40 Spine-chilling Horror Photoshop Effects

Danny Outlaw on Oct 31st 2008 with 115 comments

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.

1. Mongrel Horror Face

2. Dark Eyes

3. ‘The Ring’ Corpse Blue Effect

4. Cannibal Clown

5. Damned Soul

6. Broken Earth Face

7. Entombed in Stone

8. Trapped Spirit

9. Horriffic Burns

10. Beautiful Wraith

11. Burning Flesh Effect

12. Mysterious Creature

13. Dead Stare

14. Succubus Transform

15. Blood-drenched Wall

16. Mutated Human

17. Death Omen

18. Raging Zombie Girl

19. Crumbling Face

20. Infected Effect

21. Decaying Beauty

22. CCTV Ghost Capture

23. Demon Girl

24. Sunken Face

39. Shattered Skin

26. Crawling Zombie

27. Psycho Splatters

28. Blood Trails

29. Phrixos and Helle

30. Nightmare Villain

31. Skeletal Thinker

32. Rotting Flesh Effect

33. Dark Chompers

34. Vampiric Transform

35. Vampiric Makeup

36. Dark Witch Portraits

37. Skeletal Cyborg

38. Alien Head

39. Hell Transform

40. Tormented Eyes

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Danny Outlaw is best known for his work at Outlaw Design Blog. Aside from blogging, he also works full time as a Wordpress designer. Danny has freelanced from all over the world and is working on a book and website in which he will share his experience about Freelancing Abroad. Danny also has an unhealthy obsession with toys, LOST, and Sharpie markers.

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liz
These are all pretty low quality, and tacky. Not good, not good at all. Embarrassingly bad on some.
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Anon
Those complaining about quality … when it’s a themed list like this it’s meant to be a bit of fun for Halloween … okay, so some of the effects and methods aren’t the best quality, but they’re still entertaining. If you’re so boring you can’t even take a day off on a holiday to do something just for fun get back to work and stop wasting time leaving nasty comments!
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basakbabies
am not getting sleep. photoshop hung. some weird noise comes from the mouse.
Wasim Rashid
wow…thats amazing…ive been using photoshop for 3 years and looking at this…shows that i have a long way to go…to become a real pro!!
mohitesh
ok but not much horrible as i felt
Sonu
ultimate collection boss………………….
jdiaz
all of these links are broken
Owretchedman
Every once and a while I come back here to make myself feel better about my own PS skills. There are one or two here that are really good, but most of these are the worst jobs I have ever seen… NOT KIDDING. Its hard to pick which is the worst of all. Probably the Skeletal Cyborg.
oh, and
@ Wasim
I really hope you can do better than all of these guys or else you have not been working hard enough on your PS abilities for the last three years.
black panther
Scarry an cool
anthony alba
These are great. Very inspiring.
Jew
Oh mah gawd! So many comments!
http://prettymepink.com Pretty
Really like your site! if im honest though i prefered the exploding words one in space! also i the Clown picture above the guy from House? seems like they have the same eyes!
Marizza
I like this site, especially the “40 spine chilling horror photoshop effects”. Congragulations for learning and doing these things, I HONESTLY LIKE THEM and I tell everybody for this when I have a chance. GREETINGS FROM MACEDONIA.
http://twitter.com/robbydesigns Robby
Woah, some of those actually gave me the creeps! Testament to your work! nice.
al
waooooow
Piyush Kher
Great Tutorials! It’s really scarry………
Mekilin Janramoa
Yes, some are kinda unuseful since I been working in the industry for a long time, but I consider that others wanting to get into design have a great opprotunity to learn from this post. I really enjoyed the blood trail tutorial. I would rate that one a 5/5. ;)
http://loreleiwebdesign.com Lorelei
Hi,
Thanks for featuring my tutorial, but I have one request please. I moved the forum to a blog platform, and can’t use redirects anymore so I was wondering if you’d be kind enough to replace link of tut #2 from
http://www.loreleiweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6221
to:
http://loreleiwebdesign.com/2009/01/22/glowing-monsters-eyes-at-night-easy-photoshop-tutorial/
Thanks a lot!!

http://behance.net/alexbeltechi Alex Beltechi
Got that fixed.

http://loreleiwebdesign.com Lorelei
Thanks a lot, Alex!

Xstar
Quick thank you for sharing. There are not bad tuts only one’s not shared. Everyone of these has a bit to share and learn from. So thank you for taking your time to develop them and post.
http://www.psd-dude.com PsdDude
Nice list of tutorials! I have a tut that is really scary http://www.psd-dude.com/tutorials/photoshop.aspx?t=the-mad-horror-clown check it out!
c00lajay
I really liked the “allien head” =D (38)
http://www.17ps8.com peter
good list …
Craig Grantz
Nice tuts! I am really happy to see melissa clifton on here at #30
She was an inspiration to me during my college time in 2006.
She rocks
vishal prajapati
good work.
twice
Holly shit i cant believe how tacky all of these are hahah
Saad
Masha-Allah……….
Nice Work…..Keep It Up…..!!!!
Rahul Kashyap
Very Nice……………
http://www.speakymagazine.com/ Speaky Mag
Hi, these tutorials are really amazing, I am really pleased to see all the collection , now i can sit back and learn one by one thanks for the share admin.
-sam-
http://www.instructables.com/id/Zippered-Face-in-Photoshop-Graphic/ HBM
Hey great links and scary tutorials!!! I love them! I wanted to tell you about my scary photoshop tutorial – the Zippered face effect – I know there aren’t any other tutorials on it out there because I searched everywhere for a good one! Then I learned how to do it myself! I made a tutorial on it…So in my URL is a link to it if you would like to see it or link to it – thank you! I love this site! :)
http://www.product-shot.co.uk/ Product Photography
Ghost Collection!Great.
CrispyLogs
Your collection of tutorials is incredibly awesome, it helped me to manipulate my photos with ease. Thanks you so much..!!