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11 Photoshop Tutorials All Web Designers Should Learn

November 5th, 2008 in Design Inspiration

by: Matthew Griffin

If you read any web design blogs (and obviously you do) I'm sure you know there are about a million great photoshop tutorials floating around. So many, in fact, that it can be overwhelming. The point of the Photoshop tutorial is to teach a new technique—something that can be incorporated into your arsenal of web design skill and reused again and again. But after several years of aimless rummaging through the unorganized mass of online Photoshop tutorials I've come to an important conclusion: At their core the vast majority of these tutorials are teaching one of only a handful of techniques; the rest are essentially variations of the same. What this means is that a short list of well-chosen online Photoshop tutorials will pretty much bring you up to speed.

I have compiled such a list. I encourage you to go through all of these tutorials. I realize that some of them may seem to overlap at first glance, but I think you will find that they all contribute a unique technique that you can incorporate into your everyday work.

Magic Lighting Effect

Metal Text Tutorial

Add Another Dimension

Creating Smoke

Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Design a 3D Retro Strip

Make it Worn

Create a Wicked Worn Vintage Pop Art Design

Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect in Photoshop

Wanted Sign with Smoking Bullet Holes

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Advanced Glow Effects

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