21 Advanced Photoshop Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

1. 10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills

Ten useful tips that will improve your Photoshop skills such as subscribing to galleries and forums and reading magazines.

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2. 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design

Web design can be deceptively difficult as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, and is technically sound and visually coherent.

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3. 6 Photoshop Tips and Tricks That You Probably Don’t Know About

Here are 6 Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks that you probably don’t know about (I bet you don’t know at least one).

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4. Hodgepodge of Photoshop Tricks

Chris Coyier offers very useful Photoshop tricks in this 36-minute long screencast.

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5. Photoshop Tips & Tricks – Variety Pack Volume 1

Here is a collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

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6. How to choose the right image format?

~~Learn how to choose the right image file format (BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG) for different cases on the web.~~

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Editor’s Note: The above tutorial above is no longer available.

7. Removing Image Backgrounds in Photoshop: Magic Extractor Tool

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8. 15 Tutorials for Recreating Authentic Photo Effects

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9. Enhancing Photos with High Pass Filter

Tutorial using the Shadows/Highlight adjustments showing how you can easily simulate a sort of HDR style.

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10. The hidden power of Photoshop brush tool

Adobe Photoshop Brush tool is very powerful and this tutorial explains several useful features in it. To learn all features, you can simply open the Brush palette (Window menu – Brushes), change each setting and try the result when you draw a stroke.

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11. Photoshop CS4: Droplets

In video tutoria, you’ll learn how to create a Droplet in Photoshop and how it can help improve your workflow!

12. Photoshop: Smart Filters

Learn how to use smart filters in this advanced video tutorial.

13. "Background Eraser Tool" is the new Magic Wand

This tutorial explains how to use a very little known Photoshop tool call "Background Eraser Tool". It’s a super useful tool for removing background colors while preserving the main picture that you want. It’s pretty simple so you can start using it immediately after the tutorial.

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14. 10 Photoshop Techniques You Can’t Work Without

Learn 10 advanced techniques you may not know about.

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15. Guide to Halftone Pattern

This tutorial will go through the different steps and settings to achieve a halftone pattern.
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16. Clone out distracting backgrounds in Photoshop (and Elements)

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17. How to Use Fit Image in Photoshop – Video Tutorial

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18. Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves

Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for the important things. These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform with default keyboard shortcuts.

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19. 5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos

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20. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

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21. Warning: These 9 Photoshop Techniques May Result In Great Photos

Post-Processing (or photo editing) is what makes a good photo great. Cameras produce a good starting point, but post-processing is where the magic happens. Try out some of these creative post-processing tricks to boost your artistic style.

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Use x-ray techniques in Photoshop to show naked skin through clothing

Do those new naked body scanners have you freaked out at the airports? As far as the TSA is concerned, those x-ray machines are here to stay, but you might as well take comfort in knowing that airport security guards aren't the only ones looking at your private parts. Practically anyone with a computer can manage to see through your clothes, and it's all thanks to a little program called Photoshop. Thanks, Adobe. With a few tweaks using the tools in Photoshop, you can see those boobs in no time, male or female. The video is in German, but it's not hard to figure our what's going on, especially if you're familiar with Photoshop. First, create a few duplicate layers, then get a handle on some of these tools to make the naked body through the clothes: * Auswahl erstellen (Create Selection) * Tonwertspreizung (Input Levels) * Belichtung (Exposure) You can also do this see-through clothing effect in free design programs, such as GIMP .

40 latest creative photoshop text effects

Create a Glowing Liquid Text with Water Splash Effect in Photoshop In this tutorial, we will show you the steps we took to create a Glowing Liquid Text Effect in Photoshop. We will be practising the use of liquify filter, layer blending options, as well as some image adjustments. Create a Realistic Wooden 3D Text Image In this tutorial we are going to take a few 2D textures as well as a few Photoshop techniques to create a realistic 3D text image. Easy X-Ray Typography In Photoshop In this tutorial we will show you how to create a simple x-ray effect of a letter, in this case the Abduzeedo logo A. The whole process is quite simple but it will require a couple of hours to pull it off. Easy Furry Text In Photoshop In this tutorial we will show you how to create a really cool and super simple furry text in Photoshop CS6. We will use basic filters and tools but it’s nice to say that we took advantage of the a new feature in Photoshop CS6 that is to apply layer...

Royal 3D Text Effect in Photoshop CS6

Just make sure to check the 3D settings under Edit -> Preferences -> Performance, and Edit -> Preferences -> 3D. Default values should work fine, but if anything seems to be not working properly you can always check those settings. Step 1 - Create a new 1600 x 1200 px document and Fill the Background with black. Create the text in white using the font Dunkin Sans. The font size is 400 pt and the text is better written in All Caps (if you’re not using only numbers). Step 2 - With the text layer selected, go to 3D -> New Extrusion from Selected Layer. This will instantly convert the text layer into a 3D layer. All the 3D scene elements can be found in the 3D panel (Window -> 3D). Click the main mesh name to edit its settings. - The 3D Mesh settings and attributes can be accessed and modified through the Properties panel (Window -> Properties). If you scroll down the Properties panel you’ll find the Character Panel button, which ...

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