70+ Coolest Photoshop Photo Effects
Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.
Here’s a compilation of 70+ Coolest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full list after jump.
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Mental Wave Explosion Effect
How to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.
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Realistic Water Reflection
How to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo.
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Displacement effects
How to use a variety of filters and techniques to produce an image in an experimental style.
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Make Photos More Suggestive
Learn how to make the model in this tutorial more suggestive with awesome curves
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Halftone Dots and Linear Light
A very cool linear light halftone dot effect in less than 2 minutes.
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Retro Comic Book Effect
Creating a old comic book effect for your photos.
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Add Realistic Rainbow To A Photo
Easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo.
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How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
Take a digital photo and make it Lomoified
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Creating a Rocking Silhouette
How to create a silhouette of a person taken from a normal photo, adding colorful light to it as if the light source is located behind this object.
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Adding Reflections To Sunglasses
How to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses.
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Age Progression
Go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.
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Alien Invasion
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Dark Art Picture Style
How to combine some stocks and Photoshop techniques to make an amazing dark art picture style.
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Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
How to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.
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Changing Hair Color
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Photo Edit Color Effects
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Add Another Dimension
Create stunning effects using glows.
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Crack and Peel
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Cool Halftone Effect
How to create halftone patterns and creatively cut up an image of a model holding a boombox.
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Creating Energy Spheres
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Devil’s Eyes
How to make eyes look more sinister
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Dynamic Lightning
How to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph.
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Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation
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Expressive lighting effects
How to go about combining several lighting techniques
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Fantasy Art
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Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion
Creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding.
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Color Hair Locks
Getting the hair colored in just few minutes.
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Beautiful Lady Effect
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How to turn your photo into movie-like effect
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Mosaic, Fill A Photo With Photos
Create a bit of an optical illusion, filling one photo with many smaller photos, or at least, many copies of a couple of smaller photos.
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Photoshop Effects: Focus With Light
How to add focus to an image with light, using Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.
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Zombie
Turning Mandy Moore or anyone into zombie.
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Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects
Put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!
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Transform a person into an alien
How to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop
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Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
How to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image off.
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Reflective Bubble
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How to Make Circle Pixels (Pop-art Style)
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Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
How to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting.
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Watercolor Effect
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Realistic Tattoos
This tutorial uses a few basic photoshop techniques, masking, color adjustment, liquify and the resize and transformation tools.
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Robotic Frog
How to take a regular frog and opened him up to reveal a mechanical skeleton.
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Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions
This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.
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Fairy Night Eye
How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.
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Make your image look awesome with a few light effects
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Compositing with Adjustment Layers
Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.
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Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo
How to add a sparkle trail to a photo
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Adding Light Streaks To A Photo
How to add colorful streaks of light to a photo.
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Make Perfume Commercial
How to make your very own fragrance advertisements.
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Colorful Picture Style
Make a strong impression to a picture by using color blend techniques
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Electrifying Energy Beams
Great effect that will bring some energy to your subject.
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The little mermaid Photo Effects
Learn to improve the quality of the picture, create the effect of scales on the human skin, create the model’s make-up, change the color of her hair.
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Coldplay / Apple Style Portrait
How to create a portrait based on the style of the latest Coldplay / Apple Ad featuring “Viva la Vida” from Coldplay
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The Making of Mystic
Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image.
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How to make your own vector portraits
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Photo Editing / Retouching
Basic editing tutorial using adobe Photoshop.
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Blue glow dreamy portrait
Make a dreamy portrait by playing with glow and colours.
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Fire Lines Tutorial
How to create creative and stylish fire lines in 10 easy steps.
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Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks
A technique often used in advertising these days, is these glowing lines. They look like light motion trails. If you ever wondered how to create these kind of lines, here is how I do it…
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Lighting effects in Photoshop
Creative lighting can make all the difference to your photos – here’s how to jazz it up a little.
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Sin City Photo Effect
How to get that Sin City look in your image.
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Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo
How to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes.
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Photo to Pencil Sketch
Convert photo to pencil sketch effect in Photoshop.
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Creating your own Fairytale Scene
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Giving a Mafia-Look to a Business Photo
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Dirty Grunge Poster
This tutorial will show you how to change your images into a cool dirty grunge design, which could be used for posters, prints, CD covers, etc.
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A Rather Different Photo Collage
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Urban-Style Piece of Artwork
How to create a dirty, urban style image using both well known techniques as well as a few new ones.
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The Ocean Girl Photo Effect
Learn how to create an ocean girl artwork by combining some stocks and blending techniques.
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The Guitar Photo Effect
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Make photos sparkle
From fashion shots to portraits, here’s how to add a touch of magic with Photoshop lighting effects.
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Good and Evil Photo Effect
How to take an image and split it into two personalities.
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Desaturated ‘Gothic’ Look
Style Kruella (or anyone) in a vaguely ‘Underworld’ desaturated blue style for that traditional ‘goth’ look.
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How to make your Twins (Clones)
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Comments
Hi there, these are great, i love 1, 33, and 46 but all are amazing.
Does anyone know what version of photoshop this is?
Thanks
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These effects are amazing! Where can i get the software to download? Ineed a link please. Quick reply please.
Thanks.
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Hmm… Interesting! I always love reading the posts on this website….
I think that that was really interesting. Good post!…
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Hello
I’m extremely interested in the Blue Glow Dreamy Portrait Effect for the young lady and have searched all over the net to found the site had a fatal damage to the hardware. The other version is the young toddler, which the instruction is too brief and do not have the details for the beginner. For example, the first 3 steps:
1. Duplicate it twice, set the new layer to screen 25% & set soflight 40% for the other.
2. Create a new layer and put it on top. Fill color #fff200 and set softlight 41%.
3. Now duplicate the background image.
To the above 3 steps.. I have no idea what to click on my CS5.
Please do help the beginners
Thanks so much
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I’m extremely interested in the Blue Glow Dreamy Portrait Effect for the young lady and have searched all over the net to found the site had a fatal damage to the hardware.
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The sill-out effect ll be very helpful for the beginners in photoshop thanks a lot for these great tutorials.
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The good and evil photo effect is really very good and thanks for posting these tutorials on different effects.
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I love it .I also want to learn it .Plz tell me about it and any site from where i learn it.
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March 1, 2009
Awesome list
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