Hot Photoshop How-Tos
How To: Create a vintage photo effect with Adobe Photoshop CS5
In this clip, you'll learn how to artificially age a digital photograph within Adobe Photoshop CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. Take a look.
How To: Use the content aware fill feature on Adobe Photoshop CS5
One of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the content-aware fill feature. For instance, if your photograph was taken at an angle, but you want to level it out without losing any of the image, this tutorial will demonstrate how you can achieve this effect.
How To: Create or add textures to your photographs and images
Make the texture of a flower petal, porcelain vase or blade of grass really pop in your image! This tutorial goes over the various texture effects you can apply to your Photoshop projects, and a few tips on the best instances to employ them.
How To: Create a credit block at the bottom of a movie poster in Photoshop
Credit blocks appear at the bottom of nearly every mainstream movie poster (and even some indie films). This tutorial shows you how to create your own Hollywood-style credit block, from font to formatting, and shows you several different looks you can use.
How To: Create your own movie poster in Adobe Photoshop
For the indie film maker, Hollywood graphic artist, or anyone who just likes playing around in Adobe Photoshop, this tutorial shows you how to start with a template and use it to create your own custom movie poster. Use it to advertise anything, not just movies!
How To: Create a favicon in Adobe Photoshop
Favicons are cute little icons which appear in the browser bar when your website is open. Having this icon adds a little extra branding to your website. You can create your own favicon in Photoshop using the right plugin, and then save it into the root of your site.
How To: Create your own automated watermark in Adobe Photoshop
Watermarks enable to you to 'stamp' your work and signify that it belongs to you. There are several different ways to create and automate your own watermark. This video goes into the various techniques you can use to achieve this effect.
How To: Easily scale your images in Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop does have a few vector tools which can allow you to scale your images up and down - useful if you want to create things like logos in Adobe Photoshop. Here are a few techniques you can use to create a scalable image.
How To: Create your own Firefox personas using Adobe Photoshop
Firefox lets you create add ons which allow for customizing or altering the appearance of your web browser. This tutorial shows you how you can create your own persona (or theme) for use by you, or anyone who dowloads it.
How To: Make a cool, tech looking wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop
Create a wallpaper for your own tech company or project! This Adobe Photoshop tutorial walks you through the process of creating a flashy red and black wallpaper, complete with a logo and a glowing, live-wire looking line running across the screen.
How To: Create an electric text effect when using Adobe Photoshop
This is a very basic tutorial which shows you how to turn plain text into glowy, electric looking letters. Starting with just a blank background, this tutorial walks you through all the steps until you achieve your desired text effect.
How To: Make your own iPhone app icon in Adobe Photoshop
You can create your own custom icons in the same style as icons in the Apple Store. Then you can upload these to your phone as custom icons - or if you're an app developer, attach these icons to your program!
How To: Edit and manipulate images in Adobe Photoshop if you're a beginner
Here's a complete tutorial on all the controls, tools, functions and processes at your disposal when you edit photos or images in Adobe Photoshop. Starting with the basic toolbox, this tutorial series takes you on a tour of the program and demonstrates all the nifty things you can do to get started editing your own images!
How To: Create a composite image in Adobe Photoshop to get a panoramic effect
You don't need a wide lens anymore to create your own panoramic landscape shots. This tutorial uses a few beautiful shots of the Aegean Sea and shows you a few techniques available in Adobe Photoshop to create your own panoramic images.
How To: Create an Apple iPhone billboard in Adobe Photoshop
Going into the detail of a particular shot of Times Square, this tutorial focuses on a tiny billboard graphic which represents an ad for an iPhone. This tutorial shows you how to achieve the right sideways tilt effect to replicate a billboard for your own Photoshopped cityscape.
How To: Create an anime billboard wth tiny lights in Adobe Photoshop
This tutorial takes one small piece of a cityscape and shows you how to replicate it. It focuses on recreating a light marquee featuring anime characters in motion. This tutorial walks you through the entire process of creating the image.
How To: Create a light box effect for your advertising campaign
Light boxing is a pervasive technique in advertising, used to draw attention to the featured product. You can replicate this effect in Adobe Photoshop. Starting from a blank document, this tutorial walks you through the process of creating your own light box effect.
How To: Create a light box effect around a sign in Adobe Photoshop
Create your own effect of a light box in Adobe Photoshop. This is an exceptionally detailed tutorial which shows you how to start from scratch (not a photograph) and create the light box effect you can use to replicate the look of neon lights.
How To: Adjust color and contrast separately in Adobe Photoshop
Color and contrast are two separate, yet still related, qualities of any image. With Photoshop, it's possible to adjust the color without touching the contrast, and vice versa. This tutorial by the King of Photoshop, Bert Monroy, walks you through how to do both separately.
How To: Enhance your infrared photography using Adobe Photoshop
Infrared photographs can sometimes be challenging to work with using photo editing software. However, there are several separate techniques you can use, like adjusting the white levels, to maximize your infrared photographs when manipulating them in Adobe Photoshop. Enhance your infrared photography using Adobe Photoshop.
How To: Hand color a digital black and white photograph in Photoshop
You can replicate the effect of the hand-tinted photographs of the 1920s and 1930s within Photoshop. Start with a grayscale black and white picture, and then use the techniques outlined in this tutorial to get your own hand-colored effect for your digital images.
How To: Use brushes and gradients to make a high quality background
If you're looking for a good tutorial on how to make a classy, minimalist desktop background, this tutorial shows you how! Using nothing more than a single shape and then your brushes and gradients tools, you can create an attractive wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop.
How To: Create a graphic image using four separate images in Adobe Photoshop
This tutorial takes four separate photographs and then uses several Adobe Photoshop techniques to blend them into a single background image. Using the layering and color overlay technique, this video demonstrates how you can get this unique and clever photo effect.
How To: Remove dark circles under your subjects' eyes in Photoshop
This technique is very similar to the one used for removing dark circles beneath the eyes of of people in your pictures. This shows you a simple technique where you can reduce the amount of gray in a particular area of your photo to get rid of the dark circle look.
How To: Add rim light to a drawing in Adobe Photoshop
Rim light is the light in the background or immediately surrounding your figure. Using a black and white drawing, this tutorial shows you a few techniques in Photoshop you can use to play around a little bit with rim light to make your picture really pop!
How To: Shade a drawing with a second light source in Adobe Photoshop
Using a primary light source is easy enough, but adding a secondary light source can sometimes be a tricky technique in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial goes over several lighting principles to create a second, dimmer light source for your artwork.
How To: Achieve a cross processing effect in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Cross processing is an old photography technique where the actual film is developed using the 'wrong' chemicals. It can add a unique color variation, like giving your subject green-tinted skin. It's possible to replicate this cross processing technique using Adobe Photoshop, and this tutorial demonstrates how.
How To: Work with the layers palette in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Here is a quick tutorial on showing and hiding different layers when you're using the picture editing program Adobe Photoshop. Or, focus only on one specific layer so you can work on that one and nothing else. This tutorial shows you several other good tips when using Photoshop layers.
How To: Color correct digital footage in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop
With this thorough guide, you'll learn how to color correct footage in After Effects of Photoshop using the Curves tool. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Make smart contact sheets with Photoshop
In this photography tutorial, you learn how to create a contact sheet using Photoshop for your digital photography prints. In order to create this contact sheet, you can open Photoshop, go to File, find the subfolder called "Automate" and then choose to create a contact sheet. If your version of Photoshop does not appear to have this setting, your version of Photoshop should have come with a secondary disk which has this feature. You can also find the file from Adobe if you do not have the go...
How To: Create an Apple style bar in Photoshop
First select the rectangle tool and draw the bar. Now you have to open up the layer style and choose gradient overlay. Now you need to edit the colors as showing in the video and then go to drop shadow option, you have to change the opacity of it to 20%, distance to 2 and click ok. Now type "Apple style" in new layer as showing in the video, set the size of text to 72pt. Now open layer style for the text and choose color overlay and set its color to dark grey, go to drop shadow and choose nor...
How To: Remove the background from an image in Photoshop
First double click on the image in layer window then name it and click on OK. Now if you use magic tool on the image and delete the background, it will also delete some of the image part. So to fix it you need to find that kind of places of the image and use brush tool to fill up that space. Now you can delete the background by selecting it with magic tool.
How To: Create a Lomo effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a Lomo effect in Photoshop. This is a contrast that gives the photo a "cool" vibe and change up the effect that you see. First, load up your picture into Photoshop and then go to adjustments, then curve. From here, add a slight s-curve and then add a green channel with the same s-curve that you just created. Go to the blue channel and create the opposite s-channel from the others, then click "ok". Now, go to layer, new adjustment layer, then gradient m...
How To: Create a warm grunge background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a warm grunge background in Photoshop. First, create a large circle on a burnt orange background in Photoshop. Now, go to layer, adjustment layer, then levels. Hit "ok" then the level's adjustment layer will be masked. Now, go grab the bottom black slider and brighten up the middle. Use the overlay to create a center glow. Next, bring in texture using a brushed metal texture from this photo. Now, even the image out by going to image, then image rotatio...
How To: Add dramatic color to photos with Photoshop Camera Raw
This video tutorial speaks about how to create a dramatic effect to an image using only Camera Raw in the Bridge program of Photoshop. In this example, the picture was first brought into the program and the fill light was turned upwards in order to lighten up the dark foreground. The white balance of the picture was changed to cloudy to add a nice effect and the color temperature was changed to make the picture appear warmer. The various parts of the picture can then be changed individually b...
How To: Brighten teeth when touching up a photo in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Looking for a quick guide on how to brighten your smile with Photoshop? It's easy. And this clip will show you precisely how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
How To: Rotate and crop a digital photo in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Need some help figuring out how to rotate and crop images in Adobe Photoshop CS5? It's easy. And this clip will show you precisely how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
How To: Remove blemishes from a digital photo in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5
Want to remove pimples, wrinkles and other blemishes from a portrait? With Photoshop, it's easy! And this clip will show you precisely how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, and to get started removing blemishes from your own digital photos, ...
How To: Crop an image in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5
Learn how to create custom-cropped images in It's easy. And this clip will show you precisely how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular raster graphics editor or a seasoned designer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
How To: Show and hide movie clips with Code Snippets in Adobe Flash Professional CS5
In this clip, you'll learn how to use Code Snippets to display and hide movie clips in Flash CS5.. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.