Photoshop Tutorial Sites

For tutorials listed by categories (i.e., Red Eye, Pencil Sketch, etc.), see the Tutorials - Specific Page.

About.com Photoshop Tutorials - Colored Orb with Layer Styles, Create a Rainbow, See-Thru Text with Layer Styles, Create a Snow Globe from Scratch, Faded Stripes and Line Screen Effects, Cow Spots Seamless Pattern, Kissing Fish Animation (with ImageReady), Stitching a Two-Part Scan, Cut Fabric Effect, Pink Flannel Seamless Tile, and more (although the about.com page isn't being maintained as of 2004, the tutorials are still posted there).

Adobe - How-to's on Adobe's Web site cover a variety of topics, such as layer styles effects and combining masks with clipping paths.

Al's Photoshop Tutorial - This tutorial is aimed at people who are artistically inclined but may not know much about digital paint programs, and covers digital inking, coloring, shading, and some basic effects used to produce cartoon-like imagery.

CBT Cafe Computer-Based Training - Tutorials in HTML and QuickTime. Tutorials include: Photoshop CS3 Tutorials: Threshold & Blend Mode Design, Silhouette Outline Effect, Custom Shape Designs; Photoshop CS2 Tutorials: Using Quick Mask to Change Eye Color, Cool Dots. Categories include New Tutorials, Automation (Using the Trim Command to Crop Your Images, Creating Your Own Custom Photoshop Actions, Batch Processing); Basics (Photoshop 3D Effects, Warp Text, Flipping and Rotating Images, Image Resizing); Brushes/Shapes (Pill Shape, Create a Custom Brush, Custom Shape Effects, plus more); Buttons/Web (Beveled Button, Slicing Images); Special Effects (Text Swoosh, Vignette, TV Scanline Effect, Soft Light Effect, Shadow/Perspective Text, Inset Lines), Textures/Patterns (Grid Background, Rock Texture, and more).

EffectLab - Full Moon, 3D Sheet, Cubic Type, Smoke Thrills, Wobbly Type, Layer Styles, Glass Button, Speed Type, Pipes, Reflecting Chrome, Punched Type.

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GrafX-Design - Includes several Photoshop CS2 tutorials: Mastering the Clone Stamp Tool, Create a Desktop or Printable Calendar; Glass Buttons; Sepia Toning; Brighter, Whiter Smiles; Red-Eye Removal; Exposure Correction Using Levels; Advanced Masking Techniques Made Simple; Converting Colors to Black & White; Digital Watermarking; Color Replacer; Text in a Circle; Page Curl; Flag Waving in the Wind; Metal Plate with Screws; Quick Mask Photo Effects; Textured Spheres; Wood Texture; several text effects, such as EZ Chrome Text and Raised Label Gun Text, etc.

Hands-On - Glass, Tiled Backgrounds, Transparency, Lighting Effects, LightFX3 Button Mask, Texture Wrapping, Basic Javascript Rollovers, Inset Bars, .

Heathrowe - Decorative Type, Quick Swirls, Step and Repeat, Batch Renaming, Auto Stroke Paths, Emboss Details, Studio Backdrops, Changing Eye Color, Match Color Photos, Creating Custom Exotic Shapes, Retro Art Style, Text Wrapping, Blend IF Into Textures, Custom Curtain (Fabric) Textures, Rounded Corner Shapes, Spiral Text on a Path, Rustic Skies, Create Custom Shapes from Line Art, Create Line Art from Digital Photos, Starry Nights, and more. Among the categories are Automation; Color Manipulation; Layer Blending Styles; Shape, Pen, Type Tool, and Painting Techniques.

Janee's Photoshop Tutorials - An assortment of tutorials under the categories of Shapes, Pen Tools, Brushes, Lettering & Text Effects, Textures & Special Effects, Photo Fixing & Restoring, Photo Art, and more.

John Woods' Photoshop Tutorials - Tutorials in PDF format by John Woods, a Photoshop 7.0 Adobe Certified Expert. Photoshop CS tutorials include Quick Fire Background, Rusty Background, Quick Parchment. Photoshop 7.0 tutorials include A Quick Vignette, Backlit Text, Glamour Portrait, Glass Sphere, Glass Text Effect, Gold Bevel Text, Metal Mesh, Mirrored Image Ball, Neon Text, Neon Glow, Patch Tool, Starburst Text, Steel Text Effect. There are also tutorials for Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0.

Layers Magazine Tutorials - Includes many Photoshop CS3 tutorials, as well as tutorials for older versions: Photoshop CS3 Underexposure SOS, Photo Composite Template, Image Slicing in Photoshop CS3, Smart Border Effects, Masking Hair in Photoshop CS3, B/W Toning in Photoshop CS3, Offset Dashes in Photoshop CS3, Zoomify Objects (CS3), Sharpening Using High Pass Filter, Building Your Web Gallery in CS3, Quick Selection and Refine Edges, Beauty Retouching with Smart Filters, Holiday Actions, Realistic Illustration, Extended Animation, Merging Photos, Layered Threshold Effect, Sharpen and Blur Selectively, Four Methods to Remove Colorcast, Image Toning, Painting with the Pattern Stamp, Changing Image Resolution without Changing Quality, Realistic Cast Shadows, Color Correcting Images, Custom Contact Sheets, Creating Border Effects, Make an Old Style Record, Create a Portrait Background, Creating Multi-Photo Collages with Layers, Add a Photographic Edge, Using Gradient Maps, Fix Fly Away Hair, Whitening Teeth, Using the Curves Dialog Box, and much, much more.

LonestarDigital.com - Primarily a photography site, there are Photoshop tutorials for Better Blue Sky, Haze Removal, History Brush, Perspective Correction, Skin Tone Correction, White Balance Solutions, and more.

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Pegaweb Web Design and Photoshop Tutorials - From simple to elegant web design using Photoshop 6.0, 7.0 and/or CS. Also tutorials for tiled web backgrounds, font styles, designing a company logo, and more.

Planet Photoshop - An extensive collection of tutorials. Just a few are Sci-Fi Text Effects, Crumpled Paper, Pirate Text, Stylized Comic Book Effect, Borders Under a Minute, Text Shape Layers, Dramatic Color Effects, Folds and Creases, Photo to Drawing, Beads of Sweat Effect, Pattern Maker, Type with Texture, Masking with Channels, Shooting Stars, Follow the Evidence (Create Realistic Crime Scene Tape), Graphic on a Mug, New Planet, Light Through Window, Cut-Out Effect, Give Your Photo an Antique Look, Find the Exact Center, Whitening Teeth, Water Drops, Favicons, Ghost Effect, Realistic Clouds, Step and Repeat in Photoshop, Select Hair by Using Channels, Creating a Gear with Compound Paths, Using Quick Masks, Using Masks for Seamless Backgrounds, Dashed Lines, Cloning Stamp Magic, Stroking a Path with a Custom Brush, Colorizing Photographs, Color Theory, Sharpening, Recovering Lost Highlight Detail, Sharper Text on Webpages, Beveled Steel Type, Weathered Words, Perspective Type, Slimey Letters, Quick Frame Effects, Duotones & Silhouettes, Placing Text Behind an Object, Selecting Frizzy Hair, Painless Tattoos, Replace Color, Quick & Easy Ripples, Mezzotint a Photograph, Realistic Motion Blurs, Changing Heads on Bodies, Painterly Effect, Extending the Sky, Pipe Background, Changing Hair Color, Making Medals, Creating Motion, Combining Images Using Masks, and a whole lot more.

Phong - Basic and advanced Photoshop tutorials. Photo Stitching, Masking a Tree, Refractive Glass, Metallic Wire, Reflecting Sphere, Beveled Metal, ePlastic, Disgruntled Dots, Lighting Effects, Scan Lines, Wireframe Sphere, Chipped Type, Dripping Slime, Rounding Shapes, Starburst.

PhotoshopCafe.com - Categories include FX, Text, Photo, Texture, Web, Misc.

The Photoshop Roadmap - A collection of tutorials from various authors. Categories include Animation and Interactivity, Illustration Techniques, Interface Design, Layers and Channels, Photo Retouching, Photoshop Elements Tutorials, Scanning, Special Effects, Text Effects, Textures and Backgrounds, Tools and Commands..

RetouchPro - Information and interaction for anyone involved with photo retouching, restoration, and manipulation. This site has tutorials categories for The Basics, Retouching Tutorials, Photo-Art Tutorials, Restoration Tutorials, and Manipulation Tutorials.

Russell Brown's Tips & Techniques - Many Adobe Photoshop CS3 Quicktime tutorials including Printing to the Epson Stylus Pro 3800, HP Photosmart Pro 9180, Canon Pro 9500; Neon at Night, Auto Blending Magic, Photomerge, Auto-Align/Auto-Blend Layers, Quick Select & Refine Edge, CS3 Extended Tutorials; CS2 tutorials include Day with No Sky (replace blown-out sky), Wood Type Effects, Smart Object Basics, Advanced Background Extraction, Digital Knockout, Digital Watermark Branding, Vanishing Point Tutorials, Image Warp; CS Tutorials include Comic Book-Style Text Effects, Remove Moire Patterns, Atmospheric Illusion (Extremely Advanced), Creating Digital Hair.

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Shanzcan's Photoshop Tutorials - Frame-based site, so you'll need to link from the Tutorials button in the navigation bar on the left. Tutorials (PDF document and images) are available as compressed files. You'll find a wide variety of excellent tutorials, including Channel Masks (for difficult selections like hair), From Black & White to Color, Built in Scan Lines & Moire, Shadow Exercise, Pencil Sketch, Wow Spot Color Alternate, Photo Realism, Vector Shapes & Visual Clues, Shape Layers, Custom Tessellating Shapes, Color Correction, Scan Stitching, and more.

TeamPhotoshop Tutorials - Sections are Photoshop Text Effects, Tools, Techniques.

VecPix - Tutorials include marble texture, colored glass effect, metal effect, colored metal, neon text, color drawing, micro bevel, rusted type, 3D text/logo, techno-wave effect, digital effect, water drops, lcd screens, steel type, pixelated text, smooth edges, transparency, digital smoke, game cube logo, sparkles, dripping slime, worn paper.

Voidix - A wide array of photoshop tutorials under the categories of Text Effects (aqua, gel, 3D, fire, ice, blood, chrome, and several more), Special Effects (clear crystals, starlight, laser beam, water bubbles, glass ball, futuristic, lightning, magma ball, meteor, plus many more), Interface Effects (glass orb, plastic buttons, gears, gel buttons, pixel borders, etc.), Advanced Tutorial Sets (realistic CD player, magic hands, skull face manipulation, and Beginner's Corner).

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