Chamli Tennakoon :: Art Director | Graphic Designer | Web Designer | Branding | Corporate ID | Package Design | in Orange County » Photoshop http://www.chamli.com Web Design in Los Angeles Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 Best Of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials http://www.chamli.com/best-of-adobe-photoshop-tutorials http://www.chamli.com/best-of-adobe-photoshop-tutorials#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:02:41 +0000 admin http://www.chamli.com/?p=289 When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it’s not always clear when to use what tool and how to use it effectively. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before.

However, you don’t need to muddle through numerous Photoshop features and extensions for every design problem. You can use professional suggestions instead, e.g. professional step-by-step tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time.

One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. Now it’s time for a fresh portion of healthy Photoshop learning material. This article provides professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Although the authors of the tutorials rarely provide the information about the used version, we tried to pick only those tutorials that can be used with both CS 3 and older versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Photo- and Picture Editing and Processing

  • MP3 Player Design
    In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.Mp3 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Magic Lighting Effect
    How to create a nice light and magic effect.Magic in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Beautiful Lady Effect
    Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.Lady in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial – Extraction Tips
    One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.Hairy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
    This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.Dreamy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Improving the Quality of Photos
    Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.Mountain in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Fake Model Photography
    With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.Fakemodel in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Displacement Water
    Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.Water in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Making Skin Beautiful
    Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak.Skin in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Photoshop tutorial and Post-producted glasses
    To save your time think to photo retouch especially frosted glasses.Door in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Professional “glamour style” photo retouch
    This is the first chapter of a main tutorial divided in six parts. In this one 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.Skin2 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • iMouse — creating Apple mouse
    Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn’t want graphic like that? Let’s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop. 3 pages.Imouse in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
    How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.Comic in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Space and Planet Tutorial
    The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with alot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.Planet in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop
    This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR foto in Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot into RAW or take photos with different exposure – one JPEG is enough. If you can work with masks in Photoshop, you have an advantage. Part of tutorial is HDR action for download.Hdr in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
    11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos.Moviep in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • A movie-effect with Photoshop
    This tutorial explains how to turn your photo into the movie-like image using Adobe Photoshop.Movie in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Visual effects in the style of 300
    Here’s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup.300 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Reflective Bubbles
    For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way.Bubbles in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
    Learn how to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.Statue in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop
    “In this tutorial I will be demonstrating some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots. As far as I know, these methods should work for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.”Picpop in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Devil’s Eye
    Some eyes are just too pretty, but I bet some of you would change that if you could. I am going to try to explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer,so bare with me. Photoshop CS2.Eye in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
    This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.Circles in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Water Drops
    So simple, and realistic, these water drops (and optional ice drops) are also simple to do anywhere, anytime.Drop in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a glass ball
    In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques. Any version of photoshop can be used.Glass in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 3D Ice Cube
    In this tutorial we’ll try to build a realistic 3D ice cube. Usually this kind of stuff is done with the help of some 3D software like Maya or 3DMax, still we’ll try to use Photoshop tools to do the work.Ice in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Alienize: Transform a person into an alien
    In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it.Alien in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Water Spirit – Drawing Fire
    This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone’s hands.Flame in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
    Here’s how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.Car3d in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
    How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes.Box in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Super Fly Box Maker
    These boxes can be used to advertise almost anything (not just software). This is great if you want to catch a viewers attention, and it also gives your product display a more professional look and feel.Box2 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Flaming Hair
    Tutorial with some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photo.Phoenixhair in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect
    Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look. This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look.Paper in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
    This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn’t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!Mac-background in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons

  • Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
    This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.Sexygirl in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Skin Painting Tutorial
    Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.Boy in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
    This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, it’s off from that period, but it’s the feeling of summer, childhood fascination and nature that I wanted to re-create. It’s also a tribute to music. 4 pages.Singer in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Fox Fire Tutorial
    Converting from hand-sketched picture to a digital masterpiece.Foxfire in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
    In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.Neth in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Soft Cell Shading
    Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.Manga in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Sketch to Paint
    Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.Sketch in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Portrait Painting
    Learn how to draw a portrait from a hand-drawn sketch.Portraitpainting in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Drawing a Cute BoyCute in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Drawing from a reference photo
    The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.Draw in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Comic art style
    This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.Comicart in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Texteffects

  • 3D typographic effects
    Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.Fresh in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Slow shutter text effect
    Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.Hello in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
    Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!Meteor in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Smooth Glass Type
    Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.Type in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect
    In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?Bee in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Plastic Jelly Style
    In this tutorial we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.Jelly in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Combine 2 text layer styles
    Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.Talk in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Buttons, Logos & Menus

  • Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop
    With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.Leopard in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Orb Button Effect
    This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts:Orb in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Interface Orbs
    Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.Gloorb in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Creating Logos on Glass Surfaces
    In this mini tutorial you will learn how to create a convincing logo that is embossed in the surface of a beer glass.Bud in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Photoshop Button Maker
    In this simple tutorial we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.Button23 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Design Watercolor Effect Menu
    This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.Watercolor in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge Photoshop Tutorial
    In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin’ a golden badge, pretty much like this one I’ve designed below. For this tutorial I’ve used the example ‘100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.Badge in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • A Little Window…Window in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set
    This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.Menu4 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • How to Design Mini Icons
    Numbers of people have asked me how to design my popular Mini Pixel Icon pack. In fact, they are relatively easy. All you need is just some basic Photoshop skills.Icons in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Designing a Safety IconSafety Icon in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Eye-Popping Banner Ad Tutorial
    Nobody clicks on them, but they still exist. This tutorials shows how you can create iPod nano Ads with Photoshop.Banner in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

  • Color adjustment tutorial
    This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.Coloradj in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Vector Polishing Techniques
    This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.Vector-polishing in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Advanced Black and White Conversion
    In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3’s new improved Black and White features.Bw in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
  • Actions Tutorial
    Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones
  • 101 Hidden Tips & Secrets
    An overview of professional suggestions, tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.
  • Using Actions to Automate Tasks
    While Adobe Photoshop has a host of automation tools, one of the most versatile and powerful of them is called an action. In fact, some of the other automation commands, such as batches and droplets, derive their functionality from actions.
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