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The funny thing about tutorials is that there are soo many of them you dont know where to start. I remember having a bookmark folder filled with 1000+ tutorials and I said to my self “I cannot possibly complete even half of them”, so I started filtering the ones I knew I would never do and finally ended up with a hundred after hours of labor. Out of those hundred I only did 28 of them which I think were the best of my collection.

I choose these few brilliant tutorals as they teach you how to accomplish different techniques and styles with ease. These are the tutorials which helped me become a photoshop ninga, HeeeYa!.

Instead of bookmarking them for a disastrous filtering someday, I challenge you to actually follow and learn something out of it, its now or never.

Advertising & Product Design

Interesting and sleek Phone Advertising wallpaper
This tutorial guides us through a very detailed process of how to make a very interesting and sleek Phone Advertising wallpaper.

Amazing Nike AD
Creating an AD for a company like Nike is a dream come true for most designers, at least get prepared if they ever hire you.

How to render a sketched car
Emre Husmen shows us how to render a sketch in photoshop. You will need a little photoshop experience before you start with this tutorial so check out the other tutorials before you get to this one.

Create a mobile phone styled like the htc touch diamond
We know you love creating your own secret product and wished it went on production. Why not start now. You can learn how to create realistic product mockup’s and concept designs.

Designing a product
If your favorite secret hobby is creating apple rumors on the Internet, this tutorial should give you the feel of creating realistic mock ups of products to come.

Design a Professional Laptop Advert
This tutorial will teach you how to manually create your own vanishing points, and how to use these techniques to create an awesome screen explosion effect – something that is sure to dazzle your viewers!

Retro & Vector with a touch of grunge

Creating a vector composite effect from a photo
This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes. Along the way, we’ll use some fairly basic techniques, including clipping masks and displacement maps, to achieve a unique effect!

mix cool retro curves into your photographs
Mixing retro geometric shapes in photos can result in excellent artwork, here’s how to do it.

Design with swirls
If you cant get enough of swirls and want to take it to the next step by making your own swirls, you are in for a swirly ride.

how to create a delicious green apple illustration
In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to draw a shiny green apple. We’ll have a look at various painting techniques throughout this tutorial. It will be fun and you’ll learn something new.

how to make a bangin woofer embedded in wood
In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to draw a shiny green apple. We’ll have a look at various painting techniques throughout this tutorial. It will be fun and you’ll learn something new.In this tutorial, we’ll illustrate a woofer and make a simple wood texture for the background. We’ll place the speaker so that it appears to be inside the wood texture. Also, we’ll create screws that appear to hold it in place. Put some good music on and lets get working!

create an impressive mock up of a grunge box
Learn how to create impressive mock-up designs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Vanishing Point Filter to get quick and professional presentation results. The final result is a realistic looking box that looks well-worn, as if it were shipped worldwide. Use these techniques to create other mock-ups in your design work as well.

Detailed compass icon
In this tutorial 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.

A glass of beer
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 techniques too.

Vintage letter
It seems everyone wants to learn how to make something look vintage or grungy. In this tutorial, I go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.

Image Manipulation

A perfect lie
This tutorial goes through 2 very common techniques to find a good “flawless” skin method.

Ultimate makeover
This article will guide you through a series of steps to strong improve skin tones, modify shadow and light patterns to increase the impact, and enhance the eyes and hair to create a striking portrait

Compositing with adjustment layers
Compositing with Photoshop is one part technique and two parts imagination. In the example below, he has created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

digitally collage a camouflage paper jacket
This tutorial demonstrates how to control the placement of patterns to blend an image into the background, as camouflage. It also shows how to make that same pattern pop out and mold into realistic texture in other areas of the design. Let’s take a look at a work flow to achieve this effect.

Turn an ordinary horse into ROBOHORSE
Tada Tada ! Robohorse is coming for the rescue. this is a great tutorial and you can use this technique to create your own robo(whatever). It is probably the most time consuming but the end result is well worth it.

Typography

Text on fire
Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial I’ll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. We’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.

Grass text effect
In this tutorial we’ll create a rather cool-looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the Pen Tool and a bit of patience.

Space & Beyond

Space and planet
The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with allot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.

Eclipse effect
A relatively simple tutorial with a stunning outcome.

Creating a planet with only a texture
Using just one texture in Photoshop, you can make a planet that looks somewhat realistic.

Painting

Skin painting
This is an amazing tutorial which explains how to paint skin in photoshop.

Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop
If you ever wanted a painted background for your website or blog, this tutorial will give you just that.

Effects

Mr. Water Man
Learn how to turn a normal man into water man.

About the author

Kumail.H.T is a professional Web & Graphic artist, you may visit his portfolio or blog to learn more. He is also hosting a Graphical User Interface design competition in a few weeks, you can learn more about it here.