10 Splendid Photoshop Tutorials You Shouldn’t Miss

Being an artist or a graphic designer means you should always try to be as creative as you can. However, we cannot ensure that we can come up with gorgeous ideals any time we want. We do run out of inspirations sometimes. So when we are stuck in such kind of situation. We’d better put down the work at hand and take some rest, a walk outside should help greatly to refresh your mind. After that, you can turn to other people’s work for inspiration. Carefully study how they conceptualized and visualized their work and the skills they applied creating their art pieces. Here, we’ve gathered 10 Photoshop tutorials, which are truly great for your reference and hopefully they could provide you with some good ideals in creating your own works.

1. The making of the nutty boat trip

Two squirrels sitting in a coffee-mug boat in a river. How cute! The designer of this graphic must have a loving heart and truly creative mind. He/she combined several materials together in order to achieve this adorable picture for us. Let’s follow his/her steps in creating the picture above.

2. Apply a fantastic lighting and coloring effect on images with Photoshop CS5

In this tutorial, the author provides us with detailed information of how to turn a stock image into a futuristic composition that uses various Photoshop techniques. We will learn to work with brush tools and implementing color and light effects to achieve the final result.

3. Create a photo realistic digital painting in Photoshop

Photoshop is a powerful tool to create fascinating works as long as you have the right knowledge. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a photo realistic illustration of a swan inside a wine glass using various digital drawing techniques.

4. Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorial design amazing mosaic effects

Illustrator’s symbols and global colors are two major elements applied in this mosaic art piece. This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a more stylish mosaic that uses small, vector shapes rather than images to build up the entire image.

5. Painting “the happy smile” in Adobe Photoshop

Cartoon image is a quite popular theme. In this tutorial, the author gives a detailed description of how the art piece is created. He/she leads us step by step through digital coloring in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

6. Making of “I want a sun not a star”

Again, this is a cartoon art work. The author shared with us his/her experiences in creating this image. Adobe Photoshop and Wacom tablet are used in the creating process.

7. Create a burst in the Nebula effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn a new command from the author: pixel coordinates. Besides that, the filter “wind’ is used in a very unique manner. The tutorial is mainly for intermediate to advanced users, well, beginners are welcome to give it a try as well.

8. Create a dark and mysterious fantasy portrait

This image is composed by several stock images. Adjusting colors and some retouching techniques are also used to create the dark and mysterious blue portrait.

9. Create a burning metal text with melting effect on Photoshop

This is a beginner level Photoshop tutorial and the steps are quite easy to follow. We will go through some basic methods of adding textures to your text, several image adjustment layers and layer blending modes are also used in the creating process.

10. Create an explosive flaming poker card in Photoshop

In this one, we will learn to create custom poker card from scratches by using various shapes Adobe Photoshop provides. Some simple methods of how to manipulate fire is also taught here.

Conclusion

We’ve seen this much tutorials from various designers on different themes, well, it’s time to get started and create our own works. Are you ready?