Adobe Photoshop is a remarkable tool that is used in graphic and web designing. With so many tools and features, it offers numbers of ways to create the desired look. This is the reason why many designers and artists constantly publish new and fresh Photoshop Tutorials where they share their newly discovered techniques. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, since you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly with a certain technique or style.
In this post, you’ll find 35 Best Photoshop Tutorials for Graphic Designers from top tutorial sites and designers. It covers photo manipulations, photo effects, painting, text effects, and poster design Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.
Create an Exploding Light Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial I wanted to take a look at a couple of techniques for an exploding text effect. I knew going into this tutorial that I wanted a thick heavy font with portions that are corroding and breaking apart with various explosions, and I want some dramatic lighting to punch it up a bit.
Quick Tip: Create a Chrome 4×4 Vehicle Emblem
In today’s quick tip tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a chrome 4×4 vehicle emblem using editable text and layer styles. Let’s get started!
Create Elegant, Glassy, 3D Typography in Photoshop and Illustrator
In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create elegant, glassy, 3D typography using Photoshop and Illustrator. For this project, I used my company logo. Feel free to apply this effect to any logo, text, or shape. Let’s get started!
Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop
Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try.
Design a Futuristic Abstract Portrait
This tutorial will walk you through the steps of how to create your very own futuristic artistic portrait. The great thing is that these techniques can be applied to virtually any portrait, meaning you can give yourself a creative self portrait, or even Photoshop the faces of your friends and family to surprise them!
The Released: Create a Dark and Surreal Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial i’m going to show you how to do a dark and surreal photo manipulation called “Released”. You will learn how to manipulate stock photos in a proper way, adjust light and shadow correctly, make a good use of adjustment layers and blending modes and more!
Design a Scenic Out of Frame Photo Manipulation
Here is a preview of the image that we are going to be creating:
Create a Medieval Landscape in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a medieval landscape using digital painting and photo manipulation techniques. We will begin by sketching out a rough idea of how we want our image to look. Then, we will then add various stock images and build upon them until we produce the scene below. Let’s get started!
How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool
I’ve marveled at the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop for quite some time, but I’ve never actually used it. Not that I didn’t understand how, it was just that I never had the need. So I decided to sit down and create a concept that would utilize this tool in a cool way, that would be fun and interesting. The result is this tutorial on creating a vintage style circus poster design.
Sketch a Spaceship in Perspective With Photoshop
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.
Design a Shattered, Scrappy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Shattered, Scrappy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop. You will learn how you utilise a range of selection and transformation techniques to manipulate textures in order to form certain effect. Have a try!
Create a Unique Break-Apart Text Effect with Urban Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Create a Unique Break-Apart Text Effect with Urban Background in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try 
Create Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can Create this Awesome Abstract Photo Effect via Layer Masking and Custom Patterns. Some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try!
Create a glowing superhero
This is the first in a series of tutorials detailing the creation of work for Obsolete, as the latest set of art and illustration by the amazing Depthcore collective is titled.
Give a portrait a cosmic makeover
In creating this type of artwork, you will use a mixture of gradients, lens flares and adjustment layers in a subtle but effective way, enhancing and styling the photography without detracting from the composition and lighting.
Design a Dark, Moody Movie Poster
This tutorial from Psd Fan will explain how to create a dark movie poster in Photoshop.
Create a Leatherback Book Icon in Photoshop
Learn how to create this leatherback book design in Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to draw a book and apply textures and layer styles.
How to Develop a Handmade Illustration with Photoshop
This tutorial will give you a general workflow overview of how to create traditional illustrations on paper and then refining it further in Photoshop. We will use Indian ink, paintbrushes and a brush pen to ink our pencil sketch, and then watercolor to fill in the illustration. Then we will place the illustration into Photoshop to perform some fine-tuning and image corrections.
Create a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop
In this photo manipulation tutorial, we will create a surreal desert scene with everything turning into sand. We will start with simple techniques, such as replacing the sky and adding a focus effect to the landscape. Then I will show you how to mask areas of the model’s hands, dress and other elements of the scene and replace those areas with sand using a custom particles brush. Let’s get started!
How to Create a Disturbing Scene of a Flooded Room with a Giant Hand Carrying a Fish
In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create a dirty, flooded room with a giant hand saving a fish inside a glass ball. We will learn how to blend images together seamlessly using several stock photos by using several Photoshop tools such as the Transform tool and the Brush tool. We would learn how to use Blending modes to make a water photo appear inside a glass ball. We will also learn how to fix and enhance the lighting of an image.
How to Create Dramatic Sci-Fi Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use different blending modes to professionally blend images, you’ll see different ways of adding lights and shadows and discover the way how you can add realistic fire to your pictures. Let’s get started!
Reader Tutorial: Flaming Car in Photoshop by Lincoln Soares
This week’s tutorial we will show you how to create a flaming car. We saw this effect before and it’s quite simple but it’s a good exercise and the result is quite good. You can also apply this effect on other images.
Road of Dreams Photomanipulation Tutorial
Today we will go deep into the realm of fantasy and dreams …because in dreams we enter a world that is completely our own…
RAWZ Light Effects in Photoshop
So in this tutorial I will show you how to create the RAWZ light effect in Photoshop. It’s a beginner/intermediate tutorial and it will take you 45 minutes to go through it. I hope you have fun doing it as much as I had.
Creating ‘The Vampire Hunter’ a Dark Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial i will show you how to create a dark photo manipulation called “The Vampire’s Hunter”. We will go through steps with different techniques of manipulating, retouching, masking, coloring, adjustment layers, understanding light and shadow and more.
Advanced Tutorial: Creating ‘Broken Link’
Still reading? Excellent stuff. This tutorial is going to focus on design choices and a little bit of theory. There are literally thousands of tutorials online that cover keyboard shortcuts and clever ways to tweak your custom brushes but less cover the reasons why we’ve chosen to do what we do when we’re creating a piece of art, which is often more important than the process of how you got there (but don’t worry, there will be some of that too!).
Iphone advertisment photoshop tutorial
In this tutorial you are going to create a bubbles brush that follows a path created with pen tool and use it in an advertisment for Iphone using Photoshop.
Create Eye-Catching text effect
Usign this tutorial you will learn to create eye-catching text effect using a few filters and layer styles.
Photoshop button tutorial
In this photoshop tutorial you will learn to create a shiny and professional glossy button in a few steps. Intermediate difficulty.
Create a Light Textured Web Design in Photoshop
In this web design tutorial, we’ll be creating a light textured web page layout. I will show you how apply subtle textures in web layouts, how to create a seamless diagonal mosaic pattern and how to create a tabbed content area design for the “Services” section.
Create a Typography Based Blog Design in Photoshop
The tutorial posts where I go through the process of creating a complete WordPress theme from Photoshop concept right through to coding the template files always go down well, so let’s start with another tutorial series based on my latest WordPress theme design.
How To Create Repeating Texture & Pattern Images
Repeating background images are safest method of styling up your website background other than a plain old CSS background color. Websites are viewed in all types and sizes of browser these days, so a repeating background ensures the whole of the user’s screen will be filled with your design, unlike a static image that can often end up being cropped off or lost in a sea of flat colour.
Create Convincing Text-Shaped Buildings in Photoshop
Creating convincing buildings that appear like text in a cityscape can be a challenging task. In today’s tutorial we will learn how to create building-shaped typography in Photoshop using photos that you have taken yourself. Let’s get started!
Create a Unique Abstract Text Effect with Metal Texture and Cloud Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create this Abstract Text Effect with Metal Texture and Cloud Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be a little tricky, but why not have a try
Design Process: How to create a Puss in Boots movie poster in Photoshop
Today we will create a movie poster in Photoshop using a few stock resources, a tablet and a bit of imagination. Follow this tutorial and learn to use techniques for: image processing, drawing, advanced blending, retouching, composition, texturizing and text effects.
Hope you found something awesome!
