Learn How to Use Photoshop with the Best Tutorials

Choose from over 300 Photoshop tutorials or get inspired in our Creative Inspiration section. We also have some amazing video tutorials that you will like. Need some brushes or graphics for your artwork? Head over to the Photoshop downloads area for plenty of free Photoshop resources.

Photoshop Tutorials

White Noise

White Noise

Create a ghostly television distortion from any photo. In this Photoshop tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Grain and Shear filter to create this ghostly effect. This tutorial uses the Smart Filter feature from Photoshop CS3 but it can be done with older versions of Photoshop as well (by not using Smart Filters).
Harsh Lighting

Harsh Lighting

Learn how to add a high-contrast subculture look to any photo using Photoshop CS3's Black & White adjustment layer. This photo effect mimics the harsh lighting effect commonly seen in urban portrait or fashion photography. This tutorial also provides an alternative way to mimic this effect for users using Photoshop CS2 or older.
Photo Cutout

Photo Cutout

Create this fun cutout effect that makes the subject look like it's coming in or out of a printed photo. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use Photoshop's Extract tool, layer masks, and layer styles to create a cutout from a photo.
 
 
Morning Glow

Morning Glow

Make ordinary photo dramatic and interesting. Follow this Photoshop tutorial to learn how to create a soft morning glow effect with just two layers.
 
 
Disco Tiles

Disco Tiles

Tired of old boring prints? Try out this fun photo effect on your photos that you can print out to impress your friends. From a distance, it will look like a normal photo but view the printed image up close and you'll see an abstract mosaic pattern that resembles a disco floor. This Photoshop effect is also great for enlarging low resolution photos into poster-size prints.
 
 
Soft Photo Effects

Soft Photo Effects

Find out how one Photoshop CS3's smart filter can create a variety of soft photo effects. This easy beginner tutorial will teach you how apply many artistic photo effects to your photo using just one smart filter.
 
 
Rain

Rain

Add drama to your photos with this photo-realistic rain effect. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to combine several Photoshop filters to add rain to your photo.
 
 
Star Filter

Star Filter

Make night scenes more glamorous with this Photoshop effect that generates dazzling star effects from light sources. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to separate the light sources from the photo and use the separated light sources to create a 4 point star filter.
 
 
Rusted Metal Art

Rusted Metal Art

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to transform a photo into rusted metal art. Following this tutorial will also help you understand several Photoshop filters by teaching you how to create a rust and metal textures using a combination of those filters.
 
 
Keeping Your Photos Safe

Keeping Your Photos Safe

With digital cameras replacing film cameras in a digital age, many do not know how to archive their photos taken with their digital camera. Storing your digital images is more than copying the images from your memory card to your computer. Keeping one copy of your images on your computer is extremely dangerous and many have learned this the hard way when they lose all their photos from a hard drive failure. In this article, you will learn how to properly and safely archive your digital images.
 
 
7 Tips for Great Photos in the Dark

7 Tips for Great Photos in the Dark

Follow these seven helpful tips to improve your night photographs.
 
 
Layered HDR Tone Mapping

Layered HDR Tone Mapping

Learn how to tone map with Photoshop CS3 to create beautiful high dynamic range (HDR) photos. The final result is exceedingly better than Photoshop's local adaptation and similar to Photomatix's tone mapping.
 
 
Flat Skin

Flat Skin

Follow this Photoshop tutorial to revitalize the look of skin for portrait photographs. This natural-looking effect evens out uneven skin tones and reduces the appearance of skin imperfections. Skin tones look more equalized and blemishes are reduced without being removed.
 
 
Underwater Photo Retouching

Underwater Photo Retouching

One of the most common underwater photography difficulties is trying to capture a photo without extreme color and contrast loss. In this Photoshop Tutorial, you'll learn how to analyze and restore the color and contrast of underwater photos.
 
 
Medical Imaging with DICOM files

Medical Imaging with DICOM files

DICOM is the industry standard format for medical scans. Learn how DICOM files are used with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended to create animations and measurements.
 
 
Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin

Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin

Since the pre-digital era, glamour photos have been airbrushed by skilled photographers to remove imperfections on the skin. Now, with advance image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, airbrushing can easily be mimiced with realistic results. However, many airbrushing techniques removes too many details causing the skin to look plastic and unrealistic. In this tutorial, we'll teach you an effective Photoshop technique to simulate airbrushing without losing the texture.
 
 

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