40 Photoshop tutorials you must see

Photoshop is the creative industry’s workhorse, used for everything from post-shoot touch ups to creating wild and wicked text effects.

As with everything, though, having a good idea is only half the job. It’s how you bring that idea to life that matters, and that’s where knowing your tools inside out really counts.

Collected here are 40 of the web’s best, most groundbreaking and most requested tutorials and techniques. Covering everything from high-end text effects to creating fantasy landscapes, there’s something here to cater for any required style. Enjoy!

Fake HDR effects

Flaming effects

Smoke effects

Comic style art

Torn paper style

Create a playing card

Create a water mark effect

Selecting and masking hair

Mist effects

Boost your photo basics

Fake tilt-shift photography

Pro retouching tips

Design a movie poster

Halftone treatments

Star gazing effects

Movie look

Awesome lighting effects

3D text effects

Flaming text effects

3D metal text

Working with shadowed text

Destructive lettering techniques

Sand writing

Light burst text effects

Fur effects

Retro text effects

Make buttons in Photoshop

Cinematic technique

Slow shutter effect

Colourful outline glows

Texturing uneven surfaces

Dark and surreal feel

Exposure blending tips

Cool brush creation

Vector polishing techniques

Add a LOMO lens effect

Add paint splats to people

Add sparks to fashion photography

Transparent text effects

Comic book covers