digg

Join DiggAbout

Discover the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

smashingmagazine.com — An overview of professional step-by-step tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.

Bury
show profanity settings
expand all
  • eflouret, on 01/10/2008, -26/+12This list includes two tutorials I wrote, wow!
    How about this text effect that didn't make it into the list?
    http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/200 ...
    • MillionsLivio, on 01/10/2008, -9/+9That looks horrid.
    • dshPls, on 01/10/2008, -6/+16hi, 1999.
    • robocop1, on 01/10/2008, -18/+31469 called they want their tutorial back. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL..........................................................
    • MrWally, on 01/11/2008, -2/+9In all honesty, it is a well-made tutorial and you show pretty good knowledge of Photoshop, but I agree, the effect looks kind of outdated.
    • yomama6969, on 01/11/2008, -6/+0the looks so bad, i think you just gave me cancer
    • tikiman453, on 01/11/2008, -0/+8you guys all suck. regardless of how it looks, this guy put these up so you could learn how to do something and you're all being douche bags for cutting down someone else's creativity.
  • jeroenguldemond, on 01/10/2008, -16/+8Great resource for all sorts of photoshop tutorials. Wow. hours of photoshopping.
  • presentday, on 01/10/2008, -13/+6Gooooodie. Thank you SM.
  • xsquirrel378x, on 01/10/2008, -10/+128pics look shopped :-/
    • endlessoul, on 01/10/2008, -23/+1Yeah, no *****.

      Sarcasm? You decide.
    • trib4lmaniac, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Why is everyone on Digg such a cynic?
      The dude in the 4th pic is definitely 'shopped (you can tell from his moustache), but the rest look legit!
  • OperatorX, on 01/10/2008, -13/+2who needs tutorials when you have difference clouds :)
  • MillionsLivio, on 01/10/2008, -6/+10Well constructed with quality entries, I like the diversity within the list.
  • Ninjao, on 01/10/2008, -5/+5Great set of tutorials, a lot of them for beginners, but theres some good stuff in there for advanced users as well.

    I especially like the Buttons, Logos & Menus part.
  • nitsnipe, on 01/10/2008, -7/+9This is an awesome list of tutorials. Kudos to whoever compiled the list.
    Whats scary, is how easy it has become fake things in the world today.
  • DeathScytheHell, on 01/10/2008, -3/+18This stuff is gonna be stupid hard for beginners so try not to slow it down.
  • seantubridy, on 01/10/2008, -3/+116I'm going to try all of those on one image. Then I'm going to add a lens flare. It's going to be awesome.
  • honus, on 01/10/2008, -5/+16That is a compilation worthy of "best of." It's bookmarked now.
  • eleece722, on 01/10/2008, -5/+2I can't wait to try these!
  • mr_wej, on 01/10/2008, -9/+6Headline should read - "Tutorials on how to make your image look like you added a cheesy photoshop effect."
    • IRoaChI, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2Thats what photoshop is for. Why have ooze if there isn't any cheese ?
  • centran, on 01/10/2008, -4/+37How to fake HDR.... < sigh >
    That is not HDR. HDR is high dynamic range not high saturation bumped colors artsy photo. HDR is the delicate merging the details of very bright and very dark areas of the photo to more accurately represent what the human eye sess.
    Can we please give that normal HDR people are "used" to a different name. How about GUTM. Gross Use of Tonal Mapping. or just call it tonal mapping.
    Here is linked article from this collection I am bitching about.
    http://www.nill.cz/index.php?set=tu1
    • jesusfranco, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5Digged you comment for

      A) linking to the article
      and
      B) backing up your rant with facts, witch is more than I can say for other comments
  • graytrade, on 01/10/2008, -2/+2Or collect the whole video course: http://wikivid.com/index.php/Photoshop
  • myklee, on 01/10/2008, -12/+36"When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider."

    Wrong. Illustrator is the graphic designer's favorite app.
    • BSeffrood, on 01/11/2008, -3/+2you obviously have no idea what graphic designers use photoshop for, Illustratot makes vector graphics but is useless for layout purposes, thats where InDesign or Photoshop come, plus you cant edit photos in Illustrator.
      • theycallmebubba, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2'Useless' is a bit of a stretch, my friend. Assuming you're referring to PRINT ads, then yes, InDesign would be superior. Or maybe you mean to say 'I like Photoshop's layer comping ability - it's really handy'. I agree with you there, too. However, the ability to make razor-sharp, infinitely-scalable posters, flyers, and other... what did you call them? Oh, LAYOUTS... is pretty nice. But the truth of the matter is, it all depends on the design brief. If it were me, I'd use all three in conjunction: Photoshop for my pics in the layout, Illustrator for any vector logos, etc (although InDesign's tools are usually sufficient), and InDesign to put them all together. If you're talking about website comping, though, I've usually found PS and Illustrator to be nearly interchangable.
        /lecture
        • BSeffrood, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Im a layout designer at a newspaper, what i meant was that for layout purposes Illustrator has no use, unless your are creating advertisement, and then you still need Quark or InDesign to lay them out on a page to send to them to a rip for printing. Illustrator is great for creating the logo, but you still need Photoshop for most of the design elements.
          • theycallmebubba, on 01/23/2008, -0/+1Ah, well in that case: Touché! You won that round... lol. I think we were both making the same exact points using the same words, weren't we?
    • fxu1989, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1ehh .. I don't know :

      I'm in the printing business; I use photoshop for the design, and Illustrator for the typing, as it vectorizes them and it doesn't look pixelized once printed.
  • AndersLangset, on 01/10/2008, -3/+2This is an amazing collection. Props!
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 01/10/2008, -4/+3i didn't see anything amazing but .. i'm an old farker photoshopper, so .. dugg up for nostalgia. :)
  • matriculated, on 01/10/2008, -2/+1Dugg for Shiney Binary. He rocks!
  • keevols, on 01/10/2008, -3/+14you sucjk at photoshop
  • loganhid, on 01/10/2008, -2/+2sheer awesomeness
  • TheRoller, on 01/10/2008, -2/+17"In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before."
    ...Wha?
    • MarkTaiwan, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2i have to say, as someone who just started trying out Photoshop two days before, it's true.
    • volonix, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1i assume you dont know what the sentence means ... ?

      pretty much time is quite a lot of time. is it really that hard to work out? forgive me if you meant it doesnt take long.
  • stuartduff, on 01/10/2008, -3/+1Thanks, i love smashingmagazine after thoer free wordpress post this is another excellent resource :) gonna try some of the techniques out asap.
  • Braindead360, on 01/10/2008, -4/+2THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
  • twodayslate, on 01/10/2008, -6/+3I used to use pshop but now I use GIMP. I will have to say that the transition is very hard. GIMP is much better though. It takes a little longer but the outcome looks better. For example for a box with a rounded corner in pshop you press rounded corners and draw. But in GIMP you have to draw the box, use rounded corners, fill. So much customization!
    • fredclown, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4Please tell me you're joking ... cause I can't quite tell.
    • BevansDesign, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2Tried Gimp on a friend's linux box. And it really is just crap. There's a reason why you have to pay for some programs and others are given away for free.
    • teabagginz, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3gimp is pretty powerful for a free app.
  • zerodaysoon, on 01/10/2008, -4/+1does anyone know where the Circular Marquee Tool is? im new at this, thanks
  • skinturtle, on 01/11/2008, -2/+0Photoshop is an absolute must but if I were going to create the first item on that list..I'd be using either CorelDraw (which kicks Illustrator's arse right in) or Xara. Then I would use PS for the final touches.
    • yomama6969, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0oh god...are you serious? draw?

      and no im not just a fan boi, I've spent 2 years in Corel Suite, and 5 in Adobe. Pretty easy to see which works for me (and the entire industry)
  • cyclopssmiley, on 01/11/2008, -3/+1It depends on what you are trying to do, logos, illustrations, vectors, etc I would use illustrator, for the main parts of templates, photo retouching, tags and more I would start with photoshop.
  • shoxmon, on 01/11/2008, -2/+0These are great links. I recognized a few that I first saw on deviantART under Photoshop tutorials. Really great stuff, thanks for sharing.
  • DTRNathen, on 01/11/2008, -3/+1"Not everyone has a beautiful skin." Dugg.
  • kiegh, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1such a huge list of tutorials, dugg for sheer volume and assumed quality
  • blackdude, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Some good tutorials here. I didn't see any section for panels or anything that really showed making good definition of site panels, etc etc but I always use http://dicati.us/article/tutorial:-christmas-theme ... as a reference for these types of things. I think there are a lot of good tutorials online, you just have to look around more.
  • Turntheorganup, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1expecting a parody per http://digg.com/design/You_suck_at_Photoshop_tutor ...
  • Synova, on 01/11/2008, -2/+2Anyone have some good Gimp tutorials? =)
    • BevansDesign, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Step 1: Get Photoshop.

      That's one of my favorites. Short and sweet.
      • passedoutghost, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0and expensive if you go the legal route.
      • orijimi, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Also, it's kind of stupid either way. Relying on a 650 dollar program when you could just switch to GIMP, and live with the annoyances, and help in making it better than Photoshop.
  • chemdiva, on 01/11/2008, -3/+0Dugg and bookmarked.
    • BevansDesign, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2Read, stared at, blinked at.

      We don't need to know what you're doing.
  • ab498, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764805

    i think this one is a better tutorial.
  • andretii, on 01/11/2008, -3/+2yea a lot of skills into this...

    /sarcasm
  • BevansDesign, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Looks like a great collection, and I look forward to trying most of them out.

    The first one I tried was the "Slow Shutter Text Effect". I've always had trouble creating convincing glow effects, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, the author skips many steps and assumes your settings are the same as his/hers. Step 5 is just a mess.

    Also, it wouldn't hurt to split it up into more paragraphs. Having numerous steps in a chunk of text and calling it one step is ridiculous.
  • digirat, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1I dugg this because there might come a time when I won't be too lazy to try these
  • orijimi, on 01/11/2008, -4/+1This is Digg. How the hell does overpriced software get on the front page? Not to mention top story in all topics. ***** Adobe. Open Source will end them.
  • ThatsPopetastic, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1I've never really been good at drawing. I even suck at drawing stick figures, if that gives you an idea at how sad I am at drawing. But I have so many ideas in my head for awesome pictures and art. Is it possible for someone like me to fully bring my ideas to Photoshop and actually have it look beautiful? I realize this is going to take a lot of practice and time but I'm tired of having all these different pictures of art stuck in my head and not being able to share it with others. Secondly, is there any tutorials out there that are great for beginners like me, so I can learn the basics? I appreciate all the help I can get :D
  • social101, on 03/12/2008, -0/+0very useful information dude!! Thanks!!
  •  

    Login or register to add a comment

    Create a new account or login to join in the conversation on Digg. You'll also be able to Digg stories to help promote things you like.


© Digg Inc. 2008 — Content posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain.
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.