Many of the most popular posts on this blog are collections of Photoshop tutorials in specific categories. I thought it would be helpful to also do a post that features the best Photoshop tutorials of all kinds, all in one place. This post links to more than 60 excellent tutorials and they are categorized by type. Some of these have been featured here in previous posts over the past year or so, and others are new.

Lighting Effects

The O Series

Super Cool Abstract Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop

Really Cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

Advanced Glow Effects

Create a Simple Vibrant Light Effect in Photoshop

Flying Girl in Photoshop

Magic Lighting Effect in Photoshop

Fantasy Light Effects in Photoshop

Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop

Photo Manipulations

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

Lighting a Giant Elephant

Create Amazing Photomontages

Making of a Sexy Humanoid

Combine 3D Renders with a Stock 3D Model

Slow Motion Bullet Shot Effect

Telling Stories with Shadows

Photo Effects

How to Make Digital Photographs Look Like Lomo Photography

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

Create a Retro Photo and Background

Designing Gadgets

Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone from Scratch

Apple iPhone Mobile Phone Design

MacBook Air

Posters and Wallpapers

Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster

Gig Poster Design

How to Make Retro/Futuristic Curves in 10 Steps

Trendy Geometric Lines Tutorial

Create Sci-Fi Poster Art

CD Cover Design

Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

How to Create a Movie Quality DVD Cover

Favorite Bands Tutorial

Text Effects

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Moon Shine Text Effect

Awesome Grunge Text Effect

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

3D Typographic Effects

Interface Design and Layouts

Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop

Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch

How to Create a Sleek and Textured Web Layout in Photoshop

Create a Nature-Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch Then Create a Grungy Web Design with It

Create a Professional Portfolio Design in 17 Easy Steps

Design Watercolor Effect Menu

Hero Header Part I and Part II

How to Create a Slick and Clean Button in Photoshop

Icon Design

How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon

How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

Tools

Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

Become a Master of the Pen Tool in Under 30 Minutes

Master Photoshop Selection Tools in Under 30 Minutes

Miscellaneous

Creating Custom Patterns

Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop

Photoshop Tutorial: Space Environment

Photo Strip Photoshop Tutorial

How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop

Custom Hang Tag

How to Make an Awesome Grungy Paper Texture from Scratch

Create a Realistic Blueprint Image from a 3D Object

Business card design can be tricky if you are not familiar with the process. As you will see in these tutorials, there are a number of different program that you can use to create business card, but setting up the layout properly and getting it to print can be the most challenging parts.

This selection of tutorial will show you some techniques for designing business card, as well as give you all the information you need to get set up the right way to make the design a success.

Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

This tutorial from Chris Spooner will show you how to create a two-sided business card using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Making a Grungy Business Card

Learn how to create a business card with a grungy style by using Photoshop.

Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

Collis Ta’eed shows us how to make a stylish business card design in Photoshop.

Print-Ready Business Card Using Photoshop

PSDTUTS also put together a video version of Collis’ original tutorial.

Using a Vanishing Point Filter to Mockup a Business Card

This tutorial does not cover the process of designing a business card> It does, however, show how you can create a realistic mockup of your design to include in a portfolio of to present to a client.

Photoshop Business Card Templates and Tutorial

GreatFX provides some basic Photoshop templates for designing your own business cards, and a tutorial for working with them.

Making Your Business Cards Dynamic in Illustrator

Veerle shows how you can easily get business cards ready to go to the printer.

Business Card Tutorial

Learn how to create this business card with just Photoshop.

Cardboard and Torn Paper Business Card

PSHero shows how to make a business card in Photoshop with a textured look.

Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

Chris Spooner provides some helpful insight into his process by walking through a case study of one of his own clients.

What Makes a Good Business Card?

While this isn’t a tutorial that will show you how to design a business card, it is a very useful guide that can help to keep your work on-track and get results.

The look and message of an advertisements will obviously have a huge impact on the success of the marketing campaign. Here is a list of 10+ tutorials that will help you to create more attractive and eye-catching advertisement with Photoshops.

Design a Professional Laptop Advert – PSDFAN

PSDFAN is a new tutorial blog, but there’s already some high-quality work there, including this one.

Create an Energy Drink Ad Design – PSDTUTS

Of course a few from PSDTUTS have to be on any Photoshop tutorial list.

Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer – Tutzor

This tutorial shows you how to create an attractive and creative advertisement.

Add a Fresh Splash to Your Design (for a beverage ad) – Tutorial9

Tutorial9 also has it’s own tutorial for creating a drink ad.

Design an Awesome Cell Phone Ad – Tutorial9

They also have a different style of cell phone ad.

Designing a Stylish Fashion Advert – PhotoshopStar

This tutorial from Photoship start will show you how to easily create an attractive advertisement, and how you can easily change the color.

Video Tutorial: Create an iPod Ad – YouTube

This is a nice video tutorial thrown into the mix.

Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design – PSDTUTS

Cell phone ads must be popular. The third one on our list takes a much different approach than the first two.

Make an Apple Coldplay Style Ad in Photoshop – PSDTUTS

A dark and sparkly ad tutorial from Fabio Sasso.

Stunning Print Advertisement for Cell Phone – Tutorial Notebook

This tutorial focuses solely on design for a printed publication.

MP3 Download Advertisement – Imgry.com

There are many MP3 sites and services out there. Here is an ad that can be used for one of them.

Create a Vibrant Drink Ad – PSDFAN

Another nice tutorial from PSDFAN.

Water Drops – PS Hero

This tutorial focuses on creating the water drops you see in the ad below, but the author combined it with a previous tutorial to get this end result.

Make a Perfume Ad – PS Wish

A different style than many of the ads on this list.

Designing a 3D Software Box – Tutorial9

Software boxes are not completely product ads, but they are used as a part of many ads for software.

Create a Software Box – Tutorial Blog

Another helpful tutorial for a software box.

There are a lot of great tutorials online that will teach you all kinds of techniques, tricks, but sometimes you may find that the tools are not always covered in the tutorials. If you are looking to step up your Photoshop skills, understanding the basic tools and knowing how they work will make a huge difference in your work.

This post has more than 20 tutorials that will teach you essential techniques in Photoshop. In addition to tools, we will also showcase some tutorials that cover the Photoshop basics of layers and actions.

Pen Tool:

Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

Become a Master of the Pen Tool in Under 30 Minutes

Making Selections with the Pen Tool

All-In-One Pen Tool Resource

A Different Pen Tool Technique

Pen Tool Extraction

Selection Tools:

Selection Tools Photoshop Tutorial (part 2, and 3)

Unlock the Full Power of Basic Selections in Photoshop

Using Photoshop CS3’s Quick Selection Tool (Video)

A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques

Brushes:

Define Brush Photoshop Tutorials

Tools & Tips: Photoshop Brushes

Painting Tools Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop’s Painting Tools

Photoshop Brush Tutorial: Brushes Overview

General:

Photoshop’s Toolbox

Layers:

Photoshop Layers Tutorial: Life Without Layers

Saving, Loading and Reusing Layers in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Understanding Layer Masks

Working with Layers in Photoshop

Actions:

Tools & Tips: Photoshop Actions

Automating Actions to Save Time

Lights! Camera! Photoshop Actions

Being able to work with textures in Photoshops gives endless possibilities for your designs. There are a variety of approaches when it comes to adding texture, some are simple and other are more advanced. The 25 tutorials featured in this post will help you to learn a number of different technique that can be used in own design.

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

Create an Awesome Background Using Patterns

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch Then Create a Grungy Web Design With It

How to Turn a Texture into a Seemlessly Tiled Background

How to Create a Grunge Style Illustration with Stains

Abstract Lines Background

Ripped Paper Effect Tutorial

How to Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

Apply a Texture to an Object

Creating “Smokey Dancer” (Using Light/Texture Effects)

Adding Texture to the Skin

Let’s Rock

Creating Old Paper with Custom Brushes

Making a Texture Mask

Basics of Texture and Colouring

Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop

Creating Distressed Textures in Photoshop

Creating Cool Background Textures

Surprise Behind the Curtain in Photoshop

Design a Vintage Car Poster with Grunge Texture, Font and Brush Pack

Grunge Portrait

How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

Create a Textured Tag for Your Website

Photoshop and Illustrators are two most indispensable tools for web and graphic designer. For those of us who are always looking to learn and improve skills, there are plenty of great tutorials out there for each of these programs.

Most designers are comfortable in one over the other as a result better understanding. Sometimes the two can be used together in a way that emphasize the strength of each program.

In this post we will feature 25 of the best tutorials that utilize both Illustrator and Photoshop to create amazing results.

How to Make Retro/Futuristic Curves in 10 Steps

Super Cool Abstract Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop

Retro Geometric Vectors in Space with Illustrator and Photoshop

Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial

Swirl Mania in Illustrator and Photoshop

Creating the New Retro

Make a 3D Color Explosion

Photoshop and Illustrator Grid and Glows

Iron Man View Interface Effect in Photoshop and Illustrator

Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop

3D Text and Paint Effects in Photoshop

Displace Filter with Vector Effects

Vector Effects

Create a City Night Scene Using Illustrator and Photoshop

Experimental Text Effects in Illustrator and Photoshop

Making Pictures with the “Wow” Factor

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster

Go Nuts in Illustrator, Render in Photoshop

Blend Tool Backgrounds (video)

Banner Ad Templates from Illustrator to Photoshop (video)

Background Experiments with Photoshop and Illustrator (video)

Background Designs (video)

Illustrator Brush Patterns into Photoshop (video)

Wedding Album: Illustrator and Photoshop Warping (video)

For Photoshop user who are interested in experimenting and learning something new, New poster design is an excellent way to practice. With a large canvas area, there is plenty of rooms for creativity. Last year I published a collection of tutorials for designing posters in Photoshop.

Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster

Create and Then Shatter a Grid, While Making a Typographic Poster

Designing a Typographic Concept Poster

Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster

Make a 3D Colour Explosion

Creating a Retro Grunge Poster

How to Draw an Electronic Angel Working Up an Image of a Girl

How to Design a Rockin’ 80’s Party Poster

Giving a Mafia Look to a Business Photo

Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept

Poster from the Words

Make a Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster

Awesome Snowboard Poster

Make an Inspiring Artistic Poster with Drawn Elements

Create an Impactful Child Welfare Poster

Design a High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen Printing

Retro Movie Poster Art

Create Sci-Fi Poster Art in Photoshop

How to Create an Ice-Cold Poster with 3D Text

Creating a Grunge Rock Poster

Never Forget

Create a Poster Illustration with Floating Floral Elements

Sweet Radio Station Advert Design

Orange – Design Your Life

Make a Cut and Paste Rock Club Flyer

Create an Awesome Music Poster

Making an Anti-Terrorism Poster

Gig Poster Art in Photoshop