Happy learning and wishing you all the luck in 2010!

1. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

Use various tools such as the Cloning tool to remove facial features and the Brush tool to create a realistic splatter merged with professional blending techniques to mould the paint splatter over a face.

2. How to Create a 3D Text Photo Manipulation

Learn how to combine vector art with pixel art in this superb tutorial here at Six Revisions. Use various blending modes and manipulation techniques to make a flat-looking 3D object really pop out.

3. Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

Learn to apply the Warp tool effectively (as well as a few other tricks) to manipulate real smoke to look like a skull. You can use the technique on other various mediums such as water and clouds.

4. Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

Use color balances and levels to change the overall feel of a stock photo, and the Burn tool to make certain areas of an image darker than others to make them appear correctly in any given environment. Select areas of stock photos using the Magnetic Lasso tool or a quick mask and merge them into your composition.

5. Design a Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop

Use gradients and custom strokes to make flat objects appear three-dimensional – combine this with stock photography and textures to produce a vintage and very realistic radio icon. The same technique can also be used to produce other icons such as guitar amplifiers and televisions.

6. How to Create a Retro Hippy Van Poster in Photoshop

Learn how to combine vector art with pixels, add texture to clean artwork, and play with blending modes. A little bit of shameless self-promotion here, but this tutorial did get me a lot of great feedback, and the first part of the tutorial (the vector van) is going to be featured in a top French Design magazine!

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

Use professional manipulation and editing techniques with various stock photos to make a beautiful composition. Use the Warp tool to change angles and shapes to make them fit exactly how you want them in your composition.

8. Create a Realistic Space Scene from Scratch with Photoshop

Follow this tutorial and work with textures, levels and layer styles to create a realistic and incredibly awesome space scene.

9. Create a Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop

Learn how to combine stock photos, photography and textures to create a vintage composition whose primary elements are a world map, a diary and a cup of coffee to finish things off.

10. How to Create an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

Make use of Photoshop’s guides and custom type settings to create an abstract typography-based designer’s business card.

11. Create a Simple Vibrant Light Effect in Photoshop

Get your torch and SLR camera out for this tutorial as you’ll be needing it to create some superb lighting effects. Combine that with Photoshop’s excellent selection of image adjustment tools such as levels, curves and the hue/saturation level to produce a stunning vibrant light effect.

12. Create a Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect in Photoshop

Combine neat and tidy typography with gradient splats, a handful of coffee-stained textures and some ink brushes, and what do you get? A modern and very cool wet ink typography effect!

13. How to Create Retro Art in Photoshop

Retro/vintage art is one of the most-loved design trends of 2009 and we’re sure that’s not going anywhere quickly! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to manipulate stock photographs, work with the Pen tool and make your overall composition look retro!

14. Create a Slow Motion Bullet Shot Effect

In this extremely detailed tutorial, you’ll learn how to make various components of a television remote control including the back, front, individual buttons and even the circuit-board. Why? Because you’re about to combine the lot together to make an almost life-like motion bullet shot effect!

15. Design a Stunning Sneaker Advert

Use the Eraser tool to remove areas of a stock image to nicely combine it around another object. You’ll also create custom lines with the Pen tool and learn how to stroke and skew them and turn them in to little colorful beams of light.

16. How to Create Remarkable 3D Text in Photoshop

Learn how to duplicate layers by nudging them down to create a remarkable 3D typography effect in Photoshop without the aid of 3D software. Learn how to create a drop shadow and add realistic lighting effects to finish off your newly learned text effect technique.

17. How to Design a Vintage Horror Movie Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial you’ll learn various techniques and effects on how to reproduce a legendary film poster for the popular horror movie called "Day of the Dead". You’ll be using and manipulating various textures and stock photos to create a great composition.

18. Combine Textures with Vectors

Sometimes vector art can look a little too crisp and unnatural. In this tutorial, Derek Lea will be teaching you how to combine your vector art with textures to give it an awesome worn-and-torn look!

19. Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

After learning how to create some custom typography in Illustrator, you’ll be instructed in great detail how to merge stock photographs of (splashing) milk with your custom type to produce this great milky typography effect.

20. Extinction by Chanito

With some help from Cinema 4D to create your text, you’ll be using brushes, motion blurs and various stock photos and textures with different blending modes to create this wonderful piece of typography art.

21. How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop

Learn how to correctly use a grid layout template when designing a new website. Combine various tools and effects to create a clean and modern "web 2.0" style web mock-up.

22. Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop

In this tutorial by Chris Spooner, you’ll be learning how to use advanced lighting techniques and stock photography manipulation to produce a trendy galactic style poster design.

23. Retro Geometric Vectors in Space with Illustrator and Photoshop

Effectively combine vector files with pixel art in this great tutorial by Fabio Sasso. You’ll learn how to create custom geometric shapes in Illustrator and then merge them with some great Photoshop lighting effects and noise filters.

24. Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop

Create some custom-sized type in Photoshop and manipulate it using various techniques such as adding glows, playing with motion blurs, modifying colors and adding reflections.

25. Design a Modern and Sleek Web Design Mockup in Photoshop

Follow through the detailed web design tutorial to learn how to create a simple but modern and sleek mock-up in Photoshop.

26. Design a Clean Portfolio Site in Photoshop

Learn how to correctly and effectively use guides to your advantage when designing for the web, and pick up several tips and tricks along the way whilst you pay attention to every single tiny detail in the design.

27. Space Explosion Photoshop Tutorial

This incredible and inspiring tutorial by Tyler Bramer published on Smashing Magazine is probably one of the most detailed of the year. You’ll learn an endless amount of techniques in the tutorial including photo manipulation, blending techniques, lighting effects and much, much more!

28. How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face

Create a slightly freakish typography and retro "space face" in this tutorial by following through the detailed steps on how to manipulate typography, add extreme bursts of color and how to effectively use light to make your image stand out.

29. 3D Typography Tutorial in Photoshop & Illustrator

Once again you’ll be using both Illustrator and Photoshop in this tutorial: Illustrator to create the 3D typography, and Photoshop to add some great lighting effects, gradients, shadows and an awesome HDR effect.

30. Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

In this tutorial you’ll be manually tracing a stock photograph in Photoshop (graphics tablet recommended!), adding some awesome colored grungy and splattered areas followed by some great halftone brushes and some strong, bold typography.

31. Make a Vintage Magazine Ad in Photoshop

Deconstruct and reproduce a vintage magazine advertisement in Photoshop by following this superb tutorial by Danny Outlaw at his blog Outlaw Design. Learn how to professionally combine grungy textures with a clean and professional stock photograph.

32. How to Create a "Worn Paper" Web Layout

Follow this great tutorial written by Matthew Heidenreich to produce a trendy and modern paper-themed web design mock-up. Use various textured photographs and scanned images to make a realistic paper look.

33. Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial

In this detailed and (probably) very recognized manipulation, you’ll learn how to manipulate and merge a lion’s head and various other items and creatures into a famous portrait painting of Napoleon.

34. Create a Winter Theme Web Design in Photoshop

Although this tutorial by Ionut Ciursa is relatively new, it lands a well-deserved place in this list. You’ll learn some very handy techniques such as making a frosted header banner and how to effectively use guides when designing for the web.

35. iPhone Gift Ribbon Tutorial

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an Apple-inspired application gift ribbon (as seen in Apple’s latest Christmas promotional period). You’ll be using various tools such as the Warp Transform tool and the Gradient tool.

36. Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop

Use the Pen tool and several layer styles to produce a modern and stylish mail icon in Photoshop. Icons created using this technique are suitable for the web, print documents, and even application icons.

37. Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop

The popular TV show, "Heroes", has become a hit for the catchy storylines and the fantastic art that is associated it. This tutorial shows how to produce the eclipse in very simple and easy to understand steps. You’ll learn some great lighting techniques as well as how to apply grungy textures.

38. Master Special Finishes

This could ultimately be one of the best and most helpful tutorials you’ll ever read. Learn simple but superb techniques on how to add special finishes to your print work such as spot colors, spot varnishes and more!

39. Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

To make this great watercolor wallpaper effect in Photoshop, you’ll need to know how to use advanced layer mask techniques. Not too sure how to do that? This tutorial teaches it perfectly.

40. How to Create a Cool and Stylish Green Poster Design in Photoshop

Combine various blending modes and manipulation techniques in this tutorial to create a stylish and modern green planet with wavy lines.

41. Killer 3D Poster Design with 3DS Max & Photoshop

This tutorial combines both 3D Max (20%) and Photoshop (the remaining 80%) but can, however, all be produced in Photoshop. You will be learning techniques on the basics of lighting, mapping, rendering, applying textures blurs and various other tips and tricks to produce this galactic style poster design.

42. How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop

If you want a way to freak out your other half or one of your friends, this is a great technique to learn. Taught by Simon Rudd, he walks you through the steps on how to separate limbs (nice!) using various tools and techniques such as how to use the Heal tool, how to use layer masks and how to use adjustment levels.

43. Design a Slick 3D Ice Text Effect

Andrew Houle talks you though how to create some great 3D typography in this tutorial. You’ll learn how to color 3D illustrations by using gradients and how to use hue, saturation and lightness levels to productively change the feel of the final image.

44. Creating ‘Broken Link’

In this tutorial, David Cousens takes you through the design process of his digital painting "Broken Link" from sketch to the finalized digital piece of art. Throughout the tutorial you’re bound to pick up on hundreds of little techniques such as light sources, basic drawing techniques and how to add a bit of a dirty feel to your final image.

45. Create a Realistic Grunge Peeling Sticker in Photoshop

In this awesome tutorial you’ll learn how to make a realistic and grungy peeling sticker from scratch using Photoshop’s simple tools such as the Ellipse tool, the Polygonal Lasso tool and feathered brushes. This tutorial is great for making your own icons for web and print, or even for designing your own real stickers!

46. Letterpress Text Effect

This effect is known as the "letterpress text effect" and has been a huge design trend of 2009 – the effect is still expanding and I can’t see it going very far in 2010. For that reason, this tutorial by Chris Spooner made it into the list with a well deserved place. Use very simple techniques to create this stylish and effective text effect!

47. Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 Steps in Photoshop

This piece of art was inspired by the master Scott Hansen. Fabio Sasso walks you through how to create your own digital wallpaper like Hansen’s using a combination of layer masks and watercolor brushes.

48. How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop

In this tutorial, university lecturer Eren Goksel will teach you how to use the 3D Orbit tool, the Mosaic filter and various other techniques to design a 3D text block type effect in Photoshop.

49. How to Create Stunning and Bold 3D Text

To create your own stunning and bold 3D text you will use a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop to create your 3D type and several layer styles and tools such as the bevel and emboss style, Gaussian blurs and layer masks.

50. Create a Leather-Textured Realistic Briefcase Icon

Combine the use of textures, rendered clouds and loads of great tools and techniques to produce a realistic briefcase icon that can be used for various projects, both web and print.

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Creating Photoshop brushes is easier than you think; if you don’t know where to start, check out these handy tutorials on Photoshop brush creation.

1. Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Learn how to compose Photoshop brushes using a scanned-in photo of coffee stains and splatters, giving you insight on how to use your own photos to create reusable brushes.

2. Creating Grunge Brushes

Belgian graphic/web designer Verle Pieters shows her readers how she makes grunge brushes that can be applied on design projects to create a worn look.

3. How to Create Your Own Brushes

Discover a method for creating reusable floral brushes in this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial on PhotoshopStar.

4. Building a Lego Bricks Photoshop Brushes Set

In this Photoshop brush creation tutorial, you’ll take a stock image of Lego blocks and transform it into a brush set.

5. Photoshop Brush Tutorial

This 4-step Photoshop brush tutorial on deviantArt will introduce you to the art of creating brushes in Photoshop.

6. Photoshop Brush Tutorial

This tutorial illustrates a process for making a beautiful grunge corner brush using a stock photo and layer masking.

7. Creating Your Own Grunge Brushes

In this tutorial, you’ll see a process for creating grunge brushes in Photoshop using a standard default brush that’s modified with the Displace filter.

8. How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes

In this detailed Photoshop brush creation tutorial, you’ll discover the basic techniques for using stock images to create truly unique brushes.

9. How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Sometimes you want to create Photoshop brush sets either to group your brushes for organization or to share them with others – this tutorial will show you how.

10. Creating Your Own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes

This tutorial gives you an introduction to creating your very own custom Photoshop brushes using stock imagery.

11. How to Make A Photoshop Brush

Designer and blogger Jay Hilgert of BittBox shares his techniques for making custom Photoshop brushes.

12. Creating Your Own Fractal Photoshop Brush: Tutorial

Fractals are popular in digital art compositions and if you’d like to learn how to make reusable fractals for use in your Photoshop projects, check this tutorial out.

13. Leaf Brush Tutorial

Create unique leaf brushes using stock photos by following along this excellent web tutorial on Spoono.

14. Creating Photoshop Brushes Tutorial

This tutorial, which is also available as a downloadable PDF that you can print out, walks you through the making of a Photoshop brush.

15. How to Make a Brush in Photoshop CS3

This tutorial takes a vector illustration made in Adobe Illustrator and converts it to a Photoshop brush.

16. How to Create and Define Photoshop Brushes

Learn the basics of making and defining Photoshop brushes so that you can easily use them throughout your digital art projects.

17. Create Photoshop Custom Brush

In this Photoshop brush creation tutorial, you’ll discover a method for generating your own brushes using palm trees.

18. Make Photoshop Brushes

This Photoshop tutorial on producing brushes takes a high-resolution photo of a flower and with the help of the Pen (or Lasso) Tool isolates and converts the subject to a brush.

19. Adobe Photoshop CS3: Brush Creation for Dummies

This beginner level brush creation tutorial on Instructables will take you on a step-by-step journey into producing your very own Photoshop brushes.

20. How to Make a Brush and How to Use It

This Photoshop brush starts by creating a Photoshop pattern; the result is a brush that you can use as a tiled pattern in your designs.

21. How to Create Photoshop Brushes? Complete Tutorial

This Photoshop brush creation tutorial shows you how to create a brush using default shapes included in Photoshop.

22. Custom Brushes Tutorial

Richard Carpenter, a regular author here on Six Revisions, shows readers of his Photoshop design blog (hvdesigns) how he creates custom Photoshop brushes.

23. How to Make Photoshop Brushes

In this Photoshop brush creation tutorial, you will learn how to produce custom brushes using default brushes.

24. Creating Custom Brushes

This Photoshop brush creation tutorial shows you how to make an interesting brush by using a royalty-free (and downloadable) image.

Do you use Photoshop brushes? Where do you get your Photoshop brushes? Do you usually create your own or to you prefer to download them? Join the discussion in the comments! *edited by Jacob Gube

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There are many tips, tricks, and techniques for improving things like skin tone and imperfections, and enhancing the photo subject’s features. This article shares a huge variety of photo retouching tutorials for Photoshop users with brief descriptions of each.

1. Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching

Learn how to improve a poorly taken photograph by reducing its noise in this Photoshop subject-enhancing tutorial. You will also discover a fast and simple way for smoothing out a person’s skin with realistic results.

2. Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble In Photoshop

You can learn how to lower the amount of beard stubbles a person has by reading this excellent Photoshop retouching tutorial. The tutorial covers layer masking techniques, effective usage of the Healing Brush Tool, and layer blending options.

3. Virtual Makeup in a Snap

This tutorial goes over an easy method for digitally applying makeup on a subject for a beautiful and realistic outcome. Some Photoshop tools and features used are the Reduce Noise Filter, the Paint Brush Tool, and the Eraser Tool.

4. Eye Color Change

You can use Photoshop to change a photo subject’s eye color by reading through this tutorial that shares a simple method for doing so using Quick Mask Mode and Color Balance Image Adjustments.

5. Increase Breast Size

Learn a technique for augmenting the photo subjects breast size (often used in print magazines) using the Liquify Filter and the Bloat Tool in this quick and easy Photoshop tutorial.

6. Basic Retouch and Colorization

Learn the basics of photo retouching and enhancing a photos color by way of the colorization method. The Gaussian Blur filter, Curves image adjustment, and the Smart Sharpen filter are just some of the options applied in this Photoshop tutorial.

7. Applying Realistic Tattoo

If you would like to apply a digitally placed tattoo on a subject’s body – perhaps either to cover up imperfections or to make them look badass – this tutorial goes over a method that offers realistic results.

8. Age Progression

Retouching usually aims to reduce aging in someone’s features, but what if you wanted to do the opposite? In this retouching/enhancing tutorial – you’ll learn a method for realistically aging someone’s facial features.

9. Whiten Teeth to Improve a Smile in Photoshop

Learn to brighten the subject’s teeth for a pearly-white smile in this Photoshop tutorial that uses the Quick Selection Tool for easy area selection and a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer to get the job done.

10. Professional Photo Retouching Bikini Model

In this tutorial, you’ll learn professional methods for enhancing a bikini model photo. Find several Photoshop techniques such as removing unwanted skin blemishes and a digital airbrushing process.

11. Change Hair Color

You can enhance a photo subject by altering their natural features. One way to end up with eye-grabbing results is by changing a person’s hair color; this Photoshop tutorial shows you how to do it with basic masking tools and layer styles.

12. Superb Skin Airbrush Technique

Airbrushing is used by professional makeup artists to prepare subjects for photo shoots. In this retouching tutorial, you’ll discover how to perform this process digitally with the help of Photoshop tools such as the Surface Blur Filter and the Paint Brush Tool.

13. Face Makeover

This professional-level Photoshop tutorial goes over the ways in which you can give someone a full digital makeover, including how to whiten eyes to make the subject look more vibrant, using the Paint Brush Tool in conjunction with lay blending modes.

14. Simple Facial Photo Retouching

The Spot Healing Brush Tool, the Warp Transform option, and downloadable Photoshop brushes are some of the things this excellent facial retouching tutorial on Grafpedia utilizes to enhance the eye area of the photo subject.

15. Create Digital Makeup

In this Photoshop photo-enhancing tutorial, you will find out how to apply makeup digitally onto a photo subject using a couple of Photoshop filters, masking tools, and Image Adjustment options.

16. Artificial Smooth Skin

This quick and easy beginner level Photoshop tutorial goes over some basic masking methods using the Quick Mask Mode and the Paint Brush Tool to smoothen a person’s facial skin for a flawless surface, a technique used in many print magazines.

17. Professional Photographic Retouching

In this video tutorial on Abduzeedo, you’ll observe methods that professionals use in order to enhance the subject of a photograph. Color correction, reshaping of body features, and adjusting depth of field are just some of the things covered in here.

18. Easy Digital Nose Job in Photoshop

This detailed, step-by-step Adobe Photoshop tutorial covers a technique for enhancing a person’s nose. The Lasso Tool, Free Transform, and the Healing Brush Tool are the main Photoshop features utilized in this process.

19. Professional Photo-Retouching

In this Photoshop retouching video tutorial, you will get to see a method for digitally adjusting someone’s hair. The tutorial goes over removing unwanted parts of the hair, adjusting tonal values, and working with blending modes.

20. Quick and Effective Facial Retouching

What’s great about Photoshop is that you can often get exceptional results in a short amount of time. This step-by-step Photoshop face retouching tutorial goes over how to achieve realistic and impressive results in a matter of minutes.

21. How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

Apply lip-gloss to a photo subject by reading through this Photoshop retouching tutorial that uses the Liquify Filter and Photoshop brush techniques to add some sheen to a person’s lips.

22. Remove Blemishes in Photoshop

The Spot Healing Brush Tool, the Gaussian Blur Filter, and the Paint Brush Tool are the subjects of this easy to follow and highly illustrative Photoshop retouching tutorial featured on Tutorialboard.

23. How To Get Perfect Skin!

This easy-to-follow and extremely detailed Photoshop tutorial shows you how to improve a photo subject’s skin features with just two tools: the Healing Brush Tool and the Clone Stamp Tool.

24. Glamour Model

This photo-retouching tutorial outlines several handy techniques for improving an image, such as taking advantage of the Patch Tool for skin blemishes and using the Turbulence Tool for smooth pixel scattering and for blurring out imperfections.

25. Really Cool Digital Make up in Photoshop in 10 min

Here is a Photoshop tutorial for applying realistic makeup on photos; it utilizes the Dust & Speckle Noise Filter as a layer mask and Shadow/Highlight Image Adjustments to enhance your images swiftly and painlessly.

26. Retouch Yellow Skin

You can lighten and soften a person’s skin tone and texture by following along this excellent Photoshop tutorial that uses options such as the Soft Light layer mode, Selective Color Image Adjustments and Curves Image Adjustments.

Got a photo retouching tip?

If you know of a good resource or tip on how to digitally-enhance a photo subject, please share it with the rest of us in the comments. * Edited by Jacob Gube

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In this article, you’ll find top-notch tutorials for creating posters. Not only will you be learning specific procedures for creating posters, but also Photoshop and general design practices such as photo-composition, illustration, coloring processing, typography effects, working with custom shapes, using Filters in unique ways, and much more.

1. Shoe Advertisement Poster Using Floral Elements

Using some popular design trends (floral elements) and masterful use of the Burn Tool to amicably integrate them into the poster’s subject, you will learn several great Photoshop techniques by following along this well-written tutorial.

2. Retro Boxing Poster

Make a vintage/retro styled design by following along this excellent step-by-step Photoshop tutorial. You’ll be able to learn the methods involved in adjusting images sourced from different assets so that they are similar to each other.

3. Space Invaders Poster

This Photoshop poster design tutorial exposes some great techniques –  most notably – a technique for applying a beautiful and unique type treatment to the design’s text. You will also discover a great use for the Brush Tool: adding details to your art pieces’ subject.

4. Furious Pink Panther Poster

Although this tutorial is for drawing a "pink panther", the stock photo used is of a tiger; that fact does not take away anything from the quality of the instructions and the end-result of this tutorial by GoMediaZine.

5. Grunge Rock Poster

Rock out in this Indie band theme grunge poster design tutorial that utilizes a "Displacement Map" technique for creating the tattered and colorful background and the popular "starburst" element to create a design that truly pops out to its viewers.

6. Fragmented Golden Phone

In this tutorial, you will be creating a cool-looking poster that uses a mobile phone as the subject; the photo-effects are stunning: smoky elements, and the top part of the subject fading into text.

7. Vector Political Poster

In this Photoshop design tutorial inspired by Sheppard Fairey’s political poster series, you will see a method for recreating a very similar effect onto your artwork that involves the skillful use of the Pen Tool to select different sections of the canvas.

8. Earth Day. Green Planet

This Photoshop tutorial goes over some beginning-level methods for achieving a professional poster look that centers around an environmental theme. You’ll be using Layer Styles, transforming objects using the Warp Transform Tool, and a whole lot of other processes for making beautiful digital artwork.

9. Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

Learn about Photoshop techniques involved in the creation of beautiful and digitally drawn works of art in this step-by-step tutorial based on the unique style of Digital Illustrator and Graphic Artist Alex Beltechi (the tutorial writer).

10. Poster Celebrating the Passing of Spring

Masterful Photoshop artist Simon Hubbert shows us how to create a one-of-a-kind poster design that uses the theme of the spring to summer transition period. You will discover how to use the Radial Blur filter to create a unique color transition.

11. Awesome Colorful Poster

Create a stunning and eye-catching poster based on the Ray-Ban Colorize ad campaign using several Photoshop techniques such as tweaking Image Adjustment settings and quick/hassle-free selection using the Magic Wand Tool.

12. Colorful Pastel Typo

Learn to create a nice-looking poster that is centered around a unique, retro-inspired typography set against a textured background for extreme contrast.

13. Cool Movie Poster

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will witness the use of techniques such as color correction and manipulation, and adjusting an object’s perspective for accurate superimposing to create a beautiful movie-like poster.

14. Dark and Grungy Poster

By reading through this awesome Photoshop tutorial, you can learn about a wide array of techniques including blending images together to create a harmonious and one-of-a-kind worn-and-torn grunge-themed poster.

15. Awesome Grunge Poster

Study and discover the Photoshop techniques used in the creation of grunge art piece in this tutorial that has a remarkable finished product. What’s great about this tutorial is that you can learn in two ways: watching the screencast or following along text-based tutorial.

16. Futuristic Abstract Poster

Learn the techniques required in creating an enigmatic and captivating futuristic poster by following along this excellent Photoshop tutorial that utilizes basic techniques such as the Radiant Blur and Cloud filters to create a surreal and unique poster backdrop.

17. Portable Gaming Device Poster

This beautiful poster design benefits from the use of free and downloadable stock images to give the design a unique and eye-catching look. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll also learn techniques for preparing and retouching photo subjects that will be used as digital art components.

18. Impactful Child Welfare Poster

Many posters portray shocking scenes to grab peoples’ attention to the message it is trying to convey. Such a poster is featured in this Photoshop tutorial that will test your skills with the Path Tool and show you a technique for giving text a nice drop shadow.

19. Skateboarding Poster

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will witness a cool technique for creating stacked, multi-color silhouettes on the art piece’s subject. You will also learn how to use the Pen Tool to create a nice trail to add the feeling of motion and dynamism onto your designs.

20. Retro Poster

This retro/grunge themed design uses various techniques and design trends that results in a beautiful poster. You will learn the basics of using Perspective Transform to create a three-dimensional look-and-feel using the popular multicolor retro ribbons.

21. Stylish Fashion Advert

Learn some unique Photoshop techniques by following along this Photoshop tutorial. Particularly, you will learn to use the Clone Stamp tool to apply a distinctive type effect treatment onto your poster’s text.

22. Amazing Diamond Advertisement Poster

This Photoshop poster design tutorial involves the use an array of intermediate level photo-editing techniques such as using the Brush Tool with custom settings and masking using the Pen Tool. Several free and downloadable stock images (over 10 of them from different sources) are applied and modified to create a unique and eye-grabbing poster.

23. The Ocean’s Freshness

This ocean-inspired poster design utilizes the Clouds Filter to create an underwater, deep-sea overlay. What’s cool about this tutorial is that you can also discover a way to use the Soft Brush tip to add a hazy mist that gives the design a unique design element.

24. Typographic Concept Poster

This Photoshop tutorial outlines a time-intensive but very eye-grabbing method of creating a unique type treatment (by positioning words to spell out letters). Set against a dirty grunge background, the outcome of this piece is a vintage/grunge look and feel.

25. Constructivist Propaganda Poster

In this Photoshop poster design tutorial, you will learn to create a collage composition using one of a kind design elements.

26. War Movie Poster

Learn how to create a scene that involves faux rain set against a beautiful backdrop using Photoshop techniques such as the Noise filter with Layer Styles (to add in the rain) and a Chrome Adjustment Layer to add a weathered effect on the art piece’s subject (the soldier).

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Expressive lighting effects

Engulf photo subjects with glowing lights by following along this top-notch tutorial.

Adding Light Streaks to A Photo

Add light streaks to photos using Photoshop’s Pen Tool and some simple Layer styles.

Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

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Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Enhance your photos by using the Liquify and Gaussian Blur Filters to lighting effects.

How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how introduce light streaks around your artwork’s subjects.

The Ocean Girl Photo Effect

Learn how to create a brilliant and dreamy scene in this excellent Photoshop tutorial.

Luminescent Lines

Create luminous light streaks by leveraging the power of Photoshop’s Brush Tool.

Add Another Dimension

You’ll be able to download supporting files involved in this stunning Photoshop tutorial.

A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop

A mix of simple Photoshop techniques will lead you to a beautiful lighting effect finish.

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

This Psdtuts+ tutorial shows you how to add a unique light effect to photos.

How to Create an Interplay of Abstract Light Streaks

Make abstract light streaks for use as a background and for other design elements.

Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop

Recreate a stunning Coldplay-inspired portrait using Photoshop.

Electrifying Energy Beams

Add glowing light streaks around photo subjects using the Brush Tool and Layer styles.

Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

This tutorial shows you some advanced lighting effect techniques in Photoshop.

Light Effect On A Model

Learn to embrace a model with a unique light streak by reading through this tutorial.

Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop

Recreate the Bokeh photo technique in Photoshop.

Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial

Make an out-of-this-world space explosion by reading this Photoshop tutorial.

Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps

Create a space lighting effect using a combination of Photoshop techniques.

Creating a Rocking Silhouette in Photoshop

Make your photos rock with silhouettes in this excellent Photoshop tutorial.

Mysterious hell gate

Add a bit of mystery and suspense into your photos by following along this tutorial.

Energize Your Graphics with Abstract Energy Lines

This tutorial from Tutorial9 shows you how to add abstract glowing energy lines.

Advanced Glow Effects

In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn some advanced Photoshop glow effects.

Fire Lines V2

Learn to add smokin’ fire lines into your images through this Photoshop tutorial.

Lighting effects in Photoshop

Digital Arts online shows us how to create a surreal scene using lighting effects.

Swirls Tutorial

Learn how to create glowing swirls that you can incorporate to existing digital artwork.

Light and glow effect in Photoshop

This tutorial mixes several popular lighting and glow effects into one stunning piece.

Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Remake the Aurora effect that Vista features as a default desktop background.

Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

Use a mix of Photoshop options such as the Lens Flare Filter to create this cool effect.

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks

Make dynamic artwork with motion trails/sparks effects; Learn how in this tutorial.

Mysterious Lighting Effect Tutorial for Photoshop

Add an enigmatic lighting effect onto your work by following along this tutorial.

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1. Blendfu

Blendfu is a unique site for obtaining Photoshop brushes: the site allows you to preview and test individual brushes in a brush set, saving you a ton of time in having to install them. Blendu has plenty of categories so you won’t have a hard time finding exactly the theme and look that you’re searching for. Besides Photoshop brushes, Blendfu also provides GIMP brushes.

2. BrushKing

BrushKing is a gallery-style Photoshop brushes showcase. Hovering over a brush set’s thumbnail will reveal more information about it such as how many downloads it has, who the brush designer is, how many brushes are in a set, and licensing details.

3. DeviantArt: Photoshop Brushes

DeviantArt, the leading online graphic design community, has a great quantity of high-quality, user-submitted Photoshop brushes. There are many brushes to peruse and download, including popular themes of fractals, splatters and flourishes, as well as kitschy and unique sets like angel wings and anime eyes.

4. Brusheezy

Brusheezy indexes a lot of Photoshop brushes gathered from all over the internet. You can filter brushes by category, Photoshop version (for compatibility), or sort them by Downloads, number of comments, user ratings and the date they were added. Apart from Photoshop brushes, Brusheezy also presents Photoshop Patterns.

5. PS Brushes.net

PS Brushes.net currently archives over 500 brush sets. What’s great about PS Brushes.net is that they provide previews of each brush in the set so that you can see precisely how each brush looks, as well as what their dimension (in width) is. PS Brushes.net has many categories to select from, making it easier to navigate through the site.

6. Obsidian Dawn

Obsidian Dawn is a resource for free Photoshop brushes, patterns, and tutorials. The Photoshop Brushes section contains many useful and attractive Photoshop brushes sorted into useful categories like Designs Brushes and Nature Brushes.

7. QBrushes.com

Qbrushes.com is a Photoshop resource site displaying high-quality Photoshop brushes from different talented designers. There are many findability features on the site, making it easy for you to hunt down the exact types of brushes you need. For example, you can browse by tags, or browse by categories like Abstract or Grunge.

8. myPhotoshopBrushes.com

myPhotoshopBrushes.com aggregates and shares Photoshop brushes from various designers and artists willing to share their wonderful creations. Besides quality brushes, the site also offers other Photoshop resources, such as Photoshop patterns and custom shapes.

9. FBrushes

FBrushes currently showcases over 4,000 individual Photoshop brushes and over 200 brush sets. The site groups brush sets in an intuitive manner, into themes such as Ornamental and Splatters.

10. Designers brush

Designers Brush is a collection of high quality Photoshop brushes. If you’re looking for Photoshop patterns, well, they have that as well.

11. Gfxfever.com:Photoshop Brushes

Gfxfever.com is dedicated to web designers, and is aimed at sharing graphic and web design freebies and resources. The Photoshop Brushes section has a ton of beautiful brushes for you to download freely. Just as with many other brush sites, you are able to rate brush sets so that others can know the quality of a particular set.

12. In obscuro: Brushes

In obscuro provides plenty of free brushes in various themes. They’re all available with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license so that you can download and use them freely under the stipulations of the license. There are many types of brushes to choose from, such as Photographic brushes and Grunge brushes.

13. GetBrushes

GetBrushes is your guide to top-notch, downloadable Photoshop brushes online. GetBrushes has a forums section for discussing topics related to Photoshop and graphic design.

14. Adobe – Photoshop Brushes

The maker of Photoshop, Adobe, has a section that few people know about: the Photoshop brushes section. At Adobe, you’ll find close to 1,000 brush sets to download and choose from. Check out the Most Popular section to see what people are downloading the most.

15. Design Blogs and Sites

Websites and blogs dedicated to discussing graphic and web design often give away freebies that readers can download. Here are a few sites that offer them:

15.1. Smashing Magazine Brushes

Some sets they offer

• Light Blurs Brushes and Decoration Pack For Photoshop
• Innocent Invaders Photoshop Brushes Set
• Health And Beauty Photoshop Brushes Set

15.2. Psdtuts+ Freebies

Some sets they offer

• 17 Cloud Vector Brushes
• Hi-Tech Brush Set
• Swirl Brushes

15.3. Six Revisions Freebies (shameless plug)

Some sets we offer

• Fauna: Free High-Res Photoshop Floral Brushes
• SR Grunge: Free High Resolution Photoshop Grunge Brushes

15.4. BittBox Freebies

Some sets they offer

• Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
• Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

15.5. Arbenting Freebies

Some sets they offer

• Kaleidoscope Photoshop Brush Pack
• Grunge Texture Pack 1

What’s your favorite spot?

Where do you go to obtain your Photoshop brushes? Why is it your favorite site? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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In this article, you’ll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques.

1. Cross Processing

You can learn how to apply the Cross Processing film-developing technique digitally to your images by reading through this quick and educational tutorial that leverages the powers of the Curves tool in Photoshop.

2. Lomo Photography

Take your ordinary digital photos and simulate the Lomo Photography effect (also known as Lomography) that will apply a dreamy and surreal effect onto your images in this tutorial that uses a Levels Adjustment layer among other Photoshop techniques.

3. HDR Photo Effect

Create a pseudo-HDR image by reading through this popular Photoshop tutorial that uses basic Photoshop tools, options, and techniques such as adjusting Shadows/Highlight settings and changing layer Blending modes.

4. Gritty Effect

Improve your photos with a dramatic gritty bronze effect to make them truly pop though the techniques discussed in this Photoshop tutorial. The tutorial uses a combination of techniques including the utilization of a Curves Adjustment layer.

5. Dave Hill Look Photo Effect

This simple but impressive tutorial takes inspiration from Dave Hill’s unique photography work to create stunning HDR-like renditions of ordinary photographs using a combination of techniques that involves the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop.

6. Soft Focus Photography

Learn about an image-enhancing technique that you can easily apply onto your images by reading through this handy Photoshop tutorial from photoshoptalent.com that uses a Color Balance adjustment layer as well as other Photoshop options and techniques.

7. Movie Photo Effect

By following along this Photoshop tutorial, even the plainest photos can embody a stylish Hollywood film look-and-feel. The technique involves a few Image Adjustment (Image > Adjustment) options like tweaking Exposure and Hue/Saturation settings.

8. Extreme Contrast Photo Effect

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to add some noise, how to take advantage of Photoshop’s sharpening tools, and how to add a simple Adjustment layer to give a photo an "extreme contrast" effect.

9. Infrared Photo Effect

The infrared photo effect can be a unique and stunning way to create one-of-a-kind photos. Learn how to simulate this photography technique digitally through this helpful Photoshop tutorial that takes advantage of Photoshop’s Channel palette.

10. Soft Focus & Glow Effect

Do you want to change a plain and boring scene into a dreamy and surreal photo? If so – check out this wonderful tutorial on applying a soft focus and glow effect onto your photos using the Gaussian Blur filter and adjusting layer Blending modes.

11. High Pass Filter

In this straightforward image-editing tutorial, you will learn a quick technique for enhancing your images to give them a subtle HDR effect by using Photoshop’s handy High Pass filter and adjusting layer Blending modes.

12. Vintage Photo Effect

Renowned graphic/web designer Veerle Pieters discusses a method for putting on a vintage photography effect on images in this tutorial that uses a few techniques like adding a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer and utilization of Smart Filters.

13. Split Toning Black & White Effect

Learn to apply the split toning (a variance of sepia toning) photography effect which takes ordinary photos to produce a vintage-style photo effect. This tutorial uses several Photoshop options like adding a Color Balance Adjustment layer and the Channel Mixer.

14. Change Hair Color Tutorial

If you want to add a bit of spice in your photos – one way to do so would be to change the subject’s hair color. Learn about a method for coloring hair in this tutorial that shows where Photoshop’s notoriety for digital manipulation comes from.

15. Coloring Effect Tutorial

In this quick and simple Photoshop tutorial, you will get a chance to discover some methods for coloring your images using a few tools and options such Adjustment layers, modifying Blending modes, and the Blur filter.

16. Light Effects

Enhance your images by adding a few cool lighting effects; learn how in this Photoshop tutorial. The tutorial uses various Photoshop tools such as the Gradient tool and taking advantage of the Pattern Overlay layer style.

17. Snow Photo Effect

Add some weather into your photos by viewing this tutorial that teaches its readers how to add falling snow onto a photograph. The tutorial adds in the snow by using the Add Noise Photoshop filter, blurring it, and overlaying it onto the image’s layer.

18. Streams Of Dusty Light

This interesting Photoshop tutorial shows you how to add a surreal stream of light to make your photos truly unique and eye grabbing. The tutorial leans on the Radial Blur filter to create the streams of light.

19. Photo Color Correction

If you have an image that you would like to correct for color, Photoshop is here to help! Read this PSDTUTS tutorial in order to learn about one of Photoshop’s strongest tools: the Curves Adjustment tool.

20. Enhance Skin Tutorial

In this Photoshop photo-editing tutorial, you’ll come across a process for effectively improving your subject’s skin. One of the Photoshop tools you’ll be encountering in the tutorial is the Healing Brush tool.

21. Gaussian Blur

Using the Gaussian Blur filter on images can result in unique photo scenes. If you’d like to know how you could use this Photoshop filter in a manner that enhances your photos, you should read this excellent tutorial.

22. Tilt-Shift Miniature Fake Technique

If want to use the Tilt Shift photography technique without spending boatloads of cash in purchasing the equipment to do so, read through this helpful tutorial on how to fake the popular technique.

Have a good Photoshop tutorial to add to the mix?

The comment section is a great place to find other resources that didn’t make the cut. If you know of a good image-editing tutorial that we somehow missed – share it with all of us in the comments!

*Edited by: Jacob Gube

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In this article, you’ll find several simple but effective photo enchancing techniques on topics such as how to choose the best image format for web or how to create croplet for repeatedly image editing process.

You can never stop improving your web and graphic design skills, you can always find something new and handy as you’ll see in the following collection.

1. 10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills

Ten useful tips that will improve your Photoshop skills such as subscribing to galleries and forums and reading magazines.

2. 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design

Web design can be deceptively difficult as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, and is technically sound and visually coherent.

3. 6 Photoshop Tips and Tricks That You Probably Don’t Know About

Here are 6 Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks that you probably don’t know about (I bet you don’t know at least one).

4. Hodgepodge of Photoshop Tricks

Chris Coyier offers very useful Photoshop tricks in this 36-minute long screencast.

5. Photoshop Tips & Tricks – Variety Pack Volume 1

Here is a collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

6. How to choose the right image format?

Learn how to choose the right image file format (BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG) for different cases on the web.

7. Removing Image Backgrounds in Photoshop: Magic Extractor Tool

8. 15 Tutorials for Recreating Authentic Photo Effects

9. Enhancing Photos with High Pass Filter

Tutorial using the Shadows/Highlight adjustments showing how you can easily simulate a sort of HDR style.

10. The hidden power of Photoshop brush tool

Adobe Photoshop Brush tool is very powerful and this tutorial explains several useful features in it. To learn all features, you can simply open the Brush palette (Window menu – Brushes), change each setting and try the result when you draw a stroke.

11. Photoshop CS4: Droplets

In video tutoria, you’ll learn how to create a Droplet in Photoshop and how it can help improve your workflow!

12. Photoshop: Smart Filters

Learn how to use smart filters in this advanced video tutorial.

13. "Background Eraser Tool" is the new Magic Wand

This tutorial explains how to use a very little known Photoshop tool call "Background Eraser Tool". It’s a super useful tool for removing background colors while preserving the main picture that you want. It’s pretty simple so you can start using it immediately after the tutorial.

14. 10 Photoshop Techniques You Can’t Work Without

Learn 10 advanced techniques you may not know about.

15. Guide to Halftone Pattern

This tutorial will go through the different steps and settings to achieve a halftone pattern.

16. Clone out distracting backgrounds in Photoshop (and Elements)

17. How to Use Fit Image in Photoshop – Video Tutorial

18. Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves

Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for the important things. These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform with default keyboard shortcuts.

19. 5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos

20. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

21. Warning: These 9 Photoshop Techniques May Result In Great Photos

Post-Processing (or photo editing) is what makes a good photo great. Cameras produce a good starting point, but post-processing is where the magic happens. Try out some of these creative post-processing tricks to boost your artistic style.

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In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.

Photoshop Tutorial Sites

1. Psdtuts+

Psdtuts+ is a weblog and Photoshop site that features high-quality Photoshop tutorials. On Psdtuts+, you’ll find tutorials such as "Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop" and tips and tricks like "Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow".

2. Tutorial9

Tutorial9 is a website that publishes excellent Photoshop tutorials such as "Draw a Classy 3D Poker Chip in Photoshop" and "Render a Realistic CD in Photoshop".

3. PSDFAN

PSDFAN publishes high-quality tutorials, Photoshop freebies, and interviews with designers and artists.

4. Photoshop Ninja

Photoshop Ninja is a site dedicated to Photoshop. It shares tutorials and tips such as "Opening Photoshop layered files as merged files", "Creating overlapping text layers", and "Why is my Photoshop layer style or effect not working?".

5. PSHERO

PSHERO shares Photoshop tutorials in categories such as Graphic Design, Photo Effects, and Tips & Tricks. Check out the Gallery View to see a quick thumbnail style view of PSHERO’s content.

6. You Suck at Photoshop

You Suck at Photoshop is a funny – but very educational – video series of Photoshop tutorials. This screencast series includes tutorials on topics such as the Clone Stamp tool and manual cloning and the Patch tool and levels.

7. PSD learning

Started on June 2008 by design student, Ross Aitken, PSD learning shares Photoshop tutorials, news/announcements, and design showcases. You’ll find Photoshop tutorials such as "Clean Web Template Design" and "Setting a Plane on Fire".

8. Luxa

Luxa presents great Photoshop tutorials such as "Tattoo Coming to Life" and "Phoenix Hair Effect".

9. Loon Design: Tutorials

Loon Design, a design weblog, has a Tutorials category that regularly features tutorials on Photoshop such as "Grunge Web Design" and "Creating A Professional Magazine Web Layout".

10. Photoshop Tutorials

At Photoshop Tutorials, you’ll discover great, in-depth Photoshop tutorials such as "Perform Laser Eye Surgery on a Photo with Photoshop" and "Street Dance Illustration".

11. PSDtop

PSDtop features high-quality Photoshop tutorials from all over the net.

12. PS Lover

PS Lover indexes Photoshop tutorials from all over the web (currently has over 12,000 listed tutorials), arranged into categories such as Web Design & User Interface Design, Photoshop Basics, and Photo Manipulation and Effects.

13. Photoshop 101

Started in 2004, Photoshop 101, a member of the MotionXL network, indexes Photoshop tutorials into categories such as Image Effects and Text Effects.

14. Good-Tutorials: Photoshop Section

Good-Tutorials, the largest source of tutorials on the web, has a huge Photoshop section that has a ton of tutorials.

15. Photoshop Roadmap

Photoshop Roadmap shares tutorials on Photoshop, as well as Photoshop brushes and plugins. Tutorials are organized in categories such as Animation and Interactivity and Photo retouching.

16. Photoshop Star

Photoshop Star publishes Photoshop tutorials such as "Creating Taxi Text Effect" and "Old Style Photo Effect".

17. Planet Photoshop: Tutorials

Planet Photoshop, a site that shares Photoshop-related tutorials, resource, and reviews, has a fairly large tutorials section that features tutorials such as "Text on a Path" and "3D Billiard Balls".

18. Pixel2Life: Photoshop Tutorials

Pixel2Life, a site that features tutorials of various types, has a Photoshop Tutorials category with lots of indexed tutorials.

19. Voidix

Voidix shares various types of tutorials and has a category on Photoshop Tutorials which includes tutorials such as "Fire Text" and "Crystals effect".

20. Vunkysearch

Vunkysearch is a fast Photoshop tutorial search engine.

21. Photoshop Contest: Tutorials

Photoshop Contest, a site the hosts contests pertaining to Photoshop, has a tutorials section that has user-submitted tutorials like "Making Snow" and "The Peel Effect". They also have a Video tutorial category.

22. Abduzeedo: Photoshop

Abduzeedo, a weblog by Brazilian designer, Fabio Sasso, has a Photoshop category that houses tutorials and news on Photoshop.

23. PSD Vault

PSD Vault is a Photoshop tutorial site that writes about things like designing a floating Eiffel Tower in Photoshop and creating a vintage car poster. They also regularly give away design-related freebies.

24. Worth1000: Photoshop Tutorials

Worth1000, a site by Aviary, has a Photoshop Tutorials section that has excellent tutorials such as "Lighting a Giant Elephant" and "3D Water Scapes from Scratch".

25. Photoshop Lab

At Photoshop Lab, you can find tutorials, as well as tips, tricks and news, on Photoshp. Check out the tutorials section where you’ll find tutorials such as "7 Things Photoshop Does Automatically".

26. Tutorialman

Tutorialman indexes Photoshop tutorials in categories such as Layouts and Digital Art.

27. Photoshop Lady

Photoshop Lady rounds up the best online Photoshop tutorials.

Photoshop Tutorial Collections

28. 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

This roundup by Psdtuts+ shares Photoshop tutorials for beginning-level designers.

29. 40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop

In this collection from Vandelay Design, you’ll discover forty tutorials on designing icons in Photoshop.

30. Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials

This post on Noupe features over fifty Photoshop files and tutorials.

31. Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of February 2009

This is a roundup of tutorials, brushes, and textures from February 2009.

32. 70+ Sexy, beauty and glamour Photoshop tutorials

You’ll find over seventy beautification Photoshop tutorials housed in this roundup.

33. 60+ High Quality and Free Photoshop Tutorials

In this article, you’ll discover over sixty high quality and publicly-available Photoshop tutorials.

Photoshop Brushes

34. Brusheezy

Brusheezy is a place for digital artists to download and vote on free Photoshop brushes.

35. PSBrushes

At PSBrushes, you’ll find plenty of downloadable Photoshop brushes organized in categories such as Abstract, Fractals, and Grunge.

36. Brushking

Brushking indexes tons of Photoshop brushes into categories such as: Vintage, Grunge, and Splatters.

37. myPhotshopBrushes.com

myPhotoshopBrushes.com features a ton of Photoshop brushes, arranging them into categories such as ornaments, nature, and human.

38. Obsidian Dawn: Brushes

Obsidian Dawn has a section on Brushes that has a collection of awesome Photoshop brushes.

39. Qbrushes

Qbrushes shares high-quality Photoshop brushes indexed into categories such as Swirls, Splatter, and Objects.

40. Fbrushes

Fbrushes currently has over 4,000 brushes and 200 brush sets, intuitively partitioned into categories such as Retro and Water Color.

41. Designersbrush

Designersbrush has a ton of Photoshop brushes.

42. Gfxfever

Gfxfever, a site for web designers, features Photoshop brushes such as "Decoration brushes" and "Acryl brushes".

43. Getbrushes

Getbrushes is your guide to free and downloadable Adobe Photoshop brushes on the web.

44. Inobscuro: Brushes

Inobscuro, a site on digital art, has a section on Photoshop brushes.

45. Photoshop Brushes from Adobe

The official Adobe site has a collection of Photoshop brushes that you can download.

Photoshop Patterns and Styles

46. Free4photoshop

Free4photoshop features free patterns, Photoshop styles, as well as brushes.

47. Designerpie

Designerpie shares freebies, including Photoshop patterns, styles, and pre-made gradients.

48. Free Photoshop Patterns

Free Photoshop Patterns – as the site name implies – features free, downloadable Photoshop patterns.

49. Photoshop Patterns from Adobe

The official Adobe site has a collection of Photoshop patterns that you can download.

Photoshop Brush, Gradients and Pattern Collections

50. 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

This is a one-page collection of high-res Photoshop brushes by Photoshop Roadmap.

51. Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop

Smashing Magazine released this set of brushes as a free download.

52. The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

This Smashing Magazine article rounds up the best Photoshop patterns available online.

53. 50 Free Photoshop Pattern Sets

This gallery-style post with clickable thumbnails features 50 free Photoshop pattern sets.

54. 498 Photoshop Background Patterns, and so much more

Close to 500 Photoshop background patterns are featured on this post.

55. 300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes

Over 300 vintage-style textures and brushes are showcased in this Design Reviver post.

56. Web 2.0 Gradients

If you’re a fan of the "Web 2.0 Gradient" look-and-feel, check out this wonderful post by Dezinerfolio.

57. 15 Sites to download Free PSD files

This list shares 15 sites where you can download PSD files for free.

Photoshop Actions

58. The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions

Written by Six Revisions (hint: the site you’re on right now) founder and chief editor, Jacob Gube – this Smashing Magazine article showcases some of the best Photoshop Actions on the net.

59. 124+ Free Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Designs

In this post, you’ll discover over a hundred free Photoshop actions that’ll improve your workflow, including actions for creating vintage photos and film strips automatically.

60. 400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions

Design Reviver features over 400 actions that will save you time, including Photoshop Actions for photography and for giving photos a Polaroid effect.

61. Free Auto Tilt-Shift Photoshop Action

This free Photoshop Action tries to apply the Tilt-Shift Photography effect on your images automatically.

Photoshop Plugins

62. 720 Free Photoshop Plugins And Filters

Over 700 free Photoshop plugins and filters are showcased in this post.

63. List of Top 10 Free Adobe Photoshop Plugins

This list on CGIndia features their top ten free Photoshop plugins.

64. 25 of the Best FREE Photoshop Plugins and Filters Resource Sites

This Speckyboy-written post features sites where you can download free plugins and filters for Photoshop.

65. Couple of Free Photoshop Plugin

Tutorial blog shares two excellent Photoshop plugins.

66. Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection

Webresourcesdepot rounds up an awesome showcase of Photoshop plugins.

Tutorials on Extending Photoshop

67. How To Make A Photoshop Brush

This tutorial on Bittbox walks you through the process of creating a Photoshop brush.

68. Photoshop Tutorial: Creating custom pattern

Learn how to create a custom pattern in Photoshop by following along Hongkiat’s tutorial.

69. Photoshop Shapes: Create Your Own Photoshop Custom Shapes

This tutorial by photoshopessentials.com teaches readers how to create a custom Shape in Photoshop.

70. Create A Photoshop Action To Watermark Your Images

Learn how to make a Photoshop Action in this PhotoshopSupport.com tutorial.

Do you have a resource we missed?

If your favorite Photoshop resource site isn’t here – sound off in the comments and let us all know about it.

* Article edited by: Jacob Gube

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In this round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs.

Each brush set was first tested, and the images you see below are previews of what to expect from each brush pack.

1. Darger-esque (23 brushes)

2. 1920s ladies by 500ml brushes (7 brushes)

3. Vintage Hands (15 brushes)

4. Vintage Models (11 brushes)

5. Retr0 Brushes (30 brushes)

6. Old Maps (11 brushes)

7. Newspaper ads from the 60s (12 brushes)

8. 1940 Cosmopolitan brushes (48 brushes)

9. Vintage Movie Posters (16 brushes)

10. Vintage brushes (12 brushes)

11. Vintage Birds (20 brushes)

12. Vintage polaroid brushes (14 brushes)

13. Vintage grunge brushes (17 brushes)

14. Alice in Wonderland brushes (20 brushes)

15. Old Newspaper (16 brushes)

16. Old Paper Brushes (7 brushes)

17. Vintage Lady (6 brushes)

18. Film and old projectors (5 brushes)

19. Vintage pics (8 brushes)

20. Birdcages (16 brushes)

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