11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centred around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation. If you don’t like the finished product I’m sure you’ll find some cool techniques to do certain effects in these tutorials.

Texture Lovers has some great free textures for use in your photo manipulations too.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

Dance Photo Manipulation

Water Effect Photo Montage

Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo

Beautiful Lady Light Effects

Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Electrifying Energy Beams

Create dynamic distortion effects

Disintegration Effect

Use lighting Effects To Make Photos Sparkle

This one isnt really a tutorial beacuse it doesnt supply any of the assets to complete it, but i thought id ad it here to serve as inspiration.

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too. See all posts by: Max Stanworth

127 Comments (Leave a Comment)

deanna

November 6, 2009

these are fabulous!!
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mjt

October 29, 2009

Honestly, as a photographer, most of these look awful.
If you’re in the Ad World, they would be applicable.

For truly remarkable photographs of people, you should
resort to minor enhancements to bring out the beauty of
the person, not to invent something they are not.
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- icanseeit
  
  November 6, 2009
  
  well duh @mjt. They are not photographs, are they. They are images made from photographs. They are not meant to be photographs of people. Thought that was pretty clear from the whole article. Surprised you didn’t get it!
  
  I think they are fabulous. Brilliant design and creation. Thanks.
- BD
  
  November 6, 2009
  
  Yeah, for a ‘photographer’ that is a pretty narrow minded way to look at it. Those are a completely different genre of work. Your right though, artistic innovation never got anyone anywhere…sike.
Harish

October 28, 2009

I’m stumbled!!!!
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Peach

October 27, 2009

Just plain awesome!
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- YoMa
  
  October 29, 2009
  
  Awesome indeed!