20 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Tutorials

by Jonny November 2, 2012, 03:43 26.5k Views

20 Useful Photoshop Tutorials. So it´s time again for the ever so popular Photoshop tutorials. They are popular because of the big numbers of people having them and of the fact that one can actually do everything with that program.

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But now back to tutorials. They are very simple to understand and usually very detailed. The best thing about these tutorials is that you can learn how it is done from scratch to the final result! So let´s see some new fresh tuts.

20 Useful Photoshop Tutorials

Emotional Photo Manipulation af an Angel

Learn how to use Photoshop to create this emotional photo manipulation. You will learn techniques such as creating smooth skin, creating a soft blue color tone, adding floating feathers, and more.

Amazing Typographic Portrait

As we know, typographic portrait art takes a huge amount of work. Here is a much simpler version I made, which hopes to give beginners an idea on how to start. This tutorial will show how to create custom brushes and fill patterns. Also you will learn more about selection and posterize tool.

Surreal Urban City Montage with Lightning Effect

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Surreal Urban City Montage with Lightning Effect in Photoshop .

Create a Polished 3D Gold Bars Text Effect

In this tutorial, Create a Polished 3D Gold Bars Text Effect.

Dream Design with 3D

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a 3D Typography based design. All the elements will revolve around the centerpiece and theme: dreaming. The word will dictate the entire layout and control the space by allowing everything else to emerge from within. The trees will grow out of the letters; the mountains will show themselves behind the word and overshadow the glowing moon.

Create High Quality Metal 3D

This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop

Horror Movie-Themed Photo Composition

In this tutorial we will show you how to do this using the appropriate light balance, use of midtones, depth of field, blending, and more.

Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines

The Aim of this tutorial is to cover some interesting techniques when it comes to applying textures to human skin, as well as creating simple abstract lines via the Warp Tool.

Movie Poster: The Bourne Legacy in Photoshop CS6

Create a poster with a stripe pattern mask like the movie poster for The Bourne Legacy in Photoshop CS6. This is an easy tutorial suitable for beginners and will show you how to create this poster using only non-destructive editing techniques.

Awesome Grass Texture

Create a Shopping Bag

Learn How to Create a Shopping Bag Mockup in Photoshop

Studio lighting effects in Photoshop

Here you will learn how to recreate studio lighting effects using Adobe Photoshop to make your portraits and other images more striking and beautiful.

Screen Text Effect using Smart Objects

Create an editable screen shot text effect. You can easily edit the text, you don’t need to repeat all steps from scratch, just double click the text layer and change it. This tutorial also has some good applications of Smart Objects.

Distressed Vector Typographic Poster

Starting with custom made type in Illustrator, we’ll move our vector graphics into Photoshop for some serious distressing with Photoshop brushes, blending modes and more!

Create Collage Typography

Creating text through collage can be an awesome solution. Here’s what you’re going to need to create a successful piece

Artistic Photo Manipulation of a Girl in a Red Field

Learn how to create this artistic photo manipulation using a combination of stock photos. This tutorial will show you techniques for combining images and create a grunge-style fire.