Photoshop – Advanced

Extend your Photoshop skills into the time dimension. Add effects and layer styles with ease. Turn a ho-hum phone video into expressionist art.

Create a time-lapse style effect with some simple video effects in Photoshop.

This tutorial will show you how to make an animation that pulses a great light effect with layer styles and animation.

When reality is just not interesting enough you can always rely on Photoshop to spice it up.  This unit is a good introduction to GIF creation.

Combine layered styles and animation to create this great effect.

Turn a static design into a glowing button by using the Frame style of animation in Photoshop. 

Bring in a number of files simultaneously and get Photoshop to organise and align them in layers.

Turning your text into a 3D object opens up lot of interesting possibilities. Control textures, deform shapes, and add lights and shadows to your text in realistic ways. 

Explore Photoshop’s (CS6 and above) 3D text generator.

Create inflatable text with the 3D properties in Photoshop.

The long shadow is a clean design look that can be created a few different ways in Photoshop; here we achieve the look by using 3D objects.

Importing a 3D model into a 2D background can be tricky, but with a few simple steps you will be able to blend lots of design elements like lighting, position, color tone, and texture.

Improve the realistic look to your 3D images with Image Based Lights.

Create and add 3D objects to an existing photograph with this tutorial. Create a new texture, add lights and composite it in an existing photo. 

This tutorial will teach you how to create 3D text, edit many useful features and then add 2D elements as well. 

The more up to date versions of Photoshop have tucked away some of the rarer filter effects. Find out how to drill down into the filter gallery. 

Straighten out those distorted images with this very clever Photoshop Feature.

The Kuler extension for Photoshop makes finding great color combinations a breeze. 

Organise your complex Photoshop projects with this simple tool. Particularly useful for template projects that you will be coming back to again.

10 little Photoshop productivity tips.

Clean up your menu interface.

Improve your familiarity of Photoshop with this list of interface tips and tricks.

Transform text into a path and apply a brush present to a path. 

Give text a furry feel within a few easy steps.

Add a frothy amber liquid appeal to your text.

Add text or a logo and create a great wood texture effect. 

In this tutorial Howard will introduce you to Displacement Mapping, which is a fancy way of saying ‘making text bumpy’. 

The video game is such a classic that of course you need to make text look like it. 

Refine the edge of a selection so that fine strands of hair can be included with the person or animal in the photo.

Let Photoshop do your geek work for you with this simple but powerful method for converting Photoshop designs to flexible web formats.

Record repetitive edits so that you can save time.

A few more tips for using the clone source tools on Photoshop.

Grab a color scheme from a web pages CSS data.

Transforming the size and shape of a selection masks from within the mask mode.

Delve into Photoshop’s one button solution to repetitive editing tasks. 

This is an advanced technique for those who want to design their web pages primarily in Photoshop. 

Design an app icon for IOS or Android.

With the principles of this design you can create all sorts of switches, toggles and doorways. This is a good tutorial for learning how to stack and transform layers. 

Make stars and planets to design your own Solar System in the Cosmos. 

Get that pixelated look into your image editing, or use the basics of this lesson to apply 2D images to a cube shape. 

This technique is good for adjusting images at the pixel level.

Work with files in an offline mode.

This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit. 

Use the radial filter to add quick vignettes and style touches directly in Lightroom. 

Lightroom has a few ways to repair spots and blemishes in photos, explore them here.