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45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop

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If you’re looking to improve a website by using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer, more interesting, or more exciting, here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Telling stories with shadows

telling stories with shadows

Photoshop matte painting

Matte painting

Creating drama with a soft spotlight

soft spotlight

Softer background effect

softer background effect

Old fashioned, hand-tinted effect

hand-tinted image

Ghosting an image

Ghosting an image

Enhance your image with selective color adjustments

selective color adjustments

Creating a vector composite effect from a photo

vector composite effect

Create an illustrated look from a photograph

create an illustrated look from a photo

Sparkling hot girl in Photoshop

Sparkling hot girl

Beautiful lady effect

beautiful lady effect

How to break sunlight through the clouds

break sunlight through the clouds

Beyond the healing brush - removing objects from photos

removing objects from photos

Photo retouching

photo retouching

Applying a realistic tattoo

applying a realistic tattoo

Give your photos a retro comic book effect

retro comic book effect

Photo cutout

photo cutout

Gritty HDR

Gritty HDR

Star difussion

Star difussion

Add dynamic lighting to a flat photograph

dynamic lighting

Selective sepia

selective sepia

Adding flames and effects to make an image with impact

flames and effects

Photo restoration

photo restoration

Hot and fiery photo

hot and fiery photo

Turn a photo into a collage of Polaroids

turn a photo into a collage of polaroids

Pop art inspired by Lichtenstein

pop art inspired by Lichtenstein

Pop art

pop art

Vector art with Photoshop

vector art with photoshop

High-key black and white portrait effect

high-key black and white

Coloring effects

coloring effects

Bourne Ultimatum color and motion blur

color and motion blur

Creating photo borders with displacement maps

creating borderw with displacement

Professional changing of the eye color

changing eye color

Quick and effective facial photo retouching

facial photo retouching

Making skin beautiful

making skin beautiful

Change hair color

Change hair color

Selecting and extracting hair

selecting and extracting hair

Phoenix hair effect

Phoenix hair effect

Creating a 3D effect

creating a 3D effect

Black and white photos with just a touch of color

Black & White with touch of color

Replacing a background

replacing a background

Super Silhouettes

Super silhouettes

For more Photoshop tutorials see:

Originally Published April 29th, 2008

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    Thanks a lot for the lovely tuts…… these will help me a lot for my webdesigning business :)

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    February 13th, 2009

    Thanks dude, these great tutorials will really be of help to me. I’m still learning the ropes at the moment.

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    February 22nd, 2009

    Thanks for the links. Awesome list of resources.

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    March 1st, 2009

    tutorials are great. But the ‘Bourne Ultimatum color and motion blur’ link is broken.

  78. Badal
    March 5th, 2009

    Absolutely stunning collection! Thanks so much…

  79. third
    March 11th, 2009

    what exact version of photoshop does this tutorial uses?

  80. Vandelay Design
    March 11th, 2009

    third,
    they use different versions. You’d have to check the individual tutorials, some specify which version they’re using, and some don’t.

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    March 28th, 2009

    thanks from good pictures

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  85. Avatar
    April 16th, 2009

    Thanks, very good tutorials

  86. 4design
    April 23rd, 2009

    Very nice Photo Editing Tutorials! Thanks!

  87. vea
    April 24th, 2009

    hello… i want to edit pics…
    but i don’t know how….
    just add my friendster… vea1998@yahoo.com..
    and pls.. teach me how.. thanks

  88. e@rnest
    May 26th, 2009

    Im a amateur fotograher and i want to learn photo editing please help me please….iwant to learn ussually i just take photos and i cant do and post proscessing and editing i hope you can help me
    thanks e@rnest my email add is herreraernesto03@yahoo.com

  89. Vandelay Design
    May 26th, 2009

    earnest,
    if you follow the tutorials listed in this post you’ll be off to a great start to learning photo editing.

  90. adodo
    June 2nd, 2009

    what a great tutorials, thanks bro!

  91. boyama oyunları
    June 23rd, 2009

    These are great stuff, i love black & White photo with a color of touch…

  92. Son
    June 28th, 2009

    I’m trying these tutorial…
    the polaroid picture is very cool^^

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