The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
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Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. When searching through all these tutorials, your time is wasted.
In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008. These are selected from our published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from our Photoshop users and readers. Enjoy.
Smokin’ Woman
In this tutorial, it is going to show how to create one smoking woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix. So follow along. With the magic of Phoenix, you’ve created the smoking woman of your dreams.
Turning a Image into a Beautiful Paint
In this tutorial, it will show you how to turn a photo into a beautiful paint. This process is required to implement part by part. You need to define the image by different color parts. And you may use pen tool to do it. In order to turn the paint becoming more realistic, adding shadow into the image is necessary.
Photoshop Beauty Tutorial
In this tutorial, it will show you how to edit and improve a image to become more pretty and wonderful. To edit and enhance the beauty of image, there are different ways to achieve this. It is worthwhile to learn it as this. (Downloading the tutorial is required.)
Create Amazing Photomontages
In this tutorial, itshows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man. At the end, the last adjustment is to draw focus to the centre by blurring the edges a little. Hope you enjoy!
Age Progressio
In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to basically go about aging a woman’s face in photoshop. It may not be the most technically detailed tutorial but it gives you a good idea of the process to get the job done.
3D typographic effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial, the type-effects shows how to create the above image. The key is to create the letters in a 3D package first as individual characters, then bring them into Photoshop for further post work.This example has a few more details, but you can take it much further.
Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you need to find a nice photo. This stock photo is found in the website Stock Exchange. For this tutorial you will learn some photoshop techniques to create a energy sphere effect. Hope you enjoy!
Fantasy Light Effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial, it will show you how to add the fantasy light effects on your photos. what does look like, you can see the sample from the thumbnail. You can just create this fantasy scene using brushes and blur effects.
Swirl Mania in Photoshop
in this tutorial, it will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors. The tutorial is all about combination. Nice to have a try!
Create an Awesome Grass Texture
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a text pattern in the grass field. Of course, you can create the pattern you like by the same method. The field off by playing with the levels are finished by increasing the contrast and cropping the image to make it more horizontal.
Smoothing & Softening Edition for Imag
In this tutorial, it will reveal you how to edit a photo and make it into a high quality photo. To begin with, you need to remove unwanted object from the photo. Then the object will be edited to become more grant and elegant by adding the color on the fore part of the face.
Fantasy Art in the Lake
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create some special art on the existing photo. And, here the author give this a name called “Plasma” (Star, not the TV!). Hope you like it!
A Slick Supernatural Text Effect
In this tutorial we’ll be creating a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. Finally to give it a more eerie feel I added a layer above all the others and with a large brush painted some green on top, then set the layer blending mode to Colour to make it so that the image is a blue-green colouring. And we’re done!
Turn Your Image into Statue
In this tutorial, it will show you how to turn your image into a statue. To create this, you are required to prepare 2 photos. One is your image, another is rock. Using photoshop, it is very amazing to do such combination.
Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’re going to use some super layer effects and a bit of extra magic to make a lettering style that looks transparent and stunning. It’s best to place them on the most highlighted parts of the Q to make it look like they are sparkles from those highlights.
Photo Enhancement Tutorial
In this photoshop tutorial we will take an image of a woman and enhance photos with the use of simple photoshop tools such as the lasso, color correction, and we will enhance the photograph using simple photo manipulation techniques. After you are happy with your artwork, adjust brightness contrast to add depth. You are done!
Create a Brand New Car
This tutorial will show you how to create a vector car.
Airbrushing – Natural Smooth Skin
In this tutorial, it will show you how to smooth the face in the photo. A lot of photoshop skills such as tuning the brightness & color adjustments are involved in this. You will find out more and apply the same idea for your photos.
Pop Art
The pop art that you will create using this tutorial will look fantastic if you get it printed at your local print shop. The final step for creating the dots is to create a Clipping Path between the new layer and the “dots” layer. Hope you found this Photoshop tutorial helpful.
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you to create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool. One neat little composition featuring text made out of grass! It is nice to have a go!
Luminescent Lines
In this tutorial, it will explore you the technique of using brush tool and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some interesting layer styles. Have a go!
Deep and Moody Woman
In this tutorial, it will show you to create a “simple” moody image using loads of simple effects to create an image with depth and composition. This is simpler than you think but can demand a lot from your system. Thank you!
3D Cartoon Painting Tutorial
The tutorial is initiated with the scanned art. This tutorial will show you how to paint an art and make it like a 3D cartoon. The process is complicate, as it is related to add the shadow and a lot of art works. You will be familiar with the photoshop brush after finishing this tutorial. Since you need to frequently use the brush to process this.
Create a Natural Scenery
Readers need to download the tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a beautiful natural scenery. Firstly, you need to find a few scenery photos to do this combination. Then turn the scenery color as this.
Black Website Desig
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an elegant black website template. To create a user friendly and simple web, you may not find it struggling with. However, the differences between an elegant web and a simple web are the background and navigation button designs. To begin with your own webpage, you can have a go with this to learn.
Text Art – Frilly Bits Typography
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create your text art. The first thing to do is to find the elements we will use. There are lots of websites where you can find nice vectors. And the techniques can also be applied on some other texts as well.
Turn a Beauty into a Zombie
In this tutorial, it will display the process about how to turn a beauty into a Zombie. In the final part, using overlay, soft light and color burn layers and soft red and black brushes to add more shadow and bloody parts.
Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create this effect using very basic tools in photoshop and layering effects. This tutorial covered some simple steps and effects to achieve stylish results. The final image is as thumbnail.
Stunning 3D Effects for Text
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a awesome 3D text. You will be able to pick up the skill very quickly. The text, of course, can be adjusted the color you like with the same style.
Create Cool Neon Effects
This tutorial will show you how to use warping, layer masks and simple colour tweaking for a high-tech look that’s out of this world. It is nice to apply this effect to your favourite photo. Have a go!
Creating Smoke
This article shows you how to create a smoke effect in photoshop, and to achieve that I used a photo of smoke and some photoshop filters. The best thing to do is to play with the brushes and with the tools to achieve the desired effect.
Exploding Text
For this tutorial we’re going to use a little bit of 3D Studio Max, so make sure you have it and that you know your basics before you start. And there you have exploding text. Hope you enjoy.
Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a trendy poster in a special way. With this idea, you can rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop resulting in a cool and trendy design style. Have a go!
Blue Glow Dreamy Portrait
There are thousands of effects which can apply to the photo. The main purpose is to make it more elegant. And this tutorial, it is going to show you how to adjust your portrait with blue glow effect. The process will involve lots of layer adjustments as well as color tuning skills.
Fire Lines Tutorial
In this tutorial, it will show you how to add a special effect on a stock photo. This is quite a good example to demonstrate an general idea turning your normal photo into a elegant picture like a poster. Of course, making the fire lines on the photo can increase the attractiveness in a black and white picture background as this. You can apply the same idea on your personal photo.
Hair Highlights
In this tutorial, it will teach you the steps of highlight someone’s hair and if you want a dramatic makeover in your photographs in just few minutes, Then this tutorial is really help for you.
Glamour Style
In this tutorial, 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.
Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout
This tutorial will let you learn how to add a worn look that works well with cartoon style graphics. Different flavors of grunge styles are popular all over the web right now. Add in three images of your choice. Mask them to fit within the boundaries of the white rectangles.
Expressive lighting effects
In this tutorial, it will show you the ways of bringing originality to digital lighting by introducing and vectoring traditional sketches, as well as examining some nifty Illustrator-based stroking techniques. Hope you like it!
Professional header design for your website
This photoshop cs3 tutorial will teach you how to make a nice-looking and professional header for your website easily. For the final result, add some text, rss icon image and simple reflection text.
Design a Professional Laptop Advert
In this tutorial, it will show you how to manually create your own vanishing points, and how to use these techniques to create an awesome ’screen demonstration effect’. You can use this technique to adjust the angle of the views.
Slow shutter text effect
This tutorial is done on CS3 but the main screen should be pretty similar. Finally select the burn tool from the tool menu and select a large soft brush (bigger the better) on a 35% opacity and rub around the lower edges of the canvas so the overall glows seems to be coming all from the middle.
Create Your Own Planets
The “Polar Panorama Effect” is a photoshop technique which is eligible to turn the image into unique pieces of art. It takes a panoramic photo and uses the Polar Coordinates filter of Photoshop or The Gimp to create a circular image that seems to wrap the panorama around a planet. Have a go!
Transform a Photo into Pencil Sketch
In this tutorial, it will show you how to transform a photo into pencil sketch. You will have a chance to experience some photoshop techniques such as using brushes, adjusting the colors & level adjustments to make this.
Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching
In this tutorial, it will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, applied, layer by layer. When you actually see the process take place, the person seems to look fake afterwards, therefore, some adjustments are required.
Professional Modern Web Layout
In this tutorial, it will show you how to design and create a modern web layout. To design a good layout, it could be very simple, but time consuming. As you may spend a few hours to design one nice navigation button.
Design a Cool Blue Text Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to decorate your text with a cool blue effect. Here in the thumbnail, another motion blur design is added to be finalized with the same layer style settings just below the text designs.
How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks
In this tutorial, it will show a simple technique for creating brilliant light streaks which can be used in different ways to add motion and brightness to your designs. By using Wave, you can achieve some very nice looking irregular paths for your light. Very nice!
Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design
In this Photoshop tutorial, you can produce some great looking contemporary designs that fit well as impact posters, by stripping back the tools to creating an interesting and eye-catching poster with a single typographic word. This is a simple way to make your wording looks attractiveness.
Creating a Cool Website Header in Fireworks
In this tutorial, it shows you how to create the Spectrum that is a default style in Fireworks. After that change the Blend Mode to Overlay. This rectangle will be on top of the other elements. The result will be as the thumbnail.
Photo Transfer Edge Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial, it will show you how to create a cool old photo transfer edge effect using a piece of stock photography, an alpha channel, the burn and dodge tools. Now you have a chance to turn your photo into aged treasure one.
Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop
In this tutorial, it will show you how to add the abstract effect on an image. It is very useful when you want your photo to be special. It is nice that you add something on the background. Of course, you can use the same sort of idea for your personal picture.
Lighting effects Photoshop Tutorial
This is my first tutorial in over a year and a half. It will show you the lighting effect!
The New Way to Create Super 3D Text
You have to download the tutorial. In this tutorial, it shows you how to create super 3D text in Photoshop. To begin with, you need to create the 3D text. Then, put the special texture for the text. It may not be necessary to follow this tutorial exactly, you can change it into the way you want.
Windows Vista Aurora Effect
In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you to create “Vista Lighting Effect”. You can really transform an ordinary wallpaper to something extraordinary. For add effect, you can add some extra color into it using Color Balance Layers.
Dramatic Text on Fire Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image. Finally we’ll add a last highlight. So create a new layer above all the others and draw in a white to black radial gradient.
Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an abstract background image using Photoshop. The design has a cool wavy pattern with interesting lighting effects. This is a combination of design effects. You will find it very useful to create another design pattern.
Hand Drawn Design Pattern for an Image
There are several ways to create hand drawn images. User can create it from draft and scan an actual hand drawn sketch. And, most of tutorials would like to initiate it from a drafting and then paint it.
Digital Composting & Enhancing
In this tutorial, it will show you the steps of turning an ordinary digital photo into something vibrant and fanciful may be easier than you think. You can also apply the same skills to your photo.
Special Purple Lighting Effect Design
In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to design a special purple lighting effect scene. It is like our previous abstract effect tutorials. A lot of brushes functions are involved as you may be aware that, brushes can be used to create lots of shapes and sharpen image.
Matte Painting
This tutorial is actually a “making of” where explain how to proceed & achieve this matte painting. The last step is to create a Levels adjustment layer to get the final contrast of the matte painting.
Portrait Painting Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to start from drafting and end with painting.
Create a Garden on the Human Head
In this tutorial, it will basically take you through the process of converting a man’s head into a garden. The first part will be showing you how to prepare the image then add a waterfall coming out of his head with a pool at the bottom, as shown on the thumbnail. Have a go!
Texturing of Old Paper
In this tutorial, you will be able to learn the techniques to create a texturing old paper. It is preferably creating an old paper using photoshop to consume your time looking for it from archieves.
The Making of a Robotic Frog
In this tutorial, it will show you some of the steps. Our image is complete! A robotic frog created using only the very basic tools of photoshop!
Digital Painting Toys
This making of showing how to create ‘’so, you really think. Finally a ‘‘fitting“ background colour is picked and simply draw a gradient. After that the animals are masked and on a layer under the animals shadows are painted.
Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an Explosion effect in a photo. It will let you know how to create a break apart, explosion effect and add some awesome lighting and glow to finish the image off.
Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids
In this Photoshop tutorial, it will let you learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. Your support goes towards keeping this site running and keeping new tutorials coming!
Strange High House
In this tutorial, it will show you how to initiate the paint of strange high house from draft to paint. Or you can draft whatever object on paper first, then scan your object. After that, you can apply the paint through photoshop featuring. Usually from drafting to painting, it takes at least 1 or 2 hours.
Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Tutorial
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create some line patterns. Sometimes, it will be nice to create your background with this kind of style. Easy, fast & simple! To create this, user has to be aware of contrast and brightness.
Professional Dark Header
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a “Professional Dark Header” for your web site. In fact, web sites can succeed with their simple designs. In our previous tutorials, you may have experienced many different kind of creations. And this time, you can try another simple one!
Making of Fire Dragon
This tutorial is going to teach you how to make a nice fire dragon. The design process is very time-consuming. Hope you enjoy it!
6 Quick’n’Dirty Photoshop Text Effects
In this tutorial, it will show you how to make 6 different effects using just layer styles. But, we just focus on the golden text. It uses an Outer Bevel on top of a fat Stroke to create the highlights. Then when we place the other layer on top they come together to make a lovely gold effect!
Orange Porsche with Fruit Skin
In this tutorial, it will show you how to re-decorate the Posche with fruit skin. This time, orange skin is used for making the skin. Then use the color adjustment plus other special effect to complete this tutorial.
Special Spectrum Design for CD Cover
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a CD cover with special spectrum design. Some useful methods of enhancing workflow and efficiency are shown like using smart objects. The image we are creating will be in the style of some of the Ministry of Sound CD’s. Take your time to make one!
Make a 3D Color Explosion
In this tutorial, it will show you how to take command of layer blending modes and masks, and employ simple but highly effective tricks to generate light sources, shadows and add depth to your work. This style is a bit special, as lots of art elements have been added. Very nice!
Create a Realistic Blueprint Image From a 3D Object
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a a mock-up of a 3D car blueprint. After that, an image will be placed on a drafting table. Using Photoshop Extended CS3’s 3D tools, you can base on a simple and fast technique to create blueprints of real objects.
Creating Old Paper With Custom Brushes
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a Custom Brush using a folded piece of paper and then how to use that brush to create an old piece of paper. To begin with, a plain white piece of paper will be taken, folded it in fours and left it in my pocket for a few hours. Next you need to scan the paper using the Grayscale setting on my scanner.
Create an Energy Drink Ad Design
In this tutorial, you will be able to learn how to feature a soft drink product. It really relies on a combination of using difference blending mode and radial blur filter to achieve unique colors, contrast, and lighting to emphasis the effect.
Reflective Liquid type
This tutorial will show you on creating metal type abound online, as do variations on simple liquid effects.Tutorials on creating metal type abound online, once you have an idea of how different techniques fit together in a piece.
MacBook Air
This tutorial will contain 20 steps and explain how to make the MacBook Air ad.
Design a Simple Rounded Content Box
In this tutorial, it will show you how to design a simple rounded content box. To make a nice interface design, you need to create a box and then, put a tab on the top.
Create an Amazing Nike Logo
This tutorial is about creating a Nike Logo. It looks very simple. But, it is nice. It is always good to apply a little change on the existing logo or design as I mentioned in our previous tutorials. And, the your adjustment can, sometimes, make the original design to be surprising.
Leopard Aurora Borealis
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create the light stream picture. The original picture is from NASA site. Take a smallish hard brush and just scribble in different colours. Basically just play around until you come up with something you like. Here is mine with a few more light streams added. Have a go!
How to Create Product Labels in Photoshop
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a “Product Labels” in Photoshop. And this demonstrates you how to create a green tea label with a ninja character in background. Of course, you can use the same idea to present your products with different character. And our example is as shown in the thumbnail.
Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a explosion effect for a human, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. We will use images and filters to produce this wave explosion effect. Have a go!
3D Pixel Stretch Effects
In this tutorial, you will learn a good 3D effect which can also apply to lots of areas. Stretching a single line of pixels is an easy way to create special digital effects in graphic design. By taking this technique a step further, you can create elegant image, drawing, or pattern as you like.
Light Beam
In this tutorial, it will show you how to use the photoshop tools to make this Light Beam as the thumbnail. To complete this, you will need to use the skills such as blur filters: Motion blur, Radial blur, and Gaussian Blur.
Make a Realistic Star Field
In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to create a realistic star field. Firstly, you need to initiate it with a background in black. Then you can create a the stars. To make this in a realistic way, you have to put more effort as there will be lots of photoshop techniques involved.
Creating an Abstract 3D Design
In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to create a 3D abstract design. To begin with, you need to extract the image first. Of course, you can pick an image you like. Then following the steps about image adjustments. At the end, using the brush to draw the colorful line and add the words design in the centre.
Design Watercolor Effect Menu
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall. In this article, you will learn how to design a watercolor effect menu and how to slice the menu and code in CSS. Have fun!
Water Drops in Photoshop
This is a video tutorial. It will show you how to create some realistic water drop in 5 mins. The basic idea of how to create water drops is that they are a bit complex, they have highlights, shadows, transparencies, inner shadows and inner highlights. The best thing is that we can create all of those effects using the Layer Styles in Photoshop.
Magic, Fire, Light & Others in Photoshop
Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes
In this tutorial it will show you a creative process. The workflow for creating the splashes involves taking photographs of thrown paint. In the final, you can add anything you want to your advertisement design. You can add a logo and some text in the image you want.
Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create taking photos with long exposures. It would be a nice idea to do that in Photoshop. If the background is too dark the blend mode won’t work. You’ll probably have to use another one with a outer glow.
Quick Grungy Poster
In this tutorial It will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. We will learn how to make some elements look a bit dirty, create textures and add some depths to the elements using shadows and blend modes. This time we use that filter to create stains in our design a totally different approach like when we used it creating light effects.
The Making of Mystic
In this tutorial, it focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how the designer creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. That is very
Red Gamble Dice Icon 8,378 views
This tutorial will display the procedure about how to make an icon of a red dice. Other advantage – stuff mentioned here can be used in almost any type of graphics you’ll do in a future, so we get the dice in its beauty.
Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps 8,371 views
In this tutorial, you will be able to learn to create the space lighting effects within 10 steps. Creating Stars is something really easy. Create a new layer, fill it with black, and change the Blend Mode to Screen.
How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu 8,369 views
This tutorial will show you how to make a semi-transparent vista inspired menu, using gradients, shadows and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect. This menu produces a stunning effect when coupled with a bright scenic background. It uses transparency to great effect as well as modern gradients. The use of highlights is a great trick to providing a cutting-edge modern look to pictures.
