56 Fresh Impressive Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Written by on September 22, 2011 in design, tutorial - 1 Comment

It is time to bring together brand new photoshop tutorials.To be honest,We don’t see really quality photoshop tutorials every single day with new techniques and new tips so it was good to wait for a few months for a fresh round up.

It is always good to see and learn new techniques for graphic designers,especially for photoshop users.I personally learnt a few things while collecting the below photoshop tutorials so i definetely advice you to look over them.

Super Legend Scene – Castle and Flying Dragon


When you come up with something extraordinary scene, it is always good to use Photoshop to make it. This tutorial will show you how to use some simple skills to create a nice legend scene. Based on this idea, you can also create something imaginative.

Design Awesomely Colorful Sparkling Effect


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.

Create an Awesome Smoky Skull


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.

Amazing Fading Effect for Illustration


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.

Create a Packet of Potato Chips in Photoshop
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Create an Amazing Light Beam Surrounding a Lady


Are you bored to look at your pictures? if yes, you can take a look at this tutorial. Then, you will be able to add some lighting effects or a simple light beam that would make your image much better as it can increase the overall attractiveness.

Create a Human Being Frozen Scene


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!

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel


Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.

Give a Car Photo Super Slick Lighting Effects

Digital Painting Tutorial

digital painting

If you are new to digital painting, this one is a must read!  Learn the basic know-hows, as well as the slightly advanced techniques, in how to simulate skin, cloth and hair textures, as well as how the play of light can give more life to your piece.

Give Your Photos Awesome Lighting in Just 10 Steps!


This tutorial will teach you how to give your photos amazing lighting effects that really make them pop. Best of all the techniques are covered in just 10 steps, making ordinary to amazing a simple transition!

Adding an Awesome Human Face on a Tree


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.

CREATE A SUMMERY PHOTOMONTAGE

Create “Milk monster and Chocolate Splash”
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How to Create a Realistic Crack Effect on Face

Painting Wavy Hair

wavy hair

Learn how to paint wavy hair digitally. Get all sorts of helpful advice, from which brushes to use to what steps to take to make the hair shine.

Beautiful Sunrise Landscape

Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements

Making a Naughty Robot

naughty robot

Hours of painting have gone into this piece, complete with all the details. Learn the processes that have gone into this painting through this tutorial.

Super Goggy Castle


This tutorial will explain how to make nice castle from a several photos in photoshop. The techniques are not difficult, you just need to follow the steps as mentioned. You can use the same idea to apply for different creation.

Spacecraft Prototyping

spacecraft prototyping

This tutorial will show you how to make this prototype from start to finish. It also contains pro advice on how to create that texture from scratch.

Design a Spectral Photo Manipulation

Children’s Book Illustration

childrens book

This tutorial will show you how to create a fantasy image to accompany a story aimed at a younger audience.

Create a Magical Golden Winged Boot


Create a magical flying boot using a combination of photo manipulation and awesome light effects.

Create an Abstract Sea on Land Illusion

Piece of the Artic” Pie Chart Photo Manipulation
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Create an Amazing Abstract Heart Surreal
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How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

Lady Sitting on Art Wall


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.

Design an Awesome Space Dancer Scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop

Design an Awesome Space Dancer Scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop

Create a Destroyed City Scene


Except adding good effects into the existing pictures, Photoshop designers would like to produce sort of special scenes such as producing something to be destroyed. In this tutorial, you will have a chance to learn how to turn the city to be destroyed.

Making of Spanish Girl

spanish girl

Attempt painting a realistic portrait and see the progression from conceptual drafts to the final artwork with this tutorial.

Advanced Tutorial: Creating Broken Link

broken link

Learn how to create the highlights and shadows on this mutated version of Link, from the Legend of Zelda. You will also learn how to make all those textures.

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

Flaming Meteor Collision Effect in Photoshop

HOW TO CREATE AN ANTI-SMOKING AD CONCEPT WITH PHOTOSHOP

Super Lighting Effect for a Dance Motion


This tutorial is going to teach you how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork. You will also learn several tricks to reduce your Photoshop document file size and number of layers and layer styles.

urn Images Alive in Paint


Sometimes, you may want to make your photo alive. However, it is a bit difficult to do that in the painting frame. This tutorial will teach you some techniques to bring the images alive in paint.

Making of Deathblow

death blow

This tutorial will show you how to simulate action and movement in a digital painting. You will also see how to construct tension and drama in a scene so that it feels like you are looking at a movie still.

Super Goggy Castle


This tutorial will explain how to make nice castle from a several photos in photoshop. The techniques are not difficult, you just need to follow the steps as mentioned. You can use the same idea to apply for different creation.

Paint Realistic Looking Lips

realistic looking lips

Learn how to paint lips that are sensually life-like. Get expert tips on how to achieve those highlights to make painted lips look more realistic.

Fantastic Scene – a Girl Reaching to the Moon


Lots of imaginative stories have described some kind of scenes that how the people reach to the moon. You may wonder how to create one for yourself or for your children. In this tutorial, it will show you some easy steps to do this.

Create an Excellent Liquid Effect


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.

How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop

Spider Harp

spider harp

Learn how to paint intricate details, from highlights to cobwebs.

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

Mental Wave Explosion Photoshop

Create a Skateboard Riding Poster


Different posts need different style design as a background. And this tutorial just show you the post of skateboard riding. The idea is to arrange the objects in a certain angle (the feeling is like the object is sliding down), which is processed by illustrator. And the rest of effects can be done by Photoshop.

Dramatic Lightening Scene in a Desert City


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.

Create a Dramatic Impact to a Planet Scene


If you are star wars lover, you may wonder how the designer to get on the massive planet impact scene. It looks very sophisticated. However, you may do it less than an hour with this guideline tutorial.

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration

Create dynamic distortion effects

Create dynamic distortion effects

Robot Woman Photo Manipulation


If you are interested in Science Fiction, and you like robots, then you should enjoy this tutorial, which will help you create a futuristic image using photoshop. You can use the same techniques on another photo… maybe one of yourself :)

The Abstract Dragon

abstract dragon

This tutorial will help you create an abstract dragon using different textures that you can find anywhere in the web or from your personal files.

Create a Mythical Creature Photo Manipulation

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One Reply to 56 Fresh Impressive Photo Manipulation Tutorials

  1. tasnia

    December 19, 2011 • 5:14 am

    Rich collection..love it…

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