Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in August

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It’s the start of a new month, so its time list some of the best Photoshop tutorials created last month. Normally, we try and post this lists in the last few days of the month. But with the schedule and timing issues, we didn’t have time to start on this article until early this morning.

Photoshop Tutorials

In August, there were a lot of great tutorials. As always, we only listed the ones we found most helpful for our readers. This list contains a list of basic photo editing Photoshop tutorials and few intermediate photo manipulation tutorials. But even if you are just beginning and know the Photoshop tool layout, then you can attempt all of these tutorials.

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Blending Backgrounds Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to merge different images to create one landscape. This tutorial uses multiple layers and blends them together. The tutorial is designed for beginner level users.

How Selective Color Works

Selective Color Adjustment layer a Photoshop feature that not a lot of people use. But it is very useful and is flexible when hue/saturation and color balance is does not help. This tutorial will show how to use this tool by doing skin correction. This is a beginner level tutorial.

Landscape Photography Editing – Gradients & Adjustments

If you take a lot of landscape pictures, then you know how hard it can be to get that perfect picture. The lighting has to be just right or you are going to spend a lot of time editing your image in Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop. This tutorial is a beginner level tutorial that teaches us how us gradients and adjustment to edit landscape images.

Landscape Photography – Basic Editing

For anyone wanting to edit images, they need to know the basics of editing. The basics includes how to modify contrast, color balance, sharpening, and saturation. This tutorial covers all these basic tools and shows you how to do basic edits to a landscape photo.

Create a Floating Over-Grown “Tree House” in Photoshop

In this tutorial combines several stock images to create a floating over-grown tree house in Photoshop. This is an intermediate tutorial and will take about four or five hours.

Create a Medieval Landscape in Photoshop

This tutorial uses digital painting and photo manipulation techniques to create a medieval landscape. This is an intermediate tutorial that’s about an hour or two to complete. In order to complete this tutorial, you will need to be able sketch the outline of the design.

Captain America Shield in Photoshop

The Captain America Shield tutorial is an easy tutorial and should take you less than hour  to complete.

Dark Knight Rises Poster in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create a Dark Knight Rises movie poster in Photoshop. This tutorial will take a few hours to complete.

How to Create a Silent Hill Inspired Photo-Manipulation using Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are taught how to create fog by using fill layers, cloud render tool, and easy ways to blend images together to create the look of fog.

How to Create a Traditional Painting-Like Surreal Image using Photoshop

Ever wanted to create a surreal image? If so, then you are in luck. This tutorial will walk you through how to create that surreal look in your work.