35 best photoshop tutorial from 2022

November 21st, 2022
Photoshop

If you’re looking to enhance your Photoshop skills, there’s no better way than through online tutorials. By consistently exploring new design techniques, you can keep your skills sharp and up-to-date. In this roundup, we’ll be highlighting some of the best free online Photoshop design tutorials that can help you refine your skills and learn new tricks. From creating a watercolor painting effect to designing neon text effects, this roundup covers a great mixture of tutorials to help you stay ahead of the curve. Additionally, all of the tutorials included here were created in 2022, so you can learn the latest and greatest features and techniques of Photoshop.

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1. Neon Sign Effect Photoshop Tutorial

How to create a bright, illuminated neon sign effect. I’ve created many tutorials in the past that provide you with a combination of Photoshop layer styles to produce a colourful glowing effect, but today we’re going to take it to the next level with more detail to make this neon effect look much more realistic with glossy tube reflections, wall mounting brackets and dangling power cables.

2. Create Deep Space Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the processes of creating this Deep Space Text Effect in Photoshop. We will use a handwriting font, combine it with nebula and fire textures to form the final effect. We will also be using some selection and image adjustment techniques along the way.

3. How to Create a Stucco Brush in Photoshop

Stucco is a type of mixture that, when applied to a wall, gives it a nice, rough texture. If you want to recreate the effect of this texture in your digital project, in this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a stucco brush in Photoshop—both from a photo and from a stucco texture made from scratch.

4. How To Create Abstract Polyscape Art in Photoshop

Photoshop tutorial you going to show you how to create an abstract piece of retro-futuristic artwork known as a Polyscape. It’s a combination of polygon shapes and landscape or cityscape photographs, and sometimes even pictures of outer-space! These photos are then cut and pasted into a digital collage, using Photoshop’s editing tools rather than scissors and glue. The use of geometric shapes and unusual contrasting landscape imagery gives the artwork somewhat of a sci-fi feel, as if it’s a gateway to another dimension. Follow along with this tutorial to recreate this polyscape in Photoshop, or experiment with different assets to achieve a unique result every time!

5. How to make a solarized cinemagraph in Adobe Photoshop

Adjust tones and create a futuristic animation.

6. How to Make Your Own Dry Media Brush in Photoshop

Photoshop brushes can be the most useful tool you can use as an illustator. But sometimes, finding the perfect brush for your specific drawing can be a challenge. Thankfully, in Photoshop, you have the ability to transform any of the default brushes to the exact one you need. Today, I will show you how you can make your own digital dry media brush in Photoshop using nothing but the default brushes, textures, and the Brush Settings panel.

7. Create Colourful Distorted Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of Creating this Colourful Distorted Warped Text Effect in Photoshop.

8. How to Make Yourself a Vampire in Photoshop

You’ll be looking at how to make yourself a vampire in Photoshop! We will create sharp fangs using quick warping techniques, add vampire-inspired dark makeup, and of course give you a set of red glowing eyes.

9. Photoshop Gold Text Effect Tutorial

how to create a lovely gold text effect. It’s made using a combination of Photoshop layer styles, plus a couple of my own secret ingredients that really brings the effect to life with a nice shiny finish. What really makes this gold effect look so realistic compared to some other basic gold text effects is the layering of Photoshop’s layer styles. By applying multiple effects such as Bevel and Emboss over two layers, it enhances the result with much more depth than could be achieved with just one layer.

10. How to Create a Torn Edges Effect in Photoshop

Have you wondered how to create a torn photo effect in Photoshop? If so, your search ends here! In this tutorial, we’re going to create a picture collage in Photoshop. Then you’ll learn how to add torn photo edges in Photoshop and customize them to look unique and true to life.

11. Making 80’s Style Chrome Text Effect In Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make this 80’s Style Chrome Text Effect in Photoshop.

12. How to Create a Paper Cutout Effect in Photoshop

Create this stunning layered paper cutout illustration using Adobe Photoshop! This unique style is fun and can be used in a variety of ways.

13. How to Create an Animal Fur Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

The process makes use of a real animal fur texture for maximum realism. In my example, I’m using Leopard spots to create the wording ‘Wild Cats’, but a variety of results can be achieved by using source photos of different furry animal skins. The fur photograph will take care of the realistic furry effect in the centre of the text, but I’ll also show you how to create a custom Photoshop brush to apply the soft hairs around the edges of the text to eliminate the hard letter edges. Depending on the animal your source texture is from, the result can depict a variety of colours and common animal prints to create a range of safari or zoo themed text styles.

14. How to make a paint drip effect in Adobe Photoshop

Turn an image into a collection of brushes and customize your design.

15. How to Add a Rainbow to a Photo

If you want to make your photo look more magical, just add a rainbow to it! If you do it in a convincing enough way, nobody will be able to tell it’s fake. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to edit a rainbow into a photo in Photoshop.

16. Retro Striped Text Effect Photoshop Tutorial

his kind of retro text effect is ideal for creating T-shirt designs, so stick around until the end to see how my ‘Washed & Worn’ textures pack can easily make your artwork look like an old cracked T-shirt print.

17. How to make a composite portrait in Adobe Photoshop

Blend photos and fabric patterns for the ultimate fashion design.

18. Create Realistic Frozen Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show the process I used to create this realistic frozen text effect in Photoshop. We will be using a number of ice textures and custom brush to achieve this effect. We will also be using adjustment layers and filters to perform the touch-ups.

19. How to Make a Mind-Bending Color Photo Effect in Photoshop

While you have been browsing some pages on the internet, you probably noticed a few images with unrealistic colors. These color effects have been used more and more during the past months, especially on flyers and posters. Even though this seems to be a very easy effect to make in Photoshop simply by using a Gradient Map, we can take it a step further and add a few other effects to make it even more appealing. And in the process, we will make the effect fully editable so you can change the colors even after the effect is finished.

20. How to Duplicate and Place Objects around a Circle in Photoshop

If you are an Illustrator user, you may be satisfied with all the transformation options you have and how easily you can control them. And sometimes, if you’re like me, you may wish to have those options in Photoshop. Fortunately, some transformations work in the same way in both applications, though they are in different places and may use different commands. Today I will show you how you can copy and place any object around a circle in Photoshop to complete a full rotation. The best part is we will make Photoshop do all the math for you, so don’t worry about how many degrees to rotate your object to get the specific number of times around the circle.

21. How to Create a Rainbow Gradient in Photoshop

You will be learning how to create a Pride rainbow gradient as well as a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet gradient, otherwise known as “ROYGBIV.”

22. How to make a solarized cinemagraph in Adobe Photoshop.

Adjust tones and create a futuristic animation.

23. How to Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop

A range of built-in filters will produce the foundations of the effect, then the addition of a paper texture and some finishing touches with a watercolour Photoshop brush pack adds an extra level of realism to produce a convincing final result.

24. How to Make a Rainbow Oil Effect in Photoshop

It will show you how to create an oil spill Photoshop effect using standard tools.

25. Create Wormhole Space Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will create a Wormhole Space Photo Manipulation in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and require prior knowledge such as layer blending, transform tool and brush tools.

26. How to Create a Glowing Hologram Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a hologram effect in Photoshop, inspired by the Royal Blood band’s Limbo song video. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create the effect, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.

27. How to Make a Custom Halftone Effect in Photoshop

In Photoshop, there is more than one method to achieve a particular effect. Some require more time, while others are made in less than 5 minutes, but the quality of the end result may not be the one you expect. And when it comes to making a Halftone Effect in Photoshop, all of these methods are available. There is one in particular that you may not know and that is to create your own pattern to make the halftone effect. Today, I will show you how to make your own pattern and an adaptative and a bit grungy halftone effect you can use over any image you want.

28. Create Fire Burning on Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create Fire Burning on Metal Text Effect in Photoshop.

29. How to Make a Photoshop Action to Create a Stitched Jeans Text Effect

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create your own denim texture using filters in Adobe Photoshop and then how to create an action for the stitched jeans text effect.

30. Create Leafy Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps used to create this leafy text effect in Photoshop. We will explore the use of tree bark texture to form the basis of the text, then applying leaf texture over the text. We will utilise the chalk brush, various selection tools, image adjustments and basic dodge/burn effect.

31. How to Easily Make a Plastic Text Effect in Photoshop

In Photoshop, changing a normal (and boring) text to something more unique has become a very easy task if we use the powerful Layer Style panel. A wide range of effects can be made using only this panel. And, of course, you can combine layers and effect to make a very unique effect to grab your readers attention. Today, I will show you how quickly and easily you can make a Plastic Text Effect in Photoshop using a Smart Object containing your text, a copy of it, and the Layer Style panel.

32. How to Create a Honey Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a honey text effect Photoshop style. I will explain everything in so much detail that everyone can create the effect, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.

33. Easily Make a Rustic Paint Wood Effect in Photoshop

There are many different methods to make a rustic paint wood effect in Photoshop. These range from changing the “Blend If” option in the Layer Styles panel, adding textures over textures, or even more complex methods using various distorion effects like Median, ripple etc. But today I would like to show you a simple method. It only requires a single texture (the one you want for your background) and just one distortion effect.