180 Best Photoshop Tutorials of Year 2014

Yogesh Mankani - January 7, 2015 - Tutorials

Photoshop that is one of the most important tools to help them let their creative juices flow, shape their ideas and come up with amazing designs to leave people amazed. The cool features, tools, brushes and other things Photoshop comes endowed with enables users to handle different design projects. Now, we all know the answer to the question that is it easy to handle Photoshop at every level. At one point or the other, every designer needs a helping hand to overcome the problems one gets stuck with.

How can fellow designers lend a helping hand? Tutorials is the answer! Now a days, besides working on different design projects, designers are trying to take some out from their busy schedule and come up with useful tutorials providing the stepwise procedure to get the desired results. There are innumerable best Photoshop tutorials, floating all over the web. However, its not easy to go through each one and in this case one needs to be selective in making the choice of the best Photoshop tutorials 2014 one would want to try hand on.

TheNeoDesign team is making continuous efforts to help you all in narrowing down their search by preparing the monthly compilations of different Photoshop tutorials. Today, we thought of coming up with best Photoshop tutorials of the year 2014. You read it right. How about sneaking the peek at the compilation of the best Photoshop tutorials 2014? Enjoy the joyride!

Do not forget to check out our other article featuring 120 best Illustrator tutorials 2014 that has been most useful for beginners, intermediate and advance learners.

1. Create a Flight Animation From Scratch in Adobe Photoshop

Spotted at Design.TutsPlus.com, you can learn to create a flight animation from scratch using Photoshop. The tutorial will be well-detailed and explains the procedures step-wise.

2. Making of : Tombstone

By Dhanad Islam, you will learn to create 3D creature called Tombstone using Photoshop, Maya and Zbrush.

3. Compiling Complex Scenes

It is not an easy task to compile complex scenes in one tutorial but Andrew Averkin at 3DTotal explains the process of compiling complex scenes and create a masterpiece called Far Away from Home.

4. Design an Elegant “Gratitude Log” Landing Page With Photoshop

Landing page is important part of any online business and if you are looking to get some inspiration or want to create your own, check out this tutorial by Tomas Laurinavicius at Design.TutsPlus.com.

5. Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorial: Create Symmetrical Vector Character Art

Create symmetrical vector character art using Illustrator and Photoshop. A step-wise Photoshop tutorial combine shapes and textures to create below masterpiece. .

6. Photoshop Tutorial: Use Lighting Effects to Bring a Sparkle to a Photo Illustration

We found this Photoshop tutorial at DigitalArtsOnline.co.uk that explains how to bring a sparkle to a photo illustration using lightening effects and use of Photoshop’s Ellipse tools.

7. Create a Sunset Landscape Photo Manipulation

A detailed tutorial that helps beginner learners to create a beautiful sunset landscape photo manipulation using different stock images. If you love such tutorials, you can also check our article showcasing best Photoshop Manipulation tutorials that our readers loved.

8. Amazing Surreal Shark Photoshop Tutorial You Have to Try

Spotted at PhotoshopTutorials.ws, you will learn to create surreal shark with the help of textures, stock images and basic techniques.

9. How to Create an Intense Composite of a Stone Tiger with Blue Flames

Check out another tutorial from PhotoshopTutorials.ws that will help you to create a stone tiger with blue flames that gives an impression of intense composition.

10. 22 Easy Steps to Create This Haunted House Scene

A 22 step procedure Photoshop tutorial that will help you create a spooky and haunted house scene using techniques like blending, masking, coloring and others.

11. How to Create a Photo Caricature in Adobe Photoshop

Personally, I love creating caricature in my free time and if you love too. Check this tutorial that will help you create funny looking photo caricature in Adobe Photoshop.

12. How to Composite a Destroyed City Scene and Retouch Characters in Photoshop

This tutorial from PhotoshopTutorials.ws will help you to create post-apocalyptic scene using stock photos.

13. Create an Emotional Autumn Scene Photo Manipulation

Spotted at PhotoshopStar.com, this tutorial will help you to create emotional autumn scene and learn retouching the model, skin and hairs.

14. How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

This tutorial from SpoonGraphics.co.uk will help you to create a grainy black and white high fashion photo effect easily without much of difficulty.

15. Striped Fuzzy Text Effect

If you love fluffy things, this tutorial is appropriate for you. In this tutorial, you will learn to create striped fuzzy text effect.

16. Create a Crystal Beast Concept Art Work in Adobe Photoshop

Creating a concept art is not an easy task but Monika Zagrobelna explains how to create a crystal beast concept art work easily.

17. Create an Emotional Abstract Photo Manipulation of a Rose

Create a abstract photo manipulation of a rose using basic manipulation techniques in Photoshop.

18. How to Add Realistic Falling Snow to a Photo in Photoshop

This tutorial will help you to convert any season into snow weather as this will help you to add realistic falling snow to a photo so that it looks like snow is falling.

19. Create a 3D Sports Graphics Illustration

By Mick Theisen, this tutorial will help you to create 3D sports graph illustration in which Illustrator will be used to create and export basic path, Cinema 4D to build the 3D and Photoshop for the post production.

20. Glossy Candy Cane Text Effect + Free PSD Download

Spotted at TextTuts.com, this tutorial will help you create glossy candy cane text effect that is also available for free download.

21. Making of “Cyrax vs Sektor”

Create this popular scene with the help of tutorial published at 3DTotal.com.

22. Glam Gold Text Effect + Free PSD Download

Another awesome Photoshop text effect tutorial posted on TextTuts.com that will help you give glamourised golden effect to any text that you can download for free later in the article.

23. The Flash 3D Logo Photoshop Tutorial

Everyone once in their lifetime reads comics and follow their favorite superhero. So, we are sure you’ll love to create a logo for a superhero in Photoshop. This tutorial will help you to create a 3D Flash logo that looks elegant.

24. How to Create a Marvellous Night Landscape with Waterfalls

Another photo manipulation tutorial from PhotoshopTutorials.ws that will help you to create a night landscape with beautiful waterfall in the background.

25. Making Of ‘Haohmaru’

Haohmaru, a fictional character from the video game “Samurai Showdown” looks fiery and cool. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial by 3DTotal.com will help you to create one.

26. The Making of ‘A cup of tea?’

This tutorial by Yu Sun will help you to create a complex masterpiece called “A cup of tea” with help of software such as Photoshop, 3D Max, ZBrush and V-Ray.

27. How to Create Custom Smoke Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

By Kirk Nelson, this tutorial will explain how to create custom smoke brushes in easy way that you can use later in your design projects.

28. Create a Vintage Design Using Stylish Halftone Effects

Use halftone effects to a create a vintage design poster with the help of Photoshop tutorial we found at DigitalArtsOnline.co.uk.

29. Octupus Text Effect : Tentacle Syyle 3D Letters

Well, Photoshop tutorial is a great software and creating text effects in this software is easy. So, here’s one more text effect tutorial that will help you to give Octopus effects to any text and give it a 3d look.

30. Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorial: Combine Photos and Vectors into a 1980s Look

Another tutorial that use Illustrator and Photoshop and help you to combine photos and vectors to give a vintage look to any stock image.

31. From Speed Paint to Detail: Paint a Bat-Cat in Adobe Photoshop

A very detailed Photoshop tutorial for advanced learners to help you learn speed paint a bat-cat and take care of each and every detail.

32. How to Create an Awesome Fiery Grim Reaper by Combining Images

Another awesome Photoshop manipulation tutorial that will help you create a fiery grim reaper scene combining different images in Photoshop CS4 or later.

33. Create a Children’s Picture Book Illustration

Another Photoshop tutorial from DigitalArtsOnline.co.uk in which Fabio Sasso uses Adjustments, Adjustment Layers, Blurs and Masks to create illustration that can used in children’s picture.

34. Photoshop tutorial: Stylise Photos using Colourful Shapes

This tutorial from DigitalArtsOnline.co.uk that will help you to create a stylish photo using colorful shapes in Photoshop.

35. How to Create a Flying Angel Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Spotted at PhotoshopTutorials.ws, this tutorial will help beginners to create a scene of a flying angel in night.

36. Create a Mystical Night Forest Scene with an Angel

Another tutorial from PhotoshopTutorials.ws that will again help you learn creating an angel but with different atmosphere. This tutorial will help you to create a mystical night forest scene.

37. How To Create a Realistic Painted Effect in Photoshop

Want to give any portrait image a realistic painted effect, check out this Photoshop tutorial at SpoonGraphics.co.uk.

38. Create Dark Text Effect Inspired by “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor” Game in Photoshop

A beginner to intermediate level tutorial posted at PSDVault.com that will help you to create a dark text effect in Photoshop inspired by video game called Middle Earth : Shadow of Mordor.

39. How to Create a Vintage Style Poster in Photoshop

Vintage or retro-inspired designs are not going to be old and this is the reason you’ll find such tutorials often. In this tutorial, you will learn to create vintage style poster design in Photoshop. Do not forget to check our other article featuring best poster design Photoshop tutorials.

40. Creating The Lone Ranger Movie Logo in Adobe Photoshop CC

Another Photoshop logo design tutorial that we found at PlanetPhotoshop.com in which you will learn to create a glossy, metallic movie logo called “The Lone Ranger”. By the way, if you want to create logos in Illustrator, here are some of the best Illustrator logo design tutorials.