Aug 28, 2007

60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

These are advanced techniques that require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they require talent, Photoshop training, knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, etc. I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful.
UPDATE: If you like these tutorials, you might love this:
60+ (more) Advanced Photoshop & GIMP Tutorials

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Text-effects:

Movie techniques:

Vector effects:

Photo Retouching:

Photo Manipulation:

Web Buttons / Interface Elements:

Digital Coloring:

Digital Painting:

I’m generally not not a huge fan of producing an effect in Photoshop that looks like it was produced in Photoshop. For instance when someone uses blending options like “glow” or “drop shadow” …and no other creative combination of anything else, & the effect IS the glow or drop shadow or the….. lens flare (god forbid.)

My thoughts are that after having used Photoshop since version 2.5 LE primarily for comping out web interfaces and some mild digital art, I’ve found that there are many features to help you but not do the work for you. You have to be creative and use the tools AND your own creativity to finish with a quality result. Otherwise you just look like you don’t know what you’re doing. Granted, there’s that saying “There’s nothing new under the sun” only our perspectives. So check out these tutorials and get inspired - if you have a tutorial you feel is worthy for me to add, email it to me and I’ll check it out.

Additional resources / Link love:
http://www.tutdesk.com/
This is one of the few sites I have found that actually is design well itself and also has a nice amount of quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

http://dr-photoshop.com/
I like the look of this site, specifically the color scheme and simplicity. The tutorials are to the point, and cover a wide range of techniques.

http://www.deviantart.com
This site shouldn’t need any introduction if you’ve been online for any length of time, and are into digital art. They’ve been around for a while, and they’re only getting stronger. Talk about a pioneer of niche social networking! If you want to see an endless amount of amazing Photoshop digital painting tutorials - go here and type in “Photoshop tutorial” into the search bar. They have thousands of amazing user submitted tutorials.

Here are my suggested advanced learning products (books/dvd’s):
http://www.photoshoptopsecret.com/

154 Comments, Comment or Ping

Gerri

These are incredible. Thank you for sharing. I can see that a tremendous amount of work and effort was made to share what you know and I really appreciate that. I’m bookmarking you on all my computers.

Aug 28th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks for the support Gerri.

Aug 28th, 2007
Adnan

Good Work!

Aug 28th, 2007
Alex (Intellimind)

thank you very much. ive had random tutorials everywhere, this really puts in into an easy referenceable page.

PS i know referenceable isnt a word

Aug 28th, 2007
Avi

check this out. might be helpful in your field….

http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/PSactions.asp

Aug 28th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Avi I had to pull your comment out of my spam filter lol. That article is great btw thanks. I didn’t read it through but it looks like a valuable read.

Aug 28th, 2007
What is GIMP?

Any chance of you doing a GIMP version? Photoshop is not available for Ubuntu. Thanks.

Aug 28th, 2007
dennisplucinik

I’ll consider it. That’s a good idea.

Aug 28th, 2007
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The techniques shown are advanced level and require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop…

Aug 28th, 2007
Richard

These are incredible. I enjoyed reading your page.

Aug 28th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks Richard.

Aug 28th, 2007
qureyoon

another blog to subscribe

nice one here

Aug 28th, 2007
achmadbiz

Woooww it is really useful list :), thanks …

Aug 28th, 2007
Joseph Hsu

Good collection here, thanks for sharing.

@What is GIMP?
most of these tutorials can be replicated in gimp, with some things with different labels.

check out Gimpshop also, a modification of gimp to be more like photoshop.

http://gimpshopdotnet.blogspot.com/

Aug 28th, 2007
dennisplucinik

I have to say I’m all for open source software and all especially with the price of Photoshop being so high but it’s got very-very-very long way to go in overcoming the fact that most professional Photoshop users are using Macs or PCs. Let alone the fact that Linux is impossible to use for most of the population. I have to admit I really have honestly never heard of or even seen any graphics produced from GIMP so I cannot attest to it’s quality similarities with Photoshop.

Personally I run 2 computers with Windows XP and 1 with Fedora Core 6 which is basically dedicated to email and chat only and I do actually have GIMP installed installed but I don’t ever use it. I tried using it once and became totally frustrated after about 10 minutes and gave up. I know it’s not a great work ethic, but there’s a limit for instance when you can’t figure out how to do something so stupidly simple like “create a new layer” in under 5 minutes… it’s time to call it quit folks. he bottom line is Linux is just too difficult for 99% of people to figure out (myself included) how to use it and so it’s not worth the time to try and figure it out.

Honestly I spent like 3 hours trying to figure out how to get a wireless network card on a laptop running Ubuntu once. It’s absurd that it’s so difficult and I look forward to the day when it’s not and then Linux will have my attention.

Ok all that being said - I want to say additionally, I understand the heart behind GIMP and I fully support it. Even though It’s just not for me at this point I realize that it is for some people, and I want to do what I can to promote its development. So I will make a very strong attempt to put together as good a lits as possible of GIMP tutorials. If anyone would like to contribute to this effort (knows of any good places to start off hand, is interested in creating some new ones, submitting old ones, etc.) please let me know. Either email me or post whatever you have here and I’ll waste no time getting started.

Aug 29th, 2007
Megan Vaillancourt

I just Bookmarked your site. I have just gotten Photoshop and am anxious to start learning more about using it. So I will be using you as a resource. Thank you for taking time to create this information. Great Job

Blessings

Aug 29th, 2007
Javier

Excelent list!

Aug 29th, 2007
E. Serrano

That’s a pretty good list of some of the best Photoshop tutorials!

I think that this one may come in handy about interface design:
Advanced chrome effects with Photoshop Styles tutorial

Aug 29th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks for the coffee from Tatiana at www.rogers.com!

Aug 29th, 2007
dennisplucinik

BTW Serrano - that Chrome effect is pretty nasty you’re right - if we can find three more for the web button / interface category, I’ll throw in another row including that one.

Aug 29th, 2007
mimoza

Great!

Aug 29th, 2007
Andrew

Wow awesome list! Bookmarked!

Aug 29th, 2007
sergio peña y lillo

WoW that was too amazing, cheers!!!

Aug 29th, 2007
divaguetaZ

Excelent list!

Aug 29th, 2007
Nat Crazycat

Great! I really need this. Thank you, thank you.

Aug 29th, 2007
Justyn

Holy mother of God! What a great list! Thank you for taking the time to comb through the BS photoshop tutorials and finding the ones worth looking at. Some of these tutorials I have seen before, but now they are all one place. Kudos to you my friend!

Aug 29th, 2007
Shirley

Yowsers! What an awesome listing. Thank you so much for doing this! You Rock!

Aug 30th, 2007
Anna

Thanks for this post full of these cool tutorials. I will give a try, may not get results, but why not try…anna

Aug 30th, 2007
Steamy Kitchen

WOW. What a great resource.I’ve now got a few projects to play with!

Aug 30th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks for the coffee from Dave at www.daveconrey.com!

Aug 30th, 2007
pipi

fake!

Aug 31st, 2007
dennisplucinik

Settle down there long stockings.

Aug 31st, 2007
What is Ubuntu?

It’s interesting that you feel that way about linux. I also use both Fedora and Ubuntu. Ubuntu detects my laptop’s wireless card and the rest of the hardware each time. Even the printer is detected: XP takes about two hours of fighting with different drivers to work with the printer. I use KDE, and all KDE tools, so that might be why I have such good luck with Linux.

I do agree that Gimp is not up to the level of Photoshop, though. I have no problem paying the money for Photoshop, but until it’s available for linux I’ll continue learning Gimp. Thanks.

Sep 1st, 2007
DAVID HEGARTY

Aonther one to add to the list
http://flickr.com/groups/retouchmagic/discuss/72157601727902088/
doing a realistic water reflection in photoshop

Sep 1st, 2007
kannan.as

doing well perfomance as like reality

Sep 1st, 2007
enrique flores

me gustaria aprender mas sobre photoshop

Sep 1st, 2007
dennisplucinik

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this before but I just found it. The author’s used Photoshop to combine faces of famous people.

http://www.freakingnews.com/Partial-Face-Transplants-Pictures—1233.asp

Sep 2nd, 2007
TK-425

GIMP isn’t that much different from Photoshop.. You should check your version, maybe it’s one of the older ones.

Anyway.. a good place to start looking for GIMP tutorials would be the GimpTalk forums. Just google it.

Sep 2nd, 2007
Stari

Bravo maestro. Thx for encredible sharing.

Sep 3rd, 2007
Hebertphp

Very, very cool!!!

Sep 6th, 2007
Gregorios

Nice

Sep 6th, 2007
Kike Gavilan

Excelentes tutoriales.

Gracias

Sep 7th, 2007
Flash Bookmarks

Great work, we have added it under others.

Sep 18th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks again everyone! I’m halfway through two more of these (a GIMP one & another PS one), if anyone has any recommendations… now’s the time

Sep 18th, 2007
jifsoftware

Thank you for all these ressources, I’m gonna see them all.

Sep 21st, 2007
KAT

Thanks for compiling these advanced tutorials Dennis. Many of these I’ve seen on the net before and I especially like the Photo Retouching ones as I’d been wanting to brush up on that. I nearly paid $800 to take a retouching course at Art Center a couple weeks ago and then decided I’d save the money and learn it on my own. I’m really thankful you have these tutorials as it saves me the time to search for them.

Sep 21st, 2007
gimp tutorial

thanks for the great list, i’m going to try and re do most of these high quality tutorials using the free open source gimp

Sep 22nd, 2007
Neece

These are awesome. Thanks for digging them up. I’ve seen one or two of them on the web, but not the whole lot all in one convenient place! Thanks bunches!

Sep 23rd, 2007
Jenny

That’s very cool

Sep 25th, 2007
Allen Greenspam

Deviant art seems to be really going down hill. Most designers need creative surroundings. Creative elements are always positive, while deviant art is, even to its very name, negative/destructive. It saps inspiration which is unfortunate. The artwork is not appealing to the best and the brightest.
Hopefully they can turn it around, we’ll see.

Oct 3rd, 2007
litirati

just bookmarked your site.. very nice tutorial reference.. very comprehensive…

Oct 3rd, 2007
Rob

uber cool!

Oct 3rd, 2007
Dapo Olaopa

I know this ain’t ’bout PS but do you guys know any good soft ware for making cartoons?

Oct 4th, 2007
Ryan Stamper

That’s great! Thanks for sharing! Man, those tutorials are awesome!

Ryan Stamper

Oct 4th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks again everyone. Dapo - I don’t know of any, maybe someone else can help?

Oct 4th, 2007
viscido

Thank you!!

Oct 7th, 2007
Photoshop Tutorials

Great collection.

Oct 9th, 2007
Arun Sharma

Hey the links are not working ….can you check them ….wanted to check them out …

Oct 11th, 2007
Toby

Just wanted to say YOU ROCK! Keep up the great work, love the tutorial collection. I’ve used a few of these before, but they were scattered all over, and it took forever to find them when I needed em again, its nice to find them all in one place.

Oct 11th, 2007
Chris (Canada-Graphic Design Student)

Thanks for the tips. It’s inspiring to be near a pro which i can tell you are.

I like your first tip esp: build your own skill by not using supplied fx but your imagination and PS techniques! I grad in 2 semesters, but I can see I have a lot more to learn.

I’m soo lucky there are pages like this out there!

Oct 13th, 2007
Me

All of you havin problems seeing the tutorials: deactivate your add blocker

Oct 13th, 2007
Silvia

omg! The only thing I need now is time! And two gallons of coffee

Great list.

Oct 17th, 2007
Heavy

You are an inspiration, friend. You are clearly very good at what you do,

and you take the time to share and teach others…most encouraging.

Thankyou.

Oct 18th, 2007
Daniel

Wow .. Amazing Stuff!!

Thanks A Lot!

Oct 18th, 2007
Daniel

Wow .. Amazing Stuff!!

Thanks A Lot!

Oct 18th, 2007
kit

nice post!!! Will try it out one by one

Oct 20th, 2007
Toby

What happened to all the tuts? All I see are comments now..

Nov 8th, 2007
Florian Jacobs - Webdesign Krefeld

Hey man!

Thanks a lot for all this great tutorials. Have read quite a few jet and will try out most of them in my picture editing today, tomorrow and the day afer. Thanks, buddy! Keep on rocking.

And by the way: Photoshop is best. GIMP is nice for private use, but PS is more professional.

Florian

Nov 12th, 2007
Grammar Guru

Good stuff.

Nov 13th, 2007
FxX

Excellent tutorials!! Thanks for sharing it

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Nov 13th, 2007
Seth

Thanks for share this tutorials!

Nov 14th, 2007
Photoshop tutorials tips

Nice collection. i like funphotoart.com also

Nov 15th, 2007
Designer

Excellent tutorials, nice post!

Nov 15th, 2007
exinco

wow this is great site, great work. you design are stunning

Nov 19th, 2007
Sebastian

Hi there,
I don’t know why it took me so long to find this awesome list of tutorials…

Great stuff!

Nov 28th, 2007
christy

Hello!! This site is superb. Earlier I could open in the Photo Retouching section the second tutorial she is a girl who is looking up. But now I cannot open or it asks username or something like that. How can I see this tutorial?
Thanks

Dec 3rd, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks for pointing that out. For some reason that original link is down. I have however found another link and updated it so it should be working now. Thanks again!

Dec 3rd, 2007
designer

Hi, it was really great work. Thank you for sharing those tutorials.

Dec 5th, 2007
Adrian

Thanks for gathering all the links in one place. I’m trying to be a beter Photoshoper.

Dec 5th, 2007
SeaSailor

Great tutorials!!! however the tutorial I have been searching for forever is one for the cloning of animals and human/animal hybrids, I guess a really top class photoshop blending tutorial is what I’m after…does anybody have any to recommend, as the one on this website only shows the finished product, but awesome work nonetheless.

Dec 9th, 2007
dennisplucinik

Thanks to http://www.3rdpersonmedia.com for the coffee!

Dec 14th, 2007
Khalid Hassan

hey… ur wrks r realy coooooooooool……………….

Dec 23rd, 2007
olalekan lateef

It`s simply unbelievable especially how u achieve something similar with the pirates of the carribean with photoshop it`s really wonderful you re great dennis. I would appreciate if i can get a book or DVD that can teach all these things in simple easy step am a professional photographer in Nigeria pls send me information concerning how, where and how much to get it

Thanks
Lateef

Jan 11th, 2008
dennisplucinik

Thanks Lateef but I didn’t create any of these tutorials myself. The thanks go out to those who did. Also, I don’t have any suggestions for good PS books (I did all my learning from online tutorials ; )

Feb 1st, 2008
ctraos

exelente tutoriales, muchas gracias!

Feb 1st, 2008
Marco

Thanks for the useful stuff

Feb 2nd, 2008
pahountis

thank you!
YOU ARE THE MAN!

Feb 19th, 2008
mythili

hi,

thanks for these wonderful tutorials and your suggested sites…

i need a sugesstion from …….

i would like to be an adobe certifed profession in photoshop….

will u sugeest me how to make myself prepared for that…?

right now i am in chennai, india ,

i am new to this filed ………

i am in the in the process of learning……

pls guide me

thanks

Feb 25th, 2008
antonio

very good work, i’ m using tutorials a lot, thank you !!

Mar 15th, 2008
Leea

Thank you thank you

Mar 16th, 2008
DamionKutaeff

Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.

Mar 22nd, 2008
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Apr 1st, 2008
pablo

thanks!!!!
awesome blog

May 4th, 2008
makio029

nice collection!.,:D keep it up!

Jun 3rd, 2008
ersin

very good blog.. thank you.. congratulation

Jun 10th, 2008
digitalscrap.net

Ill surely be spending many a late night here! Thanks for a wonderful resource

Jun 12th, 2008
linhtut

photoshop tutorial

Jun 24th, 2008