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30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials

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Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines.  In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady come up with 30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials of All Time.

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3D Spiral Flash Gallery Giveaway Contest

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The 3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine. Flashloaded offers Photoshop Lady 3 free licenses to our readers.  To participate, you can simply make a post on our Photoshop Forums. Act quickly and don’t miss this chance to win the new generation flash gallery component.

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Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Selecting and Extracting Hair )

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick...Move the Gamma slider to the right in order to preview your subject against a darker background in the image window.

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Devil’s Eye

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Worth1000 )

In this tutorial, it will explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer.This tutorial is aimed at the begginer (like myself) so they can more fully comprehend and understand.

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Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: tutzor )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to demonstrate a wall paper on your mobile phone as well as design the background to present it. Before you are finished with the design you need to work more on the details and add some more things to it.

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Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: smashingmagazine )

This is a icon design tutorial. We always start with a hand-drawn sketch to initiate for icon design. Drawing an icon means to draw the most typical characters of an object so that it can capture the icon’s action or represent the concept and nuance. There are many different approaches to icon design, but the goal in designing icons is the same. Of course, you can use whatever tools you want.

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Amazing Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: Abduzeedo )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a nice effect that is a text mixed with some milk splashes. We will use Photoshop and Illustrator for this tutorial. Let's use this to create your text. Very fantastic!

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The Making of Mystic

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Texture & Patterns ( Source: psdtuts )

In this tutorial, it focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You'll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how the designer creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. That is very complicate. However, it is worth to try!

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Electrifying Glow Album Art

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: pshero )

In this Photoshop tutorial we will use the pen tool, paths brushes and brush dynamics along with a neat little trick using thresholds to create a cool album cover look. For my finished image the graphic is added as an CD album cover.

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Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion Tutorial

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: psdtuts )

In this tutorial, the longest we've ever published -this will go through creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding. Strap yourselves in photoshoppers! Hope this tutorial is useful as it took quite a while to write!

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Amazing RocknRolla Web Design

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: PSD Themes )

This tutorial is going to teach you to design a nice rocknrolla web layout. This is in wooden background and suitable for any different kinds of pictures. Very nice!

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Turn A Photo Into A Collage Of Polaroids

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: photoshopessentials )

In this Photoshop tutorial, it will let you learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. Your support goes towards keeping this site running and keeping new tutorials coming!

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Digital Painting - My World

Under 3D Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: 3dtotal )

Outstanding illustrations are filled with creativity, plan well before you start on your draft. Know what you want to convey to your audience through the picture, your ideas, concept, color, worldview. Adjusting of colors was done in Photoshop because Painter’s color contrasts are lighter.

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Making of a Forest Magical Scene

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: 10 Steps )

Sometimes, you may wish to create a magical scene as your personal poster. And this tutorial is going to present you how to make a nice one for your image. It mainly includes to teach you adding some special lighting effect and color tuning techniques. Very nice!

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Create Amazing Photomontages

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: digitalartsonline )

In this tutorial, itshows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man. At the end, the last adjustment is to draw focus to the centre by blurring the edges a little. Hope you enjoy!

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Dramatic Text on Fire Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: psdtuts )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We'll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image. Finally we'll add a last highlight. So create a new layer above all the others and draw in a white to black radial gradient.

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Making of Seheiah

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: 3dtotal )

In this example the character is very radiant, nearly unreal. Thus a turquoise bluish-white is chosen and then chose a pastel pink for the basis of the wood and turquoise green for water to add some contrast and the idea of warmth to the composition. Some overlapping texture layers left is add to uniform the whole and add some extra shades.

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Create a Diablo III Inspired Grungy Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: psdvault )

This tutorial shows the way to create the Diablo III Inspired Grunge Text Effect. It is very nice and simple. Most of the steps, it is just within the blending mode. Special art skill is not really needed. Just have a try to create your own words!

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Tutorial for soft cell shading

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: deviantART )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to paint softly in a drawing. It total contains 7 stages throughout the tutorial.

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Awesome Papercraft Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: photoshoproadmap )

In this tutorial, it will show your an awesome papercraft text effect. This tutorial is a bit long since a lot of steps have been involved. However, it is worthwhile to have a go. As you may be inspired after accomplishing this. Have a try!

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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: psdtuts )

In this tutorial, it will show you to create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool. One neat little composition featuring text made out of grass! It is nice to have a go!

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Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: blog.spoongraphics )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a trendy poster in a special way. With this idea, you can rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop resulting in a cool and trendy design style. Have a go!

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Super Digital Painting Techniques in Photoshop

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Deviant Art )

This tutorial is going to show you how to do the digital painting in photoshop. Different skill could end up with different painting quality. This tutorial will include few examples in order to get you to familiarize with the painting techniques. Very cool!

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Stunning 3D Effects for Text

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: blogof.francescomugnai )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a awesome 3D text. You will be able to pick up the skill very quickly. The text, of course, can be adjusted the color you like with the same style.

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How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: PSD Tuts )

There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let's tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Very nice!

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Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: psdtuts )

This tutorial will let you learn how to add a worn look that works well with cartoon style graphics. Different flavors of grunge styles are popular all over the web right now. Add in three images of your choice. Mask them to fit within the boundaries of the white rectangles.

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The Robotic Horse - Turn Ordinary Animal to a Robot

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: tutzor )

Let's learn how to transform a normal horse into robotic horse in Photoshop. To begin with this, you need to prepare a horse photo, and a car photo. After that, we can start to attach piece by piece on the horse. No special photoshop technique is required, you can try with other animals. Very good!

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Matte Painting

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: 3dtotal )

This tutorial is actually a "making of" where explain how to proceed & achieve this matte painting. The last step is to create a Levels adjustment layer to get the final contrast of the matte painting.

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Luminescent Lines

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: psdlearning )

In this tutorial, it will explore you the technique of using brush tool and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some interesting layer styles. Have a go!

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Creating a Glass Ball

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: lunacore )

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques.Hope the tutorial was detailed enough and you achieved a good result.

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Abstract Photo Effect - Calculations And Colorization

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: pshero )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create an Alpha Channel using the Calculations dialog and you will use it to get a really great abstract photo effect.This technique can also work for creating multiple versions of the same image in different colors.

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Brick Text Photoshop Tutorial

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: voidix )

In this tutorial we are going to take our text and turn it into an inlay in an old brick wall. To start off, lets create a brick-colored background. A small black border of 10 pixels, and included my domain name are added. Here is how mine turned out.

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Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: psdtuts )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to make a "Compass Icon". It is like the our previous icon designs. This  will focus on how to make the compass to be more realistic. As described in other tutorials, it is required to spend more time on adding the reflection and shadow for the icon object.

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Create Super Sci-Fi poster art in Photoshop

Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: digitalartsonline )

In this tutorial, it is going to let you learn the creation of science fiction art poster. Firstly, you need to find a photo with a standing human shadow. Then, start to change the sky into a Sci-Fi scene. This process is gonna contain a lot of blur function. Have a try!

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Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: photoshopstar )

In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’. The last thing we really need to do is add ‘Movie’ underneath the main text, but in a smaller font size. You can simply duplicate your main text here, size it down and change the letters, but the layer styles will actually need a little tweaking.

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Metallic Styles in Photoshop

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Texture & Patterns ( Source: PSDTuts )

In this tutorial we're going to create a metallic effect using layer styles and gradients that you can apply to different objects. We'll put it on a nice background and create a style for lettering that makes it look like it's embedded into the metal. And there you have it, the finished product!

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How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: psdtuts )

This is a strong and eye-catching text effect, though relatively simple to create. We will use techniques including bevel and emboss styles, pattern overlays, and combining different techniques to mock-up the text into a related background. Have a try!

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Create Awesome Smoky Typography

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: PSD Fan )

We are going to learn how to create awesome smoky typography. It is nice and simple. You may just start with typing some simple words. And then add some real smoke and little adjustment in blend mode. It just takes 12 steps to complete. Have a try!

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A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect ( Source: PSDTuts )

In this tutorial we'll be creating a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. Finally to give it a more eerie feel I added a layer above all the others and with a large brush painted some green on top, then set the layer blending mode to Colour to make it so that the image is a blue-green colouring. And we're done!

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Green Life Wallpaper

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: vladstudio )

In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you to make a special wallpaper. First step is to create blurred grass in the background. Set foreground color to dark green, background color to black. Then switch to gradient tool, and finally set blend mode to overlay!

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MSNBC Style Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Texture & Patterns ( Source: PSDTuts )

In this tutorial I will create an effect like the one in the header of the MSNBC.com website. This effect is a reader’s request tutorial. If you are using the CS3 version of Photoshop you can use the Smart Filters to test different values and see the effects without worrying about losing the previous version.

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Create a Fantastic Jelly Symbol

Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Tutorials 20 )

This time, the tutorial will show you how to create a fantastic Jelly symbol. The jelly can be adjusted to whatever colour you like and applied to anywhere as long as you change an appropriate shape. Very nice, just have a try!

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Create a Nice Retro Photo and Background

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Denis Designs )

In this tutorial, we are going to take a normal photo and liven it up using some photoshop effects to bring some more retro feelings. After that, we can take the photo and create a nice background. This skill can be also applied to your personal image. Very nice!

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MacBook Air

Under 3D Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: PhotoshopTalent )

This tutorial will contain 20 steps and explain how to make the MacBook Air ad.

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Awesome Colorful Bubble Effect

Under Photoshop Tutorial, Texture & Patterns ( Source: abduzeedo )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a nice colorful bubble effect in Photoshop. To begin with, you need to create a background in black, then start to define the circle pattern brush. After the bubble creation, apply the color effect to finalize this tutorial.

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Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design

Under Photoshop Tutorial, UI Design ( Source: blog.spoongraphics )

In this tutorial, you can take a closer look into the world of web design. This tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch. Have a try!

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The Winners of 3D Spiral Flash Gallery Giveaway

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We are happy to announce 3 winners of 3D Spiral Flash Gallery Giveaway. They are nitefox, Sifor, and Nokadota. You will receive an email from Flashloaded soon for the free license of The 3D Spiral. We will organize another giveaway very soon. So, please feel free to join our forums and discuss anything about Photoshop together.

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Design a Proper Folded Brochure in Photoshop

Under 3D Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: PSD Tuts )

This time, the tutorial will help you to create a ready to print three-fold brochure from scratch using Photoshop. This tutorial is ideal for beginners and for people who want to know more about print design. Just have a go!

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Create an Amazing Watercolor Effect in Photoshop

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: Abduzeedo )

In this photoshop tutorial, it will show you how to create a very nice design using watercolor brushes. You can apply this into your photos with different color style. Not many special techniques are required. Very nice!

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Turning a Image into a Beautiful Paint

Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial ( Source: vectorportraits )

In this tutorial, it will show you how to turn a photo into a beautiful paint. This process is required to implement part by part. You need to define the image by different color parts. And you may use pen tool to do it. In order to turn the paint becoming more realistic, adding shadow into the image is necessary.

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