Another week, another tutorial bouqet. Some of the best were selected and were brought in front of your eyes. Bookmark them, memorize them, well… use them.

Animated Interface

Author’s comment: “Two of the most recent big additions to Photoshop are smart objects and video layers, both which are very powerful and worth learning. I thought I would try and write the best and longest tutorial ever on these at the same time. Through creating an animated grunge style interface, we will learn some useful techniques and ways to use both of these in any of your projects.”

Create A Natural Composition with Light Shining Through a Rustic Fence

Author’s comment: “Replicating the beauty of nature has always captured the interest of many. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a sunlit sky, an old rusty fence with a few winding vines with spring flowers, and the dramatic light that’s shining through.”

Spiderman poster

Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves

Author’s comment: “Is time kickin’ your ass? Well, learn to defend yourself! Master these killer Photoshop keyboard combos and you’ll find yourself with more time for the important things (e.g. Facebook trivia questions). These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform with default keyboard shortcuts.”

Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop

Author’s comment: “In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to mix vector elements and watercolor effects with text to create a stunning design. It’s a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colors.”

How to draw Theatrical Scene Wallpaper using Cute Animal Icons

Author’s comment: “The inspiration is all around us. So, not long ago I’ve found cute animals-icons and it came to my mind that there is a possibility to make a cool theatrical scene-wallpaper with green background and nice red curtains and these animals hanging over on srtring from upstairs.”

B-movie poster art

Author’s comment: “This spoof movie poster design is a simple but effective way of tackling those graphics challenges where there seem to be too many thoughts to fit in: it enables the designer to combine slogans and other textual elements with the bare bones of a storyline and striking images, all bound up in an iconic format that everybody will recognize.”

Sunken ship

Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

Realistic water running on tap

Author’s comment: “Through this tutorial, we will learn how to use a combination of photoshop filters to create a realistic effect of water running from a tap.”

Achieve HDR Style Effects Using Photoshop and the Lucis Art Filter

Author’s comment: “Hey everybody! In this tutorial, I’ll show you some great techniques to achieve HDR effects. There are a lot of different techniques out there, but I prefer to use this specific filter called LucisArt. Soon there will be a new and better release called Lucis Pro. Till then we’ll use this one. You can buy it from their website or take the 30 days trial to test and see if you like it. Also, the filter is only available for Windows. The new Lucis Pro will also be available for MAC though.”

Grunge Portrait

Author’s comment: “Ever wanted to learn how to use grunge and splatter brushes effectively, we here we learn how to turn our face into a grungy portrait use various types of brushes and some more advanced techniques. Read on to learn how to achieve this effect in only a few simple steps and gain a better understanding of brushes in Photoshop with this tutorial.”

Composition and Realistic Rain

Author’s comment: “In this tutorial I am going to show you how to combine simple images into a complex new creation. This process is called composition. But we will be continuing on to taking the final composition into a rainy world.”

Old Poster

Author’s comment: “In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create an old poster. The main purpose of this tutorial is to show you many different Photoshop techniques and a non-destructive approach by using many separate layers.
The photograph that was used can be replaced by any other photograph, so you might even think about using this Photoshop tutorial for posters or cards with friends or family involved.”

Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer

Author’s comment: “In this tutorial, we’re going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We’ll create the shiny curly glass with reflection, put some beer in it, add some bubbles, and finally we’ll make the shadow and the reflections. Meanwhile, I hope you’ll have some fun and learn some cool technics too.”

Add A Realistic Water Reflection

Author’s comment: “In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo. It’s a very easy effect to create and you can add it to any photo you like, although it tends to work best with images that don’t already contain water in them.

We’ll be using a simple filter and a displacement map to create the water ripple effect, and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to give our water a little color.”

The Ocean’s Freshness Photo Effects

Create the Classic Look of an Engraving in Photoshop

Author’s comment: “Give your illustrations the traditional look of an engraving without actually drawing all those pesky little lines! The technique is simple, but requires some experience with the Displace Filter and knowledge of basic shading techniques. The result will have people thinking you spent hours and hours on your design… which you probably will, but at least you don’t have to actually engrave anything!”

The X Files – I want to belive tutorial

Fire Lines Tutorial