Photo Manipulation 5 Tutorials

Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway

by Fabrizio Panattoni on September 9, 2013 Learn how to create this beautiful moonlight scene in Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you many great Photoshop techniques such as how to easily mask complex objects using channels, create your own astrophotography-like skies, and add surreal colors to the whole image. A PSD is also included with this tutorial. Read this tutorial and learn how to create your own surreal moonlight photo manipulations!
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How to Create an Amazing Watercolor Artwork in Photoshop

by Jenny Le on September 3, 2013 Create this spring-inspired abstract photo manipulation by Jenny Le! This tutorial will show you how to combine stock photos and splatter brushes together, apply textures, and more.
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Create This Striking Fairy Tale Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

by Jarka Hrnčárková on August 26, 2013 Learn how to composite landscapes like the ones you see in Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings), add dramatic lighting effects, and more with this Photoshop tutorial. This tutorial will show you techniques such as creating a breathtaking landscape from multiple photos, adding dramatic rays of light, and using foreground/middleground/background to create an interesting scene.
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How to Create a Breathtakingly Artistic Winter Horse Illustration in Photoshop

by Dariusz Markiw on August 19, 2013 Learn how to create this amazing photo manipulation with a variety of blending techniques, custom brushes, and more. This intermediate-advanced tutorial also comes with its own set of raw ink splatter scans so that you can practice creating your own Photoshop brushes. And of course, the full layered PSD is included as well.
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How to Create a Mountainous Matte Painting in Photoshop

by Jenny Le on August 12, 2013 Learn how to create this landscape matte painting with Photoshop! This tutorial will show you how create our own mountain scene by arranging multiple stocks together and blending them correctly using layer masks and adjustment layers. You will also learn effective techniques for adding waterfalls and mist.
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Excellent Photoshop Photo Effects

Everyone likes photo effects, especially those that are easy to create and can transform your ordinary shots into stunning artworks. Photo effects will never go out of style. Adobe Photoshop is a superb tool to edit your pictures, so go on and take the best of it. If you’re looking for cool Photoshop guides to follow, this showcase was made specially for you.

There are 50 stunning Photoshop photo effect tutorials below ranging from tricks to give your photo the hipster or Instagram filter look, or the tilt-shift (miniature) look, from reducing wrinkles to giving porcelain skin to your subjects. Best of all, all of them are extremely easy and quick. Feel free to choose the guide you like the most and follow it in order to create your own masterpiece!

Do check out Part 1 and Part 2 of Photoshop photo effect tutorial collections.

1. Video Tutorial: Enhance Detail Using Correction. This tutorial will lead you through three common ways to apply local tone and color adjustments to your image.

2. Retouch Images with Frequency Separation. In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn to retouch an image from start to finish, using a technique that lets you process not only certain image area, but even different detail levels.

3. How to Digitally Add Shadow Depth of Field. This tutorial will tell you how to digitally simulate a shadow depth of field with Photoshop.

4. Video Tutorial: Lomograph. How to Make a Photo Look Vintage & Retro. Learn how to add a retro vintage look to your picture with a cool lomographic effect.

5. Tilt Shift Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes. Create a stunning image with Tift Shift effect following this simple tutorial.

6. HDR: Exposure Blending Tutorial. This tutorial will tell you how to achieve a high dynamic range (HDR) version of the image using Photoshop.

7. Video tutorial: Control Tonality with Photoshop’s Black & White Filter. Use black and white processing tricks to enhance your color photos.

8. How to Make Instagram Filters in Photoshop: Earlybird. Create Instagram Earlybird filter following this easy Photoshop tutorial.

9. Photoshop tutorial: Advanced Compositing Techniques. In this tutorial you’ll get to know how to incorporate the elements into one image and get a stunning dreamy poster, inspired by spring.

10. Create a Realistic Photo Composite From a Sketch. In this tutorial you’ll learn to combine a few photos to achieve a realistic scene of the locomotive passing through a desert landscape.

11. Photoshop Tutorial: Wrinkle Reduction. In this guide you’ll find a proper explanation on how to retouch your photo.

12. Black & White Is the Key to Better Color. A brief tutorial on how to improve your color image using black and white.

13. How to Make Your Photos Look Hipster. This cool video tutorial will walk you through the process of adding amazing light lomo effect to your image to make it look ‘Hipster’.

14. An Unmissable Photoshop Tutorial. An awesome video tutorial on how to retouch your image in order to make it look super cool.

15. Photoshop Watercolor Painting Effect. Make your image look like a watercolor painting with Photoshop.

16. Create an Emotional, Molten, Shattered Statue in Photoshop. Use layer masks, adjustments, and a few blending and painting techniques to create a stunning artwork.

17. Create Distorted Typography in Photoshop. In this tutorial a method of distorting typography and working with mixed media to bring a unique look to an image is described.

18. Photoshop Tutorial: Create an Amazing Summer Flyer Design. This guide will teach you to create a summer flyer design combining a few elements into one image.

19. Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation. In this detailed Photoshop tutorial you’ll get to know how to mix images and to add specific effects to create a smashing artwork.

More: 55 Gorgeous Dance Photo Manipulation Artworks and Tutorials

20. Quick Tip: Retroize Your Photos in Seconds. Add a professional retro style look to your image using color layers in Photoshop CS6.

21. Amazing Photo Manipulation “World on the Tissue” in Photoshop. Create a cool wallpaper for your desktop in Photoshop following this guide.

22. Turn Day into Night in Photoshop with Colour-shifted Exposure. Sometimes your camera does not allow you to shoot quality pictures at night hours, so use Photoshop to turn day into night.

23. Video tutorial: Harmonise Tricky Tones and Colours. Use the Color Sampler tool and Curves layers to harmonize two different images together.

24. Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments. In this tutorial you’ll see a nondestructive process for color editing and image retouching.

top photoshop photo effects tutorials

Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.

So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump.