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How to Make a Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop

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1. How to Create a Dark Photo Manipulation in Photoshop Tutorial

In this amazing photoshop photo manipulation tutorial you will learn how to create a dark manipulation in Photoshop. Learn how to retouch eyes and create a dark ambient using stock images.

2. How to Create a Fantasy, Sci-Fi Portrait Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a fantasy, sci-fi portrait. You’ll learn how to blend a model portrait with a space background, make some special effects using light and nebula textures, manage blending modes, enhance color, paint light, and more.

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4. How to Create Realistic Paint Effect In Photoshop Tutorial

We’ll be adding our image into Photoshop – Sharpening the image – adding a Diffuse Filter. Then we’ll be using the Filter Gallery to add some Paint Daubs to the image. Then we’ll be jumping into the Camera Raw Settings to adjust the sharpness & noise. This will finalize the effect. You can also use the Noise Reduction filter option, which looks great as well.

5. How to Create Movember Flyer Photoshop Tutorial

Learn how to create a Movember Flyer in Photoshop using simple photo editing techniques. Add glasses, a mustache and a tall hat to a person and you have a Movember character. Also use some filters and adjustments to create an old vintage photo effect.

6. How to Create a Nicely Illuminated Scene with a Pirate in Photoshop

In this Photoshop CC manipulation we’ll create a nicely illuminated scene with a pirate. We’ll use only a few stock images and at the end I’ll show you how to create an amazing color and light effect using layer styles and adjustment layers.

7. How To Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop

Watercolour paintings are a hugely popular art style that can be incorporated into your design projects, but you don’t need to be a master artist to create such imagery when Adobe Photoshop can produce realistic watercolour effects with a cocktail of built-in filters. In today’s tutorial I take you through a range of settings that will convert any photograph into a hand-made watercolour style painting.

8. How to Create a Gold Foil Logo Mockup in Adobe Photoshop

Learn the process to build a photorealistic logo mockup, from the right perspective to multiple layer styles. And you’ll get a final bonus tip about how to get a trendy rose gold tint! In this tutorial, I will guide you through the steps to create a photorealistic Gold Foil Logo mockup with Adobe Photoshop.

9. How to Make Disintegrating Human Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make disintegrating human effect in Photoshop. We will turn a stand female model photo into a dark, mysterious disintegrating portrait of a witch. Custom Photoshop brushes will be the main tool of this tutorial.

10. How to Paint a Bold, Glowing, Colorful Portrait in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll be exploring a unique technique of using rich, vibrant colors to paint a portrait in Adobe Photoshop.

11. Create Wizard Summoning Lightning Magic Scene In Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how I create a Wizard Summoning Lightning Magic Scene in Photoshop. We will construction a surreal landscape with a few stock images (castle, mountain, etc) first, then add the lightning effect with custom brushes.

12. Create This Incredible Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Dancer in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Photoshop to create this amazing photo manipulation using several clever techniques such as using the Liquify tool to bend twigs and branches. The most important part of this tutorial will show you how to use layer blending modes and the Shadow/Highlights adjustment to create an ethereal tone effect.

13. Create Artwork with Both Real and Digital Brush Strokes Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, Adi Gilbert explains how he produces beautifully-crafted illustrations using a blend of traditional brushwork, and digital techniques with a tablet, stylus and Photoshop.

14. How to Use Tree Brushes to Paint Human Hair in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use tree brushes to paint human hair in Photoshop by working through an interesting human photo manipulation project. The tutorial is suitable for beginner – intermediate skill Photoshop users.

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16. Create an Awesome Halftone Splash Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll see how to transform an image into an Awesome Halftone Splash Effect with Scanned textures using Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. The main idea for this course is to know how to manipulate and work with textures using Photoshop’s powerful tool layer masks, and find a good combination with the texture and the image we’ll be using, to end up with a cool portrait effect.

17. How to Create Digital Painting Portrait Effect in Photoshop tutorial

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In this premium tutorial you’ll learn how to create a cool digital painting effect on your photos using Photoshop CS6. I’ll also show you how to change the reflection on sun glasses and retouch skin. I will show you a combination of filters and custom tool settings to create this smooth digital painting-like effect that work on any portrait.

18. Create an Awesome Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create double exposure effect in Photoshop. Double exposure effect can be achieved through combining multiple stock images, experimenting with blend modes and using adjustment layers. We’ll also learn how to make transition between multiple images and blending them nicely using layer mask.

19. How to Create Fantasy Cup Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

20. Creative Paint Splash Effect using Photoshop

In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to build a creative paint splash effect using paint brushes. We’ll be working with a few layer masks, adjustment layers, filters and more. We’ll also be sharpening up the image so the final results don’t look dull and blurry. I will jump into the filter gallery to add a final texture to the image, so that it looks as if it’s on a canvas, or was painted on a canvas.

21. How to Create Realistic Portal Art in Photoshop Tutorial

22. How to Create a Rubber Stamp Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic rubber stamp effect in Photoshop. Turn any photo into a rubber stamp in just a few quick steps.

23. Create a Watercolor Galaxy Effect in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I take you through my process of creating and applying this watercolor galaxy effect to lettering, all within Photoshop. This is a bit of an advanced tutorial, so we’ll move through things quicker and with less detail than usual since there’s a lot to cover.

24. Create “Eagle Warrior” Human Photo Manipulation In Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating “Eagle Warrior” Human Photoshop Manipulation in Photoshop. We will mix a warrior model image with a couple of eagle images, and add some custom brush paintings to spice up the effect.

25. How to use Lightroom Presets in Photoshop

In this Phtoshop Presents tutorial i’ll show you how to do something super useful. I’m going to show you how to take your Lightroom Presets and be able to use them inside of Photoshop.

26. How to Create a Magical Butterfly Photo Manipulation With Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use photo manipulation techniques in Adobe Photoshop to create a fantasy scene featuring a magic butterfly. First, we’ll build the base scene using three stock images. After that, we’ll add the model and retouch her using adjustment layers, masking, dodging and burning. Later we’ll paint more hair and add the butterfly. We’ll create some magic touches for the butterfly using brushes and blending modes. We’ll add several adjustment layers and paint the background light to complete the final effect.

27. How to Add Realism to Digital Portraits Photoshop Tutorial

A realistic depiction of humanity, rather than some idealised concept of it, is a difficult thing to convey in an illustration. In this tutorial, Richard Wilkinson walks you through the process of how he created a portrait of an elderly man grieving.

28. How to Create a Typography Dispersion Action in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an amazing typography dispersion effect. First we are going to create and define a few patterns and brushes. Then we are going to create a typography effect from our subject, and then disperse the letters in the direction we choose. After that we are going to make some final adjustments.

29. How To Make A Portrait With City Elements In Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a portrait with city elements in Photoshop. This is a intermediate level difficulty tutorial and can be a bit tricky to complete, but why not have a try!

30. How to Create Amazing Light Effect and Touching Manipulation in Photoshop Tutorial

31. How to Create an Emotional Fire Scene Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create an emotional fire scene featuring a brave little girl.

32. Create an artwork with a 1980s Tropical Feel in Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, illustrator Chris Malbon takes you through the process of creating a bold artwork with an 80s retro tropical theme – drawing on the kitsch glamour of shows like Miami Vice. He says the secret to his striking style is using abstract shapes and negative space.

33. Cinematic Color Grading (Movie Look Effect) in Photoshop – Video Tutorial

This video is a lot more than a tutorial on cinematic color grading in Photoshop. We will dive deep and take a comprehensive look at what color grading is, and how it works. Then you will learn how you can apply it in Photoshop using several easy methods.

34. How to Create an Ashes & Embers Dispersion Action in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an ashes and embers dispersion effect on any photo. At the end of the tutorial, you’ll have an action which will automate the entire process with a single click.

35. Create this Warrior and Lion Photo Manipulation With Texture Background

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create a photo manipulation of a warrior and the Lion.

36. How to Create Special Effect for Magazine Cover Photo in Photoshop Tutorial

37. How to Paint a Portrait of Historic Creative Women in Adobe Photoshop

This year, International Women’s Day falls on 8 March. And each year, the world unites in appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political, and social contributions.

To celebrate the amazing advances women have made throughout history, today I’ll be showing you how to paint a portrait of three of my favorite creatives in “herstory.”

Learn simple digital painting techniques to pull off incredible illustrations in Adobe Photoshop.

38. How to Create Chilling, Decay effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop episode, I will share some great techniques on how to create a cool shatter decay effect.

39. How to Create a Fractal Mirror Effect in Photoshop

In today’s episode, I will show you how to create a cool fractal mirror effect using Photoshop CC. Creating this effect was really fun! We’ll be working with adjustment layers, filters, groups for organization and polish the effect off with a nice gradient. If you want to download my free gradient pack that I used in this tutorial.

40. The Lady on the Window Portrait Manipulation

Create a beautiful portrait manipulation using adjustment layers, colors and light effects. A simple manipulation that anybody can create with this easy step by step video tutorial.

41. How to Create an Apocalypse Angel Photo Manipulation Scene With Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an apocalypse scene with a dark angel. You’ll learn how to create a decay/destruction scene by combining several stock images, make dark wings, create a sublime sword, adjust color, enhance the light/shadow, and more.

42. How to Create a Starry Night Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a starry night scene in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to create a beautiful and colorful starry night background using milky way and a sky image. I’ll also show you how to works with colors, lights and shadows.

43. Long Exposure Night Photo Editing

In this exclusive tutorial you will learn how to edit a long exposure night photo in Camera RAW and Photoshop CC. I will show you how to enhance the lighting and the colors and how to create nice color tones and get an amazing night shot from a rubbish RAW photo.

44. How to Create a Day Night Scene Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a day night scene photo manipulation in Photoshop. We’ll use a city image for this tutorial, and then we’ll add the sun and stars to make the scene complete. After that, we’ll finish it up using adjustment layers and you’ll be brushing up your photography skills as well.

45. Create an Abstract Sci-Fi Scene with Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an abstract sci-fi scene. You’ll learn how to combine different stock photos, create abstract elements, work with group and adjust lighting effect.

46. How to Create Retro COMIC BOOK Effect From a Photo in Photoshop

Photoshop tutorial teaching you how to transform a photo into a retro comic book pop art-style drawing. This tutorial shows you how to work nondestructively to achieve this effect by taking advantage of Adjustment Layers and Smart Objects to create the Cartoon drawing effect.

47. How to Create a Dark, Sci-Fi Landscape Photo Manipulation With Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a dark, sci-fi landscape photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop.

48. Create a Rainy Scene of London City in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a rainy scene of London city in Photoshop. We’ll be using only three stock images to create a rainy or you can say that after the rain atmosphere. The technique I used here for creating this kind of effect totally depends on the use of adjustment layers and the images you choose. I somehow managed to get this stormy lighting effect and I’ll show you how you can replicate it.

49. How to Create Realistic Feet-Inspired Hiking Boots in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to manipulate a regular pair of feet to create an overall hiking scene using basic photo manipulation techniques.

50. How to make Amazing Fantasy Portrait Creation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, digital artist Jenny Le will show you the process of creating an abstract, fantasy portrait. You’ll learn how to combine a portrait image with a space background, create some interesting effect using basic Photoshop tools, adjust the color and light and more.

21. Perspective Mockups

Create perspective mockups using CSS3 3D transforms.

Publisher: BlazRobar Price: $19 Best for: Artists, designers

Easy way to lift your artwork

If you can forgive or overlook the gratuitous use of swearing and obscenity on the Perspective Mockups site, the plugin is definitely worth checking out. Essentially it's a great way to make perspective mockups for your designs using CSS3 3D transforms. The plugin sits within your Photoshop tools palette and includes eight different layouts to choose from. Simply click to set. It’s a quick way to give your artwork punch and lift.

22. CSS Hat 2

Turn your Photoshop styles into clean CSS3.

Publisher: Source Price: $39.99 Best for: Web designers

V2 supports Less and Sass

CSS Hat turns your Photoshop styles into clean CSS3 for your website. Simply click on a layer designed with some layer styles and the styling markup pops up instantly, for you to copy to your clipboard. This is especially useful when rendering specifically sized elements on your page or copying text styles as everything is translated pixel-for-pixel between Photoshop and CSS3. Version 2 also supports both Less and Sass for cleaner code output.

23. FlatIcon

Publisher: Freepik Price: Free Best for: Designers

Search icons within Photoshop

Tom and jerry classic episodes. FlatIcon is a large database of thousands of free vector icons that you can download in SVG, PSD or PNG format. This free Photoshop plugin lets you quickly find all the icons without leaving your working environment, inserting them directly into your design from a panel.

24. Shutterstock

Access Shutterstock's full library from within Photoshop.

Publisher: Shutterstock Price: Free (licence images via plugin) Best for: Designers

Simple workflow

Working across the full Creative Suite, this plugin from Shutterstock provides direct in-app access to the huge range of stock imagery available in the Shutterstock library. Search inside Photoshop, click to select and insert, and license directly for an easier workflow. This is especially useful if you commonly licence royalty-free images for use in your designs.

25. Fractalius

Publisher: RedField Price: $39.90 Best for: Artists and designers

Use to abstract images

This unusual plugin uses fractal patterns, apparently hidden within the source image, to generate procedural effects that are reminiscent of pencil sketches, or stylised light glow streaks. Fractalius is useful either as the start of a piece of artwork, or to generate abstract imagery for use within a design project.

26. Dream Suite Ultimate

A pricey but powerful suite of effects.

Publisher: Auto FX Price: $179.99 (currently $89.99) Best for: Photographers

Plenty of options in one plugin

This all-encompassing suite of effects covers everything from textures to pseudo-3D effects, tonal correction and borders. Dream Suite Ultimate is not in any way cheap (although we've seen special offers of up to 50% off on the download page), but as it covers such a wide range of effects it’s worth adding to your shortlist if you’re looking for a single purchase that will give you a lot of power and options without having to maintain a disparate collection of plugins.

27. Machine Wash Deluxe

Add beautiful, scratchy weathering effects.

Publisher: Mister Retro Price: $99 Best for: Artists and designers

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Works well on typography

One of our personal favourites, Machine Wash Deluxe filter brings insanely beautiful scratchy textures to your designs and images with accurate, believable weathering and ageing effects. Effects include the ability to place artwork on a leather base, render onto wood with the grain visible through the artwork and rust effects. It produces especially nice effects on simple typography.

28. 3D Invigorator

This Photoshop plugin simplifies the complex 3D process.

Publisher: Digital Anarchy Price: $175 Best for: Designers

Creates polished final renders

It’s true that Photoshop’s own 3D engine has come on leaps and bounds, there's still room for additional tools that can simplify the process of creating complex 3D scenes and models. The 3D Invigorator Photoshop plugin features a simple object editor that uses a pen-like tool for drawing and editing shapes. The final renders are polished and look good with little input required, making this a good choice for designers who need to generate 3D elements with little fuss.

29. Blow Up 3

Create enlargements without compromising on quality.

Publisher: Alien Skin Price: $99 Best for: Photographers and designers

Improve low-res assets

Blow Up allows you to create pin-sharp enlargements from photos without compromising on quality. The algorithm is more advanced than Photoshop's own bicubic filters, which allows the plugin to produce accurate images without artefacts. This makes it a great tool for designers where clients send over images that aren't of a high-enough resolution.

30. PhotoMatix Pro

Publisher: HDR Soft Price: $99 Best for: Photographers

Standalone tool also available

PhotoMatix Pro is a high dynamic range (HDR) processing and toning tool that integrates with Photoshop either standalone or as a plugin (depending upon which version you go for). This tool goes beyond Photoshop's built-in HDR processing capabilities, especially with the toning aspects and allows for the creation of extreme HDR images with relative ease. If the $99 price point is too steep for you, there's PhotoMatix Essentials at $39 for those looking for something simpler.

31. ON1 Effects 10.5

Add a range of effects quickly.

Publisher: ON1 Price: $59.99 Best for: Artists and designers

Includes texture, noise and colour

ON1’s Effects is a handy tool for getting a quick effect on an image, whether that's a colour treatment, addition of texture and noise, or creative borders, this plugin features an effects library (a bit like the filter gallery in Photoshop) and allows you to stack multiple effects to achieve interesting new results.

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32. Noiseware

This specialist tool removes noise and sharpens images.

Publisher: Imagenomic Price: $79.95 Best for: Photographers and designers

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Sharpens and removes noise

Noise is a problem for everyone, but no more so than for photographers who need to present clients with clean images regardless of the conditions in which the shot was captured, and designers who receive sub-par quality images from clients. Noiseware is a specialist noise-suppression tool that will both remove noise and sharpen at the same time making it a really useful addition to Photoshop’s in-built noise management toolset.

33. Texture Anarchy

Publisher: Digital Anarchy Price: Free Best for: Designers

Previously paid
Generate true fractals

Texture Anarchy is another plugin that used to charge a premium price, but is now available free of charge. This pack offers a combination of different filters for Photoshop that each provide seamless and rich textures you can incorporate into your designs. Some of these are a little predictable, but the sheer range available, along with the ability to generate true fractals, makes this a great addition to Photoshop.

34. Portraiture 3

Publisher: Imagenomic Price: $199.95 Best for: Photographers and designers

Automates retouching process

Portraiture is a combined plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture that automates the process of retouching portraits for a perfect-skin look. The plugin automatically smooths skin tones while removing blemishes and, crucially, avoids softening or destroying detail areas such as eyelashes and skin texture. The price may seem a bit 'whoa!' but this is a top-quality plugin for portrait photographers.

35. SuperPNG

Improved control over PNG images in Photoshop.

Publisher: FNord Price: Free Best for: Designers

Great if you're using an older PS

If you're a regular user of the PNG format, you'll know that Photoshop can sometimes struggle a bit to render PNGs quickly. SuperPNG aims to fix this by offering more control over your PNG output, allowing for a balance between speed and file size, control over the alpha channel and meta data. SuperPNG's a handy tool for taking control of your image export, and is free! This is becoming less useful as Adobe have substantially improved export for web in recent releases, but if you’re using an older version of Photoshop it’s well worth a look.

36. Exposure X4

Simulate film effects for digital projects.

Publisher: Alien Skin Price: From $149 Best for: Photographers and designers

Portrait touchup tools
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Exposure is a creative tool that allows you to simulate film effects on your digital images. For its X4 release, publisher Alien Skin has improved its shadow and highlight recovery, as well as adding fully adjustable light effects and transform tools that correct tilted or skewed perspectives. Users can also now create smart collections to automatically organise your photo library (and, boy, is that required around here). Exposure X4 is available as a plugin for Photoshop or Lightroom, or as a complete standalone raw photo editor.

37. GuideGuide

An easy way to create a grid system.

Publisher: Cameron McEfee Price: From $35/year Best for: Designers

Negative margins possible

GuideGuide is a simple Photoshop plugin makes it easy to create a grid system in your document, hijacking the built-in guides system to create a pinpoint accurate grid according to your chosen settings. You can use negative margins for special hanging columns, separately define individual margins and gutters, and save your preferred options for quick access in the future. Perfect for anyone using a grid to help them create their layouts.

38. Screensnap

Easily create screenshots from your PSDs.

Publisher: PluginMate Price: $9.99 Best for: Designers

Export to Retina possible

Easily create screenshots from your PSDs with ScreenSnap. The Photoshop plugin aims to make it easier to share screenshots of your WIP or designs. There’s no need to manually crop or use Save for Web: just select a folder, choose your settings and hit the button. And if you’re designing at standard resolution, you can export your screenshot to Retina.

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