Photoshop Tutorial Sites

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

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. Categories include New Tutorials (Using Quick Mask to Change Eye Color, 3D Effects, Text Swoosh, Cool Dots, and more), Automation (Custom Photoshop Actions, Batch Processing), Basic Tutorials (includes Creative Text Using Warp Text, Flipping and Rotating Images, Image Resizing), Brushes/Shapes (Pill Shape, Modify Brushes, Custom Shape Effects), Buttons/Web (Beveled Button, Slicing Images), Special Effects (Vignette, TV Scanline Effect, Soft Light Effect, Shadow/Perspective Text, Insight Lines), Textures/Patterns (Grid Background, Rock Texture).

The Design Center Tips & Tricks - Removing Backgrounds with Katrin Eismann, Carved in Wood, Changing Colors, Removing Backgrounds 2: Save Shadows, Layer Mask: merging photos, Text Mask to Embossed Watermark for Photos, Place a picture into text, Painting into a Layer Mask to Reveal Image, Photoshop Photo Collage, Watermarking in Photoshop Elements, Fix Color Cast, Old-time Engraving Effect, and more.

Designs by Mark Old Tutorials Archive - The tutorials from Mark's old site are still available. Tutorials include Type Effects, Photographic, Menus and Buttons, Textures and Patterns, High Tech Art, Christmas Art, and Movies.

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

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GrafX-Design - Several Photoshop CS2 tutorials: 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.

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

Heathrowe - Tutorial categories include: Automation, Color Manipulation, ImageReady, Knockout Power Tricks, Layer Blending Styles, Painting Techniques, Pattern/Texture Techniques, Pen Tool & Shape Tool Techniques, Type Tool Techniques, Web Design 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 - A comprehensive and growing selection of 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 over 82 tutorials: 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.

Magic's Photoshop Tutorials - Tutorials under the headings of "Cool and Tricky" (buttons, chrome, and more) and "Nuts and Bolts" (moire, slice with guides, composite images, etc.). Some tutorials also include zipped files you can download.

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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.

Photoshop Techniques - A frames-based site; very nice tutorials on Raindrops and Fire effects. Click on "Technique" at the menu on the top of the Photoshop Techniques home page.

Planet Photoshop - An extensive collection of tutorials. Just a few are 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, Easy Page Curl in Photoshop CS2, Mezzotint a Photograph, Realistic Motion Blurs, Changing Heads on Bodies, Red Eye Reduction, Painterly Effect, Extending the Sky, Pipe Background, Water Effect, Changing Hair Color, Making Medals, Creating Motion, Combining Images Using Masks, and 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, Color Correction and Color Theory, Graphics Optimization and Compression, Illustration Techniques, Interface Design, Layers and Channels, Photo Retouching, Photoshop Elements Tutorials, Scanning, Special Effects, Text Effects, Textures and Backgrounds, Tools and Commands.

Heathrowe - Tutorials include Emboss Details, Studio Backdrops, Animated Menus, Change Eye Color, Galactic Orbs, Simulate Water Bubbles, Creating Surface Water, Retro Art Style, Painting Clouds, Trendy Backgrounds, Text Wrapping in Photoshop CS and CS2, Color Replace with Ease, Custom Curtain Textures, Create Line Art from Digital Photos (v2), and many more.

PS Workshop/Rainworld - User-submitted tutorials. Categories include Basic, Color, Photo/Scanning, Text, FX, Textures, Interface, Tools, Miscellaneous Odds and Ends..

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 - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Quicktime and HTML Tutorials include Clone Source Tips & Techniques, Nondestructive Text Effects, Smart Filters, The All-New Photomerge, Converting Color to Black & White, Auto Align and Auto Blend Layers, The New Clone Source Feature, Quick Select and Refine Edge, and many more extended tutorials. Also a large compilation of Photoshop CS and CS2 Tips and Tutorials.

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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.

Step-by-Step Photoshop Tutorials by Tim Shelbourne - A collection of tutorials by author Tim Shelbourne, who has written Photoshop-related books and magazine articles. Chalk and Wash Technique, 120 Film Montage Effect, Photo-Shoot, Lady Madonna Portrait, Weathered Inn Sign, Stained Glass Effect, CD Cover Tutorial, Vector Illustration Effect.

Sue Chastain's (about.com guide) 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.

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 (aqual, 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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