15 Effective Photoshop Tutorials

Posted in Tutorials | On 29th October 2009 | Comments Off

Photoshop is probably the designers tool of choice for image manipulation, web and logo design and anything else of a graphic nature.

There are thousands of top tutorials for Photoshop from site like PSDtuts (http://psdtuts.com) and PSDlearning (http://psdlearning.com) so its a difficult task selecting a smaller number of tutorials to recommend to our readers.

I have settled on 15 great tutorials working with mix of typography, layouts, web buttons and some other cool effects for you to practice and learn to apply in your future projects and designs.

Create a 3D Text Scene Using Photoshop

How To Correctly Use Bevels & Drop Shadows in Photoshop

Design a Cartoon Grunge Web site Layout

Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop

How to Make a Creative Blog Layout

Photoshop Text Effect – Smooth Glass

Letterpress Text Effect

Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish

How to design a simple and sleek web Portfolio

Build Beautiful Buttons in Photoshop, Part I

Build Beautiful Buttons in Photoshop, Part II

Create Smoke Text

Colorful Spirograph Poster

Create a Realistic Grunge Peeling Sticker in Photoshop

Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop

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