41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials]

Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it

So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump.

1. Mental Wave Explosion Effect

   How to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.

   

2. Realistic Water Reflection

   How to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo.

   

3. Displacement effects

   How to use a variety of filters and techniques to produce an image in an experimental style.

   

4. Make Photos More Suggestive

   Learn how to make the model in this tutorial more suggestive with awesome curves

   

5. Halftone Dots and Linear Light

   A very cool linear light halftone dot effect in less than 2 minutes.

   

6. Retro Comic Book Effect

   Creating a old comic book effect for your photos.

   

7. Add Realistic Rainbow To A Photo

   Easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo.

   

8. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

   Take a digital photo and make it Lomoified

   

9. Creating a Rocking Silhouette

   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.

   

10. Adding Reflections To Sunglasses

    How to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses.

    

11. Age Progression

    Go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.

    

12. Alien Invasion

    

13. Dark Art Picture Style

    How to combine some stocks and Photoshop techniques to make an amazing dark art picture style.

    

14. Bringing a Stone Statue to Life

    How to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.

    

15. Changing Hair Color

    

16. Photo Edit Color Effects

    

17. Add Another Dimension

    Create stunning effects using glows.

    

18. Crack and Peel

    

19. Cool Halftone Effect

    How to create halftone patterns and creatively cut up an image of a model holding a boombox.

    

20. Creating Energy Spheres

    

21. Devil’s Eyes

    How to make eyes look more sinister

    

22. Dynamic Lightning

    How to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph.

    

23. Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation

    

24. Expressive lighting effects

    How to go about combining several lighting techniques

    

25. Fantasy Art

    

26. Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion

    Creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding.

    

27. Color Hair Locks

    Getting the hair colored in just few minutes.

    

28. Beautiful Lady Effect

    

29. How to turn your photo into movie-like effect

    

30. Mosaic, Fill A Photo With Photos

    Create a bit of an optical illusion, filling one photo with many smaller photos, or at least, many copies of a couple of smaller photos.

    

31. Photoshop Effects: Focus With Light

    How to add focus to an image with light, using Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.

    

32. Zombie

    Turning Mandy Moore or anyone into zombie.

    

33. Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects

    Put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!

    

34. Transform a person into an alien

    How to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop

    

35. Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect

    How to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image off.

    

36. Reflective Bubble

    

37. How to Make Circle Pixels (Pop-art Style)

    

38. Easy Watercolor Painting Effect

    How to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting.

    

39. Watercolor Effect

    

40. Realistic Tattoos

    This tutorial uses a few basic photoshop techniques, masking, color adjustment, liquify and the resize and transformation tools.

    

41. Robotic Frog

    How to take a regular frog and opened him up to reveal a mechanical skeleton.

    

22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job.

Here are some of the best Photoshop text effects tutorials on the web, and as usual it’s the creativity that counts. Full content after jump.

1. ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect

   

2. Metal Text Effect

   Really metallic chrome effect.
   

   

3. Grass Text Effect

   Cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.
   

   

4. Leopard ‘X’ Effect

   

5. Exploding Text Effect

   9 Steps in creating an exploding text.
   

   

6. Reflective Liquid Effect

   Realistic text made from water drops.
   

   

7. Slow Shutter Text Effect

   Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
   

   

8. Flaming Meteor Text Effect

   Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno.
   

   

9. Smooth Glass Effect

   Nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.
   

   

10. Soft Stylized 3D Type

    Basics of creating polished 3D type using Illustrator and Photoshop.
    

    

11. Fire Burning Text Effect

    How to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match.
    

    

12. Text Graffiti

    

13. Bling Text Effect

    How to make a realistic bling bling gold and diamond text.
    

    

14. Supernatural Text Effect

    Creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel.
    

    

15. 3D Typographic Effects

    How to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
    

    

16. Chain Text

    

17. Smooth Chrome Text

    

18. Starcraft Text

    How to create a nice StarCraft style wallpaper.
    

    

19. Advance Glow Effect

    

20. Old School Type

    

21. Grunge Rubber Stamp

    Simple method to create grunge brushes, and to detail how these brushes can be used to reproduce realism in our rubber-stamped logos.

    

22. Swirl Text

    Useful for creating a unique logo for your website.