35 Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials from 2010

With the release of CS5, Photoshop has become even more power-packed with features more simplified, and with better characteristics. Its features are so user-friendly such that even newbies can produce quality effects, and for professionals launching of CS5 is like getting box of Pandora with which they can get awesome results.

Today we present 35 Latest Photoshop Tutorials from this year, which will showcase you techniques used for text effects, lightning effect, photo manipulation, web design and some general tips. All tutorials are quite innovative and modernistic and will help you learn fantastic ways to improve your skills and amplify your artistic know-how. However, these tutorials are just for brushing up your skills. Your ultimate aim should be developing your own style.

Fresh Photoshop Tutorials From 2010

Create a Stylish Grunge Poster with 3D Typography in Photoshop

In this tutorial author will show you how to create a cool grunge poster in Photohop. We will play in particular with blending modes to mix stock images and with some filters to create nice effects. Also author will show you how to integrate 3d text into your compositions and how to replace existing colors using adjustment layers.

Creating an Impactful Disco Party Poster

This tutorial will show how we can create an impactful disco party poster. There are some new methods in making lighting burst and streak effects. We will also touch a little on using the settings in Brushes Panel, so let’s check it out!

How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, author will show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop. We’ll use some beginner to intermediate level techniques such as the usage of brushes, editing colors, using filters, masking and a whole lot more!

Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps and techniques involved in creating a brilliant product advertisement. You’ll start with a stock image of an Adidas shoe, extract it from the background, then combine it with various photostocks to create a liquifying product advertisement.

How to Make a High-Impact Fashion Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use shapes and other objects to create a unique fashion poster scene. Utilizing Adobe Photoshop shapes is an awesome means for improving your designs and they can easily be used without spending too much time on them.

Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

So in this tutorial author will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward.

How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.

How to create a fantasy photomanipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will leanr how to make a photo into a surreal land with a castle and a flying horse. Hope you enjoy it!

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the essential process of achieving brilliant lighting effects in Photoshop. Using default brushes, blending options and a few stock images, you’ll learn step by step a variety of techniques that you can use in your own digital artworks to achieve professional results.

How to Create a Serene Panorama from Multiple Photographs

In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to combine multiple stock photos into a single, coherent scenery in Photoshop. We’ll start off with a single panoramic photo, and integrate two others along the way. Also, we’ll look at ways to make the final result look more dynamic and appealing with a few adjustments layers. If you’re looking to improve your photo manipulation skills, this tutorial should prove very useful!

Create a Dark and Surreal Poster Using Your Own Portrait

This tutorial was inspirited by digital artist Rob Shields. Author chose his work titled “Keep me in the dark.” In this illustration it is essential that you use a tablet; especially for the doodles and the white strokes that will give the portrait a more detailed effect.

Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop - Screencast

In this tutorial, we learn how to recreate that solar eclipse image in a slightly retro style using nothing but photoshop.

How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

In this Photoshop tutorial, author will be showing you how to make a dark and mysterious scene with the subject having a TV for a head. You will see how to seamlessly replace a person’s head with another object—in this case, a television—and how to create a stormy sky using brush strokes. We’ll also deal with creating realistic lights and shadows as well as how to retouch subjects who are against a light source.

Photoshop Quick Tips: Neon with Layer Styles

How to create the same light effect as used on the Abduzeedo logo. He explains this effect in very simple steps using basically Layer Styles and a few brushes.

Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop

In this tutorial author will show you how to create a nice light effect in Photoshop. He will use Layer Styles and Blend Modes to simulate a neon text effect.

Light Effects in Photoshop

In this tutorial author will show you how to create this effect. It's a sort of monitor/halftone effect mixed with glows and other light effects. We will play with Blend Modes and Blurs. The whole process is quite simple and it won't take more than 20 minutes to achieve the same result.

How To Use Curves in Photoshop

The idea behind Curves is all about re–mapping values. A pixel starts out at a certain brightness, and you change it to be brighter or darker.

Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here.

Jungle 3D text in Photoshop

This is a funny Photoshop tutorial that explains how to realize a 3D jungle text effect. We will create the text in Xara3d and we will use Photoshop to texturize the letters using animals’ skin. Don’t forget to download the jungle wallpaper!

Reader Tutorial: Arcadia 80's VHS Style

We love the 80's especially that look and feel of the old VHS movies that we used to watch so many times. Because of that we have a super cool Photoshop tutorial showing you how to create a VHS image style.

Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop

The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new. Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer.

How to give a retro-look to your photos

In this tutorial we will use Photoshop to give a retro look style to our photos in 7 easy steps. The tutorial will help Photoshop beginners to understand better how to manage colors using Photoshop adjustment layers and filters.

How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy Character

In this tutorial, we will learn how to make a funny boy character in Adobe Photoshop. After drawing the sketch, we’ll use shapes, layer styles, the brush tool, and other effects to add some dimension to and life to our character.

Create a Colorful Space Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial we’ll create a colorful illustration that includes the Earth, the Moon, a starry sky and some beautiful light effects. Here’s the finished illustration. You’re on the moon, or orbiting it, and you get a glimpse of Earth, our pale blue dot. Whatever those light beams are they’re begging for some spaceship to be placed right among them.

How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop

In this intermediate-level tutorial, author will show you how to make an awesome icon from scratch using Photoshop. You will need basic knowledge of Photoshop and familiarity with the Pen Tool (P).

How to Create a Highly Detailed Hi-Tech Power Button – Basix

With this tutorial Author will create a hi-tech style button that can be used in splash pages, applications or Powerpoint presentations. He will use Illustrator to create complex vectors and Photoshop to develop realistic effects.

How To Create a Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop

The Internet world exploded with the news of the Apple tablet launch last week. Named the iPad, it’s set to bring yet another revolution to the way people access and browse the web. An iPad icon would be a sensible addition to any web designer’s resources toolbox, so let’s fire up Photoshop and create our very own detailed iPad icon graphic.

Create a Cosmic XBOX using Custom Brushes

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create some custom line brushes, and then apply them to a subject to create a cosmic design. The line brushes, combined with some simple techniques in Photoshop, give the image a sense of motion and help bring the design together.

Design a Tropical iPhone Advertisement

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a tropical underwater iPhone advertisement, complete with clownfish, starfish, and bubbles. You’ll learn how to isolate a variety of stock images, using custom brushes, extraction methods, and image manipulations. You’ll also see how to visually compose an image for maximum effect.

Designing Cool Interface for Magazine Portal

We shall go through some basic considerations and plans to take before doing the actual design for a simple and sleek Magazine portal. We will focus on using the Pen tool and Blending Options to make various border effects.

How to create a distinguishable textured web layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial author will show you how to create a textured web layout, starting from the concept on paper to Photoshop design. HeS will discuss about site structure and will use the 960 grid to organize our contents. Also you will learn how to use layer styles to create an engraved text effect.

How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

In this web design tutorial, we will create a beautiful and colorful portfolio layout using Photoshop. author will show you many techniques for creating different things like bended paper corners, dashed lines, image carousels, 3D bars, and more!

Create a Chalkboard Style Wordpress Layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a unique and original WordPress style layout that looks like a chalkboard

Create a Clean Blue Portfolio Design in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a clean blue portfolio design in Photoshop and will use Flavours Icon Set, Nevis typeface and Social Network Icon Pack.

Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a web 2.0 layout, As we go through the tutorial we’ll deal with so many Photoshop techniques. Seems kind of long? that’s because it’s very detailed.