Adobe Photoshop is usually seen as one of the most powerful photo manipulation and graphics software on the planet, and with good reason to. Photoshop lets you almost do anything you want, from creating high-resolution images to producing quality life-like graphics, Photoshop has it all.

Even though Photoshop is a very powerful monster application, it can be hard and complicated to master. This is why we’ve compiled useful and elaborative resources to help you on your Photoshop endeavor.

Tips and Tricks

Tucked Away Options Behind Box Arrows

With the sometimes busy screen filled with images and projects its easy to miss some of the smallest details within the Photoshop interface. I’m specifically speaking about the tiny arrows at the top right-hand corner of every box. These small arrows disguise various options that are useful. If you haven’t had the chance, open up one of these arrows and discover a new perspective to using Photoshop.

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With abstract layouts being a very hot design trend, creating a usable and trendy background is key.  This tutorial will show you how to create an abstract background in Photoshop and give you the tools to use your imagination and create artsy and innovative layouts.

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Merging, blending and cross-shading are some of the most difficult tasks in Photoshop. Lots of folks do it successfully to create compelling works of art and strange mutant hybrid animals. So how do they do it? Well, this video will show you how to make a ‘crog’ – a cross between a crocodile and a frog. What you’d need to do this for on a practical level is, of course, your call.

With the new free online version of Photoshop in play now is as good a time as any to brush up on your Photoshop skills and learn some new Photoshopping tricks. Photoshop Express will work for all kinds of computers and browsers so no more excuses not to get started right away!

SmashingMagazine just came out with a great Top 60 List of Photoshop Video Tutorials that are all over the map. Some of them are aimed at teaching you a particular trick or tool and others illustrate the general processes for accomplishing specific goals in Photoshop. Helpful thumbnails/screenshots are provided next to the links.

These 33 Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials are a great way to get started on editing human forms. They range from minute details associated with particular body parts and organized by type (eyes, hair, teeth, etc…) to general approaches to improving features on people using Photoshop.

Before jumping into more Photoshop tutorials it is always inspiring to see some of the possibilities out there. This collection of animal/fruit hybrids is a great set of examples showing the power and potential of Photoshop.

Sometimes you really want to pop in a reflection into a body of water that simply refused to cooperate while you were taking a photograph or otherwise Photoshopping a scene. It is surprisingly easy to do this in a convincing way. As with many Photoshopping processes you just can’t become too obsessed with any single step or appearance along the way – in the end it will look great!

This next tutorial is a bit more involved and has more artistic than strictly practical applications. Still, if you are interested in creating any kind of space-themed logo, website or other graphic design this kind of thing can really come in handy for creating original backgrounds. Here is the tutorial on how to create great space explosions virtually from scratch.