30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love

 Posted in Tutorials 821 days ago Written by: Dainis Graveris
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Few days ago I created this article 105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel with amazing photo manipulation works. This time I went step further and actually tried to find tutorials teaching you how to achieve such effects! Of course, I didn’t find the same effects there, but if you look closer and really study these tutorials I showcased here, you will understand you’ll have all the skills to create such artworks! More or less techniques are the same and with little creativity you can create your own masterpiece even today!

30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love

I wish you good luck, while exploring and learning so you could spice up your own photos, impress friends and evolve your design skills! This list is a little bit shorter than other ones, but I thought I better focus on quality than quantity, because we already have many, many useless list tutorial articles around here repeating same stuff over and over again.


1. Water effect photo montage tutorial

Outstanding tutorial, you really must try this one and understand how to use this effect, giving you unlimited opportunities to express yourself.

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2. How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a photo manipulation using different techniques. We’ll be adjusting each layer and element to make a compact final image. We’ll be using multiple photos and a handful of effects to create this work. Let’s get started!

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3. Dance Photo Manipulation Part 1, Part2

I love this one, you can really learn several advanced techniques from this two part tutorial, amazing advanced level tutorial!

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4. Create dynamic distortion effects

Extend feel of dynamics and create work, you cannot take eyes of! Really advanced techniques!

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5. How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines

Very trendy tutorial, teaching you how to create beautiful artwork out of almost nothing!

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6. Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color

Combine reality with line art in beautiful poster and learn advanced techniques from this high quality tutorial!

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7. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to transform usual photo into regular, humdrum portrait, even faking HDR effects a little bit.

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8. The RoboHorse Turn Ordinary Animal to a Robot

In this tutorial I will show you with an example of horse how to turn an ordinary animal to a robot.

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9. Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes

This is really beautiful tutorial using patterns,coloring and 3D shapes to gain outstanding effect! Tutorial is easy to create and modify, so you should really enjoy it!

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10. Awesome Snowboard Poster Tutorial

Simple tutorial, showing how to gain great effects using just few brushes and basic Photoshop skills.

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11. Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

Learn how to create photo manipulation using perspective achieving depth and motion in artwork. Easy to follow up – enjoy!

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12. How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop

Learn through simple steps how to montage many different elements in one picture and make it look really good with lightning, shadows and image grading.

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13. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

For every beginner – advance effects!

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14. How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

Explore how to add dynamics, energy to photo turning it into great artwork! Excellent learning piece!

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15. Beautiful Lady Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Colorize and extend this great photo to look it even more beautiful and artistic!

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16. Electrifying Energy Beam Photoshop Tutorial

Great and very easy to archieve effect I really love to use in many works I create as well!

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17. Tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

Add some simple brushes,lightning and color to make your photo stand out!

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18. Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Detailed and really well explained Photoshop tutorial, which will learn how to combine several photos, add special effects and get outstanding results!

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19. Create A Glowing Extreme Wallpaper in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll create a complex glowing wallpaper using Photoshop, which is really easy to follow up.

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20. Stylish Light Effect in Photoshop

Yet one more stylish image effect achieved playing with blending modes and adjustment layers.

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21. Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect Tutorial

Add speed of light in your works!

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22. How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

Nasty photo manipulation, which can be used in really various ways. Lots of useful techniques included in this tutorial!

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23. Fashion Shot Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Enhance your photos with simple effects and get unbelievable effects!

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24. Make Photos More Suggestive Tutorial

Subtle effects, great outcome, easy to follow up steps! Enjoy!

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25. Add Another Dimension Photo Effects Tutorial

Use brushes and colors to spice up your photos to really stand out!

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26. The Making of Mystic Tutorial

In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. Completely outstanding!

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27. Expressive lighting effects tutorial

Learn how to combine several lightning techniques to achieve stunning outcome!

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28. Displacement effects tutorial

You’ll learn here how to use several filters and techniques to show you the way how to experiment, use lightning effects and recreate those effects in your own style.

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29. Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect Tutorial

Very cool explosion effect tutorial, teaching how to break apart a body, add lightning and glow!

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30. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

Crazy and very powerful work. This tutorial will teach you how to combine photos and filters to produce wave explosion effect.

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 51 Brilliant Comments - Join Discussion Now!

  • sandeep pattanaik

    Posted 4 days ago
    51

    Very nice , teach me how to make fine design for webpage on Photoshop

    Reply
  • Poslovni adresar Crna Gora

    Posted 12 days ago
    50

    I really like this, thanks a lot

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  • Poslovni adresar Crna Gora

    Posted 15 days ago
    49

    This is great, thanks a lot

    Reply
  • aznchunky

    Posted 33 days ago
    48

    They’re really nice tutorials but some of them don’t have the files so i had trouble trying to make the picture i was trying to make.

    Reply
  • website Breda

    Posted 51 days ago
    47

    greattt tutorial! thanks for this one!

    Reply
  • Ramesh

    Posted 51 days ago
    46

    no words to say about this ….its a unvaluable designing..

    Reply
  • Mohsin Nazir

    Posted 54 days ago
    45

    brilliant effects

    Reply
  • Rishi Luwang

    Posted 66 days ago
    44

    Prefect……….

    Reply
  • Kavimamai K. SREENIVASAN

    Posted 79 days ago
    43

    Really this is very very useful tutorial to those who are working in Designing field

    Reply
  • poonam chand dhaka

    Posted 87 days ago
    42

    very very nice (plese send all photoshop effects my email id

    Reply
  • murugan

    Posted 117 days ago
    40

    my style for all one thinks of panja boodham in create through photoshop.

    Reply
  • Photographers in Faisalabad

    Posted 118 days ago
    39

    Excellent tutorials

    Reply
  • Nirmal Singh

    Posted 129 days ago
    38

    Supereb Work & nice tutorial……

    Reply
  • kamala

    Posted 150 days ago
    37

    Very nice , teach me how to make fine design for paper advertisement on Photoshop

    Reply
  • ANKUR DEEP

    Posted 151 days ago
    36

    Nice & Usefull…Applications.

    Reply
  • mia

    Posted 158 days ago
    35

    EXTRAORDINARY AND MIND-BLOWING!!!! GOOD WORK DAVE… LOVE ALL THE TECHNIQUES AND STUFF.. WHERE DID YOU GET THE CREATIVITY FROM?? AMAZING!

    Reply
  • MediaGrump

    Posted 163 days ago
    34

    Very good tutorials! I am more of a Illustrator graphic designer, but I am hoping to get more into photoshop. This is wonderful for that, Thanks so much! http://www.mediagrump.com/portfolio

    Reply
  • MDesigns

    Posted 164 days ago
    33

    Nice list, Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  • Sanjay

    Posted 177 days ago
    32

    Very Nice Tutorials……………

    Reply
  • PhotoshopWarrior

    Posted 186 days ago
    31

    Love the lady effect, the glow was awesome, perfect combination with the photo

    Reply
  • khan fareed

    Posted 189 days ago
    30

    good tutorial
    thanks

    Reply
  • haiwo

    Posted 232 days ago
    29

    Great Tutorial Collection.
    If any one like photography as well as me,you can download the Ebook FREE

    Reply
  • Web dizajn

    Posted 238 days ago
    28

    Fantastic, thanks

    Reply
  • MEHMOOD

    Posted 275 days ago
    27

    PLS TELL ME ON LINE PREPARING OF PHOTOSHOP

    Reply
    • yassir

      Posted 104 days ago
      41

      hi you like photoshop im desiner aslamic art you work desian art

      Reply
  • Jitendra

    Posted 276 days ago
    26

    Excellent tutorials,Nice compilation of article for cool photoshop tutorials,I really like these tutorials,

    Reply
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