Photoshop is the tool of choice for most professional designers. There may be other powerful editors that offer similar functionality, but none one of them even comes close to the popularity, or have such a massive and passionate community, that Photoshop enjoys and deserves. It is within the Photoshop community where the application’s real power lies. Without the constant stream of freely available tutorials and resources from creatives designers, photographers, and well-versed, creative authors, learning new skills and techniques would be tough.

In this collection of 100 Photoshop Tutorials we have split all of the techniques into the following categories for easier navigation: Painting & Illustrating, Photo Composition, Drawing, Photo Manipulation, 3D, Icon Design, Text Effects and Poster Design.

There really is nothing better than rolling up your sleeves and delving into a new Photoshop tutorial and learning something new. Enjoy!

Painting & Illustrating Photoshop Tutorials

Learn to Paint With Fire

Paint With Fire: This tutorial teaches you to create a simple model shot and then transform it into a crackling beacon of fire. It is especially useful if you are looking to have some practice with Photoshop’s adjustment layers.

Paint a Colorful Fantasy Digital Painting

Colorful Fantasy Digital Painting: This intermediate-level tutorial teaches you to create a stunning work of fantasy art using Photoshop. While it is not a compulsion, having a graphic tablet in hand will surely be helpful for this tutorial.

Create a Dark Female Fantasy Character

Making of Seance: This tutorial creates a dark and meaningful image of a fantasy female character. It requires intense painting, and you need to have at least a decent understanding of Photoshop concepts before undertaking this one.

Learn How to Paint a Castle in Photoshop

Paint a Castle in Photoshop: The name speaks for itself: this tutorial allows you to paint a castle in Photoshop. Furthermore, it is supplemented by a 25-part series of video tutorials to help you further understand the concepts of Photoshop.

Create a "Two-Faced" Digital Painting

"Two-Faced" Digital Painting: As most of us must already be knowing, Two-Faced is the famous villain from Batman. This tutorial teaches you to create a digital painting of Two-Faced using Photoshop.

Master the Art of Portrait Illustration

Making of Portrait: This tutorial helps you to master the art of portrait illustration: forehead, cheekbones, jaw and so on… You will learn to create the human portrait in easy steps using Photoshop with the help of this tutorial.

Learn Color Inked Line Art

Color Inked Line Art: This tutorial gives you a general overview of how to digitally color an illustration, covering scanning, cleaning, flatting, coloring, rendering, and texturing techniques.

Create a Photorealistic Electric Guitar

Photorealistic Electric Guitar: You’ll be shown how to create a realistic electric guitar learning a lot of techniques that can help you create complex photorealistic compositions. This tutorial is quite extensive and may take you a few hours to complete.

Give Illustrations a Retro Look and Feel

Illustration Retro Look & Feel: This tutorial teaches you to create a vintage-looking illustration. It makes use of Photoshop’s Threshold and Color Range tools, and thus, if you are wanting to have some practice with these tools, this tutorial might be apt for you.

Create a Medieval Battle Axe

Medieval Battle Axe: This tutorial allows you to create a medieval battle axe using Photoshop.

Create a Cute and Scary Children’s Illustration

Cute and Scary Children’s Illustration: Cute and scary – the two words generally do not go together, except in the world of Photoshop. This tutorial helps you accomplish a children’s illustration.

Draw an Automobile Illustration From Scratch

Automobile Illustration From Scratch: This tutorial teaches you how to draw a car from scratch using Photoshop’s awesome drawing tools.

Create a Psychedelic Illustration

Create a Psychedelic Illustration: This Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial explains the steps involved in the creation of a psychedelic wizard. You will need to have a decent understanding of Photoshop and Illustrator before tackling this one.

Creating ‘Broken Link’ in Photoshop

Creating ‘Broken Link’: This advanced tutorial focuses on using radial gradients, overlay layers, and clipping mask layers, and does assume you have a good foundation level of artistic skill.

Learn How to Undress a Giraffe in Photoshop

Undress a Giraffe: This amazing tutorial will show you how to undress a giraffe by removing its spots and then turning its spots into an outfit that will be draped over an ironing board.

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

Glowing Light Painting Effect: An easy, and very fast, way to create a light painting. It uses a photo of a street on a foggy night and layers a picture of walking figures over it. Nice technique.

Create an Underwater Vector-Style Illustration

Underwater Vector-Style Illustration: learn how to create a fun, underwater, vector-style illustration. Photoshop wasn’t originally designed to create these types of illustrations, but it does have the capability to produce illustrations that can meet or exceed that of Illustrator.

Paint a Tolkien-Inspired Scene

Making of Knight: With this tutorial you will learn how to paint a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired scene that features knights, galloping and an awesome battlefield. Awesome!

learn How to Create a Dragon From a Hamburger

Dragon from a Hamburger: Learn how to create a dragon from a hamburger. It includes directions on drawing a dragon in grayscale, overlaying the grayscale image of the dragon with parts of the source image, creating the wings, and building the background from the source image.

Recreate the Captain America Shield in Photoshop

Captain America Shield: The whole process of this tutorial is quite simple and won’t take you more than 45 minutes. You start from scratch by drawing a red circle, and then you proceed to fill it in with details from the additional circles and star shape and then onto the textures, light & shadow.

Learn How to Make a Digital Painting

How to Make a Digital Painting: Learn how to make a digital painting – just like the title says. This is a simple and general-purpose step-by-step tutorial.

Create a Detailed Vintage TV from Scratch

Detailed Vintage TV from Scratch: Learn how to create a detailed vintage TV from scratch using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities. You’ll start by drawing the shape from scratch and then proceed to add textures and fill in the details.

Create a Cinematic Aerial Scene with Photoshop

Cinematic Aerial Scene: The idea behind this tutorial was to create a dramatic scene that looked like it is from a movie.

Digitally Create the Character Hellboy

Making of Hellboy: Learn how to digitally create the character Hellboy from the comic book series of the same name. It goes through each step one-by-one, starting by sketching the figure, then adding the background, and eventually fleshing out the figure.

Learn How to Paint a Surreal Scene

Paint a Surreal Scene: Learn how to create a fantastic surreal scene drawing by Hatice Bayramoglu. It starts with a simple sketch, then a color palette is selected, and then a step-by-step guide shows how to draw and flesh out the tree and background.

Create Stunning Dragons Attack with 3D Features

Stunning Dragons Attack with 3D Features: Learn how to create a sort of video-game style image with dragons, fire, smoke, robots and other crazy things.

Turn an Illustration into a Glowing Superhero

Glowing Superhero: Learn how to turn a basic illustration into a retro-futuristic artwork. You’ll use the Marquee and Pen tools to create various forms, and generate atmosphere with glow effects made using Adjustment layers and Layer Styles. You’ll also use motion blur for a dynamic feel.

Create Stunning Comic Book Fan Art Illustrations

Create Stunning Comic Book Fan Art Illustrations: Learn how to use a tablet to create a stunning comic book fan art illustration. The artwork used is a fan art illustration of the Knights of the Zodiac character, Capricorn Shura (Masami Kurumada).

Photo Composition Photoshop Tutorials

Create a Futuristic Composition

Futuristic Composition: This tutorial creates a futuristic photo composition. It makes good use of patterns, layer effects as well as 3D tools in Photoshop.

Learn How to Create a Horror Movie Photo Composition

Horror Movie-Themed Photo Composition: Speaking of photo compositions, how can one leave horror-themed artwork behind? This tutorial creates a horror movie-themed photo composition using pre-existing resources.

Create an Awesome Splashing Sneaker in Photoshop

Awesome Splashing Sneaker: This tutorial teaches you how to create a splashing sneaker effect using Photoshop. Apart from basic Photoshop function, this tutorial also employs certain stock images to accomplish its task.

Create a Glass Egg with the Clone Tool

Glass Egg Tutorial: If you are looking for some practice with the Clone tool in Photoshop, look no further than this tutorial. On the basis of a pre-existing image of eggs, this tutorial makes use of the Clone tool to accomplish the final image of a glass egg.

Create a Highly Detailed Steampunk Insect in Photoshop

Highly Detailed Steampunk Insect: This tutorial teaches you to create a highly detailed and realistic steampunk style insect. It makes ample use of image compositions, and even though the tutorial itself is easy, many steps are explained only in brief and thus you will need a moderate understanding of Photoshop concepts before you undertake this one.

Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear

Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear: Another title that speaks for itself, You will learn to design a unique wooden face with a fiery eye and tear. The tutorial requires intermediate level expertise in Photoshop.

If you’re looking for even more Photoshop Photo Effect tutorials, we have also published this huge collection of 50 Fantastic Photo Effect Tutorials with Photoshop.

Drawing Photoshop Tutorials

Learn how to Draw a Leica Camera in Photoshop

Draw a Leica Camera: Considering the fact that Leica is one of the most prestigious camera brands, who wouldn’t wish to draw one in Photoshop? This tutorial teaches you how to accomplish the same!

Recreate Realistic Shoelaces From Scratch in Photoshop

Realistic Shoelaces From Scratch: This tutorial teaches you how to create a realistic shoelace using Photoshop. It makes use of certain assets such as grunge and scratch textures.

Create Photo-Realistic Broken Egg with basic Photshop Skills

Photo-Realistic Broken Egg: This tutorial will help you accomplish the creation of an egg shell and egg yolk using basic Photoshop skills.

Learn how to Create a Slick Abstracts with a Limited Palette

Slick Abstracts: Learn how to create an imposing mixed-media image using limited shades.

Create an Abstract Golden Circle with Smokey Photoshop Brushes

Abstract Golden Circle with Smoke Brushset: Learn how to create an abstract golden circle with a smoke brush set. It introduces the use of custom brush sets and the free transform tool, as well as some selection and masking techniques.

Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorials

Learn how to Digitally Paint a Futuristic City

Making of the Futuristic City: Learn how to make a digital painting of a futuristic city using a photo of a city. The painting is not made from scratch – the photograph is used as a reference and starting point.

Create a Powerful Human Disintegration Effect

Human Disintegration Effect: Learn how to create a powerful and emotional human disintegration effect. You’ll start with a cloudy sky background, proceeding to use images of a person, meteors, light, and splatters to produce the effect of a person disintegrating in the sky.

Create a Realistic Laser Beam Effect in Photoshop

Realistic Laser Beam Effect: Learn how to create a realistic laser beam effect. This is actually an abstract text effect with a metal texture and cloud effect. You’ll mainly be using brush options and filter effects to render this laser beam.

Learn how to Create a Chaotic Disintegration Effect on a Face

Chaotic Disintegration Effect on a Face: Learn how to create a chaotic disintegration effect on a face. You’ll be using an image of a face and a branch, and you’ll also use shatter glass and bird brushes to create this effect, which will be manipulating the face.

Create Fake X-Ray Effects in Photoshop

Fake X-ray Effects: Learn how to create an X-ray effect. You’ll discover how to re-assemble the inner workings of a computer mouse using a variety of blending modes to reveal hidden detail. Next you’ll add some distress layers to add interest to an otherwise clinical illustration. Finally, you’ll add some 3D renders to really finish off the effect.

Learn How to Recreate an Amazing Mechanical Horse

Amazing Mechanical Horse: Learn how to create a robotic horse by combining photos together. You’ll learn how to use stock photos of metal parts and overlay them on top of the horse. This technique can be used to make other types of robotic animals.

Create a Night Light Image with Stock Image

Night Light: Learn how to create a night light image using one stock photo, two sets of splatter brushes, and a single texture. It explains the tools, thought process, and techniques used to create the image, getting into specifics only where necessary.

Create a Dark Statue with 3D Tentacles Photo Manipulation

Dark Statue with 3D Tentacles: Learn how to create a dark statue photomanipulation using Photoshop and Cinema 4D. It will show you how to turn a photo of a woman into a statue, creating the tentacles in Cinema 4D and adding them to the photomanipulation.

Learn how to Give a Portrait a Cosmic Makeover

Give a Portrait a Cosmic Makeover: Learn how to transform a simple fashion shot into an eye-catching work that captures power and beauty.