With the popularity of last month’s blog post Free Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins and Effects, I wanted to make sure we did a follow up to this.

Now you have the tools to get the job done, but what good are these tools if you don’t know how to use them. We have compiled a list of popular FREE tutorials on how to master Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is by far the leader in graphic design and photo editing. It is an advance software that has seemingly limitless possibilities. It may be difficult to use at first, but once you start learning you will be able to easily combine, blend, and invent new methods to help capture your photo.

ATTENTION: Click the photos to visit the Adobe Photoshop Tutorial.

EFFECTS

Bring energy to your photo by adding this stylish effect of mystical energy beams.

From energy to magic – lighting can dramatically enhance your photos.

This effect is popular with young designers and women, but is great when creating a fantasy background.

With the release of Marvel Comics into the theaters, the comic book effect has been used more often despite being a retro look.

Create a fantasy world that looks real with reflective images on bubbles.

Scatter light with this basic effect that can be used in various ways. Understand the concept and then develop your ideas.

 
Mother Nature is the hardest subject to capture and lightning is at the top of that list. Instead of wasting time trying to possibly capture lightning, create it. Take on the power of Zeus.

Develop a custom desktop background for your Mac Book or develop a photo with the Mac style.

This is one of my favorite tutorials because it reminds me of Dragon Ball. Learn how to create a fire spirit in your very own hands.

This will end the effects tutorial and touch on the objects section. You can learn how to create an old world effect.

An entire page dedicated to gory, scary, and strange effects that involve mainly transforming photos of people. There are a lot of great lessons and some that are not appropriate for all people. VIEWER DESCRESTION ADVISED

PEOPLE

It is difficult to be well groomed in a photo when your body is not cooperating. Learn to extract hair and transplant it.

With brushes and color tricks you can create a flaming hair style.

We all can’t have a harem of beautiful women, but we can in our digital world. Start with this tutorial in creating your very own beautiful lady that seems straight out of one of Di Vinci’s paintings.

6 part tutorial that takes you through the step in creating a photo subject into a glamour model of a magazine cover.

Not interested in being on the cover of a magazine? Well how about on your loved one’s computer desktop. Perfect excuse for him to get rid of his swimsuit wallpaper.

An effect women try to create everyday is easily done with the help of this tutorial.

Not everyone can have beautiful skin and this tutorial helps with an effect that is used most often when photographing people. No one enjoys capturing blemishes and zits for their photo album.

You learn how to create youthful looking skin, now what about creating the opposite. Speed up the hands of time to see what you will look like in your old age.

Sticking with the old theme; here is a tutorial to modernize old black and white photos by adding color back.

I am sure we know plenty, who inside must have some demons, even though on the outside they look normal. Using this spooky effect, you can help reveal their true devious side.

Take this exotic effect to transform your friend into an alien from another planet.

Take a photo of yourself, and transform it into a statue.

Learn the tricks of a professional wedding photographer and create memorable photos of auspicious occasion.

OBJECTS

Transitioning to our next group of tutorials, we will now take that wedding photo and learn how to embed it into a wine glass.

Sunglasses can be a helpful addition to the photo if you create this effect which will help expand the scenery in your photo.

Techniques to add depth to your photos and create drama and interest.

Learn how to bring a lifeless statue alive.

Take your ride and pimp it out with Photoshop. It will look like it belongs on the cover of import magazine.

Learn how to create the transparent technical illustrations seen in manuals and how to guides.

Make object seem like they are coming out of your photograph with a tool called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

Average designers crop objects out of other images to add to the advertisement or flyer. With this tutorial you can learn how to create your own digital mic that will dramatically improve your ad.

Create products in Photoshop and learn who professional companies mock products for advertisements.

Simple and elegant – terms synonymous with Apple designs. Learning this tutorial will help you create this effect with other objects.

Learn how to create a three dimensional golf ball for your upcoming golf tournament.

Very popular trend on the web is to add reflections to your product images for subtle style.

Just got Adobe and not sure where to start? Start by trying to create the same effects used on the software box.

Okay, now that you have created the Adobe box. Combine various effects to create one ready for publishing.

A popular form of media with graphic design. Although vectors are mainly for Adobe Illustrator, it can still be used in Photoshop. Learn how to create this popular style.

Now that you have vectorizing down, you will need to learn how to enhance and polish it off. Simple vectors remind me of the GIF and PowerPoint days.

Simple and realistic effect on how to create water drops and add it to your photo.

Time saving tutorial on how to retouch glass objects with Photoshop.

Apart of every fantasy story that involves telling the future or casting spells is a glass ball.

Build realistic 3D ice cubes.

Here is an effect to create a torn paper look.

LANDSCAPE

Curve Landscape Photos

Take a landscape photo and transform it into an virtual photograph with depth.

Dreamy Mist Effect

This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.

Improve Photo Quality

Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.

Take an average landscape photo and transform it to look like a scaled down model.

Water Displacement

Displace boring scenery with a realistic water surface.

Surreal Sunset

Sunsets photographs are a dime a dozen. Have your stand out and help emphasize the moment and capture the feelings.

MOVIE

Take an average photograph and enhance its color range and exposure with High Dynamic Range effect.

HDR a too time consuming process, but still really like the effect? Ok, well here is a shortcut way to create a HDR similar effect with a lot less effort.

Create a new star trek voyage with this space tutorial.

Learn how to create some of the best blockbuster effects.

Learn the tricks used in the movie Harry Potter to increase your skill with manipulating color in photographs.

If you have seen this movie, then you know it featured some of the best special effects and fight scenes. Morph yourself into a Spartan.

Replicate the hot summer days and the classic animation style of the Blues Singer Leaves Town with this 4 page tutorial on how the movie was made.

 
Transform a photo to a movie-like shot with the grain effect.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The open source internet browser that has led a revolution on the internet and a serious competitor to Microsoft has become an inspirational image and the subject of many graphic designers.

Mastering the shades of skin with the paint effect is a challenge without using a tutorial.

The age old medium is still alive in the digital world.

Transform your sketch into a digital painting masterpiece.

Finalize a hand drawn portrait with Adobe.

This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.

This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.

Start learning how to create comics with vectors in this tutorial.

Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.

The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.

Text Effects

Create 3 dimensional text that stand out.

Create text that looks like it was written with light on a slow shutter camera.

Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!

Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.

In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?

In this tutorial we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.

Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.

Buttons, Logos & Menus

With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.

In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin’ a golden badge, pretty much like this one I’ve designed below. For this tutorial I’ve used the example ‘100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.

In this simple tutorial we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.

This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts.

Buttons are constantly changing and strive to get viewers to click. Create eye catching buttons that make you want to click.

Safety first! Start creating icons with this tutorial.

Many people wonder how to create bookmark icons, web browser icons, and small icons in general – this tutorial answers those questions.

Two great tutorials for Web 2.0. Create the new design trend for web 2.0 logos.

Create a small window to draw attention to a block of text.

This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.

Keep your website up with the trends and learn the new transparent style made popular with Microsoft Vista.

This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.

Your final tutorial that will help you generate some cash with your new graphic designing skills.