11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

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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

cinematic-photo-effect

Dance Photo Manipulation

dance-photo-effect

Water Effect Photo Montage

water-photo-effect

Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

vibrant-photo-effect

Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo

vector-photo-effect

Beautiful Lady Light Effects

lady-photo-effect

Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

flaming-photo-effect

Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

fantasy-photo-effect

Electrifying Energy Beams

energybeams-photo-effect

Create dynamic distortion effects

distortion-photo-effect

Disintegration Effect

disintegration-photo-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.

digitalarts-photo-effect

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

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194 Comments (Leave a Comment)

  1. I am loving “Dance Photo Manipulation”!
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  2. the master quality… great job

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  3. You’ve inspired me to get back to work. You really have a gift for using this tool. I’m going to try to wrap my head around this and come up with some art of my own.

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  4. Ven

    wow, great, so amazing!

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  5. Amazing, this is beyond professional, my favorite is the fire portrait.
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  6. Beautiful effects. It is really wonderful

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  7. Some of these tutorials have been making their rounds on the Internet for quite some time now. But still, it’s always a pleasure to keep stumbling upon them every now and then. An awesome collection. Makes you fall in love with Photoshop all over again!

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  8. wtf the one with paint drips is insane
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  9. Photographista

    Great selection ! I ll publish a french translation of it on my blog Photographie with your link as credit.
    Thank you !

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  10. Thank you. Great post

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  11. Mohammad bin Mansoor

    Amazing tuts, thanks

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  12. Thank you. Great post

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  13. Wow I love to see them, but my favorite picture is the lighting Effects To Make Photos Sparkle, the result looks like an angel in the fairytale. I will try to make it :P

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  14. this is awsome!

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  15. That’s what we call creative. Just love it!!!

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  16. Very good work! Thank you!

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  17. Very nice lesson! Thank you for your work!

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  18. Emily

    I stumbled. Awesome work. If I had photoshop, I’d definitely give a few of these a good try. I particularly like the light and flaming effects.

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  19. Some fantastic effects there.I particularly love the Cinematic effect and the Vector manipulation ones.

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  20. ook

    OUTSTANDING! Thanks Max. Keep up the good work. Nevermind the haters, they’re only jealous. ook.

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  21. kval

    I think they are really good. Plain old pics of people get very boring i would not have even looked at these pics because i dont know these ppl but because of what u have done with them now i dont want to stop looking at them they are beautiful, you made them interesting and new….love it!!

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  22. sam

    @ mjt: Your an idiot. These creations are a form of art. Get creative once in a while.

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  23. bob dole

    these are great…if you’re into that whole “photoshop look”. I realize it’s a skill, but I find the whole style very unappealing.

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  24. Boris

    wow! This tutorials opened a new page in my mind :) I’ll try this technique on my photos. The explanation is very good :) Good job BRAVOS!

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