Week 19 of this section with 20 Photoshop tutorials that’ll help you learn Photoshop, of course, for free. Enjoy the ride in our tutorial express.

How to Create a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop

Photoshop is often the right tool for web design, especially if you’re creating a design using numerous images and brush effects. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a complete grunge home page design. We’ll design the header, sidebar, body, footer, and style everything to work together in a heavily textured and worn design.

Deadly Mistress – A Step by Step Tutorial

Fantasy View of Budapest

The following article is a short making of “Fantasy View of Budapest” and is most useful for those who already have an intermediate or advanced knowledge of Photoshop. Note that this is not a PS tutorial but a walkthrough of the creative process containing the main steps of my workflow which hopefully inspires other artists.

The concept was inspired by an old game I played when I used to cross one of the bridges of the city. I’d look at the astonishing view and try to imagine different kinds of variations of the landscape in front of me. My illustration is one
of these visions.

Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

Another drawing tutorial for icon lovers in which we’ll be illustrating a metallic compass. We’ll be controlling shadow and reflection to add realism to the illustration. As with any icon design, it’s a combination of the overall design and subtle details that gives quality results.

The making of our future

here i wanna try to reveal my latest project, “our future”
its a photomanipulation,n i’ve done it in photoshop.
but sorry it’s indonesian only,and as a newbie in design graphic,
maybe my works is just like a piece of cake for the others.
however,hope still usefull 4 someone.

Moon Shine Text Effect

In just a few simple steps, you can add a calm, easy-going text effect — great for evening events and crisp banners.
This is a Text Effect Quickie — a tutorial that teaches an effect quickly, yet is an effective technique that can be used time and time again

Deep Space Nebula

In today’s tutorial we will create a really nice deep space image with stars and a nebula.

Me and Louie’s Sister – A Step by Step Tutorial

Water Dress

Digitally Paint Comics Like the Pros

In this tutorial we will be using real life textures to assist in color rendering the Lady Blackhawk drawn by DC Comics artist Ed Benes. As you are digitally painting you may want to add details to give certain parts accentuated realism. I have found this brown leather texture sample that will be applied on to the color. We don’t necessarily need a black piece, just as long as we like the texture of the material

The Turing Point

Sometimes when I sit down to do a painting I’ll have been thinking about it for some time in my head about what I want the subject of the painting to be, what type of setting and lighting etc. However for this particular painting all I knew was I wanted to do a picture of a Mermaid. I start in my sketchbook working out a few pose ideas, VERY loose. At this point I don’t even know what type of setting I’m doing, I’m just concentrating on the figure. I wasn’t liking where this was going, so I took it even more basic and did some quick compositional thumbnails, from which I was able to select a general “mood” for the subject.

Rough Metal Photoshop Text Effect Tutorial

Let’s create a rough metal text effect, we’re going to use a metal texture I’ve explained in detail in a previous tutorial

Leaf Drop Tutorial

The tutorial shows you how to make a fairly simple yet effective water drop effect on a leaf texture

Planetary Rings

Solid rings around logos and web-based graphics are a staple diet for the graphic designer – simple to create, and with proven results. But what about asteroid rings around planets? Unlike their solid counterparts, planetary rings need to have a granular, almost ethereal look, and this is often hard to recreate effectively even in 3D programs. The aim of this tutorial is to detail an amazingly simple way of making these asteroid-filled rings in Photoshop. The quality and speed of the results will simply amaze you…

Rain, Rain, Go Away: Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial will teach you how to add a rain effect onto a particular image. I will be going through a few old and well known techniques that when put together can create a convincing rain effect.

Scrabble Text

n this tutorial, you will learn how to make a cool scrabble text effect using various tools, layer styles and a wood pattern.

Creating fireballs and explosions

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform a fairly typical road-trip image – with a big blue sky and wide-open spaces – into an apocalyptic battle scene, complete with tanks, guns, parachutists and a hail of incoming missiles.

Of course, changing the colour of the sky and pasting in tanks and other elements is the easy bit: things get trickier when it comes to creating the smoke and explosions.

Green Layout Photoshop Tutorial

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a green layout

Create a Spectacular Style Text Effect

In this tutorial we’ll create a cool looking 3D Style text effect.

Creating a Graphic Novel With Photos

Ha ha. Before I start, just a quick disclaimer. This will help you achieve a comic book/graphic novel effect using photos and filters, but a true graphic novel takes a lot more work than that. With that disclaimer aside, if you’ve got the right set of photographs, or even if you take your own photographs specifically for this purpose, you could make a comic that’s truly unique, original, and eye pleasing.