This collection includes 15 excellent collections which cover artworks collections from Latin America, Asia, USA, Canada, and Europe, also cover Ultra High-end Photoshop Tutorials, useful Resources, Brilliant Wallpapers, Print Ads, Cool Effects, Futuristic Effects, Horror Effects, Mind-blowing Digital Paintings. This collection will show you how to create Digital Illustration, Dramatic Car, Face Shattering Effect, Feathered Crow Illustration, Glowing Light Painting Effect, Graphic Statue, Retro Pop Art, Steampunk Style Illustration, Stunning Vista Inspired Menu, Vector Mascot, Imaginative Scene, Nuclear Explosion Effect, Smoke Fading Effect, Awesome Retro Collage, X-Ray Style Images, etc,. Hope this great collection will help you.
1. Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop
The end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we’re going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it’s really a part of the original photo. This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the ‘Focus’) and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?
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2. 100 Artworks from the Top Digital Artists in Asia
Last time we honed in on some of the best Photoshop talent coming out of the USA and Canada. This week we turn to Asia – and since everything we learned about geography we learned from FIFA – Asia also includes Australia. Hit the jump for some sweet, sweet eye-candy!
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3. Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images
Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!
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4. 100 Artworks From the Top Digital Artists in the USA & Canada
Last time we scoured South America (and, strangely, Mexico!) for the best Photoshop talent going around. This week we’re turning to the USA and Canada to uncover 20 of the top digital artists on the continent. Is your country or city represented?
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5. 100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in Latin America
Last time we scoured Europe for the best Photoshop talent going around. This week we’re turning to beautiful South America to uncover 20 of the top digital artists on the continent. Is your country or city represented?
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6. Three Short Tutorials for Photographers and Photography Lovers
Since its very beginning, Photoshop is the best tool for photo editing and this time I’ll take you through a few of short tutorials with some very basic yet practical techniques about using Photoshop with your pictures. Won’t take you more than 10 minutes each! Want to try?
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7. 110+ Artworks From The Top 20 Digital Artists in Europe
Here at Tuts+ we regularly witness the talents of creative hobbyists and professionals from every corner of the globe. In this post, the first in a series, we want to shine light on the incredible Photoshop talent coming out of almost every continent. Today we start with Europe – next week, South America! Is your country or city represented?
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8. An A to Z Smorgasbord of Overused Graphic Concepts and Resources
With computer graphic being vastly popular with so many people, no doubt that techniques are being copied and re-used. Following are numerous overused computer graphic techniques, concepts, and resources of the last few years.
You’ll have to decide which are so overused they’ve become dull, those which still have life in them, and those that you can breath creativity into. This article is complete with a smorgasbord of resources and tutorials to show you how to pull these ideas off well and increase your stack of resources as well. Let’s have some fun!
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9. Using Photoshop and Your Brain to Produce Diorama Illusions
Have you ever built a diorama? It’s a depiction of a scene in miniature. Or perhaps you remember owning a dollhouse or train set as a kid. You lay on the floor, inches away from tiny versions of full-size objects. In the background, your brain was busy writing the software that makes this illusion effective.
This fun photo treatment can be performed by almost anyone in short order, once some basics are understood of how the brain processes images. Let’s get to it!
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10. How to Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire
This tutorial is a collaboration with a good friend of mine with Ciursa Ionut. This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects. So, let’s get fired-up for this one!
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11. 53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials
Though Photoshop has grown over time to become a many-armed beast of a program, it was first created with the modest aim of helping users to modify and improve their digital photography. In this post we return to Photoshop’s roots with a wonderful collection of digital photography and photo editing tutorials.
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12. The Top 10 Psd Plus Tutorials of All Time
Psd Plus launched in late February 2008. Since then we’ve added dozens of tutorials for Plus members and hundreds of Psd source files. Over 6,000 members have formed our unique Plus community.
Psd Plus tutorials have been some of the best on the site, and in this post, we highlight the 10 most popular Psd Plus tutorials of all time, based on traffic, number of downloads, and comments. There may be a few here you’ve never seen before!
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13. Using Your Camera’s Histogram to Take Better Digital Photographs
The histogram is one of the best ways to check for accurate exposure in the camera, and yet it’s underused by many photographers. Use this tutorial to learn to use histograms in-camera and as part of further Photoshop processing.
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14. Super-Handy Photoshop CS4 GPU Features Unraveled
The latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all the new GPU based features and how to use them. On the one hand they save you a lot of time, on the other hand they snatch your RAM away and stress your graphic card, but one things for sure, they all look cool! Let’s jump into Photoshop and take a look at what it offers!
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15. How to Create an Imaginative, Magical Painted Scene
In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper. Let’s get working!
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16. How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop
Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.
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17. How to Use Depth of Field to Create Portraits with Blown-Out Backgrounds
Photographers can benefit by learning some camera and shooting principles that will improve their results. A strong photograph has a clear subject, and using depth of field to create a blurred background is one of the classic ways to isolate and play up the subject. An understanding of this will also allow you to adjust your photos to create natural looking depth of field effects in Photoshop when needed. Let’s look at seven such principles and techniques that will help you with adjusting depth of field to focus the subject in your photos.
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18. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits
There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!
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19. A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool
Who doesn’t know the Type Tool? This is maybe one of the most powerful and useful tools of Photoshop. We’ve all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential? That’s why I decided to write a comprehensive guide about Photoshop’s Type tool, including do’s and don’ts of the most important features of this tool.
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20. Create a Feathered Crow Illustration
In this tutorial, you’ll be taken through the process of creating this crow illustration. The tools and resources you will be using are just a few so this will be great practice for you to achieve real nice results while using a limited number of resources. Let’s get to it!
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21. How to Use Content-Aware-Scaling in Photoshop CS4
The latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. One of them is the newly added Content-Aware-Scaling feature, which automatically preserves important areas like people, buildings, objects, as you resize your images. It saves you a lot of time, since there’s no time-consuming cropping and retouching required anymore. How and why you should use this? That’s what we’ll cover in this tutorial!
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22. How to Create a Digital Illustration Using Birds
This tutorial is all about creating an illustration using just a few stock images of birds. The composition is quite simple, but with a little inspiration you can create something really nice. I would like to thank Flavius for giving me a hand with this – much appreciated!
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23. Create a High Flying Snowboard Illustration
We all know the typical “flying snowboarder through the air” photo. Add a lens flare, and you’ve got it made! In this tutorial we’re giving the ol’ concept a spin by using wavy lines that suggest motion and paint splatters for snow. Let’s get to it!
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24. Learn How to Create a Fiery Demon Montage
In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a photo montage of a demon destroying a city using only stock photos and of course Photoshop. What are we waiting for? Lets get started!
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25. Batch Editing and Automated Processing in Photoshop
Hi everyone, this time I’ll show you some of the basics of Photoshop’s Automate options and some practical applications. We’ll create a complex action, build a Droplet with it and batch edit a folder with pictures. Then we’ll create a custom web photo gallery. Let’s get it started!
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26. 40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads
Even people who hate ads won’t be able to hate these: they’re beautiful, clever, hilarious, unique and uber-cool, all with the help of a little program called Adobe Photoshop.
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27. Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
The Pen Tool makes appearances across almost the entire Adobe product range. Its function and behavior varies depending on the application, but by mastering it youll find you work quicker, smoother and with better results. This guide will give you a comprehensive basis for working with the Pen Tool in Photoshop.
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28. Professional Photograph Restoration Workflow
In this tutorial, we’ll take an in-depth look at restoring an old torn photograph. Restoring old family photos is something that you can do for your relatives and bring tears to their eyes, and yes this is a service you can offer to clients as well. Let’s take a look at a professional workflow for restoring old photographs to their former glory.
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29. A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques
Have you ever had difficulties making selections and thought there was a better way? Let’s review both quick solutions, and on the other side, comprehensive and details techniques for making selections. Each approach has it’s place in your workflow. The more methods you know how to use, the faster and more effectively you’ll move in Photoshop.
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30. 54 Mind-blowing Digital Paintings
Here we’ve collected together over 50 legendary examples of digital painting in Photoshop. This hyper-modern medium blends traditional painting techniques with a digital canvas to produce stunning results. Featuring Cris de Lara, Alon Chou, Frederic St-Arnaud and others.
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31. 30+ Useful Resources for Improving Your Photoshop Efficiency
Photoshop users have the opportunity to drastically improve productivity and efficiency by gaining a solid understanding of the Photoshop tools, the capabilities of the program, and by learning some handy shortcuts. This article looks at more than thirty useful resources for getting more out of less time when working with Photoshop. There are a few different collections of keyboard shortcuts, guides to getting more familiar with some of the tools, and resources to help you with automating repetitive tasks.
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32. 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners
Before you can create Photoshop masterworks, you need to learn the basics. Even the most complex digital artworks are built on a foundation of simple actions. These 50 tutorials are aimed at the clever beginner who wants to master Photoshop from the roots.
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33. 30 Ultra High-end Photoshop Tutorials
Ever drooled over the artwork created by Photoshop masters like Nik Ainley and Greg Martin? Drool no longer, because with the help of these 30 tutorials you can create high-end digital artworks and effects to rival any Photoshop legend.
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34. How to Illustrate a Wooden Frame on a Wall Scene
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw a wooden frame. We’ll place a photo inside the frame, add some reflection and dirt to the glass, then place the frame on a wall. You can take your favorite picture and make it look like it’s hung in your home. Let’s get started!
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35. 40 Spine-chilling Horror Photoshop Effects
It’s that special time of year where we revel all things dark and creepy. To celebrate, we’ve collected 40 Photoshop techniques and effects to help you add a splash of macabre to your work. From twisted horror faces to ghosts, damned souls and zombies, you’ll find it all here.
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36. 40 Cool Beauty Amplifying Photoshop Effects
Beauty retouching is one of the most sought-after skills in Photoshop arts today. The techniques here are used not only on magazine covers, but in advertising campaigns, digital artwork and professional photography. Here are 40 excellent tutorials to help you add this skill to your arsenal.
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37. 40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers
If you love Photoshop, you need a desktop wallpaper that demonstrates your allegiance to killer digital art. Something that inspires you every time you look at it, to be better, more skillful, work harder. You will find that here.
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38. Getting to Grips with the Vanishing Point Filter
These two tutorials are simple guides about using Photoshop’s Vanishing Point filter in photo editing. We’ll learn some of the basics about making selections, cloning areas, and pasting images into the vanishing point filter window. This is a beginner level tutorial that will help you master the basics on this topic.
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39. 12 Vibrant Experiments from the PSDTUTS Flickr Group
Experimentation is a great way to discover new visual directions for your work. A great place to share your experimental results is in the PSDTUTS Flickr Group. Certainly, you can show the work you’ve created based on tutorials, but the community is also a vibrant place to share your visual interests.
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40. 40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects
A question: what do exploding planets, energy spheres, ethereal lights, ruined cities, telepathic warriors, gloomy nebulas and light-rays all have in common? Answer: they look freaky awesome when you build them in Photoshop.
Here’s how to do all of the above and more, for a total of 40 excellent cyberpunk and Sci-fi style effects.
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41. Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect
A few weeks ago a friend of mine had published an article on my blog about Light painting. I was really impressed by all the effects these guys can create taking photos with long exposures. Then I thought it would be a nice idea to do that in Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.
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42. Creating X-Ray Style Images From Mechanical Objects
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make an X-Ray image—you know, like you see in airport scanners. You’ll discover how these techniques could be applied to any mechanical object, or electronic device, like a digital camera. Additionally, you’ll learn about a nondestructive Camera Raw workflow.
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43. 5 Important Criteria that Make a Great Photoshop Tutorial
Deciding what is great is not arbitrary. While some opinions will vary, norms are arrived at through a common criteria by which something is evaluated. So let’s define some criteria for judging a written Photoshop tutorial on the Web. Let’s evaluate the points that make a tutorial good, great, or a super five out of five stars.
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44. Top 5 Alternatives to Photoshop For Mac Users
Deciding on an alternative for Photoshop depends a lot on what you use Photoshop for. There are five apps that I’ll give you some information about that are trying to compete head-to-head with Photoshop. If you have more targeted image creation needs there are some apps that may even be a better option than Photoshop.
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45. How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu
This tutorial will show you how to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.
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46. Create a Graphic Statue in Photoshop
There are a few tutorials available on the Internet that will show you how to make a statue, but I’ve found that they are not so easy to follow and also the results aren’t that great. So using my beloved alternative, I created a tutorial that I think does the job very nicely!
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47. Creating an Awesome Retro Collage
In this tutorial, we will be making an abstract photo collage. Lots of images are used with exciting effects. You will be using different blend modes, filters and some advanced adjustment layer techniques.
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48. Professional Photo Retouching Bikini Model
This is a simple tutorial that show some important tips to smooth skin and make the background off-focus. The techniques are very useful and applicable to most model photographs.
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49. 20 Wallpaper Portals and Tutorials
Is it the time for you to change a new look for your desktop? I was browsing through the Internet for some nice wallpapers and found several cool portals focusing just on that. So I compiled a list here for your references.
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50. Create a Dramatic Car Speeding Scene
This tutorial show how to create a car travelling at high speed around the corner of a highway. It covers the usage of Liquify and few Blending Options. Also we are going to experiment another effect from Topaz Labs again.
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51. How to Create a Magical Painted Scene
In this tutorial, we will be using several basic tools and stock images to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper.
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52. Sexy Model with Glowing Bubbles Effect
This tutorial will explain the simple and useful techniques to create glowing bubbles that can enhance the image of your model. It covers from Blending Options to Layer Masks and etc.
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53. Create a Vector Mascot with Pen Tool
In this tutorial, we are going to try a new approach this time where we will use only the Photoshop Pen Tool to make a simple cartoon vector face either for avatars or mascots.
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54. Creating Different Elemental Effects
We have seen the beautiful Water Man effect from Nik Ainley. This tutorial will show the basics on how to get close to that effect. Also we will be making a fire and earth version using the same techniques.
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55. Making of a Forest Magical Scene
This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a forest scene by manipulating several stock images and using various Photoshop adjustment layers to enhance the overall with a magical feel.
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56. Create Energy Lines around a Dancer
This tutorial will demonstrate how we can create cool energy lines using some simple transformation tools and filters in Photoshop CS3.
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57. Making of a Mythical Encounter
Found an excellent Photoshop Action, created by Night Fate, that I wish to find a chance to use it. I will make a simple photo-manipulated mythical scene here, and apply the action at the end to enhance the entire feel.
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58. Create an Action Pack Movie Scene
I found a nice stock from Jademacalla on DeviantArt and want to make a tutorial with it. This will mainly cover how to create the mood that we often see in action movies with some simple techniques.
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59. Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop
Happy New Year everyone! Finally I am back from the long holidays. I shall start off Year 2009 with this Retro Pop Art tutorial. It mainly focus on the usage of Pen tool and doing simple halftone effects.
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This tutorial is inspired by the amazing humanoid works from MichaelO. It basically covers some simple tricks and techniques for beginners to start off.
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61. 33 Digital Painting Tutorials
Digital painting is something that I always wanted to learn. While finding my way to a start, I came across many great online tutorials on it that I should share with everyone here.
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62. Make a Web Interface with Car Images
This tutorial will show the basic methods used to create a web interface with sport car images. You can do the same with motor bikes or even trucks images!
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63. Create a Face Shattering Effect
This tutorial will show how we can achieve a face shattering effect with some simple techniques in combination with layers and blending modes.
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64. Making of Fiery Planets Collision
This long tutorial will show how we can create a fiery collision between two planets by using some Adjusment Layers and Blending Options.
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65. Creating a Nuclear Explosion Effect
One reader suggested that I should post a nuclear explosion effect, something like the one we saw in Heroes. So here is my attempt!
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66. Paint Graffiti on Wall in Photoshop
Here will demonstrate the simple steps on how to create a realistic graffiti painting on a brick wall. Pimp your wall now!
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67. Creating a Smoke Fading Effect
This tutorial shows how you can create those kind of smoke fading effects that we often get to see in science-fiction movies.
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68. Form a Threatening Troop of Archers
Here shows how we can create a large troop of archers without duplicating too many layers. Check out how it is done by repeating transformations.
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69. Transform a Photo into Chinese Painting
Here will show how we can transform a photo into a chinese painting with the help of a few oriental elements.
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70. Lighting Effects in Photoshop
Create some awesome lighting effects and smoke in Photoshop with its blending modes and filters.
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Great tutorials! I will definitely bookmark this page! Thanks for sharing!