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15 Well-Explained Photoshop Tutorials with Fantastic End Result

By James QuSeptember 2, 20105 Mins Read
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Anyone ever attempts to write Photoshop tutorial knows that to be able to produce a good result is one thing, to write an excellent tutorial based on that result is another. Sometime it’s difficult to explain in detail how to achieve certain effect in Photoshop, although the writers tried their best.

In this post, I collected 15 fresh, Well-Explained Photoshop Tutorials with Fantastic End Result. These are high quality tutorials that would surely impress you, take a look :) I’m sure you will learn lots!


Here goes the list, enjoy! (You can click on the title or the image to view the tutorial)

Create a fantasy-horror scene in Photoshop

Today I’ll drive you through the process of making a fantasy horror scene in Photoshop. We will use some of our grunge textures to realize the background scene, several Photoshop filters to create light effects and we will turn the picture of an innocent child into a diabolic character. I’ll show you how the liquify filter can be used to modify face lineaments. Inspiration derives from horror movie posters design. Are you ready to enter in the dark horror world?

– source: wegraphics.net

Dark, Moody and Comical Photoshop Effect

Create a Dark, Moody and Comical Photoshop Effect and sexy artwork by following a few simple steps! Inspired by Max Payne and Sin City.

– source: anothera.net

Create a beautiful illustrated sketch effect

Today i will show you how to do a nice illustrated sketch effect.

– source: pureromance88.ucoz.com

Making of Fotia

In this tutorial George Patsouras describes in details how his work “Fotia” was created and gives useful tips.

– source: dtuts.com

Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial: High-end photo compositing techniques

Want to merge a number of images seamlessly into one design? In this tutorial, Kevin Roodhorst illustrates how to make an Africa-inspired graphic compiled from a number of photographic elements. You will be shown how to add several textures and effects, including lighting effects, using Photoshop and Illustrator.

– source: digitalartsonline.co.uk

How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Colour washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, we can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give our shots that cool lo-fi retro effect.

– source: blog.spoongraphics.co.uk

Create an Ink Splattering Knight Composition

In this tutorial, we will see how to use Photoshop filters and brushes to create an ink splattering knight composition. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results.

– source: 10steps.sg

How to Create an Essentially Beautiful Flyer

In today’s tutorial we will be showing you how to make use of simple elements and colors in Photoshop to get an essentially beautiful outcome. People always over complicate things, that’s why we will be having a simple approach towards this large piece. We will be teaching you in a step by step manner and hopefully you can learn something new from this tutorial. Let’s get to it.

– source: photoshoplady.com

Photoshop Tutorial: Paint with fire

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a simple model shot and transform it into a spitting, crackling beacon of fire.

– source: digitalartsonline.co.uk

How to create retro aesthetic poster in Photoshop

Today, I’m going to show you how to blend a stock image with shapes and pattern, add lightness and color to get a nice retro poster in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

– source: adobetutorialz.com

Artistic dreamy effect

Make a soft dreamy effect using simple techniques to give fantastic and artistic look to your picture.

– source: pureromance88.ucoz.com

How to create a melancholy model photo manipulation

This tutorial was born with a specific aim. I was playing with the image of a beautiful model, with the intention to realize a simple photo retouch tutorial, thought for all those who are approaching to photography and need simple Photoshop skills to embellish their models shots.

– source: wegraphics.net

Create an Incredible Avatar Inspired Matte Painting of Pandora

The artworks from Avatar and the visual effects from the film were largely considered some of the highest quality and innovative artworks seen in film up until that point, perhaps rivaled only by Star Wars in terms of their ingenuity and use of new techniques for visual effects.

– source: creativefan.com

Develop a Dynamic Illustration for a Dance Motion in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create fantastic image poster in Photoshop. We will concentrate on masking and adjusting color parameters mainly. We will put parts of stocks to use in order to improvement defects and elaborate details.

– source: free-web-design.co.cc

Show me the light – digital art tutorial

In this photoshop tutorial I will show you how to use stock images to make a beautiful digital artwork with nicely colored lights.

– source: psdbox.com

That’s it for this post! Hope you enjoy it and find those tutorial useful and inspirational!

Till next time, have a nice 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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5 Comments

  1. GKL on September 3, 2010 2:54 AM

    Great tutorial links, thanks for sharing!

  2. Nora Reed on September 3, 2010 3:57 PM

    nice post

  3. Jenny on September 6, 2010 12:23 AM

    I found many links from your site to mine and was so surprised to know some of my tuts listed here. Though i did not expect it but thank you very much for highlighting my humble tutorials . Except them i think all tutorials in the list are great ^ _ ^ and your site is amazing too. Keep up the great job :).
    Regards,
    Jenny

  4. Herbug on September 6, 2010 5:11 AM

    The last one is great! thanks

  5. Image Maskimg on January 11, 2012 5:27 PM

    Great tutorials list, i like your post very much. Thanks for sharing with us !!

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