Photoshop Tutorials by Category

For a listing of all tutorial sites, see the Tutorials - All Page.
Direct links to the specific tutorial are provided whenever possible.

BACKGROUND REMOVAL
Sue Chastain - Knock It Out! 5 Background Removal Techniques

CHANNEL / LAYER MASKS
Katrin Eismann - Selecting hair and fine detail.
Planet Photoshop - Selecting Frizzy Hair NEW 09/10/09
Shanzcan - Channel masks for difficult selections like hair (click on shanzcan tutorials)

CHRISTMAS / WINTER EFFECTS
DW Photoshop - Several holiday and seasonal tutorials, including Christmas Wreath, Snow Globe, Ice Background, Holiday Bows
EffectLab - "Snow at the Bahamas"
heathrowe.com - Christmas Tree Ornament
Melissa Clifton - Digital Candy
Sue Chastain - Create a Snow Globe from Scratch
Heathrowe - Animated Christmas Bells (ImageReady)

CIRCULAR TEXT
Mac Design Online

COLOR MANAGEMENT
Computer Darkroom - Proof setup and why do we need it?
Creative Pro - Making what you see in print match what you see on your screen.
Creative Pro - Tips for managing web color in Photoshop.

COLORIZING BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS
Planet Photoshop - Coloring a Black & White Photo.
Shuttertalk - Hand-coloring B/W images with Photoshop CS.

DISPLACEMENT MAPS / FILTER
Teacher-Toolkit - Overlay flag and woman's face tutorial.
Wave of the Past - A tutorial by Russell Brown that puts text on the contour of a "wavy" flag.

EBAY/AUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY
Camera Jim's Guide to eBay Auction Photography

FIRE
John Woods - Quick Fire Background (PDF)
Planet Photoshop - Stylized Fire Effect
Planet Photoshop - Ring of Fire
VoidIX - Fire Text

FRAMES
Presentation Frame - Step-by-step instructions by renowned photographer John Shaw.

HALLOWEEN-RELATED TUTORIALS
DW Photoshop - Bloody eyeballs, haunted house, jack-o'lantern

HISTORY BRUSH
LonestarDigital.com - Demonstrates the most popular use of the history brush tool: to take a color picture, convert it to black & white, then brush the original color back into a particular feature.

INSET LINES
CBTCafe - Inset Lines Quicktime and HTML versions.

MAKING MEDALS
PlanetPhotoshop - Create a fictitious medal.

NEON TEXT
mikegondek.com - Photoshop 6.0 tutorial.

PAGE CURL (Page Turning Effect)
GrafX-Design - Page curl
Layers Magazine - Warp corner curl
MyJanee.com - Turn the page curl effect
The Photoshop Guru's Handbook
PlanetPhotoshop - Easy page curl in v. CS2

"PENCIL SKETCH" FROM COLOR PHOTO
Deke McClelland - Photorealistic line drawing
Pete Bauer Photo to Sketch
ShanzCan (includes PDF download) (click on shanzcan tutorials)

PHOTO FRAMES
John Shaw Photography - Photo presentation frame

"POP ART" EFFECT
By Melissa Clifton - Pop Art Inspired by Liechtenstein
By Melissa Clifton - Andy-Warhol-Up Your Photographs

POST-IT NOTES / NOTE PAPER
Heathrowe - Note Paper Effect
The Photoshop Guru's Handbook - Post-It Notes

RAINDROPS/WATER EFFECTS
The Photoshop Guru's Handbook
Planet Photoshop - Water Drops
Planet Photoshop - Animated Rain
Heathrowe - Simulate Water Bubbles
Heathrowe - Creating Surface Water
Voidix - Water Bubbles

RED-EYE REMOVAL
Adobe - Red eye removal tutorials, including Photoshop Elements & CS2.
Get the Red Out - An excellent Quicktime tutorial for removing red eye from photos.
Graphics Software About.com - Instructions to remove red-eye in any version of Photoshop.
John Woods - Red Eye Correction PDF.
Red-Eye Reduction - Five red-eye removal techniques by Pete Bauer on Planet Photoshop (includes Photoshop CS2 technique).

RED-EYE REMOVAL IN PET PHOTOS
About.com - Fixing Pet Eye in Your Photos
GrafXDesign

SCOTCH TAPE
The Photoshop Guru's Handbook

SELECTIONS
PlanetPhotoshop - Selecting Frizzy Hair

SEPIA TONING
GrafX Design

SILHOUETTES
The Graphic Reporter - Channel your way to a perfect silhouette
Layers Magazine - Faking hand-drawn illustrations

TATTOO
Graphics.com - Add a Tattoo with Photoshop
PlanetPhotoshop - Painless Tattoos

VALENTINE'S DAY TUTORIALS
DW Photoshop - Bear hugs, chocolate, kitty-love background

VIGNETTES
Carl Volk "Creating Vignettes"
CBTCafe Vignettes - Quicktime and HTML versions.
Sue Chastain - Create a Soft Fade

WATERMARKING (to discourage image theft)
Tutorial by Terry Steeley - A watermarking technique for Photoshop 7 and Photoshop CS.
Photoshop 911 - Text mask to create embossed watermark for photos.