53 Killer PHOTOSHOP effects!

It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe
Photoshop to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. So, if you’re
interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these
Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials are for you. Below you will find an incredible amount of
amazing colorful artwork to inspire any designer, also we’ve selected some of the best adobe tutorials
hand picked to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo.

Neon and Glow Effects Tutorials

Create cool neon effects- Tony Ariawan shows you how to use warping, layer masks and simple colour
tweaking for a high-tech look that’s out of this world.

Creating a Glowing Neon Effect in Illustrator- Create a glowing neon effect in your illustration that can
grab an audience’s attention with its beauty and uniqueness.

More Neon and Glow Effects

All things Beautiful

Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect- How to easily create digital abstract smoke using both
Illustrator and Photoshop. One of the best things about this technique is that it’s very customizable and
you can do it pretty quickly.

Smoke Effect

Creating Smoke- How to create smoke in photoshop, from Abduzeedo.

More Smoke Effects

Pakarabanu
 Jessica Rabbit

Silver White Fractal- The great smoke-like wispy effect in this fractal is accentuated by the color and
lighting effects.

Creating Swirls Tutorials

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop- This tutorial will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing
them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different
styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.
 How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Swirly curls in Adobe Illustrator

Lighting Effects Tutorials

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect- Fabio is showing us in this tutorial how in an easy, and very fast
way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.

Creating the Windows Vista Lighting Effect- How to create the eye catching graphics shown off on the
 box of windows vista, and in some of their wallpapers/screensavers.

More Lighting Effects

Rainy Day Rainbows

Text Effects Tutorials

Apple Leopard text effects- A nice tutorial by Veerle on how to create Apple’s new system GUI in
Leopard with the “inset effect” on the text.

Line Gradients- This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to create cool looking
“Vector Line Gradients” to give your text a vintage “old-school” feel.
 Melting Ice Text Effect

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect- Learn how to create a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie
supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter.

50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials- Here are 50 of the best tutorials for working with text.

More Text Effect

Smoke + Type
 Vintage Effects Tutorials

Vintage collages in Photoshop- If you want to provide an instant flashback to a bygone era while letting
your creativity shine through, few techniques are as versatile as a collage made up of vintage elements.

Photoshop vintage effect- Fantastic method of creating a vintage photo effect in Photoshop.

More Vintage Effects

Crooked Mushroom
 Various Image Effects Tutorials

Create amazing photomontages- Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very
different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man.

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.

More Image Effects

Lamborghini

Cosmo Girl
 Water Color Effects Tutorials

Design Watercolor Effect Menu- How to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop.

How to Add a WaterColor Effect to Your Photos- How to create a hand-painted and water color effect.

Miscellaneous Tutorials and Effects

illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect and more- How to use the Pucker & Bloat Effect

Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect in Illustrator- How to create the blending wave lines
 using the Blend tool in illustrator.

Tropical Transparency Effect- Learn how to create a bouquet of Tropical Flowers.

Gigposter Design- An impressing tutorial on hot to make a gig poster.

Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop- How to create a “Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once
you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer. There is also a video tutorial as well.
Complex Circular Design Techniques- Some neat tricks, tools, techniques, and settings that will have
you pumping out perfect circular designs in no time using Illustrator.

Abstract poster effects- Make your mark with strong but simple shapes and bold, read-my-lips colours:
Danilo Rodrigues shows you how.

Trendy circles- Learn how to draw “trendy circles” and simply apply a color to it.

The Dream In A Puddle

Creating a film grain effect- How to create or simulate a natural film grain effect on photos in Photoshop
CS3.

How to Make the “Flare” Effect As Seen On WPCustomization.com- Here is a step-by-step tutorial on
how to re-create this effect.
Vector Polishing Techniques- This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to
add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.

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Portfolios for inspiration

Looking for some inspiration, search for talented and creative designers who mastered these techniques
and learn from them. Below you will find amazing portfolios for artists who know how to just be
creative.

NoPattern

Mosk
GdsWork

Nietylko

Lauraalejo
 K4lab

Sugarrhyme