Techniques
    This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.Vector-polishing in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Advanced Black and White Conversion
    In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3’s new improved Black and White features.Bw in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Actions Tutorial
    Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones
  • 101 Hidden Tips & Secrets
    An overview of professional suggestions, tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.
  • Using Actions to Automate Tasks
    While Adobe Photoshop has a host of automation tools, one of the most versatile and powerful of them is called an action. In fact, some of the other automation commands, such as batches and droplets, derive their functionality from actions.

Further Resources

You can find even more Adobe Photoshop tutorials in the articles and resouces we’ve listed below.

Sven Lennartz

The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. Runs the business.

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  1. 1
    Small Potato
    January 10th, 2008 9:53 am

    Always wanted to delve deeper into learning how to paint my line-art. Thanks SM.

    Reply
  2. 2
    Noticias Genericas
    January 10th, 2008 9:57 am

    Fantastic Effects!

    Reply
  3. 3
    Luxa
    January 10th, 2008 10:08 am

    Great list! Thanks for including two of my tutorials. :)

    Reply
  4. 4
    Jennifer Apple
    January 10th, 2008 10:11 am

    This is a great list. Lots to explore!

    Reply
  5. 5
    Enrique Flouret
    January 10th, 2008 10:30 am

    Thanks for posting two of my tutorials!!!

    Great list!

    Enrique

    Reply
  6. 6
    chris
    January 10th, 2008 10:38 am

    great list :)

    Reply
  7. 7
    photoshop tutorials
    January 10th, 2008 10:41 am

    great post with great tutorials!
    hope I’ll get in one of this kind of lists one day with one of my tutorials.. :D

    Reply
  8. 8
    Jerboa
    January 10th, 2008 10:44 am

    Whawwww… look’s good thank’s a lot !

    Reply
  9. 9
    ash robinson
    January 10th, 2008 10:55 am

    great selection,

    some of those photo manip ones are brilliant like the miniature models, Good work!

    Ash

    Reply
  10. 10
    Jose
    January 10th, 2008 10:56 am

    You guys are great! Thanks !

    Reply
  11. 11
    Gonzalo
    January 10th, 2008 10:58 am

    GREAT list!! Thank you very much! :)

    Reply
  12. 12
    Israel
    January 10th, 2008 10:58 am

    Magic Lighting Effect link does not work… :(

    Reply
  13. 13
    readywpthemes
    January 10th, 2008 11:05 am

    Thanks for this great post!!!

    Reply
  14. 14
    Sergio
    January 10th, 2008 11:06 am

    Thanks a lot!

    Very usefull list for a beginner like me.

    Reply
  15. 15
    Vlad Gerasimov
    January 10th, 2008 11:21 am

    I think Vladstudio Photoshop tutorials page is worth mentioning too!

    Reply
  16. 16
    Pieter V
    January 10th, 2008 11:36 am

    Great list of tutorials ! Thank you very much.

    Reply
  17. 17
    Jonathan
    January 10th, 2008 11:38 am

    Really well done.. Keep up the good work guys : )

    Reply
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    Gunnar Bruun
    January 10th, 2008 11:41 am

    Another masterpiece.
    Thanks again!

    Reply
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    Khaled
    January 10th, 2008 11:42 am

    OMG!!!!!!!! Thanksss, you are the best.

    Reply
  20. 20
    Kevin
    January 10th, 2008 12:36 pm

    This very well could be one of the coolest posts I’ve seen in a very long time

    Reply
  21. 21
    Kevin
    January 10th, 2008 12:38 pm

    This very well could be the coolest blog I’ve seen in a very long time

    Reply
  22. 22
    Calvin
    January 10th, 2008 1:00 pm

    This will keep me busy for a while :)

    Reply
  23. 23
    Free tutorials
    January 10th, 2008 1:09 pm

    Nice content

    Reply
  24. 24
    crazyleaf
    January 10th, 2008 1:12 pm

    Great post as usual, guys.

    Reply
  25. 25
    Mickel
    January 10th, 2008 1:45 pm

    Thanks for the trackback guys. Much appreciated :)

    Reply
  26. 26
    Val
    January 10th, 2008 2:40 pm

    Fresh inspiration for the new year ~ bravo!

    Reply
  27. 27
    AsceticMonk
    January 10th, 2008 2:47 pm

    So much to learn, thanks for this great list!

    Reply
  28. 28
    Matty
    January 10th, 2008 2:50 pm

    Smashing Stuff! Keep it coming =D

    Reply
  29. 29
    Joana
    January 10th, 2008 2:51 pm

    Thanks for the work of collecting these! Ill try them all.

    Reply
  30. 30
    Leegurus
    January 10th, 2008 2:55 pm

    This is really awesome and useful handson. Thanks Guys!!

    Reply
  31. 31
    Max Thrane
    January 10th, 2008 2:57 pm

    Great one! Bookmarked and gonna check a few tuts! :)

    Reply
  32. 32
    Oscar
    January 10th, 2008 3:14 pm

    I will follow this tutorials then, I will rule the world!

    Reply
  33. 33
    Graphic Design Studio
    January 10th, 2008 3:26 pm

    Now this is AWESOME – very good job guys – This is really BEST OF
    THANK YOU

    Reply
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      Bigg Bbob
      November 2nd, 2009 11:41 am

      I just got a huge erection

      Reply
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    zeduardo
    January 10th, 2008 3:51 pm

    pure awesomess! thanks fellas! :D

    Reply
  35. 36
    Zach Krugler
    January 10th, 2008 3:56 pm

    Thanks so much! This was just what I was looking for.

    Reply
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    madriaza
    January 10th, 2008 4:08 pm

    let me suggest this one “how to erase a watermark” (in spanish)

    Reply
  37. 38
    Polo
    January 10th, 2008 4:38 pm

    Awesome & really great post , thanks a lot (one more time :)).

    Reply
  38. 39
    shoxmon
    January 10th, 2008 5:35 pm

    These are great links. I recognized a few that I saw I first saw on deviantART in their Photoshop. Really great stuff, thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  39. 40
    perky
    January 10th, 2008 5:45 pm

    wow.,…. thanks..

    Reply
  40. 41
    Carlos Leopoldo
    January 10th, 2008 6:40 pm

    amazing, brilliant and great!

    Reply
  41. 42
    Eli
    January 10th, 2008 6:55 pm

    Thanks for the link love, Smashing Magazine :)

    Reply
  42. 43
    lily
    January 10th, 2008 7:10 pm

    Your blog is very beautiful, I too like the
    I would like to pay you and friends!

    Reply
  43. 44
    Kiran
    January 10th, 2008 7:39 pm

    wowwww!! Thats one huge compilation of the best tutorials!! Thanks a lot :)

    Reply
  44. 45
    sameera
    January 10th, 2008 7:50 pm

    This is great guys, Thankx a lot

    Reply
  45. 46
    Rekzai
    January 10th, 2008 7:54 pm

    I’m excited to try some of these out

    Reply
  46. 47
    Anwar
    January 10th, 2008 7:59 pm

    Excellent list. u Guys at smashing really rocks !!

    Reply
  47. 48
    greg k
    January 10th, 2008 8:24 pm

    This is the post i’ve been waiting for. I’ll start with the text tutorials. and move backwards with the list.

    Reply
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    David Mackey
    January 10th, 2008 9:03 pm

    Sweet stuff! You guys always write excellent articles.

    Reply
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    RoamenCota
    January 10th, 2008 9:31 pm

    Thank u !

    Reply
  50. 51
    Carmentrino
    January 10th, 2008 9:52 pm

    DAMN !!!

    Reply
  51. 52
    Martin
    January 10th, 2008 9:55 pm

    cool list!! I’d like a tutorial on how to do this picture:
    spymac.com/details/?2323380

    Reply
  52. 53
    shashi arya
    January 10th, 2008 10:13 pm

    This is what i was looking for ………. thank u SM….. GR8 list

    Reply
  53. 54
    Usoft
    January 10th, 2008 10:14 pm

    Good post,
    Thanks

    Reply
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    webguru
    January 10th, 2008 11:19 pm

    Yes, baby. Amazing. Thats my new PS-Tut-Pool!
    Thx guys,

    Reply
  55. 56
    Eric
    January 10th, 2008 11:22 pm

    This is definitely a line up. There’s a couple I want to come back and check.

    Reply
  56. 57
    Diego Malatesta
    January 11th, 2008 12:27 am

    Nice list! Thank you!

    Reply
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    Haobam martin
    January 11th, 2008 12:42 am

    For a person living with Photoshop for the past 7 yrs. Wow, thanks for the compilation htough I’ve seen most of it earlier. But I feel PSD Tut is the best amongst all.

    Reply
  58. 59
    Taras (Nobs Tutorials)
    January 11th, 2008 1:01 am

    Thanks for including my tutorial, much appreciated :)

    Reply
  59. 60
    Massimo Nastasi
    January 11th, 2008 2:12 am

    Very ice Links. Thanks a lot.

    Reply
  60. 61
    Simon Marlow
    January 11th, 2008 2:37 am

    Excellent collection of tutorials, thanks.

    Reply
  61. 62
    mandeep
    January 11th, 2008 4:48 am

    Thanks thanks THANKS!!!!!

    Reply
  62. 63
    Quakeulf
    January 11th, 2008 4:57 am

    Do one with Illustrator please, as many of these tutorials (especially the product mock-up one) would have been better off done in Illustrator because of the superior verctor format. I cringed when I saw the pixelated arrows, that was more awkward than anything else.

    Otherwise, this has been mighty inspirational, great work. :3

    Reply
  63. 64
    Nobles
    January 11th, 2008 6:03 am

    Very GREAT post. !!!!!! Thnaks, thanks, thanks!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  64. 65
    TmiY
    January 11th, 2008 7:42 am

    Great! thanks a lot. There are some handy tutorials in there.

    Reply
  65. 66
    tAlpA
    January 11th, 2008 8:43 am

    OMG!!! That’s awesome!!! Thank you very much

    Reply
  66. 67
    lizark
    January 11th, 2008 8:47 am

    ” A movie-effect with Photoshop ” link is dead.

    Reply
  67. 68
    ptamaro
    January 11th, 2008 11:20 am

    Great for weekend reading — thanks! Lots of goodies as always…

    Reply
  68. 69
    Marco
    January 11th, 2008 12:10 pm

    Hi there,

    Thanks for adding my “Alienize” to the list. I created a “Top 22 Photoshop tutorials” list myself a while ago, but yours is way more complete.

    Greetings,
    Marco

    Reply
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    Bruce
    January 11th, 2008 1:05 pm

    Will these work with PSE???

    Great job.

    Bruce

    Reply
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    Cristian Eslava
    January 11th, 2008 1:56 pm

    As always congratulations, I write for spanish speakers but even though I encouraged them to follow this site. The conten is so good and clear that always find a resource, a beautiful link, or whatever you post.

    Best regards

    Reply
  71. 72
    Lee
    January 11th, 2008 4:59 pm

    More tips and tricks to sit down and learn. There goes the weekend.

    Reply
  72. 73
    John Collins
    January 11th, 2008 6:52 pm

    This is the kind of site I have been looking for. It has enough of the key elements
    for me to be able to put my own creative spirit into the drivers seat of photoshop
    and explore what I can create. I have always done illustrations with Airbrush,Ink,
    Paint and Pencils. You have real top quality works of art here. Thank you for
    putting your tutorials online.

    Reply
  73. 74
    Malcolm
    January 12th, 2008 2:09 am

    This is an amazing list.

    Thanks Smashing… :)

    Reply
  74. 75
    eko
    January 12th, 2008 9:18 am

    nice reference

    Reply
  75. 76
    Kim
    January 12th, 2008 11:42 am

    Wow. Awesome list. I only recognized 2 tutorials. This should keep me busy for a while. Love it! Thanks for all the work you guys do.

    Reply
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    teknozat
    January 12th, 2008 2:18 pm

    thanks, i will try each of them!

    Reply
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    Steve
    January 12th, 2008 4:22 pm

    Very nice list. Appreciate the effort.

    Reply
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    Kate
    January 12th, 2008 8:07 pm

    This post satisfy my photoshop needs.

    Reply
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    coding.joker
    January 12th, 2008 9:53 pm

    great tutorials that we can’t find it in an hour. That’s why I love Smashing Magazine. I can’t hardly find like that kind of Painting tutorials.

    Reply
  80. 81
    jez
    January 13th, 2008 4:18 am

    this one is perfect, thank you alot for this great collection of useful tips and tricks!

    Reply
  81. 82
    Khaled
    January 13th, 2008 1:17 pm

    This is gold!

    Reply
  82. 83
    KAPSCigarBar
    January 13th, 2008 2:15 pm

    Nice list of tutorials, thanks! I guess I wont be getting any sleep anytime soon, I have a bunch of new ideas to go and try out.

    bs

    Reply
  83. 84
    rigor
    January 14th, 2008 9:01 am

    man, this is one killer list… rock and roll

    Reply
  84. 85
    Niko
    January 14th, 2008 7:14 pm

    o_O im-pre-sio-nan-te !!!

    smashingmagazine i love u !

    Reply
  85. 86
    Brad
    January 14th, 2008 8:34 pm

    some really cool stuff nice work

    Reply
  86. 87
    Lukas Rieder
    January 15th, 2008 5:38 am

    Smashing really nice collection!
    Some are standart, you just step over them at any site (glass orbs…) but the painting tuts are really good. Thanks for sharing!

    Lukas

    Reply
  87. 88
    John D.
    January 16th, 2008 3:53 pm

    It’s sad that only tutorials are listen on their outcome and not the ones that are actually well written…

    Reply
  88. 89
    J. Donner
    January 16th, 2008 4:38 pm

    The tutorial “Creating a glass ball” is a rip of the original tutorial at http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm

    Reply
  89. 90
    dharma
    January 17th, 2008 2:28 am

    Man, let me tell you… you started the year with a killer post… too good! Keep em coming…

    Reply
  90. 91
    superxtian
    January 17th, 2008 7:27 am

    wow EXCELLENT!!!

    Reply
  91. 92
    Andrei
    January 17th, 2008 8:36 am

    WOWW, this is one of the best articles i’ve ever read about Photoshop Tutorials!
    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  92. 93
    Sander
    January 18th, 2008 3:20 am

    I’m trying to experiment with photo and vector so tutorials like Beautiful Lady Effect really helps. Thanks.

    Reply
  93. 94
    amir
    January 18th, 2008 12:42 pm

    I wish I could use vectors in professional way!

    Reply
  94. 95
    Wilhelm
    January 19th, 2008 4:17 am

    I can’t believe what i’m seeing. I’m a designer from DR Congo and that gon’ help me to make more money. Oooooh My God. Thanks

    Reply
  95. 96
    Camota
    January 20th, 2008 10:50 am

    Outstanding!
    There’s always somthing to learn
    THANKS

    Reply
  96. 97
    Michael
    January 20th, 2008 4:34 pm

    This is an amazing collection of tutorials..

    Reply
  97. 98
    ludwig
    January 20th, 2008 11:30 pm

    great list. the best list. thanks for summing them up :D

    Reply
  98. 99
    Reza
    January 23rd, 2008 4:14 am

    its really a great page for the designers…thanks SM….thanks a lot! :)

    SM ROCKS! :)

    Reply
  99. 100
    My Tutorials
    January 27th, 2008 2:02 pm

    Good stuff, thanks smashing mag. :)

    ~ Razvan

    Reply
  100. 101
    Yurievi
    January 29th, 2008 11:47 am

    Love the Tuts

    Please DO NOT TAKE THIS page down … EVER!!!
    too much information to digest in so little time.

    Thanx

    Reply
  101. 102
    Kokosy
    February 3rd, 2008 7:53 am

    This is one of the best resources that i stumbled upon lately. GREAT!

    Reply
  102. 103
    gEEEEEEEEEEEEERa
    February 4th, 2008 12:18 pm

    eeeeeey amazing post AMAZING I SAY!!! by the way the “making skin beautiful” asks me for a password, what can i do?

    Reply
  103. 104
    studioM
    February 7th, 2008 3:06 am

    Awesome website! I’ve been looking for such help like this! This is sooo awesome, i can’t wait to start doing some of these! Thank you!

    Reply
  104. 105
    andriian
    February 13th, 2008 3:09 am

    thank you and again thank you ;)

    Reply
  105. 106
    PSLover
    February 15th, 2008 3:16 am

    i feel like i hve found a treasure!!
    this is truely Awsome!!!
    thnks a million!

    Reply
  106. 107
    Marv
    February 16th, 2008 8:47 am

    the best of,
    really.
    thanks a lot.

    Reply
  107. 108
    john
    February 25th, 2008 4:55 am

    this is so cool,,,,,,,thanks a lot guys

    Reply
  108. 109
    viraj
    March 1st, 2008 2:41 am

    these are so………… great…. coool and so usefull.. thank u all..

    Reply
  109. 110
    Jucho
    March 4th, 2008 10:35 am

    its the best list, all are great.
    Thanks.

    Reply
  110. 111
    kubca
    March 6th, 2008 6:21 am

    Great selection ! Very useful ! thanks smashing magazine.

    Reply
  111. 112
    Fred
    March 11th, 2008 9:14 pm

    These are some awesome tutorials! Enough to keep busy for a long time! Thanks so much

    Reply
  112. 113
    giuliano
    March 19th, 2008 4:21 am

    Hi,
    all your lists with images plus description suffer of a problem of readability, after a bit of scrolling is difficult to say at a glance which description belongs to which image.
    I think a simple 1px line could solve the problem.

    Reply
  113. 114
    Bryan
    March 21st, 2008 8:06 am

    Hi. I’m wanting to learn web design. Can I use pgotoshop elements instead of the real thing and still do these tutorials?

    Reply
  114. 115
    manicd
    March 22nd, 2008 8:28 am

    Brilliant website BoH!!!

    Reply
  115. 116
    Prosolution
    March 26th, 2008 8:10 pm

    I am Very thank full the owner of this blog. Becouse of this blog is very imformative for me.. And I ask u some thiing You make more this type blog where we can get more knowledge.

    Reply
  116. 117
    John
    March 27th, 2008 5:40 am

    What is Autumny mood and where can i find it ????thx

    Reply
  117. 118
    Johny
    March 27th, 2008 5:44 am

    what is autumny mood and where can i find it pls??thx

    Reply
  118. 119
    sal
    April 5th, 2008 7:52 pm

    i cannot tell you how bloody thankful i am for this site.

    Reply
  119. 120
    alex
    April 8th, 2008 3:35 am

    hey guys,,YOU ROCK..seriously ..i learn here more than my university..keep it up.

    Reply
  120. 121
    bAdgIrL™
    April 9th, 2008 4:34 am

    this site is so amazing!!!

    Reply
  121. 122
    mashfiq
    April 15th, 2008 2:13 am

    thanks

    Reply
  122. 123
    Rahul Sinclair
    April 18th, 2008 3:15 am

    i visit your site at very first time and i saw such a mind blowing effect tutorials in a very easy way thanx a lot your site is so amazing

    Reply
  123. 124
    gokalp
    April 23rd, 2008 3:20 am

    thanks for all…

    Reply
  124. 125
    Vinícius - Redenção - Pará - Brazil
    May 8th, 2008 4:15 pm

    very good…!!! without words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  125. 126
    Francis
    May 9th, 2008 5:03 am

    nice blog ,finally i find it.its big help for me,Keep up the good work 5 star.

    Reply
  126. 127
    Yogesh
    May 13th, 2008 4:48 am

    Every thing is useful in this list! thanks for all

    Reply
  127. 128
    shera
    May 23rd, 2008 4:15 am

    Hi, Im new to all this,can you help id like to airbrush my photographs using a simple program.Is there a free download i can do this with.I was looking at adobe photoshop but cant find a free download link? thankyou. Shera.

    Reply
  128. 129
    Eric
    June 11th, 2008 2:52 am

    Really good list, thanks alot Smashing Mag!

    Reply
  129. 130
    saeed
    June 11th, 2008 9:40 pm

    send for me tutorials
    thanx

    Reply
  130. 131
    Fahim Akhter
    June 15th, 2008 9:06 pm

    A really detailed and complete look into the world of photo shop. The thing I think is missing is the web part of shop, like web layouts and designs. Incorporating those would complete the whole package.

    Reply
  131. 132
    Black Sephiroth
    July 7th, 2008 5:16 am

    Wow… that’s great! Today will try all of this! :-)

    Reply
  132. 133
    elrijo
    July 15th, 2008 7:50 pm

    Thanks…… awesome
    Every thing is usefull

    Reply
  133. 134
    rasool heydari
    July 23rd, 2008 7:48 am

    thank s,i learn verything.
    good luck

    Reply
  134. 135
    BEESTON
    July 27th, 2008 12:34 pm

    mAN THESE ARE AWSOME. one question is there any tut where you can make watery,fire looking hair.

    Reply
  135. 136
    usman
    July 31st, 2008 2:46 pm

    i think this site is simply the best !!!
    i love this
    u really rock

    Reply
  136. 137
    harish
    August 6th, 2008 1:19 am

    hi
    really supered tutorial ed from you people
    i like this very much put more like this.
    thanking you.

    Reply
  137. 138
    Anonymous
    August 11th, 2008 8:41 pm

    real helpful thanx =]

    Reply
  138. 139
    adriana
    August 13th, 2008 2:04 pm

    Im really glad to find this site! You have great resource of things and these tutorials are very nice.thnx!

    Reply
  139. 140
    Pradeep
    August 21st, 2008 7:46 pm

    this is so cool,,,,,,,thanks a lot guys

    Reply
  140. 141
    Ahmed Dashti
    September 1st, 2008 8:21 am

    if this is my brother he’ll say “worst list ever” he’s very annoying…He dont know Photoshop

    (This a Great list!!)

    Thanks

    Reply
  141. 142
    ashley
    October 3rd, 2008 12:08 pm

    im sitting in class with tj and we think that you should tell us how to make a creepy house picture.

    Reply
  142. 143
    gana
    October 6th, 2008 2:17 am

    nice tutorials

    Reply
  143. 144
    kayla
    October 8th, 2008 9:28 am

    absolutly love this web site great pics!!!!!!!:]

    Reply
  144. 145
    Jackie
    October 11th, 2008 5:25 am

    Thinks 4 the tuts I bought Photoshop Element 7, can’t wait 2 get it
    and start working with it ? Keep up the good tuts:)

    Reply
  145. 146
    Md Rabiul Awal
    October 12th, 2008 11:52 pm

    thanks, i will try each of them!

    Reply
  146. 147
    AlBANIAN
    October 15th, 2008 6:52 am

    wwwoooooooowwww the best tuto man

    Reply
  147. 148
    jack
    October 16th, 2008 6:54 am

    it`s good

    thanks

    from china

    Reply
  148. 149
    Q5 Webdesign
    October 16th, 2008 12:13 pm

    Great list, thanks so much

    Reply
  149. 150
    Robert
    October 29th, 2008 4:59 pm

    Thank you for putting all these tutorials up.
    My goal is to create designs and websites like,
    2Advanced, Wa007, UncommondThinking, BillyBussey and many others.
    Trying to create high impact dynamic websites with outstanding wow effect.
    I like the Flamming Hair, 3D Ice Cube and Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set.
    there are a few others I love, but does not make sense taking up room as we all know…..lol

    I need to start learning how to take my designs like Menus and pictures and logos I create in Photoshop CS3 or CS4 and import them into Flash and use them in website Flash high dynamic site.
    Everyday I learn more and more about Photoshop, and its because of guys like you teaching us the right way.

    Thank you very much.
    Robert.

    Reply
  150. 151
    Maede
    November 7th, 2008 11:12 pm

    thanks a lot for this good collection. it is so useful!

    Reply
  151. 152
    Noman
    November 12th, 2008 11:06 pm

    Please Adobe Photoshop tutotials this my Id and complete description

    Reply
  152. 153
    Stad
    November 15th, 2008 4:18 am

    Great,my favourite

    Reply
  153. 154
    doom
    November 17th, 2008 9:43 pm

    good tuts

    Reply
  154. 155
    Dennis
    November 19th, 2008 8:02 am

    I found this website very awesome. I want to download all this stuff. I can use all of this for all my computer art :))))

    Reply
  155. 156
    digital artist
    November 28th, 2008 7:36 am

    Thx for your GREAT work!
    Great Job Guys!

    Reply
  156. 157
    saintye
    December 8th, 2008 2:41 am

    get caughted by me….nice share….from china~~~

    Reply
  157. 158
    Ruslan
    December 9th, 2008 3:34 pm

    Wow, thanks !

    Reply
  158. 159
    hsn
    December 21st, 2008 8:41 am

    hey all great list
    if anyone knows a tutorial that could help change people faces to look depressed and all in black tears and stuff

    Reply
  159. 160
    poravat
    December 25th, 2008 5:19 pm

    Thankyou for tutorial

    From THAILAND ^^

    Reply
  160. 161
    mbrook
    December 30th, 2008 5:48 pm

    many old photos, would like to scan & bring back to life. which of the photoshop (if any) versons would be best to use.

    Reply
  161. 162
    yoyo
    January 13th, 2009 7:55 am

    many thanks for the awsome tutorial :)

    Reply
  162. 163
    Hema
    January 18th, 2009 11:02 pm

    thank you and again thank you ;)

    Reply
  163. 164
    Robert
    January 26th, 2009 3:34 am

    thank you..thank you..thank you..thank you..very much!!!!

    Reply
  164. 165
    waren
    February 3rd, 2009 6:40 pm

    hi guys thanks for your tutors, you make more good in photoshop haahahahha..

    Reply
  165. 166
    sidos
    February 14th, 2009 3:10 pm

    the best web site for tutorials i have ever seen and i’ve been looking for a longgg time thx

    Reply
  166. 167
    Wut Yee Tun
    February 27th, 2009 1:11 am

    your site is very useful for me..thankkkkkkks….

    Reply
  167. 168
    Wut Yee Tun
    February 27th, 2009 1:52 am

    your site is very useful for me,thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkk you very much.

    Reply
  168. 169
    vartika jain
    March 1st, 2009 2:45 am

    i visited this site for the first time,and its very good.i hope it will grow further.
    thanks .

    Reply
  169. 170
    Michael Rytter
    March 5th, 2009 12:44 am

    This is an Incredible site! I can’t believe it. I found you because you are following me on Twitter.

    I was going to “remove” you because, judging by the “logo-instead-of-picture”, I figured either you were a commercial entity about to spam the crap out of me, or you were irrelavent to me. I decided to check out the website first, and I’m really glad I did! Just goes to show that….”You can’t always judge the book by the cover!”

    Kudos on the great resources you have consolidated under one very nicely designed roof! I’ll be back…. alot!

    Reply
  170. 171
    Geoff Ward
    March 14th, 2009 7:40 am

    I have been trying to place an order for your e-books but your internet page will not accept payment or accept my email address.
    My request for a new password has also been rejected.
    Can you help ?

    Geoff Ward

    Reply
  171. 172
    shabdita
    March 20th, 2009 5:24 pm

    awsome tutorials…so much of knowledge at one place..!!
    thnx..

    Reply
  172. 173
    Luis Ruberte
    March 24th, 2009 3:49 pm

    This is Greate. Luv the List thanx

    Reply
  173. 174
    Peaf Log
    March 25th, 2009 9:11 am

    Great tuts

    Reply
  174. 175
    solexy
    April 12th, 2009 12:13 pm

    great,
    thx,

    Reply
  175. 176
    tony cruz
    April 14th, 2009 9:10 pm

    thanks awsome tips

    Reply
  176. 177
    surendar
    April 24th, 2009 9:42 pm

    super,
    great,

    Reply
  177. 178
    chinaman
    May 1st, 2009 4:32 pm

    thanks! very useful, even the biggeners can follow the steps.

    Reply
  178. 179
    Liza
    May 5th, 2009 2:00 pm

    Oh my 70 photoshop techniques are way to overwhelming for me. I’m a new digital photography looking to clean up some of my shots and try to sell them. I need the basics to start with and if need will pay for an online course. Help?! Any suggestions. I’ve seen the manual for the CS3photoshop and know my head will spin if I try to make sense of that. Online, videos or_____? How do I get started? Thanks for your reply inadvance?!

    Reply
  179. 180
    André Villeneuve
    May 21st, 2009 6:49 am

    Nice content

    Reply
  180. 181
    Anuraj
    June 23rd, 2009 5:00 am

    this is too helpful………………..

    This is an amazing list.

    Thanks Smashing… :)

    Reply
  181. 182
    avtar singh deogan
    June 25th, 2009 12:14 am

    good hai jiiiiiiiiiiii………….

    Reply
  182. 183
    rhay
    June 30th, 2009 10:20 pm

    nice tutorials…
    the best………

    Reply
  183. 184
    Ferol
    August 6th, 2009 11:02 am

    You’re the best… wow… that’s really a helpful site… what a easy way to learn on photoshop… please keep going on and thanks a lot!!!

    Reply
  184. 185
    kate
    August 8th, 2009 12:04 am

    i love this tutorials,thanks.

    Reply
  185. 186
    Shabeer
    August 15th, 2009 11:43 pm

    Its Very Usefull for Me Thank u Sooooooooo Much

    Reply
  186. 187
    ephoto
    September 24th, 2009 1:25 am

    Thanks for the qualitative review. Is to that to learn

    Reply
  187. 188
    linxiting
    September 24th, 2009 7:39 am

    Amazinnnn….

    Reply
  188. 189
    Gareth
    September 27th, 2009 11:00 am

    Superb….I don’t know where to start!

    Reply
  189. 190
    AHMED
    October 17th, 2009 3:04 pm

    Just ..
    the best …….

    Reply
  190. 191
    Miss Mfon Udoudo, AKS, Nigeria
    October 21st, 2009 12:22 am

    You guys are something else, i have been having this high interest in photo shop, but never knew where to start, but i can really start something with you, though i need more illustrations .
    Mfon.

    Reply
  191. 192
    creativebrain
    November 2nd, 2009 1:19 am

    awesome.. good inspirations for design

    Reply
  192. 193
    dubovoy_aleksandr
    November 10th, 2009 12:24 am

    great list

    Reply
  193. 194
    Mwidayat
    November 22nd, 2009 6:41 am

    Its God Information…..

    Reply
  194. 195
    alize
    December 8th, 2009 2:12 pm

    this iz da best website ever soooooo much 2 learn i recamend this website t2 future computer tech.

    Reply
  195. 196
    faizan
    December 13th, 2009 9:44 am

    awsome . . . . !

    Reply
  196. 197
    Ali Qayyum
    December 19th, 2009 8:56 am

    awesome collection dude

    Reply
  197. 198
    amole
    January 9th, 2010 2:43 am

    great post For freelance website designing work please check website

    Reply
  198. 199
    ABHA JAIN
    January 30th, 2010 2:33 pm

    its really marvelous collection and awesome display . fabulous job well done keep it up love

    Reply
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    amrit
    February 7th, 2010 7:38 pm

    how can i download all these tuts in a single click? please send a link
    thanks in advance

    Reply
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