Free Photo Manipulation Tutorials and Courses

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  1. Creative Lighting Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Creative Lighting Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Course • Advanced

    In this course you will learn how to create powerful lighting effects using several techniques in Adobe Photoshop and Flame Painter. You will be creating a...

  2. Create a Fantasy Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Fantasy Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    ​​​In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a fantasy landscape matte painting named "Eagle's Land". We'll start this tutorial by sketching out the...

  3. Harness the Elements: Paint Liquid Water in All Its Forms

    Harness the Elements: Paint Liquid Water in All Its Forms

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Following on from our previous tutorial on frozen water, now you'll learn how to render liquid water in many forms—drops, lakes, puddles, rain, and...

  4. How to Create Realistic Water Drop Reflections in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create Realistic Water Drop Reflections in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to use the custom water drop brushes to create a realistic photo manipulation of rain drops on a window.

  5. Harness the Elements: Paint Frozen Water in All Its Forms

    Harness the Elements: Paint Frozen Water in All Its Forms

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Learn how to create icicles, falling and lying snow, frost, ice, and hail in Adobe Photoshop without carefully painting them. Learn a whole bunch of useful...

  6. Creative Photo Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Creative Photo Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Course • Beginner

    This course aims to fit directly between the concepts of pure digital painting and photo filtering. Photo painting is the term that best describes the...

  7. Fluid Photo Manipulation: Transform, Warp, and Liquify

    Fluid Photo Manipulation: Transform, Warp, and Liquify

    Course • Beginner

    This course explores the Transformation, Warp, and Liquify tools within Adobe Photoshop. You’ll learn about the features at a beginner level, then work...

  8. Create a Spooky Forest Setting in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Spooky Forest Setting in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Fall is the season in which even the most unassuming settings can take on an air of creepiness. It doesn't help when the setting starts out as rather...

  9. How to Create an Exploding Planet in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create an Exploding Planet in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    This tutorial will teach you how to create a cracked and exploding planet. All super villains wish for a weapon capable of destroying a planet. We have one...

  10. Create Unique Rust and Distress Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Create Unique Rust and Distress Effects in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Learn how to create and use realistic rust and scratch effects in this excerpt from the Advanced Photo Manipulation: Movie Poster Effects course.

  11. Quick Tip: Using the Path Blur and Spin Blur in Photoshop CC 2014

    Quick Tip: Using the Path Blur and Spin Blur in Photoshop CC 2014

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Use the new Blur Filters in Photoshop CC's 2014 release to create interesting effects.

  12. Photo Manipulation Fundamentals

    Photo Manipulation Fundamentals

    Course • Beginner

    In this course you’ll learn the basics of photo manipulation with Adobe Photoshop. Follow Gary Simon as he introduces the skills and techniques used in...

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