Maybe you love photos which looks like painting, maybe you hate it. Anyway it can be useful to know, how to do it. It also shows you to use some other adjustmenst to achieve this look. This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR photos in Photoshop. You don't need to shoot into RAW or take multiple photos - one JPEG file is enough. HDR tutorial gives a cool painterly effect to your photos.

So anyone who knows me knows that I love movies. That said, I recently was overcome with inspiration when I saw the new Pirates of the Caribbean Posters. They are pretty sick. When you look at the POTC Posters (That will be Pirates of the Caribbean and NOT Passion of the Christ from here forth....you know you were thinking it!) they all follow a general theme: A collage of imagery along the bottom, a bunch of enormously large heads along the top, and the classic parchment paper logo with a title slapped across it. Oh and some hot chick but we wont be using one of those for this. Boo.

This tutorial will guide you to turn your photo into movie-like effect.

Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion…Now it really looks like water. Notice that the layer mask is also distorted because it is linked to the layer. This causes the reflectivity to change with the angle of the surface.

This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images. You now should have a neat looking dreamy or misty scene!

Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick…Move the Gamma slider to the right in order to preview your subject against a darker background in the image window.

In this tutorial, we are going to create a sort of old-worldy composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome vector artwork from Arsenal. As always there is a PSD file at the bottom of the tutorial. In this instance, I would highly recommend downloading it as this is quite a complex composition. Be warned this is a LONG tutorial! Oh and in case you're wondering, inspiration comes from a really neat set of books, one of which is called the Golden Compass (actually they are making the book series a movie now!).

In this tutorial, we're going to go a bit retro. You'll learn how to create halftone patterns and creatively cut up an image of a model holding a boombox. You'll then use those cut elements to make your design. We use some layer styles to get everything to come together cohesively. The effects are fun, and you can apply these methods to other designs as well.

If you've ever wanted to shine in the spotlight, try this tutorial. It shows you how to create a silhouette of a person taken from a normal photo, adding colorful light to it as if the light source is located behind this object.

Deciding what is great is not arbitrary. While some opinions will vary, norms are arrived at through a common criteria by which something is evaluated. So let's define some criteria for judging a written Photoshop tutorial on the Web. Let's evaluate the points that make a tutorial good, great, or a super five out of five stars.

Using a photo of a man and splashes of water to create the water man.

In this very detailed tutorial we will show you all kinds of nifty photoshop techniques. We are going to place music notes on a fence. You'll learn something about: Vanishing point, grids and stamp tool, layer masks, non destructive transparency masks, custom shapes, knockout layers, layer styles and a lot of different shortcuts and other things to make it easier to use Photoshop.

An extensive tutorial on working with the vastly improved Photomerge tools.

This Photoshop tutorial will guide you through creating an effect in the vein of the most recent Coldplay iTunes commercial. The Coldplay commercial uses colorful backdrops, with various textures, smoke and lighting effects. For this tutorial, we’ll take a photo of Barack Obama, mask it, create a silhouet and create the colorful background. This tutorial includes a download to the PSD file so you can see how the layers are set up.

Here’s a tutorial on how you can apply charcoal drawing effect to your photos using photoshop.

Form a picture using individual words.

Give your photos a retro comic book effect to add some fun to your photo albums.

Learn how to add colorful streaks of light to a photo by combining paths with Photoshop's brushes and layer styles! Also learn how to simulate pen pressure with a brush even if you're not using a pen tablet!

In this detailed tutorial I will show you how I blended two buildings together for a contest. You will learn about blending, reflections, shadows, color matching, perspective, distortion and much more.