Free Photoshop tutorials

Magazine or Website Text Effect with Background

On a Dutch electronic site I saw a text effect + background that cought my eye and thought it was a good idea to re-create it for a tutorial, so I did.. Just check it out in full size, it's a pretty cool effect you could use for your site or in some magazine if you have the possibility.

Photoshop Face Makeover

Learn how to manipulate a person's face with Adobe Photoshop, you can call it a digital face makeover which is done A LOT by designers for sites and magazines. I don't like it to do it over the top so it will be over obvious it was tweaked with Photoshop, I like to do subtle changes so it almost (I hope entirely) looks real. Changes to the hair, lips, nose, skin and eyes are always a focal point of attention for my face makeovers.

3D Bulge Text Effect

Create an awesome 3D text effect with various photoshop filters (Plastic wrap, Blur, Sharpen) and other tricks that will make you a text effect master!

3D Dissolve Text Effect

Create this awesome 3D text with a dissolve background to really kick this text effect into high gear. The font we're going to use for this photoshop tutorial is a default Adobe photoshop font (Hobo STD), if your photoshop version doesn't have the Hobo STD font you can probably download it from somewhere, if you need help with that just ask or use another good font.

Rough Metal Photoshop Text Effect

Let's create a rough metal text effect, we're going to use a metal texture I've explained in detail in a previous tutorial.

Face painting on cracked wall

Create a cracked wall photo effect in a few minutes. This effect has an old wall feel to it with a beautiful weathered face painting.

Metal Plate

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a metal plate using different textures, brushes and other photoshop techniques.

Text Following Path

This tutorial is a very very basic tutorial for the begin of all beginners :), a lot of beginners will find this extremely useful to give a smooth curve to there text without using the warp text function (which will deform your text).

Sleek Menu Bar

Make a sleek menu bar, very shiny stuff for your web 2.0 templates.

Make a Cat-eye lens

Make a Cat-eye lens of a normal human eye close-up. This technique can be applied to your photos or photos used for magazin covers, can be used for a lot of things really.

Trippy Colors Photo effect

Create a superb multi-colored photo effect using a stock DJ photo.

Make a Page-curl

Make a page-curl in photoshop. We're going over the same techniques Microsoft used for there MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail switch.

3D Photoshop text

Make a sweet perspective 3D text in this Adobe Photoshop tutorial.

Make a Plasma TV

Create a Plasma TV for your designs or whatever you need a self made plasma TV for.

Get more detail out of a Photo

This Photoshop tutorial will show you a very effective way to get more detail out of a photo/picture.

Scuffed metal plate

This tutorial will show you how to make a scuffed up 3d looking metal plate with round edges and blood spatters.

Digital Painting a Dead Tree

Learn how to digitally paint a fantasy scene, a dead tree on a ledge.

Blending images

Ever wanted to blend 2 or more photos into each other, this photoshop tutorial will show you how.

Adding sunglasses to people

This photoshop modification will show you how to add sunglasses to faces, very handy if you forgot your sunglasses on a specific photo. :)

How to Digital Paint a Fantasy scene

In this photoshop tutorial you'll learn how to digitally paint a fantasy future-like scene, with a bridge stretching into the distance.