40+ Useful Photoshop Effects

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard software for adding special and extra effects to otherwise dull photographs, to turn these photographs into mind blowing masterpieces.

But exactly how do you get about doing this? Photoshop can be intimidating for many people. Which buttons do you click and how do you use the correct tools? Fortunately, there are loads of excellent tutorials on the internet which teach you how to add amazing effects to your photographs. This is a list of more than 40 tutorials on Photoshop effects.

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1. Add A Realistic Rainbow To A Photo In Photoshop

Neat technique to add rainbows to photographs.

2. Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph

Make your photos come alive by adding some dynamic lighting to them.

3. Beautiful Photo Mosaic

4. Night Vision

Make photographs appear as if they were taken from a night vision camera.

5. How to Create a Dark Surreal Illustration in Photoshop

6. Adding Snow to a Photo

7. Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop

8. Create a Glowing Surreal Planet Design

With a photograph of a city’s skyline, create a planet!

9. How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

10. Mysterious lighting effects

Make your photos appear more mystic by adding some light effects.

11. Slick Dusky Lighting Effects

12. Alien Invasion

Good enough to scare anyone

13. Photoshop Rain Effect

Very neat tutorial to add rain to photos that lack it.

14. Tilt Shifting

Make life-sized things appear to be tiny models. Also, check out these examples of tilt-shift art.

15. Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo

16. Making of a Forest Magical Scene

17. How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds

Create a heavenly sight using this tutorial.

18. A few light effects to make awesome images

Some spice and you’ve got yourself a flamin’ photo

19. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

20. Good and Evil

“Two sides of a coin”

21. Photoshop vintage effect

22. Snail race photo montage

23. Dramatic Gritty Effect

24. RoboHorse

25. Dark Art

26. Creating a Fantasy Scene

27. ‘Broken Pieces’ photo effect

28. Make a picture look like frosted glass

29. Create a Space Explosion From Scratch in Photoshop

30. Color Effects with Alpha Channel

31. Create a ‘Bionic Diver’

32. The Making of a Robotic Frog

Making a futuristic, robotic frog in Photoshop.

33. How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

34. Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop

35. Transform a person into an alien

36. Photoshop Space Tutorial

37. Planetary Rings

38. Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

39. Incredibly Realistic Burnt Parchment in Photoshop

40. Create a Surreal Environment Using a Photo

41. Artistic Sepia/Colorizing Effect

42. Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

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