50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

on Nov 14th 2008 with 176 comments

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.

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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  • http://www.telephoneansweringservice.org.uk Elliot

    Love the xmas tree, so simple but really effective

  • http://www.riaxe.com Sanjeeb Sahu

    Wow awesome collection of tutorials..Thanks…

  • Shreeram

    Stunning tutorials, mate :). I appreciate the great work!

  • priyanka gavali

    For beginners these types of tutorials really proves to be helpful and enjoyable.thank you for preparing all this.

  • Kermit B. Karns

    I live in Imperial NE. I’m looking for something to transpose a lot of small 1935-42 era B/W negtives to positive B/W prints. I’ve order a copy of PhotoShop 10= Kermit

  • http://photomanipulationtutorial.com/ Nasrun Galileo

    Before you can create Photoshop masterworks, you need to learn the basics.
    indeed a pleasure to learn photoshop is very valuable, because there we can make a drawing or photo will speak, make an ordinary photo into extraordinary, or how to manipulate a photo.

  • 101

    this is awesome keep up the good porn

  • jack Galligher

    SOUND MATE. IF ANYONE SAYS THIS IS BAD. I WILL DO YOU IN!!!!!!

  • Ratty Roson

    I’m a little rat and these things really help. if you say its bad then i’ll break ya neck!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 232zero

    Great list of tutorials…. But where is the third?

  • http://www.hindmaratha.com varsha

    your photoshop tutorial are very nice

  • Vincent Rockefeller

    Where is the 3rd number on the list? It’s seemingly MISSING or MISPLACE? Hahaha!
    But by the way, your post is nice and very helpful to the new users like me. Thanks! :D

  • http://www.geekandblogger.com Pavan Somu

    Superb. These are really helpful for beginners to encourage them pursue learning Photoshop.

  • http://umarwebtechs.com Umar Farooque

    great list, gonna try all tutorials

  • http://mintik.com Ali

    Very nice tutorials. Thanks for article

  • http://creative.petalburgwoods.com/ dduuy

    Thanks for the list! These tuts look really great.

  • The Curator’s Monolith

    thank will help me on my art =D next year

  • http://www.facebook.com/sambi.reddy.395 Sambi Reddy

    like this

  • remartu

    i like that!

  • Spaghetti

    There are only 49 tutorials in your guide of 50. You skipped the number three.

  • amanda

    amazing tutorials, thank you :)

  • Motu

    …you’re missing a number 3

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