Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. Now it’s time for a fresh portion of healthy Photoshop learning material. This article provides professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Although the authors of the tutorials rarely provide the information about the used version, we tried to pick only those tutorials that can be used with both CS 3 and older versions of Adobe Photoshop.

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Photo- and Picture Editing and Processing

• MP3 Player Design
  In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
• Magic Lighting Effect
  How to create a nice light and magic effect.
• Beautiful Lady Effect
  Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.
• 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. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.
• Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
  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.
• Improving the Quality of Photos
  Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.
• Fake Model Photography
  With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.
• Displacement Water
  Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.
• Making Skin Beautiful
  Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the

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