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In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009. These are selected from our published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from our Photoshop users and readers. Enjoy.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it shows you how to achieve that glossy, detailed fantasy look through careful compositing, and control of layers and blending modes. You’ll extrude type in Illustrator and then composite on textures and other details in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite To turn a human into a something extraordinary, liquid effect would be a great effect to think of. This tutorial is going to show you how to turn your image into liquefied status like a super hero. Of course, you can apply into whatever object you like.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to teach you the process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. I’ll give you some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you a simple process of manipulating an image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes techniques too. This tutorial will demonstrate you step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. This is going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes. Although it sounds lots to do, as long as you follow this tutorial. you will find it useful.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a very awesome poster in just 10 steps. This tutorial will be done by Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but you can use other tools instead if you find something nicer.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you how simple it is to create a vintage poster using different brushes, blend mode, adjustment layers and some very simple filters in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, this will show you the steps to create this Trasparent Text Effect, mixing with Fresh Grass Texture and Cloud Brushset. You can use the text effect in a wide range of occasions – such as website header background, part of a natural themed design.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, the tutorial will show you how to create a very cool poster in just 10 steps. We will use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but you may use other tools.

Add to Favourite In lots of cartoon programmes or legends, you may have seen a human face on tree which is able to talk or move. Now you can have go to create this. Using the same idea, you can bring lots of things alife.

Add to Favourite There are various text effects. Some of them are very special. As they are trying to simulate something such as fire & water etc. In this tutorial, it is going to present you how to create an excellent icy text.

Add to Favourite To design a 3D cap, it is similar approach as other 3D object. You need to draft a shape first. And then add the the reflection and shadow effects. As they are the core elements to make your object to become realistic.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to create a fantasy photo manipulation called “create a human frozen scene” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Very fantastic!

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to design a realistic pen and pad in Photoshop. To draw the realistic things, it is always to focus on the reflection and shadow effects.

Add to Favourite Sometimes, you may spend a few hours or even a few days to complete your art works. This time, the tutorial will show you an advance level arts work called “Samurai Riding a Dragon”. The techniques involved in this tutorial are very useful, especially when you want to draw some complicate arts works.

Add to Favourite How to make your personal picture to be special? This tutorial will show you how to do that. To make your photo to be special, just turn your picture to be typographic. The color and the text are entirely up to you and advance photoshop skills are not required.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you how to design a proper neon effect in Photoshop. Most of neon effect looks very complicate, but this tutorial is not. The process just involves some general techniques. You will find it easy to make after trying this.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you to design a wonderfully realistic credit card in Photoshop. The skill are more or less like design some 3D objects. Except the basic elements, you need to put on some works such as adding reflection and shadow effects in order to make it to be more realistic. Very good!

Add to Favourite Fire text is one of the most classic technique that you can see in Photoshop tutorials. This tutorial is going to show you another version here using some real fire images, mix with filters and blending methods.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show the processes involved in designing and creating this really cool, Wonderfully Coloring Text in Photoshop. This is a simple tutorial, not much special techniques are required. Hope you will like it!

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, colored and glowing 3D space. Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your art to the next level.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to present you the 3D text effects with a growing and awesome design trend. They can add angles, lighting and interest that many 2D text effects can’t bring. Here is an awesome Showcase of 3D Typography.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you how to do a photo combination. It is very difficult to perfectly combine 2 or more photos due to their background, color or object unlikely to match each other. Combination skills are therefore, essential for this. Just have a go for this tutorial to create a good photo for yourself!

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to create corroded metal text effect. Throughout this tutorial we’ll make use of various drawing techniques, channels, and patterns.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, this will show you the processes involved in creating this beautiful, fantasy-styled surreal ancient ruin and elegant island and sky scene in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite This tutorial will teach you how to create an amazing rainbow in Photoshop tutorial. All you need is a copy of Photoshop and some time on your hands. In this particular example we’re going to create this rainbow but the techniques explained can be used in combination with any shape and colour.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to present you to create a dramatic fire and smoky scene on a human face. Through photo combination effects, you can combine different natural scenes into a single scene. These combination techniques could be applied to many areas such as fire scene.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to present to design some nice colorful art words in Photoshop. Sometimes, it is good to use some art words to present your content. That makes your web to be nicer and more attractive.

Add to Favourite Would you like a Transparent Website Layout? It can be very useful if you would like to have a different theme for your website, but do not want to change too much of the design. Simply changing the background image can also give you a whole different feeling sometimes.

Add to Favourite When you want to turn your photo to be a super star, this Photoshop tutorial is gonna be very useful for you. The skills are simple, but there are a few techniques you need to be aware of. I am sure you will like this and you can turn your photo to be a super star.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will experience how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects.

Add to Favourite It is always fantastic to use special style of words to express your thoughts. As long as you pick the right style for your words, that can make your expression to be more impressive. And this tutorial, it will show you the steps to design this the blue style text effect in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you the steps to draw a super future city under sunset. You can design the matte painting to illuminate this issue, mixing everything with a strong and romantic light to provide a little contrast to the cold futurism of the city.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a 3D crash text effect. This effect is made in two programs, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. If you haven’t heard of Cinema 4D before it is a relatively easy to use 3d application, it is quite similar to 3dsMax.

Add to Favourite Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you the processes to create this fantasy style, really cool dramatic lightening scene in a desert city. This is just a good combination as everything is matched so good. You can use this photoshop skill to do another good combination.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to present you the tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show the processes to design this fantastic text effect – Rock Standing on Colorful Ground. The inspiration of this design came from a snowy mountain photo, and a similar text effect like this would look interesting.

Add to Favourite In this Photoshop tutorial, it will show you how to create an Old Fashion Traveling Diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects. You can use this technique to do whatever you want.

Add to Favourite This tutorial will show you a proper technique to cut out an image’s hair. In fact, lots of people may struggle on trimming out fine hairs. In this example it is going to use the common Channel technique to trim out this lovely lady.

Add to Favourite This is a tutorial to create an emotional photo manipulation. In this tutorial, you will learn how to blend different images to make a dark atmospheric background, modify the dress of the model, apply makeup, paint hair, blend different objects in the background.

Add to Favourite The 80’s have always had an iconic impact on Pop Culture. This is just a basic design to get you started, and Adobe Photoshop is all that’s required (and very few stock images). And of course, a lot of modifications can be done with this technique.

Add to Favourite Sometimes, you may find it difficult to make a planet since the land and cloud are very irregular. And this tutorial, you can learn how to create a nice planet in a professional way.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to focus on design choices and a little bit of theory. There are literally thousands of tutorials online that cover keyboard shortcuts and clever ways to tweak your custom brushes. And this tutorial has selected some very useful photoshop skills.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show the processes involved in designing an Awesome Cracked Text Effect in Photoshop. The inspiration for this tutorial is from the game title text effect, and it is very nice that the designer transform this into Photoshop tutorial.

Add to Favourite The initial concept was the creation of an ‘atmosphere’ – a background for the car. Using images and some painting techniques over the images to make a fantasy scene. This tutorial will teach some of those techniques and how various Photoshop tools work.

Add to Favourite There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. Some are very cheesy and you can easily tell that a simple filter has been used. In this tutorial, we will be using Layer Masking. It is one of the most fascinating and powerful Photoshop method, to use layer masks in your designs.

Add to Favourite This tutorial will show you how to create a text effect in Photoshop based on the DVNO clip. We will play basically with some basic filters like Gaussian Blur, also with Blend Modes to the light effects.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, we will make a scene with flaming bombs pouring from the sky. This tut is made to show some down and dirty Photoshop techniques that beginners can quickly pick up. It also includes some relatively advanced techniques to help budding designers enhance their workflow.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, we will create a massive tsunami impacting the Statue of Liberty in the sea. To achieve this, we will be combing and adjusting regular images to form a stormy composition, with a massive tsunami rushing past the Statue of Liberty.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, we are going to create a Post-Apocalyptic City. Firstly, we will change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we’ll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds.

Add to Favourite You can use Photoshop to do a lot of art works inclulding photo manipulation. Using this, you can do something extraordinary and bring the legend into life. And this tutorial, it is going to show you how to create a piece of Heaven in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite Photoshop offers one of the most robust graphics editing experiences available. Sometimes, you just cannot stop yourselves applying some nice effects to beautifully designed typefaces. Therefore, here is an amazing text effect photoshop tutorial for your learning.

Add to Favourite This tutorial will teach you to design a web design theme – Fantastic Magic Night. Most of web design theme look very similar. And you can use your imagination and good taste to get something similar or better than this.

Add to Favourite To create this scene we’re going to use 3ds Max and Photoshop. There are many different ways in which you can create space scenes like this and this tutorial will show you how to do in an efficient way.

Add to Favourite There is no common standard about designing the posters. As different people have different interest and character. This tutorial is going to show you how to create an awesome illustration that can be printed as a poster to hang it on your wall.

Add to Favourite Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers. A modern and easy to use Admin User Interface is the key to success of web applications. In this tutorial, We are going to show you How To Create a Web Application Admin User Interface in Photoshop.

Add to Favourite Let’s learn how to design a excellent falling angel in Photoshop. It is a photo manipulation effect. To start, you need to prepare few pictures and then group them together. The skills are simple and nice.

Add to Favourite Create a professional poster is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage.

Add to Favourite This is going to show you how to do the proper painting for a cartoon character. This tutorial will teach you how to well plan to paint for this cartoon so you can learn the tactics and skills to do another.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you how to create this text using a series of shapes with different transparency and color effects.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how you can overcome the common myth of low budget work, creating an impressive piece of work using Photoshop.

Add to Favourite This time, the tutorial will present to make a fabulous soul for an image. Sometimes, when you would like to create some powerful or extraordinary scene, it is always good to add some of souls behind your presented images.

Add to Favourite 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.

Add to Favourite This tutorial will be all about using the Brush Tool and about knowing how and where to place lights, shadows and reflections. For creating this piece you will also need a photo of a car for reference.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to design a proper battleplane flying in the air. Whatever you want to illustrate, it is also good to design a nice background to present your main object like this tutorial.

Add to Favourite 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.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show how to create some excellent lighting and fire effects for the image. It is not difficult to do. You just need to add the fire image and produce special light using brushes for the image. And these can be applied to any image you like.

Add to Favourite This is an advanced tutorial for Graphic Design Week. This tutorial will demonstrate how to integrate a spot-color metallic ink into your workflow using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Professional. Just create a cover for yourself.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, we will create a realistic 3D text scene with desert background using Photoshop with a little help from Illustrator for the 3D text. Sometimes, it is nice to put the text with different natural backgrounds. To do this, you need to have medium to advanced knowledge of Photoshop in order to complete this tutorial.

Add to Favourite 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.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to present you to create a nice portfolio design. This is the most detailed tutorial I have even seen. It contains 175 screen shots to illustrate each tiny step on making this design, Very awesome!

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a text with clouds, using brushes and other few interesting light effects. You can use it for sky or some dark backgrounds.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it shows you how to create an advertisement poster for your personal shoes. When working on an advertisement you must pay attention to all the details as you publish your poster and prepare it for the whole world to see.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will teach you how to make a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration by Illustration and Photoshop. Except text fonts, this is also a good idea to present the text.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to combine stock photographs to create a stunning effect that can be easily reproduced to work with almost any combination of images.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to teach you how to make a nice fragmented golden phone. Firstly, you need to prepare a mobile phone image. And then you can start the add some nice photoshop effects. You can also use the same idea for other images.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a water text effect. Even though it might look compex it’s a very simple effect. We will use Illustrator for the text, then Cinema 4D to make it a 3D text and Photoshop to mix the 3D with some real photos to create a nice and realistic result.

Add to Favourite It is going to show you a tutorial called Future Retro for the sake. The style in pitching a poster and overall look for a night at a local club are employed. The source is very simple. Just a helmet picture, some drawing and photoshop techniques are included.

Add to Favourite Let’s learn to design a stunning sneaker. If you want to advertise your product, it is nice to add some lighting or some kind of special effect to draw attentions from others. And, this tutorial will present you how to design some nice sparks and colorful lighting lines to present your products.

Add to Favourite This tutorial is going to show you to create a mysterious hollow scene. You may wonder how to create the movie or poster with such extraordinary scenes. This is not difficult, as long as you pick the right images or photos to start to. At the end, you just need to add some techniques to make it to be more realistic.

Add to Favourite 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.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments. Firstly, you have to prepare few photos. And then, you can start to pick the useful parts of images to do the combination. You can add some color adjustments and fog or smoky effects at the end.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an abstract lighting effects. This effect’s color and shape can be adjusted, so you will be able to apply this widely including a background for image.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to create the disintegration effect using photoshop. Brushes and the blur filter will be mainly involved. It is really simple and you are able to apply this effect into different images by this sort of trendy style effect.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will use a few household objects to create some super photographic resources. Then follow this Adobe Photoshop tutorial manipulates the images with various tools and techiques to produce a vibrant design made up of intense light streams effect. Of course, you can use the same technique to create a new image.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own space scene using three stock photos in Photoshop. The majority of the effects use the brush tool, layer effects and the filter gallery. You may want to set aside an hour or two before starting this tutorial because it requires quite a bit of work to accomplish.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to make this awesome combination surreal photo manipulation. You need to prepare few photos first, then you can start your combination. And then, you can use the photo effect techniques to tune the color in order to mix up different photo colors and their backgrounds. You can use your imagination to make one with same technique.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will let you have a go one of the most effective and easily mastered techniques that is used for making striking, dynamic distortions of subjects, although the technique can be adapted to any objects that you wish to feature in your work, such as cars or trees.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to design an epic fantasy scene. You have to prepare few pictures such as castle, human on the horse and clouds. Once you have done the combination, then you can add the sun shine to the horse and clouds surrounding the image.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a realistic eye for your cartoon character. The tutorial will also explain and describe the idea of creating the eyes and how to match the colors for different parts of the eye. Of course, you can choose the favorite color for the eye.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to make a realistic text edit icon. To begin with, you need to sketch the icon and computerize it by scanning. After that, you can paint it in photoshop. It is nice to learn more ways to do your creation.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to make a nice bullet shot effect. This tutorial is very good as it displays a scene that a remote control is nicely broken into pieces. It may be a good idea if you can create a something similar on your own.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it will show you how to build an amazing photo strip. It is mainly made by warp tool. After finished this tutorial, you will be able build a photo strip with your own photos or artwork.

Add to Favourite In this tutorial, it is going to show you how to transform an image with impressive smoke fading effect. It looks very difficult to make, but it does not. The main idea to make this is how to twist the image and do the good combination with the smoke.

Add to Favourite Here´s a little tutorial on how to create a fantasy cartoon photographer in Photoshop. The Photographer, a war journalist picture in a cartoony look intending to be evocative. The way to begin the character pictures is by using some gradients to fill the space.