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Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for designing various visual elements one can use for web-pages. However, sometimes it’s important to know what to do in order to achieve some effects. In such cases, step-by-step tutorials can provide help and save a lot of time you would have to spend on finding a solution otherwise. Let’s take a look at some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials we’ve found in the Web so far.
Links checked: June/17 2008.

Photoshop Tutorials

• Aging Photos
  Tips & Tricks for making photos look old
• All about Layer Mask
  It is often used to prevent some part of the layer from being seen.
• Create Your Own Planets
  The “Polar Panorama Effect” is one of ways to process photos into unique pieces of art. Tutorial by Dirk Paessler
• Creating grunge brushes
  by Veerle Pieters
  

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In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, Guilherme will be walking you through a special technique of his, he calls it a unique “origami” effect. He’s used this technique many times in many very different and unique abstract pieces, such as:

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In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll be showing you how to add a nice, 70’s retro look to your images. It’s a very simple process using either colors or gradients, layer modes and opacities, and also some subtle textures

This effect can be extremely helpful when designing retro-themed posters or something of that nature.

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My first tutorial in a little while, so please bear with me!

In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement. We’ll just be using Illustrator to design a few simple elements, so if you don’t have it or don’t know how to use it, you can easily download some cool design bits from sites like Vecteezy (free) or Vector Stock (premium, very affordable).

We’ll be creating most of the design in Adobe Photoshop, so let’s say this is just a Photoshop tutorial!

Our Result

This is what I came up with, and hopefully what you’ll be able to design from following this tutorial:

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In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to walk you through the designing of a creative, paper-crumpled Blog/website footer area like the one shown here:

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In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be walking through the making of a digital photo manipulation called Color Combustion. You’ll use a few simple techniques, and combine a whole heap of images together to make a wonderful creative collage.

Here is a preview of what we’ll be making:

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This is a very easy-to-achieve effect that I used in a small project recently. If your photo is a little bit comedic, or that’s the theme you’re going for, then adding a cartoon/comic-style effect might be a good idea.

So I’ll be showing you a very quick way to take your photo from this:

and turn it into this:

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Photoshop Mermaid Image Manipulation

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In this tutorial, we’ll show the advanced Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a realistic sports car dashboard. You should have a solid understanding of Adobe Illustrator tools before you begin this tutorial. We’ll be using a variety of tools to create this illustration.

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