70 Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time
Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in a photo editing too. Just imagine a different world and put the character over there.
You simply have to experiment and play with different effects by making use of huge free brushes and textures collection to create your own world.
Here we tried to pick and showcase 70 best photo manipulation tutorials of all time. Just go through and imagine how your own world should be.
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Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time
The demand for Photoshop tutorials are too much in these days and finding the best tutorials from the pool with tens of thousands of tutorials is not a easy job to perform. Designers love all kind of Photoshop tutorials that can help them to easily learn more and more everyday and give them ideas and directions to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. This list contains some of the Best Handpicked Photo Manipulation Tutorials around for your Image editing & photo manipulatio related needs.
1. Create Honey-Covered Objects
A Honey-Covered effect looks fantastic. This tutorial tells you how to create this cool effect.
2. Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation
Surreal Photos always make wow effect. In this tutorial you will learn how to combine objects for creation of this surreal photo manipulation.
3. How to Create Glass Transparency in a cute Photo manipulation
Every designer has to know how to create a transparency effect. It’s a must read tutorial for beginners.
4. How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
Fantasy photos always look amazing. In this tutorial you will learn how to create this wonderful artwork.
5. Dazzling Dance Photo manipulation
In this tutorial you will see the process of creation of this dazzling dance photo manipulation.
6. Create a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop
This tutorial will tell you the methods of creation this beautiful illustration by means of photo manipulation and color adjustments.
7. The Police Officer_Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial is devoted to work with colors and abstract objects. Find out how to create this cool police officer in Photoshop.
8. How to Make a Musical Giraffe Digital Illustration
This is a famous illustration of a giraffe fading away into musical notes. In this tutorial you will learn how to create it.
9. Mysterious Hallow
In this tutorial you will see how one can create this Gothic photo manipulation in Photoshop.
10. The Making Of Mystic
This is a fantastic artwork, a lot of Photoshop techniques were used during its creation. This tutorial is for advanced designers.
11. Making Of Imaginary Paint Dancers
This is a beautiful and unusual artwork with the splashes effect. In this tutorial you will learn step by step how to create it.
12. Scared Photo manipulation Tutorial
Creation of horror illustrations is always interesting. In this tutorial you will learn several techniques for creation of a scared effect.
13. Create a Dynamic Distortion Effect
This is a classic tutorial for creation of a dynamic distortion effect.
14. How to Create an Imaginative,Magical Painted Scene
In this tutorial, a few basic tools and stock images are used to create a fantasy artwork where everything seems to come alive from what is being painted on an old piece of paper.
15. Surreal ocean scape In a Bottle
In this tutorial, an entire ocean scape is fitted into a tiny little bottle. Several advanced Photoshop techniques are used to create this photo manipulation.
16. Transforming the image of a girl into a milk figure
This Photoshop tutorial shows several techniques of transforming any image into a milk figure. All that you need to make this milk illustration are photo manipulation tools, like transformation tool, burn tool, layer mask, and few stock images.
17. Discover the Undiscovered
In this tutorial you will see how to create an amazing landscape photo manipulation.
18. Create a surreal apocalypse
In this photo manipulation tutorial you will see how to create a surreal apocalypse image. You will see how to balance colors, integrate stock images and also how to create realistic looking smoke trails.
19. Fairy Night
In this tutorial you will see how to create a fairy night beanstalk using various transformations of combined images.
20. Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
This tutorial guides you on the process of creation a fantasy landscape using simple techniques.
21. Create a Human/Robot Hybrid in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will create a detailed composition of a human and robot by means of a combination of tools and effects in Photoshop.
22. Confused Pear
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create a confused pear with an elephant nose.
23. Drawing My own Picture
In this detailed Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create this cool photo manipulation.
24. Mysterious, Dark Horror Scene Tutorial
In this tutorial, you will see the process of creation this mysterious and dark horror scene image in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial as some steps are tricky.
25. Create a Greek Sculpture
This Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to create a Greek sculpture using several stock images. It covers how to add blood, cracks and other elements that give the image texture and depth.
26. Create Cool Abstract Waves In Skate board Jam
Learn how to create this beautiful artwork with abstract waves. In this tutorial are used such tools as Warp and various brush effects.
27. Create a Dramatic Fisheye Sparta Scene
In this tutorial you will see how to blend and distort various desert landscape stock images in order to create a dynamic fisheye-like perspective.
28. How to Split an Image into Polaroid photos
Learn how to divide an image into a group of Polaroid photographs in this wonderful tutorial.
29. Create a Surreal Scene With a Cool Snail That Flies
In this tutorial you will see how to create a surreal mother nature scene by combining stock photos and seamlessly blending them. You will also learn how to fix and enhance the lighting of images.
30. Create a Fallen Rain Soaked Angel
In this tutorial you will walk through the process of creation a lonely, fallen, rain-soaked angel artwork in Photoshop.
31. Create a Beautiful and Dramatic Scene
In this tutorial you will learn how to add drama to a photo manipulation.
32. Create a Dynamic angel Falling Scene
In this tutorial, you will discover how to draw fuse, wings, and digital renders into a fallen angel.
33. Magical Forest Scene
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will see how to create this realistic fantasy image. It covers composing an image by using multiple photos, simulating depth of the field, and wrapping a persons ear to an elf ear.
34. Vivid color Effects
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine various mediums – abstract art and photography – in order to create visually wonderful effects.
35. How to Create a Cyborg Leopard
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a cyborg leopard.
36. How to make high Impact poster
This tutorial shows how to use shapes and other objects to create a unique fashion poster.
37. Making a Book of magical playground Scene
In this tutorial, you will see how to create a fantasy book scene by using various advanced Photoshop techniques.
38. Serene Fantasy Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine various stock photos to create a calm landscape photo manipulation. This tutorial utilizes such Photoshop techniques as blending, changing lights and shadows, color adjustments.
39. Photo manipulate and Explosive magical Reading Scene
Learn how to create this magical reading scene by means of photo manipulation techniques.
40. Gun Shot Through Glass
Here in this tutorial you can learn how to create a suspenseful photo manipulation. You will learn how to create realistic distortions with the displace filter and then apply photo effects.
41. How to Create Fantasy Heaven For Travelers
In this tutorial, you will see how to create a secret heaven in the sky. You will learn how to blend images seamlessly and work with lighting and shadows.
42. Great Looking, Easy Collage Effect
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a collage effect in Photoshop.
43. Living Paints
In this great tutorial, you will learn how to create this amazing painting artwork.
44. Out of Bounds Photo manipulation
In this tutorial you will learn who to combine several images of water, animals, and people to create a surreal out of bounds photo manipulation in Photoshop.
45. How to Create a Flying Land Illustration on Fire
This tutorial will show how to create a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land.
46. Create a upside Down Mountain Painting
In this tutorial you will see how to create a surreal upside down mountain illustration by using digital painting techniques in Photoshop.
47. Create a Magical Floating Women Scene
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine various photos and textures to come up with a colorful and surreal scene. This tutorial is intended for intermediate and advanced Photoshop users.
48. Create an Urban Tiger Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial you will see the how to create an image that contains a window to another world within it. This tutorial involves several basic techniques that are cornerstones of creating any mixed media composition.
49. Deep and Moody
In this tutorial you will create a moody image using several simple effects to create an image with depth and composition.
50. Create a Lost fantasy micro world
In this fantasy tutorial you will see how to create your own micro society using various pictures and several cool photo manipulation techniques.
51. Age progression
Very famous Photoshop tutorial showing how to create an aging woman’s face.
52. How to place a Fantasy Creature in mystic Land Scape
In this tutorial, you will create a fantasy mock-up of an unreal creature. You will learn several non-destructive techniques, apply photo filters to adjust the lighting.
53. Create an incredible Story Coming Alive
This fantasy photo manipulation tutorial will show you how to quickly create an incredible story-based artwork. You will learn how to manipulate images, add effects and build an amazing artwork.
54. Design a Conceptual Album Cover in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will see the step-by-step process of creating a conceptual album cover.
55. Create a Surreal Floating Eiffel Tower Scene
In this tutorial, you will see how to create this magical, floating Eiffel tower artwork in Photoshop. You will use a lot of layer masking techniques, blending options, selection techniques, pen and dynamic brushes.
56. Create a Fantasy Sea Monster
In this tutorial you will see how to create a sea monster from a sketch and then combine it with a dark, manipulated seascape. You will use dodge and burn tool for creating light and shadow along with basic drawing techniques.
57. Create Frozen Liquid Effects
In this tutorial you will see how to bring this cool effect to your illustrations. After you read this tutorial, you will be able to transform almost anything into what looks like water or frozen liquid.
58. Na Vi Avatar
This Photoshop tutorial will walk you through the process of transforming yourself into Na Vi.
59. Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad
In this tutorial you will create a Blackberry inspired artwork.
60. Surreal manipulation Artwork
This is a very simple Photoshop tutorial, you will be working mainly with adjustment layers.
61. Create an Elephant Sundae Using Photo Manipulation Techniques
In this tutorial, you will create an elephant sundae using several stock photos.
62. Combine 3D Renders With a Stock 3D Model
Here you can learn how to make an amazing artwork combining 3D renders with a stock 3D model.
63. Design an Intense Particle Illustration
In this Photoshop tutorial you will see a process of manipulating an image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes.
64. Create a Face Shattering Effect
In this tutorial you will see the process of creation of a face shattering effect which is highly creative if you like playing with your own images.
65. The Creation of “A Life In Aquatic sounds”
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create this artwork using a variety of blending mode tricks, photo filters and other useful Photoshop techniques.
66. How to Tidy Up and Smoothen Skin, and Do Eye Makeups in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will see how to create this photo manipulation. You will see step-by-step how to effectively produce smooth skin and get rid of black spots on face.
67. Water Effect Photo Montage
It’s a very interesting Photoshop tutorial in which you will see how to convert any object into a water look like effect.
68. Create a surreal Land scape
In this tutorial, you will see how to make a surreal photo manipulation.
69. An Urban Style Piece of Artwork
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an urban style artwork.
70. Create a Dark and Mysterious Fantasy Portrait
In this tutorial you will combine several stock images, adjust color, use retouching and make custom brushes to create a dark and mysterious blue portrait.
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Large imagination .. I like it all the tutorials and the 65 and 70 more
thank you
Nice collection.Thank you for sharing.
great post!! very quality tutorial roudup
very nice…all tuets all very nice and useful,,,tnx buddy
i like Water Effect Photo Montage, i need a practice this concept
High quality stuff, beyond my imagination.
Hi Michael! I am really appreciating you for sharing these amaz
Hi Michael! Amazing photo manipulation tutorials have been posted. Many of the above tutorials are very interesting and impressive. Where did you collect all these tutorials? Keep updating.
I don’t know from where you get these imaginary tutorials? these are unexplainable and unexpected work for me. thanks for sharing.
This is a high quality image and tutorial site which site can help everybody very much.
Totally wonderful tutorial collection of photo manipulation!! Some of photo manipulations are out standing!!
Amazing photos!
Those are amazing tutorials; however, I’d love to see a tutorial I have been searching for a long while. The photo effects made by Ana Fagrazzi, one of the greatest artists I admire so much. Check this out and let me know if you can find its tutorial, please !!
Dark effects, blue and read. Please help me out with it.
http://freaky665.deviantart.com/art/hidden-intentions-137654466
Great compilation!
Thanks Michael for this useful tutorials collection!
Add this tutorial to next your collection:
http://crazypixels.net/amazing-photo-manipulation-world-on-the-tissue-in-photoshop/
If you like it ;)
Thanks!
Brdda….ur All tutOrials Are JSt Killer…Hatzz Off 2 u man
all r totally amazing & incredible manipulations………… thnx 4 uploading all these…….
These are great! This’ll help me brush up on my Photoshop. :)
Natalya, Ruff House Art
awesome collections
Some of these tutorials are extremely good, magazine like. Thanks for sharing!
Hi there – love all the tutorials! Would you be able to tell me how to achieve something like this:
http://pinterest.com/pin/430727151831648737/ – if that doesn’t work let me know.
I would like to merge two photos together – for example having the seascape or other image inside a portrait… any tips would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Louise
Hi Louise, what you need to do is crop your portrait with whatever tool you’re comfy with, then take the landscape picture and place it above the portrait layer, after that is done….play around with the blending modes until you get the desired effect….hope that helps :)
This is truly amazing stuff – I had no idea that it was possible to do this stuff in Photoshop. The tutorials are really accessible as well.
Great Information. Almost all best tutorials are here ;)
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Pretty Collection :) Please check our polaroid photo collage tutorial at blog.entheosweb.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-polaroid-photo-collage-using-photoshop-cs6
Very nice collection as well as presentation. Such a stuff I have been searching for a long while.
Thanks for the tutorial Michael:)
Thanks for this beautiful post. I have been searching for such a stuff since long. Although all the mentioned designs have their own importance but the one I like the most is “How to Split an Image into Polaroid photos”.
Great effort Michael:)
A great manipulation arts on Photoshop ever I seen before! Pretty collection there; loving and thanks for sharing!
“A Honey-Covered effect looks fantastic. This tutorial tells you how to create this cool effect.” I do agree with this idea.
could you please tell me the way or explain it as a project ,to create a photo of bad joker with the flaming cards in his hands and the different cards actually have photos of different people in them…
wooooooooooooooooooow like seriously speaking, i have fallen for photoshop
This is a very good list. You will find some good tutorials on Deviantart (resources and stock images section->tutorials, sort by most popular all time).
The latter contains long hours of quality videotutorials, which I find hard to watch all as the new tutorials are added regularly.
Hi, I’m a graphic designer and I’ve been using Photoshop for 11 years. I really like looking at your photo manipulation. And I have a photoshop service-related website. Thanks
Photography is my potion, from my childhood life I am doing work in this setor. Love to write blogs on photography tips and tutorials also publish on various platforms. Last 5 years, I am working dedicatedly in this industry. Here I would like to share my Professional knowledge which has proper guidelines to enhance my newbie photography career. Thank you