This is a good tutorial for Photoshop users who know their way around a bit already. You don’t have to be an expert in Photoshop, but you should know some of the basics before you try this tutorial out.

This tutorial takes you from a rather normal image (a picture of an eye; you’ll find all the links to the source files in the tutorial) to implementing more pictures, like a rock wall and a butterfly, to merging them into the final version you see below.

The reason we only recommend this tutorial to somewhat experienced Photoshop users is that while every step is explained quite well, the author uses language like “…lighten the top of your rock with the dodge tool and darken the bottom with the burn tool.”

If you have no idea what he’s talking about, you might want to try some easier tutorials first. If you’re familiar with these tools, and you don’t need them explained, this tutorial is for you!

This is the final image you get after completing this tutorial:

…and here’s the link to this tutorial. Enjoy and beeex happpy!

Your girlfriend has brown hair. You’d absolutely like her to try dyeing her hair blonde, but she won’t do it because she is afraid of the results? Here comes a marvellous solution for your problem: show her how she looks with blonde hair in Photoshop! Like this:

This is Kristin Kreuk from the TV series Smallville before and after tweaking her hair with Adobe Photoshop. Do the same with a picture of your girlfriend – or boyfriend, of course! – with this 8-step tutorial!

This is a very good tutorial on changing hair color in a photograph. The technique you learn is almost essential knowledge and a must-be for Photoshop artists. Here is another example using a photograph of Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives).

Oh, and don’t take our little story too seriously… As a matter of fact, I myself prefer brunettes

You can view this tutorial here!

We’ve talked about tracing a photo in Illustrator and creating an illustration using simple gradients in this post: How to Trace a Photo in Illustrator. What if you have a sketch or a hand drawing you’d like to trace and enhance?

This time, we use Photoshop. This is a good, very extensive tutorial on how to do just that. It’s not the shortest one, so be sure to take some time to complete it

You can view this tutorial here.

You probably know how to manually create a path around an object you want to separate from its background. Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso Tool can speed this process up a little for you.

You need to know a few tips though, all provided in this tutorial.

You can view this tutorial here.

This post is about creating and applying custom patterns in Photoshop. It is a part of a series, the other parts are:

The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop,
Photoshop Brushes: install and create,
Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2.

How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop

Here are two quick and easy tutorials on creating a grid effect in Adobe Photoshop by using custom patterns. You can use this technique to make your own patterns.

Both tutorials are quite the same, only the pattern varies. We included both into this one post to show you the power of Photoshop. You can create just about anything using this technique!

Tutorial #1:

View this tutorial here.

Tutorial #2:

View this tutorial here.

You see the little icon in your browser’s address and tab bar, left to the name of the website? That’s a favicon. All you need to know about Favicons, you can find in this post. About, Create, Install – all of it at your fingertips!

This well written tutorial covers all you need to know to make your own favicon. Note: you don’t necessarily need Photoshop to put this tutorial to use!

You can view this tutorial here. If you want to read about Favicons on Wikipedia, you can go here.

Also, read our post about the Mandatory Favicon Generator, web-based and free.

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Here is a good tutorial on extracting hair from a background in Adobe Photoshop. You need to know a little bit of Photoshop to follow it, although it’s pretty thorough and explains each step very well.

This tutorial is adapted from the book “Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Maximum Performance” by Mark Galer. It produces more sophisticated results than other techniques. If you are looking for a more easy tutorial using the Photoshop Extract Filter, you may want to take a look at this post on selecting frizzy hair on Beeex.net first.

You can view this tutorial here.

Here come some free nice, glossy and shiny vectors for you. They are glass/metal buttons, or icons.

Thanks to Bittbox for these! As they are vectors, you need a vector program like Illustrator or Inkscape to use them; but they also come as SVG and PNG files – ready to use.

You can download the .zip pack including AI, EPS, SVG and PNG files from here.

This is a follow-up on our previous post about how to make glass buttons in Illustrator. While that covered basic, round buttons, this tutorial is about making more sophisticated buttons, and bars.

The tutorial also includes the vector source file for Illustrator.

View this tutorial here.