Here are 20 excellent Advanced Photoshop Tutorials, provided by Photoshopsupport.com. These cover several advanced features and techniques of using Photoshop, including painting and color line art, matte painting, sharpening an image, working with shadows, creating a photomontage, retouching, automating tasks, and color management.


Photoshop Tutorials by Kevin Hulsey

Here are three excellent Photoshop tutorials from master illustrator Kevin Hulsey. Kevin says: "My use of Photoshop directly mimics the methodology of a conventional airbrush illustrator. The great thing about Photoshop is that there are so many different roads to the same conclusion."

Painting Techniques - tips and techniques for painting in Photoshop
Ghosting Techniques - tutorial on how to create a transparent view using Photoshop
Cruise Ship Cutaway - tutorial on using Photoshop to color line art


Photoshop Tutorials and Articles by Mark Galer

How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
Did you know that the highest quality sharpening is only to be found in image editing software, such as Photohshop.
The best sharpening techniques are those that give priority to certain areas and leave the smoother areas of the image alone. These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise.

Working With Shadows In Photoshop - Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds. This tutorial shows how to use textures to bring together two shadows comfortably within the same frame.


Matte Painting Tutorials - Sebastien Gaucher

These three matte painting tutorials by Sebastien Gaucher teach you how to create matte paintings in Photoshop. They are detailed and include large versions of the images so you can study the effects closely.

Matte Painting Tutorial - 1: "This tutorial is actually a 'making of' where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. If you don't have a graphic tablet this is going to be hard but not impossible. At each step of the matte painting, create a new layer so that the work will be easier and mistakes avoided."

Matte Painting Tutorial - 2: "This is my second matte painting tutorial. Here I wanted to change the season of a scene from summer to winter."

Matte Painting Tutorial - 3: "Here is the making of my third matte painting, this time it is the Oratoire Saint-Joseph (in Montreal) under the rain!"


Create Stars and Planets in Photoshop

These two tutorials on Greg Martin's site that are very well done. The Star Field tutorial will help you create awesome star fields, and the Planet tutorial shows how to create a simple, yet realistic-looking planet using Adobe Photoshop 7.

"Make a Realistic Star Field" tutorial
"Make A Planet" tutorial


Creating Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook

This Photoshop tutorial by Odile Pascal guides you through the photomontage process and explains in detail how the original photo of a woman was transformed into an angel in Photoshop.

Download "From Woman to Angel with Photoshop" PDF sample chapter [2.0 MB]
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Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook

Artist Nicolas Fructus shows you how to go from sketch and digitalization when working with layers in this PDF tutorial. With detailed notes and sample files, Fructus guides you through the process of creating very complex and beautiful illustrations in Photoshop.
Download "The High Terrace" PDF sample chapter [1.6 MB]
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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook

In this PDF tutorial taken from Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook, artist Thibaut Granier shows you how to use retouching and photomontage techniques to create a matte painting.

Download "Bloody Mallory" PDF sample chapter (1.3 MB)
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Photoshop CS Video Tutorials

Recording Actions To Automate Tasks
Learn how to change all open images to the same zoom level using the Match Zoom Command, and how to create Photoshop Actions to automate tasks.

Photoshop CS Color Management
Learn how to create the "ideal settings" for working with color in Photoshop CS.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes - Part 1
Learn how PS vector-based shapes work much like Illustrator.

Working With Vector-Based Shapes - Part 2
Learn how to create advanced vector-based shapes.

Colorization Tip
How to non-destructively take all the color out of an image, and add color back into an image in selected places.

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
How to make a beautiful, rich looking Grayscale image by using a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer.

Color To Grayscale Conversion
How to use the Paint Brush Tool to paint into a color image and selectively convert parts of it into a Black and White, Grayscale image.

Here is Prbcorp.com's Workshop Tutorial for Photoshop 6 - For The Web. This Photoshop tutorial covers the following web development features of this popular image editing application: creating a new image, creating text graphics, adding effects, cropping, using the rectangular and gradient tools, using filters, and adding text on buttongs.

Contents of Photoshop Workshop:

• Opening Photoshop
• Creating a New Image
• Creating Text Graphics
• Adding Effects - Shadow, Bevel, Stroke
• Saving Images
• Cropping Images
• Adding Effects - Inner Glow
• Using Rectangular Tool
• Using Gradient Tool
• Adding Inner Glow
• Using Filters
• Adding Text On Buttons
• Conclusion

Prbcorp.com offers several online tutorial workshops. Here is their Dreamweaver MX Tutorial Workshop that teaches the basic Dreamweaver features and functionality using screen shots and step-by-step instructions. You will need to know these Dreamweaver tasks in order to use this GUI web development application effectively. This tutorial can also be used to learn these topics in Dreamweaver 4.

Contents of Dreamweaver MX Tutorial:

• Opening Dreamweaver
• Installing a Template
• Defining a New Site
• Creating the First Page
• Using Tables
• Adding Text
• Formatting Text
• Inserting Images
• Making Links
• Creating Rollover Buttons
• Conclusion

Here are 31 Free Photoshop CS2 Training Videos and Tutorials from Photoshopsupport.com. These Photoshop CS2 (Photoshop 9) Tutorials will teach many of the new Photoshop CS2 features and tools, along with new techniques of performing current Photoshop tasks and functionality.


Here are new, free Photoshop CS2 Video Training modules, courtesy of Total Training.

Vanishing Point Video Tutorial
Vanishing Point lets you clone, paint and transform image objects while retaining visual perspective. In this Photoshop CS2 training clip you'll discover how to draw a grid that matches the perspective of your photograph, and how to set new source points and then clone and paint inside the grid.

Camera RAW Video Tutorial
Camera RAW CS2 allows you to batch process images, import images into your choice of formats, and make automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast. In this video you will see how to correct a dark image, and how to use the new Auto Correction settings in Camera RAW CS2.

Image Warp Video Tutorial
Create dimensional effects using Image Warp by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending it. This video shows you how to create true distortion with installed warp presets, and how to use traditional transformation settings to create a wrapping effect in Photoshop CS2.

Adobe Bridge Video Tutorial
With Adobe Bridge you are able to process multiple camera RAW images at once; resize, rate, and label thumbnails; quickly review images in Slideshow mode; search metadata; and more. This Photoshop CS2 video training module teaches you how to use the View Controls for changing the size of thumbnails with a slider, and how to preview a variety of files, including fonts and color swatches in a document.

Smart Objects Video Tutorial
You can perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics using Smart Objects. This Photoshop CS2 training video module demontrates how to import a graphic and choose the Smart Object command, and how to shrink and then enlarge a graphic with no loss of detail.

Smart Sharpen Filter Video Tutorial
The Smart Sharpen Filter allows you to counteract image blurring with a fine correction control based on the specific blur types: motion, lens, and Gaussian. This Photoshop CS2 video shows how to use the new Smart Sharpen Filter, and how it is different from the Unsharp Mask Filter.

Remove Red Eye Video Tutorial
In this video training clip you'll find out what the most common causes of red eye are, how to select the Red Eye Tool from the toolbox, and how to remove red eye completely with one click from the Red Eye Tool.

Shadow Highlight Filter Video Tutorial
The Shadow/Highlight Filter lets you change the shadows and highlights to reduce the contrast of an image. This Photoshop CS2 video shows how to change the default Shadows and Highlights settings to avoid flaring.

Match Color Video Tutorial
This video module teaches you how the Photoshop CS2 Match Color Command functions work so you are able to match the colors of one layer or image with the highlights of another layer or image.


Here are 4 video training clips from Advanced Adobe Photoshop CS2 hosted by Deke McClelland.

Liquify Filter Warp Tool Video Tutorial
 - How to work with the Liquify Filter Dialog Box.
 - How to use the Liquify Filter's Warp Tool to make subtle adjustments to an image.

Camera Raw Color Controls Video Tutorial
 - How to work with the new Color Sampler Tool to set specific color sample points.
 - How to use the Temperature and Tint sliders in the Color Controls dialog box.

Surface Blur Filter Video Tutorial
 - How to use the Surface Blur Filter for photo retouching.
 - How to adjust the Threshold and Radius values to control your blur.

Exposure Command Video Tutorial
 - How to work with 32 bits of data per channel.
 - How to modify the brightness and contrast of an image using the Exposure Command.


Here are 3 tutorials extracted from "Chapter 9: Hacking Selection Masks" from the book, Hacking Photoshop CS2 by Shangara Singh.

Creating And Saving Selection Masks in ImageReady
This tutorial show you how to use ImageReady to create selection masks from slices.

Editing And Modifying Selection Masks
Learn how to modify a stored selection in an alpha channel, by using painting tools, transform commands, and filters to modify the alpha channel and then load it as a selection mask.

Selection Mask Quick Hacks
Discover several methods on how to create selection masksin Photoshop. They are presented here in one place for your convenience.


Free Photoshop Retouching Chapter
The book, Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies, teaches you how to photograph all types of people: young, old, and dozens of ethnic varieties. Here is a free chapter, named Beauty Retouching (PDF - 1.4 MB). Find out what you can do with photographs of people by following the step-by-step instructions..


Vanishing Point Tutorial
View a Quicktime Photoshop CS2 tutorial on the Vanishing Point from Colin Smith at his Photoshop Cafe site.


This is a free chapter on Techniques to Sharpen Images in Photoshop from the book, Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills.
Good sharpening techniques will give priority the important areas for sharpening and leave the smoother areas of the image alone. These are advanced Photoshop techniques to use to sharpen images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise.


Here are 5 Photoshop CS2 tutorials available from the Adobe's web site. The first two are available in both mov and pdf formats.

Perform Nondestructive Transformations
[mov: 9.2 MB / pdf: 500 KB] Perform as many transformations on an image as you'd like in Photoshop CS2 without worrying about losing image quality.

Correct Lens And Camera Angle Distortions In One Simple Process
[mov: 9.0 MB / pdf: 650 KB] Don't let a distorted photo spoil your project. It's easy to correct even the most extreme visual distortion with Photoshop CS2.

Defining Perspective Planes To Redesign A Building
[pdf: 270 KB] In the past, you had to stretch, skew, and transform new image elements to make them conform to the perspective of an existing photo. Now, in Photoshop CS2, the revolutionary, new Vanishing Point plug-in handles the chore of matching perspective for you.

Adobe Digital Imaging Solutions
Watch a Flash video featuring a group of top Photoshop experts and photographers who discuss Photoshop CS2. There are other resources on this page as well.

Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is the new navigational control center of Adobe Creative Suite 2. Based on the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Bridge goes a step further by providing centralized access to your suite project files, applications, and settings. Watch a Flash movie that shows how Adobe Bridge serves as the hub for Creative Suite projects.

Photoshopsupport.com is one of the best free Photoshop Training and Tutorial sites on the web today. They host and offer the following 100 Photoshop tutorials and also provide links to tutorials on other sites. This is our first blog post of their Photoshop tutorials. These teach and show you how to do many of the features that Photoshop offers. They also give you tips and techniques for using Photoshop's expansive functionality.


Here are some free Photoshop tutorials by Jennifer Apple

Working With Type In Photoshop CS2
This tutorial demonstrates some of the new type features of Photoshop CS2, specifically, how to modify the size of font previews, work with the bounding box, use Smart Guides to align type layers, how to change Type Orientation from the palette, rasterize from the palette menu, and how to use the fast Warp Text options.

Tips For Working With Layers In Photoshop CS2
Here are tips on some of the updates Adobe made to the Photoshop layers palette in CS2. These will hopefully help you use this tool more productively.

Working With Photoshop Scripts
Learn how to work with Photoshop Scripts. Includes free Photoshop Scripts.

I See iPod People — The Photoshop Silhouette
Learn how to make an iPod ad Silhouette in Photoshop.

Photoshop Web Template — Web Site Design Tutorial
Learn how to make a Photoshop web template with this web site design tutorial.

Blog Templates — Blog Design Tips And Resources
Tips on how to improve blog templates with your own designs. Includes resources.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
Learn how to edit and create sets of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS and CS2.

How To Fix Overexposed Images In Photoshop
Two quick techniques to help you fix overexposed images in Photoshop.

How To Fix An Underexposed Photo In Photoshop
Two simple techniques that can make dark photos look great.

How To Wrap Text Around An Object In Photoshop
A quick and easy technique to wrap text around an object.

Tips And Tricks For Beginners
Photoshop tips and tricks that will save you lots of time down the road.

Create A Sepia Tone Effect In Photoshop
A simple way to create a Sepia Tone effect in Photoshop.

Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Making Coloring Books
Want to make a coloring book? The first step is to turn a photo into a sketch.

The Night Vision Thing — A Photoshop Recipe
Learn to create the greenish glow associated with photos from night vision devices.

Resize Images Without Losing Sharpness
This simple trick will eliminate the dreaded blur often found after resizing.

Pixel Fonts To The Rescue
All about Pixel fonts — how to use them and where to get them.

Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop
Learn how to create tiny custom icons that appear in the address bar of a web browser.


Learn some professional tips and tricks from Photoshop expert Mark Galer

How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise, neither of which needs accentuating by the Unsharp Mask.

Working With Shadows In Photoshop - Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds.

Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. Your first step for success is to first shoot your model against a white backdrop.

Use The Displace Filter & Displacement Maps To Make A Realistic Flag
By using Photoshop's blend modes, the flag in this project can be modified to respect the color and tonality of the undulating silk beneath it. The highlights and shadows that give the silk its shape can however be further used to wrap the flag so that it obeys the material’s shape and sense of volume.


Here are sample recipes from O'Reilly's Photoshop Digital Studio Cookbook Series - these are an excellent way to improve your Photoshop skills.

Creating Black And White From Color
How To Create A High-Contrast Sketch
Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect
Scraped Polaroid Picture Effect
Van Gogh Effect - Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Daguerreotypes - The Louis Daguerre Effect
Autochrome - Color Process Effect
Powder Pastels — Hand-coloring Image Tips
Selective Coloring — Remove Color From An Image
Hand Tinting — Tips For Photo Coloring Effects
Whitening Teeth & Eyes In Photoshop
Watercolor — Creating Artistic Painterly Effects
Ink Outlines — How To Give An Image A Drawn Look
Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Create A Cubist Look
Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Cross-Processing


Photoshop Tutorials By Master Illustrator Kevin Hulsey

Painting Techniques - tips and techniques for painting in Photoshop
Ghosting Techniques - tutorial on how to create a transparent view using Photoshop
Cruise Ship Cutaway - tutorial on using Photoshop to color line art
(Please note that these tutorials are large in size.)


Practical Photoshop tips and tricks from Peter Bowers.

How To Stitch Photos In Photoshop
This is a tutorial on stitching two images together using Photoshop Elements 5 (or the full version of Photoshop). This stitching method offers a lot of flexibility.

Photoshop Image Blending Tips
Peter discuses how to achieve spectacular results by using blending in Photoshop. "I start with a RAW image... typically there is a lot of exposure difference between the bright (usually the sky) part of the image and the dark (usually the foreground) part of the image."


Window Seat by Julieanne Kost - Sample Chapters

These sample chapters from O'Reilly's Window Seat by Julieanne Kost cover specific areas of working with digital photography in Photoshop, including using Camera Raw, removing blemishes and imperfections from a photo, making selections and adjustments, and preparing your photos for print.
Processing Your Photos Using Adobe Camera Raw
Photoshop Tips For Removing Imperfections
Making Selective Adjustments In Photoshop
Preparing Your Images For Print


Photoshop Tutorials by Cian Walsh

Shapes & Styles Redux
Another small batch of tips for those that are knee deep in creating graphics through custom shapes and layer styles. Also shows how to use gradients in Photoshop and how to create dashes in Photoshop.

Keyfob: Anatomy Of An Icon
This tutorial follows the construction of an Icon for an imaginary application called "Keyfob." It also includes a short movie of the process so you can see the general buildup of effects.

Custom Shapes And Layer Styles
If you are a regular user of custom shapes in Photoshop, here are a few tips on using them when combined with layer styles. The benefits of using custom shapes for smaller work are the ability to scale losslessly and to experiment with colour and effects by way of saved layer styles.


Photoshop Tutorials and Tips by Ivan Raszl of CreativeBits:

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 1
A collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 2
Even more useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 3
Volume 3 of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 4
Volume 4 of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 5
Volume 5 of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 6
Volume 6 of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.

Diamond Plated Brushed Metal Effect
How to add diamond plates on a brushed metal base.

Create A Halftone Effect In Photoshop
Create halftone effects in just a few steps with the help of the Bitmap Image Mode.

Red Eye Reduction — How To Remove Red Eye From Photographs
Simple red eye reduction steps to completely remove red eye from photographs.

Creating Water Drops
Use Photoshop's layer blending options to create beautiful water drops.

Create Seamless Tiles In Photoshop
Learn how to make seamless tiles for background textures. Includes a link to free tiles.

Creating Gel Buttons
Learn how to make translucent gel buttons.

How To Create Brushed Aluminum
Quickly reproduce the texture of an Apple Powerbook in 4 easy steps.

How To Create A Neon Sign
Here is a fast and simple way to create a neon sign with glowing neon letters.

Add Reality To Your Objects
Add shadows and colored lights to make things look more real.

Turning Photos From Color to Stunning Black and White
Learn how to get great results by using the Channel Mixer.

Placing Artwork On Uneven Surfaces
How to place your artwork on a cloth or uneven surface and make it look believable.

Change Your Brush Dynamically
Change the size and softness of your brushes through keyboard shortcuts.

Fix Your Horizons
Learn how to rotate an image to make the horizon perfectly horizontal.

Windows vs Mac Monitor Gamma
If you're on a Mac this tutorial will help you make sure your Gamma is right — so a Windows user will see what you see.

Image Enlargement Tip — Improving JPG Images
How to make a JPG image twice the size and still look good.

Image Enlargement Tip — Add Noise
Use the Noise Filter to improve an image that needs to be enlarged for print.

Create A Glamour Portrait In 30 Seconds
This trick will make your portraits look like the glamour shots in fashion magazines.

Brighten Up Your Shadows
Solutions for bringing under and overexposed photos back to life.

Burning Pages
How to create a realistic burn pattern on the edges of a piece of paper.

Sharpening In Lab Mode
See how sharpening in LAB mode can provide superior results.

Photoshop's Photomerge
Learn how to ceate panoramas with this amazing Photoshop tool.

Change The Color of the Gray Area Surrounding the Canvas
How to change the gray area surrounding your canvas to any other color.

Black vs. Black
Find out why not not every black is exactly the same black in Photoshop.


Photoshop Tutorials by Bert Monroy

TechTV had archived all Bert Monroy's Photoshop tutorials for easy access but since the merger with G4, the tutorials have been taken down from the site. Photoshopsupport now has links to these Photoshop tutorials, presented as they originally appeared on the TechTV website.


Photoshop Tutorials by Ben Willmore

Ben Willmore is a true Photoshop Guru. Here are links to Ben's Photoshop Tips, Magazine Articles, his Archive of Photoshop Tips, some Color Management Resources, a service that provides Help With Problem Images, his Online Galleries, his latest Photoshop Books, and info about his Training Courses & DVDs.


Award-winning designer Colin Smith offers 3 great Photoshop tutorials.

Create An Online Portfolio Gallery With Photoshop
Photoshop makes it very easy to build an online portfolio. This tutorial shows you how in just a few steps and does it all from the File Browser in Photoshop CS or Bridge in CS2.

Using Channels To Mask Out Difficult Images In Photoshop
This tutorial will focus on using Channels to help mask out complex objects with clean edges. This technique will also save you a lot of time. We will use Alpha Channels, Quick Masks, Levels, Brushes and Color Range.

Lens Correction Filter In Photoshop CS2
The Lens correction filter is truly amazing, being able to repair all kinds of distortions. To demonstrate, let's take an image that suffers from many problems, and correct it.


Shop Talk - A Beginner's Guide To Photoshop

Shop Talk features simple and easy tutorials to help you learn Photoshop quickly. The latest Photoshop tutorial, Bitmap And Vector Graphics Explained, explains what these two basic types of image formats are.


The Photoshop Blog offers the latest Photoshop and Digital Photography news and software updates, tips and tutorials, and random thoughts from graphic artist, digital photographer and Photoshop expert Jennifer Apple.