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.
You might also want to check these other design related post from the past:
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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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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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Thanks for listing both my ‘Dark Art’ and ‘Good and Evil’ tutorials.
hey, those were brilliant tuts