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Photoshop is one of the best tools for designers to create most amazing and beautiful effects. We can see many photo manipulations and stunning artworks on internet and most of them are created with Photoshop, today we collected 25 cool Photoshop tutorials teaching you how to create different types of lighting effects in your artwork. Also check out our old post about 70 Dazzling Light Effect Photoshop Tutorials.

Thanks to the Photoshop experts who created these detailed Photoshop tutorials, if we missed any of your favorite light effect tutorial, then feel free to share with us, also don’t forget to tell us your favorite tutorial in this list.

35 Best Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials - Retouching is important part of Photoshop and commonly used in magazines, books, advertisements. It is not too exaggerated when saying that you see this kind of work every day even if you are not a graphic designer. Many methods can be used to achieve stunning effects, sky is the only limitation. However, it is definitely hard to master and requires you to have strong understanding about layers, color and brightness, sometimes filter effects as well.

Today I would like to share the best websites for downloading PSD graphics. PSD files are very useful resources for learning purpose because you can see all the layers and also what techniques have been used to create the work. Some of the listed websites will be well known, but you’ll be surprised that they provide free PSD files. I hope you will like this collection and find it useful.

Starting from scratch on a new web-design project can be tough for the beginner and even the advanced user when the ideas aren’t coming. A quick fix for this can be to start with a template as the foundation. It can be dissected for quick learning and can spark ideas that you may not have thought of. Below are 10 PSD web templates to help guide you through the learning curve or generate some new ideas.

Photoshop is a standard name in graphic design for web use, print layout, and more. Recognized world-wide as the industry-standard, Photoshop offers one of the most robust graphics editing experiences available. The good thing is that you can take your mind of it with some Photoshop tutorials.It probably won’t work unless you’re an einsteinish concentrated fellow, but at least you learn some Photoshop tricks from these 38 new Photoshop tutorials. Good Luck!

Photoshop tutorial bundle and a few interesting ones. I bet you’ll like them. They will surely get you excited and eager to start photoshopping so embrace these 41 Photoshop tutorials.

You don’t have to be an obsessive Coldplay fan like me to admire the beautiful effects shown in the latest Coldplay / Apple ad. This tutorial will show how to design portraits based on that style.

Coldplay / Apple Style Portrait

This tutorial will show you how to create a portrait based on the style of the latest Coldplay / Apple Ad featuring “Viva la Vida” from Coldplay. In case you’re not familiar with the commericial I’m referring too, findthatsong has uploaded a copy of it onto YouTube.

Materials Needed:

• Stock Photo of your choice. I have used iStock: Female &
  Funky Swirls.
• Cloud Brushes: JavierZhX
• Photoshop Action: Manicho.
• Sinedots 2

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create colorful 3D text effect. Create 3D effect in Photoshop is difficult, therefore to create effect like this, we will use a little bit Xara 3D, but you can use Cinema 4D or 3DsMax, so you will learn also some Xara 3D techniques. Mainly, we will work with Layer styles and Pen tool. As you can see from the preview of tutorial, text effect will be very glorious. This kind of text effect can be used for making a birthday poster, or creating any other celebration postcard. So, let's start tutorial.

Combining Illustrator and Photoshop can produce some dramatic and intense effects. Illustrator has the powers (and tools) to easily create abstract shapes, whereas in Photoshop, although possible, this can take up a lot more of your time.

In this tutorial we will be creating abstract shapes using the Pen Tool and Shape Tools in Illustrator and then using those shapes to produce an abstract wallpaper in Photoshop using various color blending techniques, textures and transformation tools. Let’s get going!

Time is Money, and this applies in the case for designers and photographers as well. Photoshop actions are macro program, which has a pre recorded series of tasks or actions. To Install Photoshop actions download the actions from below and unzip them and copy and paste them in your .ATN file type Actions folder newbie tip: (windows users) C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Presets\Photoshop Actions. They’re usually presented as one file (ATN extension) or batch of files and include menu commands, tool actions, filters and effects you can apply on any photo automatically by simply pressing the "Play" button. Open the image you want to edit and in the History window, click on the Actions tab. You’ll see a list of actions that come pre-installed with Photoshop. Now click on the little arrow button on the top right corner and select "Load action". This is surely a huge timesaver, but professional designers usually try to avoid the usage of actions and like to do it the traditional way. But its a time-saver for sure, worth a bookmark.

Best of 2010 Posts usually come at the end of the year, so you might be wondering if we hurried a little bit. We are almost mid-way in 2010 and we realised that there are so many useful and stunning photoshop tutorials out there so we decided to give it a spin an collected this huge list for you. Do comment below if you have any interesting links to share with our readers.

Adding Light effect in your art gives dazzling effect to overall art. We are aware that many of beginners wants to learn light effects in photoshop so we have collected 70 Beautiful Light Effect Photoshop Tutorials. Some tutorials have some great techniques to achieve final result.

We have seen lots of photos of space and planet over internet.. why not to create them ? Creating space or planet in photoshop can teach you some great techniques. Here we have collected some explosion, planet and space tutorials designed using photoshop just have a look at all of them.

Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing.
Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works. In this post, we want to show you a list of 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements.

Color Balance, Hue/Saturation

Photoshop Action 2
by saturn-rings

Starting off

First lets get our actions window open in photoshop. Just go to Window>Actions (the shortcut for CS4 is Alt+F9). Now you should see the actions window on the right hand side of the screen by default, go ahead and browse through it and get a feel for it. Now lets get some actions for you to use. Browse through the selections below and download whichever ones you like and save them to your computer, and simply drag and drop them onto the actions window in photoshop and place them wherever you like ( I prefer to make my own folder with my personal actions inside it to separate them from the default photoshop actions, to do that just click the new folder icon, which will create a new set for you to place your actions in).

Getting the actions

All of these action packs below are very simple color and contrast manipulations for photographs, but can be used on other images as well. You can take a guess at what they will look like by checking out all the different styles on the images.

When it comes to designing a website Photoshop is an excellent tool for it, No design Software gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop in designing a website. For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design ,
Designing a website is not an easier process, Here is a collection of 30 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. They are all different types of websites and styles of design represented here that will sure help you to create a decent looking website

1. )How to Create a Grunge Web Design Using Photoshop

2. )How To Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout