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10 Exceptional Fresh Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Special Effects

By James QuJune 9, 20111 Min Read
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Photoshop is a great tool when it comes create all sort of special effect – laser, fire, glow, painting, comic, to name a few. However for beginner, sometimes it can be a bit hard to figure out how those effect are generated.

In this post, I will showcase 10 Exceptional Fresh Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Special Effects. Personally I think those effect are really attractive and interesting to learn. They are beginner friendly and quite easy to follow. Take a look!

If you’ve ever created layouts for booklet printing these skills can be applied to make the design process easier.

Still Life Painting in Adobe Photoshop-Digital Painting an Apple

Graphic Novel Effect

Crumpled Paper Textured 3D Text Effect In Photoshop CS5

Melting Girl in Photoshop

Colorful Abstract DNA background via Custom shapes in Adobe Photoshop CS3

Using Adjustment Layers in Photoshop to Create Special Lighting and Colour Effect (Video Tutorial)

Photoshop Smoke Text Tutorial in 10 Minutes

Create Sci-Fi Text in Photoshop

How to Create a Professional Lomo Effect in Photoshop

Matte Painting 101: Basic Destruction Techniques

That’s for this post! Hope you enjoy those tutorials and find them useful. Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience based in Australia. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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3 Comments

  1. Len Moser on June 10, 2011 10:45 PM

    Interesting effects. I like the photograph of the melting girl. It reminds me of a Salvador Dali painting.

  2. David PreacherDude Gonzalez on June 11, 2011 9:16 AM

    Check out my channel for a Mega Man Legends 3 Rap :D
    http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperServbots

    Anyway, I love the banner man.

    And this article was a great help!

  3. nope never wanna mention>>> on September 1, 2012 10:03 PM

    i saw a tutorial about how to remove a background of a lot of hair using photoshop…
    can u please gimme a link to watch it???

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