23 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for designers

Photoshop is one of the most powerful and effective designer tool of all. Online tutorials have always helped people make their own designs in photoshop. Here is a list of online tutorials that will help you design some awesome photoshop applied effects.

Each of the tutorials will give you the ability to create new ideas and new tricks.

Seamless compositing

Learn how to fake unbelievable fantasy images, like this giant warrior lizard, using some clever Photoshop trickery.

Behind the Scenes: Saw VI Poster Creation

In celebration of the release of Saw VI you are going to learn step by step how to make a dirty and disgusting Saw movie poster.

Create a Retro Photo and Background

In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.

Create a Mysterious Hollow Scene in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to show you to create a mysterious hollow scene.

Create a Scenic Photomanipulation

In this tutorial Andreea takes us through a very scenic photo manipulation. Using some provided stock images you’ll learn how to manipulate color effects using textures and contrasts, these techniques will provide a platform for creating future photo manipulations and will enhance your skills.

Surprisingly Easy Rainbow Light Painting Effect

Give your photos a unique look with this retro effect that’s super easy and fun. You will learn how to create this effect with just one layer and three colors.

Create an Amazing Flood Scene in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to teach you to create an amazing flood scene. The tutorial looks very simple, but it is not. To make it realistic, you have to be familiar with the shadow and light direction.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!

Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images.

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

Create mile-high type art

In this tutorial, Fabio Sasso shows you how to achieve that glossy, detailed fantasy look through careful compositing, and control of layers and blending modes. You’ll extrude type in Illustrator and then composite on textures and other details in Photoshop.

The Making of ‘Constant Slip’

We will take you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. I’ll give you some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow.

Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design

Let’s design a mobile phone advertisement. It’s inspired by mobile phone posters, billboard designs, and magazine advertisements. We’ll be reviewing using Smart Filters and Objects in this tutorial, as well as multiple techniques to create this design.

Create a Catastrophic Tsunami, Impacting the Statue of Liberty

Human Statue Effect: Cursed by Medusa

In that photoshop tutorial we’ll make a Stone Cursed person effect in Photoshop.

Get Dynamic in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will look at HDR photography. HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) was originally used in 3D and is now in full force in photography. Basically it’s the process of taking multiple exposures and merging them together into a single 32-bit image.