Photoshop Tutorials

Create a Dynamic Portrait with Flashy Light Effects

By Edmar Cisneros Feb 16, 2012

Learn how to create your own futuristic portraits with swirling ribbons of light. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create light streaks and other high-tech elements that you can incorporate into your own photos!

How to Create an Oddly-shaped Surreal House

By Michael Vincent Manalo Feb 13, 2012

In this photo-manipulation tutorial, we will learn how to create an oddly-shaped, surreal-inspired, stone house. We will learn how to blend several stock images together to create a pseudo long exposure image of a surreal house at the edge of the dock. We will learn how to create realistic reflections on water and also, enhance the light and shadows of the stock images to create a seamless image.

Let Me Sink - Emotional Rainy Scene Photo Manipulation

By Jenny Le Feb 09, 2012

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create an emotional photo manipulation called "Let me sink". We'll come through techniques of manipulating, retouching, using brush, layer mask, adjusting light and shadow a well as other several techniques to create an emotional rainy scene.

How to Create a Chocolaty Valentine’s Day Card for Your Girlfriend

By K Mahesh Feb 08, 2012

This Valentine’s day, show your true love with a Valentine’s Day card! Whether it’s for your partner or yourself, you’ll have a fun time making it. This tutorial will show you how to create an easy swirling background and how to use layer styles to create a chocolaty text effect. Once you’re done, feel free to customize it with personal photos or just a few cute hearts.

Create a Gigantic Fortress with a Mysterious Glow in Photoshop

By Michael Vincent Manalo Feb 06, 2012

Learn how to create this mysterious image of a gigantic castle in a stormy background. In addition to combining stock photos together, you’ll learn how to create a stormy background and lighting effects.

Create an Amazing Surreal-Style Treehouse in Photoshop

By Dek Wid Feb 02, 2012

Create this beautiful treehouse artwork using a combination of photo manipulation and painting techniques. Find out how to easily draw a surreal-looking tree easily using the Brush tool, clouds from scratch, and more! You’ll learn all these techniques in this Photoshop tutorial.

How to Create a Mysterious Floating Box in a Desolate Land

By Michael Vincent Manalo Jan 30, 2012

Create a mysterious floating box in the middle of a desolate land. This though-provoking image can be created using a variety of texture photos and a few Photoshop brushes – and we’ll show you how. You’ll learn techniques such as creating a 3D cube from textures, working with shadows, and lighting/color techniques.

Paint “Mark the Cute Orange” in Photoshop

By Hatice Bayramoglu Jan 26, 2012

Learn how to paint a detailed 2D illustration in Photoshop. This tutorial will show you techniques such as how to create a concept sketch, paint a background, refinement of the painting, etc.

How to Draw an Ultra Clean Apple Keyboard with Photoshop

By Aubrey Taylor Jan 23, 2012

Today, we'll be creating a photo-realistic Apple wireless keyboard in Photoshop! In this tutorial, we'll whip-up the main keyboard in a few simple steps and then finish off the image by creating the keys, duplicating them, and adding icons on them!

How to Create a Conceptual Image of a Couple Jumping from High Cliffs in Photoshop

By Michael Vincent Manalo Jan 16, 2012

Learn how to create an retro styled image inspired by Surrealism. You will learn how to combine stock photos, Photoshop brushes, and textures to create a scene of a couple jumping to each other from two very high cliffs. You’ll also learn how to blend texture and adjust the colors to give it the old photo look.

How to Draw a Colorful Fantasy Dragon Battle Scene in Photoshop

By Dek Wid Jan 12, 2012

Learn how to take a drawing of a dragon and turn it into an amazing painting. This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop to create shapes from a hand-drawn sketch, apply shading, then finish it by applying color and texture. After creating the dragon, you will learn learn how to create the starry background scene and create a fiery dragon breath.

How to Create a Photo Manipulation of an Assassin with a Flaming Arrow in Photoshop

By Michael Vincent Manalo Jan 09, 2012

Learn how to create an assassin wielding a deadly flaming arrow! This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create an out-of-focus background, create a realistic flaming arrow using brushes and color combinations, and finish it off with a vignette and texture overlay.

How to Create a Dramatic Fisheye Spartan Scene with Photoshop

By Edmar Cisneros Jan 05, 2012

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to blend and distort different desert landscape stock images to create a dynamic fisheye-like perspective and use different adjustment layers to get different coloring and feel to the manipulation so let's get started!

How to Create a Fantasy Haven for Travelers in Photoshop

By Michael Vincent Manalo Jan 02, 2012

Learn how to create a secret haven in the sky! This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create this surreal scene where boats pick up travelers and fly them to a secret mountain passage in the sky. This tutorial will show you how to blend images seamlessly and work with lighting and shadows.

Create a Surreal Scene with a Cool Snail that Flies

By Vik Aadi Dec 29, 2011

Learn how to create a surreal mother nature photo manipulation. This tutorial will show you how to create a completely surreal scene by combining stock photos and blending them seamlessly. You’ll also learn how to fix and enhance the lighting of your images.

Create a Photo Manipulation with Checkered Elements Inside Photoshop

By Gilron Charles Dec 26, 2011

Learn how to to create a futuristic photo manipulation. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop’s Repoussé tool to create checkered 3D elements. Click to find out how to create this retro-but-futuristic photo manipulation!