Photoshop Tutorials

This tutorial is going to teach you how to draw and color an awesome Vista styled mouse in Photoshop using the Pen Tool by applying some various shading and highlighting techniques.

Learn how to create a fantastic looking dark web layout, plenty of layer styles to get your teeth into.

Here’s a creative type effect that pulls the fill of the type right out of the photo itself. More than that, by using clipping masks to create this effect we can lighten or darken the type’s fill, all in an editable and movable way.

Creating a painted look with an edge mask will make you sit up and pay attention. It involves using a seldom-used set of brushes together with the Brush tool in order to paint the edges of a photo. It’s a quick and easy way to give your photo a very creative edge. And because we’ll use a layer mask to get it done, the technique is non-destructive to boot.

Every so often, Adobe introduces a Photoshop feature so impressive that I feel like dancing when I write about it. The Refine Edge dialogue is just such a feature. When compositing images, nothing does a better job of controlling edge location and softness.

Here’s a super-simple technique for enhancing the most important bits of any portrait: the eyes. It’s a quick and painless way to make the eyes really stand out and take on a slightly sultry and burning look.

Often times getting to the black points of portraiture in order to create black and white versions can involve some amount of witch-hunting via the Levels, curves or other means. Seeking out contrasts, finding midtones, and isolating highlights can be a calculating task. Here is a quick method to bypass this RGB hunt.

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the steps I took to make this golden ancient text effect in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to make a grassy and flowery soft drink can in Photoshop.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you the steps I took to create this awesome starry text effect in Photoshop. The inspiration of this text effect comes from the EA game “Dead Space”.