Photoshop

Tileable Textures

If you ever want to take a small image and use it to fill out a background. This tutorial will show you how to do this so that it is seamless and well positioned. Good for nature images, like clouds and trees. But it could also be used for adding a tiled corporate logo to document backgrounds.

Create a Web Search Bar

This is a set of good design tricks that will have you making great looking boxes and buttons for your web design.

Create a Cloud Icon

As offsite storage is becoming more predominant and trusted, a customized cloud icon can go a long way in communicating to your co-workers and clients.

Old Paper Effect

International Pirate Day is always something that sneaks up on you. With this tutorial, you can be prepared this time. Hide your treasure properly, or just pretend to find that old recipe that your great Grandmother bequeathed: you know, the one with avocadoes in it!

Puffy Clouds

Learn how to create a custom brush to paint in soft fluffy clouds into a scene whenever you what, and with far more control than the automated Photoshop generator offers.

Create a Rough Ticket Icon

This is great for paper textures, and designed not to be a square. Learn how to boule shapes to create new ones, and add rough textures to the edges.

Create a Wood Texture

This tutorial is great for those looking to create a natural tone background for their design. The texture can be further tweaked to create a variety of effects, colors and grain styles.

Candy Cane Text Effect

Great for holiday themed messages and a good tool for creating stripes for other designs using the Define Texture feature.

Snow Covered Text Effect

Add a special effect to text for the holidays, or the effect of snow to photos or illustrations. Can be used to make snowballs, snowmen and clouds.

Neon Text Effect

This is a quick way to create an old-style-retro or futuristic neon look to your text headings. Remember, you can also use these techniques on basic shapes as well, such as hearts, road signs, or any of the basic shapes found in the Shapes Panel.

Gold 'Bling' Text Effect

Add some bling to your life. Print it, cut it out and wear it around your neck for parties. Make your own EGOT! Or set up a casino in your backyard.

Editing Multiple Type Layers

When using multiple text layers for designing things like posters, and pamphlets, or more idiosyncratic projects, like comic style text bubbles, or when adding text fields over photographs. Example use would be if you were creating a series of posters that will have different color text, depending on the theme.

Color Range Changes

This is run down of the improvements on the color range selection method. Of particular importance is the face detection technology, which make the tool even easier to use. (PS6 and above)

Oil Paint Filter

Use the Oil Paint Filter to create a stylistic effect from regular photographs. Good for grandparents, kids, pets and kites.

Perspective Cropping

Use it to make full-page images from elements that were photographed on an angle. Super easy to use, and the quality will surprise you. For CS6 and above versions of Photoshop.

Replacing the Sky

This tutorial shows you three great ways to composite images together: The Blend If function in the Layer Styles, the Select Color method and the Quick Selection Tool.

Turn a Photo into a Painting

Learn how to create a painted effect on a window by applying just four filters. Perfect for those of you who want to get more ideas of how effects layered on top of each other can create amazing results.

1950's Style Pin-Up Poster

Go back in time to the 1950’s with just a few filter effects. You know the 1950’s? A time when men were non-violent and sensitive and women were a respected part of society. Oh, wait… So despite all that, some of the fashions and style of the 50s were pretty cool and with this tutorial you can add age and burning crease lines to an image.

Mystical Mountain Photo Composition

Compositing, or merging one image into another so that they are seamless, is one of the key skills in Photoshop and this extensive tutorial shows you how to do this with a number of different images, like night and daytime images, and a moon.

Turn Day to Night

Photography is about light, and one of the great things about the challenge of this tutorial is that it can help you think how the same environment reflects different types of light.

Create Smoke on Your Photos

Add steam rising from beverages or vents. Add cigarette or chimney smoke. Need to prove that it was cold in your last holiday destination? This is the effect for you.

Colorize a Black and White Photo

This is another great tutorial for learning how selections and the Blend If works. Use it for adding color to black and white images, or even for advancing your selection techniques in color images (using tone, rather than color)

Carve a Heart into Snow

Great for cards, logos, seasonal messages and personal projects. Use in conjunction with our ‘Create Your Own Custom Shape’ lesson.

Create a Winter Wonderland

This is a great tutorial for learning how to transform images: selecting grass and turning it snow, and adding a cool filter to the image.

Bokeh Effect

Create a custom Bokeh Effect brush and then give your photos that artistic touch. Or turn a regular photo into a nice abstract background for a logo or text.

iOS7 Photo Icons

This is a good tutorial for brushing up on your Photoshop design skills. Learn how to draw and duplicate shapes into pattern structures. Good for icon and logo design.

Create a Realistic Wax Seal

The design result in this tutorial is very specific, but the result looks great and introduces you to some of the more creative ways to use Bevel and Emboss. So these are great skills to have up your sleave whenever you need to give your project that extra lift.

Create Abstract Fireworks

Learn how to design your own brush patterns and layer together an abstract bursting effect. A great place to start your imagination motor running.

Harry Potter Text Effect

This is another great tutorial to sharpen up your skills in layer styles, metallic effects, lighting effects and depth… Besides, who doesn’t want to add a little magic to the desktop every now and then?

Chocolate Text Effect

This tutorial is great for showing you how to give depth and substance to your text design, and how the Bevel and Emboss style effect can really make a difference. Also… yum!

Frozen Text Effect

While text is mostly seen in a solid state, few know that it can be transformed into a frozen form. Got that big ski trip to organize? Or want to add some ice to your presentation? This is the tutorial for you. Like always, the stuff you might learn along the way is pretty neat too.

Iron Man Text Effect

The metallic look of this text style can be useful in a number of contexts. Particularly in the auto industry, a slick metallic look and feel to both text and design elements can appeal to the viewer’s inner rev head.

Modern Warfare 3 Text Effect

This tutorial has some great elements to sharpen up your Photoshop skillset: customizing fills, abstract wavy lines, and tech/glitch like effects.