While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop.

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

How to Create a Delicious Ice Cream Bar

Create a TV in Photoshop

Create a Vector Style Illustration in Photoshop

Making a Digital Watch Icon

Illustrating a Cool Glass of Beer

Using Gradients to Make Light and Shadow – and a Coffee Cup

Rainbows – Making of

Psychedelic Life Tutorial

Create a Slick Black iMac in Photoshop

How to Create a Desk Environment in Photoshop from Scratch

Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color

How to Create a Classic Guitar from Scratch in Photoshop

Vanity License Plate

How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration

Create a Poster Illustration with Floating Floral Elements

Create a Natural Composition with Light Shining Through a Rustic Fence

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

Illustrate a Traffic Cone in Photoshop

Create a Vector-Based Zune with Photoshop

Create a MacBook Air Ad

Red Gamble Dice Icon

Create a Shiny 3D Snooker Ball in Photoshop

Draw Your Own Hair

Aging Road Sign

Make a Realistic Football

Draw Your Snowman in Photoshop

Draw in Photoshop Using a Tablet

Custom Hard Drive Icon

Swiss Army Knife Tutorial

Drawing Hair with Photoshop

Draw an MP3 Player

Google Chrome Logo Design

Chalkboard

Making a Photoshop Shield

Drawing a Glossy Monitor

How to Make a Bangin’ Woofer Inbedded in Wood

Drawing a High-Detailed Glass Ball

Drawing Vector-Looking Cat Illustration Using Photoshop

Drawing Kirby

A collection of 45 Photoshop tutorials for creating wallpaper. Since then we have come across many other quality tutorials on the same subject, so we put together a second collection of wallpaper tutorials.

Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

Design a Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop

Impressive Photo’s Background

Paintball Club Wallpaper

Ford Mustang Wallpaper

Poker Gaming Club

Custom Floral Wallpaper

Super Cute Easter Wallpaper Illustration Tutorial

Create an Intensely Grungy Wallpaper

Abstract Lines Background

Make a Blood Stain Wallpaper

Turning a Picture Vintage

Create a Psychedelic Grungy Photography Desktop Wallpaper

Vector Wallpaper Tutorial

Old Photos Wallpaper Tutorial

Art Wallpaper with Stars

Creating an Abstract 3D Design

Wall-E Cartoon Style Wallpaper

Knight Rider Wallpaper Tutorial

Team Fortress 2 Wallpaper

Funky Wallpapers

Mysticism in the X-Files (I Want to Believe)

Designing a Wallpaper in Photoshop (video)

The “Creativity” Wallpaper

The “Colour” Wallpaper

Colorful Collage Wallpaper

Green Apple Style Design

Presidential Pattern in Photoshop

Sun Day Design

Abstract Desktop Wallpaper

Diablo III Styled Wallpaper

Aqua Pure Illustration

Amorous Wallpaper

Girl Next Door – Wallpaper with Jessica Alba

How to Create Christmas Wallpapers

Wave Digital Fusion Wallpaper

Dolphins Wallpaper

Iron Man Wallpaper

Water Drops on a Spider Web

One of the best ways to experiment and try new things with Photo shop is to create wallpaper. The huge canvas size gives you plenty of room to try anything you want, and there really is no limit to what you can create. Here are 45 tutorials to learn new tricks while designing wallpaper.

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper

Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

2008 Wallpaper

Butterfly Wallpaper

The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

Diving Wallpaper

Design a Cool Music Wallpaper

The Joomp Wallpaper

Fantastic Wallpapers

Feed Your iPhone Tutorial

Favorite Bands Tutorial

Summer Camp Wallpaper

Animated Rainbow Wallpaper

Fantastic Sunset Wallpaper Effects

Abstract Art Wallpaper

Anime Girl Wallpaper

Autumn Wallpaper

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper in Photoshop

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper

Celeb Wallpaper

Marine Wallpaper

Aquawave Wallpaper Effects

Summer Party Wallpaper

Vista Wallpaper

Abstract Christmas Wallpaper

Abstract Christmas Wallpaper 2

Abstract Wallpaper

Love Wallpaper

Summer Night Wallpaper

Star Wars Wallpaper

On Seacoast Wallpaper

Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop

Splashy Leaf Wallpaper in Photoshop

Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

Splash My Heart Wallpaper

Wallpaper with Glass Dragon

Design a Cool Football Wallpaper

Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

Summer Breeze Wallpaper

Harley Davidson Motorcycle Wallpaper

Wallpaper from Photos

Navigation is obviously one of the most crucial aspects of web design in terms of usability, but often it is also a focal point of the designs appearance. Navigational buttons, bars and menus provide the designer with an excellent opportunity to be creative and add some style to the design. What better tool to use for this purpose than Photo shop?

Here is a collection of 45 tutorials that will help you with creating the perfect navigation. Some of them produce an end result that is fairly similar to another tutorial on the list, but you can learn something from each one as they take a slightly different approach.

Stunning Vista inspired menu from PSDTuts

Slick blue navigation menu from SigTutorials

Glossy navigation bar from Core GFX

Quick glass buttons from Bits O’ NewMedia

Basic sleek button from psFreak.com

Sleek buttons from OriginMaker

Vista styled button from psFreak

Shiny green button from psFreak

Sleek glossy blue button from AnotherTutorialSite

Stylish button from OriginMaker

Glowing buttons from OriginMaker

Stylish blue button from Photoshop-Tutorials.us

Shiny orange button from TutorialSubmitter

Unique blue button from OriginMaker

Stylish black nav bar from Dicat.us

Vista buttons using styles only from The Not Simple Solution

Black Vista style button from Great Design

XP style navigation from Tutorial Guide

Glossy navigation menu from Gamexe.net

Glossy style carbon fibre navigation from Photshop Star

Professional glossy buttons from Photoshop Star

Simple glossy navigation buttons from Photoshop Star

Image sprite navigation using CSS from Style Meltdown

Orb button effect from Boonage

Clean and dark navigation bar from Aviva Directory

Nice, clean vertical menu from bwebi.com

Flexible buttons using Photoshop shapes and styles from Veerle

Web 2.0 style buttons from Iris Design

Vista style nav bar from Aviva Directory

Web 2.0 buttons from BlogWatts

XBox360 style nav bar from EvoGFX

Simple and clean menu bar from Photoshop Pack

Glass type navigation bar from Pixel Digest

Tabbed navigation menu from UPUP Media

Vertical navigation menu from EvoGFX

Plastic navigation bar from Tutorial Park

Blue button from Toxic Lab

Glossy web 2.0 buttons from Aviva Directory

Pixel style navigation box from Aviva Directory

Red “order now” button from Caged Flame

Aqua button from Pragt.net

Mac button from Pragt.net

Duotone vertical menu from Pegaweb

Glass button from Depiction.net

Simple web button from 3by9

Professional dark button from Aviva Directory

Looking to improve a websites by using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer,  here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

Telling stories with shadows

Photoshop matte painting

Creating drama with a soft spotlight

Softer background effect

Old fashioned, hand-tinted effect

Ghosting an image

Enhance your image with selective color adjustments

Creating a vector composite effect from a photo

Create an illustrated look from a photograph

Sparkling hot girl in Photoshop

Beautiful lady effect

How to break sunlight through the clouds

Beyond the healing brush – removing objects from photos

Photo retouching

Applying a realistic tattoo

Give your photos a retro comic book effect

Photo cutout

Gritty HDR

Star difussion

Add dynamic lighting to a flat photograph

Selective sepia

Adding flames and effects to make an image with impact

Photo restoration

Hot and fiery photo

Turn a photo into a collage of Polaroids

Pop art inspired by Lichtenstein

Pop art

Vector art with Photoshop

High-key black and white portrait effect

Coloring effects

Bourne Ultimatum color and motion blur

Creating photo borders with displacement maps

Professional changing of the eye color

Quick and effective facial photo retouching

Making skin beautiful

Change hair color

Selecting and extracting hair

Phoenix hair effect

Creating a 3D effect

Black and white photos with just a touch of color

Replacing a background

Super Silhouettes