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100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results
Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane. In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. So, if you think you’ve seen all there is to see from Photoshop, guess again and check out this post. If you liked this post, check out our other design tutorial roundups:
An Explanation of Photoshop Blend Modes
The definitions used here are from the Photoshop help files, with a few bits of added explanation where I saw fit to add them. The Blend Modes specified in the options bar control how pixels in two separate layers interact with and effect each other. It’s helpful to think in terms of the following colors when visualizing a blending mode’s effect: The base color is the original color in the bottom layer.The blend color is the color being applied by the upper layer.The result color is the color resulting from the blend. I decided to use two different examples for this demonstration. Remember that to get better results you can also adjust the opacity of the upper layer. Download Texture | Download Image Download Texture | Download Image Basic Modes Normal Normal edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. Dissolve Dissolve edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. Darken Modes Each of these blend modes gives the effect of darkening the image. Darken Multiply Color Burn Screen
80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look
Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions) Vintage-Inspired Actions (4 actions) Minty Tint Vintage Action
Water Elemental Tutorial
I am going to run you through a tutorial on how to take a regular picture with a person in it and make them look like a water elemental. First download this picture of a woman in a bathing suit. Next download these 2 images of splashing water Now that you have your supplies for the image we will get started. So open up your picture of your woman in a bathing suit, resize it to your liking. I resized mine down just a little from its original size so it would fit in my screen better. First thing you need to do is select the girl in the picture, I am going to use the pen tool for this task, you can use the tool that is best for you. Now with your selection made copy her with ctrl+c and paste her back in the image with ctrl+v. Next I am going to use the plastic wrap filter on her by going to filter>>artistic>> plastic wrap. Use these similar settings: Ok now she should already look a little liquefied Then fill in the selection with any color because we are going to add a gradient overlay to it.
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70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website
This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout
Root - 20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru
Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1. Colorful Plexi Text Effect Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3. Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. 7. This tutorial is so versatile. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop
Create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Crystallized Water Girl Figure with Disintegration Effect in Photoshop. I will introduce a few tricks with quickly combine texture with stock image to create great looking effect, plus a few lighting techniques to give your work a great finishing touch. Have a try! Sponsor: business cards This is an intermediate tutorial so some steps can be tricky – if you’re having difficulty with it, I suggest you go to the basic section of PSD Vault and practice those tutorials first, then come back and do this one. Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (Click to Enlarge) PSD File Download You can download the PSD File for this tutorial via the VIP Members Area for only $6.95/Month (or less)! Ok Let’s get started! To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stock: Model - by =PersephoneStock Water Splash Brush OK let’s get started!
