Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of

by Dirk Metzmacher

The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby or look over their shoulders. You can see step-by-step how buttons, collages or even paintings are created. Instead of reading through books describing what needs to be selected, activated and clicked, you can simply imitate mouse clicks knowing exactly that you are actually doing the right thing.

The learning curve is easier to climb and the result is easier to compare. More than that: you can observe how it is done from the very beginning to the very end and (sometimes) you can get explained why it is done in exactly this way.

We’ve searched through dozens of video-sites, forums, articles, blogs, portfolios and communities. And we selected 80 excellent Adobe Photoshop video tutorials which you can use as a starting point to improve your skills or observe how other professional do their job. Among other things, below we present Photoshop video tutorials about speed painting, design of buttons and interfaces, beauty retouching, digital matte painting, photo manipulation, effects and much more.

Speed Painting

• John Locke
  The Lost character John Locke.

  

• Sea Monster
  This creature is very angry. Godzilla let her down.

  

• Spider-Man
  Superhero Spider-Man with his traditional red-and-blue costume. My spider-sense tells me, i should open Photoshop.

  

• Werewolf
  A wolflike and very hairy creature.

  

• Adriana Lima
  Best known for her modeling work with Victoria’s Secret.

  

• Hellboy
  Another comic character, this time a large red-skinned demon .

  

• Gabi
  Artists paint not only celebrities, but also photos of the beloved ones.

  

• Jack Sparrow
  Captain Jack Sparrow. A Pirate of the Caribbean.

  

• Scarlett Johansson
  Actress Scarlett Johansson. A good example of black and white power. If looks could kill.

  

• Fergie
  Stacy Ann Ferguson, better known as Fergie.

  

• Indiana Jones
  After 18 years back in cinemas. Indiana Jones.

  

• Caravaggio
  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist. »La deposizione« in photoshop.

  

• Beyonce
  R&B-Star Beyoncé Knowles.

  

• Dragon
  The brother of the creature above.

  

• Mona Lisa
  What a smile. Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece.

  

• Bob Ross
  Bob Ross was an painter and television host. Now, he was painted himself.

  

• Waterfall
  How to draw a waterfall environmental concept scene.

  

• Albert Einstein
  Everything is relative. Famous and brilliant theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.

  

Button and Interface

• Create a Glass Sphere
  A good basis for a shiny button.

  

• Feed Icon
  Create your own standard feed icon, the well known orange square.

  

• Aqua Sphere
  Aqua, Apples visual theme of Mac OS X. Still great.

  

• Slice and Export a Website Layout
  You can create web graphics in Photoshop. Here’s how to make a website out of it.

  

• Gel Button
  Another good basis for a button.

  

Beauty Retouching

• Evolution
  A young classics.

  

• Face Change
  This is Angelina Jolie face changed in Photoshop into a comic charakter.

  

• Face Retouch
  Watch the newest plastic surgery tipps.

  

• Teeth whitening
  Whiten teeth and correct slightly crooked.

  

• Skin Smoothing
  Smooth the texture, remove major wrinkles and bumps.

  

• Beauty Saloon
  Photoshop is the best product in the beauty industry.

  

• Perfect lie
  What is real and what is photoshopped. Don`t believe your eyes.

  

• Tattoo removal
  Have you ever regretted the tattoo of your youth. Use Photoshop!

  

• Skin color retouching
  Two ways for getting those skin colors to behave just the way you want them.

  

• Digital Makeup
  Enhance your appearance and simulate make-up.

  

Digital matte painting

• Matte painting
  98 layers create this landscape.

  

• Natural History Museum
  A future vision of the Natural History Museum.

  

• Matte painting of a city
  A fictional city with a reflection in the sea..

  

• Matte Painting & Visual Effects
  Matte Painting with animation.

  

• Fog in the valley
  Rough Matte Painting of clouds or fog in a valley.

  

Photo Manipulation

• Match Color
  Color correction with »Match color«, found under »Image ↔ Adjustment«. Combine two photos and make the colors match.

  

• Sin City
  Simulate the style of film noir-like Sin City in your photos. High contrasts, black and white and some spots of red, blue and yellow.

  

• Produce Scary Photos
  Produce scary photos with the overlay of textures on the skin and dark hair. It’s that simple.

  

• Human To Statue
  Convert your normal pictures of people into photos of statues. Again, textures used for a realistic effect.

  

• Sci-Fi
  A mysterious explosion of blue light or a spherical spaceship. They are among us.

  

• Starry Eyes
  Create eyes with some stars in it. Real stars of a photo, in the shape of the eye and fit with the blending mode »Overlay« or »Screen«. “A little bit of heaven in your own eyes.”

  

• Changing Colors
  Changing hair, eyes and cloth colors with Photoshop.

  

• Toning & Burning
  Correct the colors and change the surface. Make a photo old and broken.

  

• Popout Picture
  The Out of Bound-Effect. A really useful trick to create cool photos.

  

• Glassball
  A ball of glass, with refractions. A good 3D-Illusion in 2D-Software.

  

• Mix two creatures
  Two species melt into a new animal. Like this crog, a combination of a frog and a crocodile.

  

• Lightning
  Photoshop is definitely hot enough to fuse sand into glass, with this lightning tutorial.

  

You Suck at Photoshop

• You Suck at Photoshop #1
  Donnie Hoyle pulls a digital end-around on a restraining order and vandalizes a Vanagon.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #2
  How to fix little mistakes.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #3
  Donnie Hoyle makes a very big mistake go away.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #4
  Path and Masks.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #5
  Donnie’s self-discovery vacation heats up. By the megaton.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #6
  Donnie’s four day hold-up at the airport makes for some heavy duty Photoshop diversion.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #7
  Donnie Hoyle hots up a facebook photo for one lucky fan.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #8
  Donnie opens his home to a new friend.

  

• You Suck at Photoshop #9
  Donnie Hoyle gets as close to a pair of tomatoes as he’ll ever get.

  

Graphics, Effects and more

• Exploding Planet
  Some filter combinations creates the illusion of an exploding planet.

  

• Hyperspace Background
  A good background for a space battle.

  

• Fire effect
  Let a letter burn.

  

• Sony Ericsson logo
  Gradients make the logo.

  

• Realistic Sun in 5 Mins
  An authentic-looking sun.

  

• Ink
  Draw the lines for clean results.

  

• Blaze Your Name
  Your name in flames.

  

• Eye
  Draw an eyeball with iris, pupil and some effects.

  

• Lightsaber
  Lightsabers – the principal weapons of the Jedi.

  

• How to Color Comic Books
  Graphic art colored with Photoshop.

  

• Explosion
  An impressive simulated explosion.

  

Collections

• PixelPerfect
  Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and shows us the tips and tricks in 75 episodes.

  

• Tutorialchamp
  The Key To Mastering Photoshop. Only 10 but high quality Videos.

  

• Planet Photoshop
  78 Video-Tutorials. The manipulation of photos is the main theme.

  

• Lombergar
  Lombergar.com offers over twenty free online video tutorials.

  

• PhotoshopUser TV
  The Photoshop Guys Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby shows weekly amazing tricks.

  

• The Radiant Vista
  20 big Quicktime-Videos.

  

• Photoshop Killer Tips
  Again a Photoshop Guy. Get your daily dose of the coolest Photoshop tips with Matt Kloskowski.

  

• luv2help.com
  He really loves to help us lerning Photoshop.

  

• Adobe Video Workshop
  Start learning about any Adobe application like Photoshop, Lightroom and all the other creative suite products. Tons of videos.

  

Dirk Metzmacher is a professional Photoshop trainer, book author and designed with over 10 years of experience. He is also a creative mind behind Photoshop Weblog, a German blog about techniques, tutorials and resources related to Adobe Photoshop.

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