50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

Nov 14th in Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

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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Author: Danny Outlaw

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.

1. Manipulating a WW2 Fighter Aircraft

2. 6 Quick 'n Dirty Text Effects From Scratch

4. Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster

5. Miodern Art

6. Idiots Guide to Small Planets

7. 10 Step Lighting Effect

8. 3D Transform a Colorful Cube Design

9. Silhouettes and Gradients

10. Pencil It In

11. Dramatic Wrinkles

12. Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter

13. Text In Stitches

14. 3D Pixel Stretch Effects

15. How to Make Eyes Pop

16. Watercolor Effect

17. Create a Basic Vexel Image

18. Complex Repeating Patterns Part I

19. Christmas Tree

20. How to create a T-shirt from scratch tutorial

21. Retro Colors

22. Design a Glossy Download Icon

23. Wood Inlay Text

24. Add Visual texture in 3 Easy Steps

25. CD Burner

26. Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Easy Steps

27. Wicked Worn Vintage Poster

28. Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

29. Vintage Photo Corners

30. Mysterious Lighting Effect Tutorial for Photoshop

31. Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

32. The Out of Bounds Photoshop Effect

33. Faking miniature photographs with photoshop

34. Fashion Shot

35. Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop

36. Creating Custom Patterns

37. Create the Glass Shelf Dock from Leopard OS in Photoshop

38. Really Cool Digital Make up in Photoshop in 10 min

39. Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design

40. Vanity License Plate

41. Easily Create a Beautiful, Unique Website Header

42. Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop

43. Orange Porsche. Fruit Skin

44. Wrinkled Photo

45. Frayed Denim Patch With Stitches

46. Enhance Graphics with Easy Depth of Field

47. Colorful Glowing Text

48. Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs

49. Create an amazing Ad in Photoshop

50. Create an Awesome Music Poster


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    braind0ubt November 14th

    I miss seeing these types of tutorials on this site… Thanks for the list!

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    Jacob November 14th

    This is exactly what I need because I am new to Photoshop. Thank you so much!

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    pe November 14th

    nice one. :)

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    Aaron November 14th

    This is great! I love it! Finally more tutorials for us photoshoppers to use!

    By the way though, many of these tutorials are not for beginners, as I used to be myself. Many of the steps are not explained thoroughly enough for beginners.

    All in all, it was great all the same! I can’t wait to try these on some of my projects!

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    Nick November 14th

    Always good to be reminded of the basics. Very inspiring post.

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    Nick November 14th

    Nice list, although I’m noticing that you’re starting to repost a some of the same tutorials 4-5 times.

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    Tom Ross November 14th

    Thanks for featuring my tutorial. Nice list you have here :)

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    insic November 14th

    wow cool list.

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      josephsasa April 14th

      ya^^

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    Josh November 14th

    datz the *hit i like!

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    superkrm November 14th

    wheres number 3

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    kamel November 14th

    ok so today everybody got to know that…

    R.I.P. psdtuts!

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    Marloes November 14th

    Wow… thank you!!! Gonna try these tuts all soon!

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    jbcarey November 14th

    My wife is gonna appreciate this… she’s been buggin me to learn AI and PS

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    ciao November 14th

    interesting

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    k42 November 14th

    thanks but..
    #16 links to a wrong tutorial

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    Andris November 14th

    the list looks pretty inspiring to me. hope to get the time to try some of these. thanx for the list.

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    WoW-Sky November 14th

    WoooooW amazing tuts I really like most of them ^___^

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    legend November 14th

    woohhooo…thanx

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    Fabio Sasso November 14th

    Hey guys thanks a lot for listing some of my tutorials :)

    Great list.

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    kiran November 14th

    Thank for sharing.Nice post.

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    Dave November 14th

    I agree..same stuff over again.

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    digitalpharaoh November 14th

    The more you guys post, the more I enjoy looking around here.

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    Matt November 14th

    beautiful!!!

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    J November 14th

    COME ON!!!!
    WHY WHY WHY WHY POST THE SAME TUTORIAIS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN?

    JUST TO SAY 50 TUTORIAIS?

    COME ON, PUT 30, 20, 10!!!! BUT ORIGINALS, PLEASE.

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    Lucas Motta November 14th

    Where is the tutorial number #3?
    The list goes from 2 to 4! hahaha

    But anyway, it’s a great list! :D
    Thanks!

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    xQlusive November 14th

    There are some tutorials posted more then once, but those new ones are very cool! thanx for these! …

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    Ernest Ojeh November 15th

    Thanks for this collection. though i’ve already seen most of them..

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    gNcWebmaster November 15th

    Hmm. It’s very good tutorials. Thanks.

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    Timothy November 15th

    This is probably one of the best lists i’ve seen so far. Once again. PSDtuts have done it again. Good work!

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    Joe November 15th

    49 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

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    Rijalul Fikri November 15th

    Wow, nice list.

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    sean steezy November 15th

    I totally tried to submit the ‘wrinkles’ one as a tut over on this site as a super easy HDR effect w/camera raw, but it didn’t make it. That’s weird that we used the exact same photo too, free from iStock….. word.

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    Josh November 15th

    look pretty cool, I’ll be sure to try some out tonight =]

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    Takumi86 November 15th

    HOLY SMOKE, THAT WAS AWESOME!!

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    Fabryz November 15th

    Nice collection, i did some of them months ago

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    afrix November 15th

    Nice presentation!
    http://afrix99.deviantart.com/

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    Toan November 15th

    The h3 is toooo big!

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    ims November 15th

    thank u very much !!

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    Emmett November 15th

    Holy moly, these are amazing…thanks!

    Emmett
    http://www.filmandgamecomposers.com

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    MONSTER November 15th

    When will I ever get through them all!

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    Jonas November 15th

    What’s next, a round-up of the top 50 round-ups of tutorials? If people want to do roundups, that’s fine, but make them do it for free. Don’t pay them for re-hashing the same old links.

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    Jens November 15th

    Thanks a lot ;) Great stuff!!

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    Phil E. Drifter November 15th

    totally photoshopped, i would know, i’ve seen a few photoshooped images in my day.

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    Jon November 15th

    where’s #3?

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    Mabuc November 15th

    Wow I really like this list, superb list here.

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    Thanasis November 15th

    #31 doesn’t exist

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    webthese November 15th

    Nice and great list. Includign usefull and superb Ps tutorials. Thanks…

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    Julia November 16th

    For a year since I got photoshop I have been overwhelmed. All these tutorials on the site and dont know where to start. Sure I know the tools and and how to use them. But really dont know how to do anything else. These are the tutorials I was looking for. Thanks. I can get started.

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    Seb November 16th

    The images of #2 and #16 are wrong…
    Anyway nice list!

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    Manuel Minino November 16th

    cool

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    Lubes November 16th

    “Dramatic Wrinkles” needs to be renamed “Old Man with Bucket of Soot Dumped in His Face.”

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    Josh November 16th

    Most of the links don’t work, the account is suspended.

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    Dee November 16th

    The list is really good but aren’t you guys bothered at the title “FOR whatever BEGINNERS”?????!!!!!!!

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    cgr55 November 17th

    A good list…

    but…

    I’d rather see 5 never before seen tutorials than to see 50 of the same or nearly the same ones you’ve posted before. Come on. It’s time for some tutorials with new concepts. I know they will come soon..

    The REASON why you’ll see many vintage effects on the list is because the list itself is composed with wrinkled old tutorials.. Is this a trick or treat? Halloween is over.

    no, I’m just kidding in a way that I’m a little disappointed in this site in a way that I cannot remove or photoshop it.

    Lol at #6 titled Idiots Guide to Small Planets.

    thanks anyway…

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    shatta November 18th

    Bro…You are the best…
    Bless from Costa Rica

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    Swapnnil November 19th

    Good list, but ‘clever’ beginners?

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    Sujon November 19th

    very good …..

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    Nandini November 20th

    Awesome man. What a lovely presentation. Congratulations Danny. I must say you have done an excellent web designing work for this post. I have asked many of my friends to go through this visually appealing post. Thank you.

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    Scotty November 21st

    PLEASE add the correct link to #16. I have used this tutorial before and could not find it again. Does anyone have the correct link?

    Thanks!

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    tasarhane November 21st

    I also like this list :)

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    Rosario November 21st

    Sweet Jesus !, you made my learning task more easy :)

    Thanks a lot.

    - Rosario

    http://www.pix89.com

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    Paddy November 21st

    Great tips here. I’ve been using Photoshop for years, but these still help out a lot!

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    Kovi November 22nd

    very good and very clever :) nice job of great designers

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    joy. November 22nd

    Where’s 3? D:

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    Tungsten Jewelry November 22nd

    Danny, many many congratulations to you. I am so impressed to see such a colorful post. I must say your sense of designing is excellent. Keep up the good work.

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    Nandini@HIPs Consultant November 24th

    Excellent, superb, mind blowing Danny. You have spell-bounded me with your colorful designing style. Great job. Keep it up.

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    Noah November 27th

    Wow disgusting, shopped, every single one of them. Really, try again. I’m very disappointed, I thought I might see some real stuff… I don’t think I’ll ever come here again

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    Noah November 27th

    Oh I’m surprised it took until the 20th or 30th post for someone to say “shopped” (not including me)

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    Deepak K Pandey December 1st

    I am gonna use some of the effects taught in this tutorial to design my blog at – tuubol – dot – com. Great tutorials by the way.

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    Donkey December 3rd

    Cool! And thanks. Came from Digg.

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    Nandini December 3rd

    Great tips out there. Thanks Danny. The images you have incorporated are also eye-catchy. Congratulations for such a great work :)

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    Silvia December 10th

    i’ve tried number 31. simple but awsome!

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    Acronesi December 12th

    Amazing post…probably the best on PSD Tuts

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    d65blade December 19th

    These are great photoshop tutorials and design tuts of abduzeedo rocks.

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    Jokr January 4th

    Super great tutorials . . .exactly what I was looking for and much much more

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    honour chick February 11th

    great collection… nice tutorials ;)

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    John February 13th

    Amazing! Thank you so so much!

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    MarieGucci February 23rd

    The picture reference on No.2 (6 Quick n Dirty Text Effects) and No. 16 (Watercolor Effect) need to be swapped..

    But great list nonetheless, and thank you.

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    ScoobySnacks March 16th

    really nice collection of tutorials here. i actually found my way here via this tweet:

    “@DesignerDepot: 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners – http://tr.im/hptz

    glad i clicked the link

    - Twitter.com/ScoobysWorld

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      Alvaro March 16th

      hehehe I’ve found the link from a tweet as well…

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    2. me too.

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    Steen Seo Öhman March 16th

    Great collection … thanks for all the inspiration and the tools …

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    juliet March 18th

    never seen such a variety and versatile program, thanks heaps….

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    clau March 18th

    Thanks for sharing!!
    Nice post!

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    ebookey March 21st

    Tutorials #6, #9, and #22 were useful for me. Thanks for the great list!

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    art2code March 22nd

    Great! thx a lot.

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    sunil April 5th

    yeah..its gud!!!

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    CgBaran Tuts April 22nd

    Great list thanks

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    Jens May 11th

    awesome, thanks.

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    Ami June 1st

    What happened to #3?
    Nevertheless, the rest had been helpful, thanks alot!

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    james June 3rd

    I would have been more happy if each of these tuts were given in a single page instead of 4 pages providing less advantage of offline viewving.Video will also be apprecitaed if posted.Not Happy as a Beginner

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    Renzo Laron Llavore June 27th

    Thank you for this, I am a beginner and now I have something to learn from. Thank you very much for this.

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    rocker July 25th

    I would have been more happy if each of these tuts were given in a single page instead of 4 pages providing less advantage of offline viewving.Video will also be apprecitaed if posted.Not Happy as a BeginnerWhat happened to #3?
    Nevertheless, the rest had been helpful, thanks alot!

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    trisha August 31st

    gr888 work keep up m gonna follow u

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    Mahmoud October 8th

    WOW!! AMAMAZING

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    Annoymous October 9th

    These tutorials are very hard to go step-by-step

    I just bought photoshop cs4 yesterday and i have no clue how to get even past step 2 in most of the tutorials =/

    Someone should fire the whole staff since i had wasted so much time on every tutorial

    goddamn you

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      waldo October 22nd

      You’d better Try Paint . Loser

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    pancake October 17th

    awseomne dude yo dis is da awesomeist thing ever yo

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    Ask your mother October 26th

    I found it very difficult cause i am only a beginner but gr8t tutorial though when i learn more i will retry the cool things.

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    these tuts aren't for nubs November 5th

    this is very retarded ovr half these tuts aren’t even for begginers these are ment for people who know photoshop basics inside out,

    example:

    “open a new window…” …okay…what size?…
    “paint on the top right corner with a soft brush. do this several more times….” …okay several i understand i did several
    (continued)”now you should something lookig like this with different colour and modes…” …..WTF? when did the requirments change?…

    this is what i mean by not meant for begginners it meant more for intermediate or people who know the basics very well.

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    Brian Jones November 19th

    One of the best sets of tuts I have come across – thank you!

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