100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials

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How can we define what’s a photo effect? That was my main concern when I started the research to build this list. Despite of this situation, I had one thing clear: the final result had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a post production photo manipulation.
That idea would leave all kind of complex photo retouching and subtle color correction out of the discussion. I’ve already gathered some of those tutorials in my Guide to Photoshop digital makeover and 70 horror, blood and gore photoshop tutorials and brushes articles.

So, with that idea in mind, I gathered what I consider 100 of the best photo effects Photoshop tutorials available on the web. If you have created a photo effect that you consider should have made it into the list, feel free to post the link in the comments section.

Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials

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Retro comic book

Photo to illustration

Color ink illustration

Fantastic Splashing water girl effect

Elegant two color Technicolor effect

HDR toning effect

Vintage Polaroid effect

Remove unwanted objects

Use color to enhance black and white photo

C-41 to E6 X-Pro

Orton Effect

Enlarge images

Creative colors

3D Stereo Effect

Water reflection

Polaroid collage

Rainbow effect

Oil painting

Watercolor painting

Andy Warhol pop art

Daguerreotype

Cubism effect

Cross processing

Dynamic lighting

Ghost

Dusk lighting effect

Lomo photography

Fake HDR

Mysterious lighting

Photo mosaic

City globe

Pencil sketch

Fake model photography

Photo to stencil

Photo mosaic

Filtering out colors

Panographies

Lichtenstein pop art

Vector art

Vintage photo effect

Selective sepia

Adding rain to a photo

Soft glow effect

High key B&W effect

Charcoal drawing

Adding snow to a photo

Sin City movie effect

Horror film effect

Movie like effect

Professional HDR

Painting effect

Spotlight effect

Better negative effect

Dave Hill style effect

Frosted pixels

Coloring effects

Darklight manipulation

Blueprint

Fade pixel stretch

Old movie effect

Fog and mist

Night vision

Blurry scanlines

Dreamy soft focus

Realistic painting

Portrait painting effect

Hot and fiery effect

Trippy colors effect

iPod people

Torn photo

Painting with light

Sunset silhouettes

Photo to fire effect

TV screen closeup

Dramatic colors

Displacement water

Photo Mosaic

Pop out frame

Indie movie look

Depth of field

Infrared vision

Old texture effect

TV Scanlines

Photo on cracked wall

Puzzle effect

Cool and warm sepia

Apply texture to photo

Cast light from a window

Dreamy misty effect

Motion blur

Speed effect

Paint on canvas

Photo dither

Watercolor

Polka dots

Halftone dots

Text photo effect

Night shooting effect

Color pencil effect

Photo to sketch

Illustration effect

Dramatic gritty effect

Photo Effects Photoshop Plugins

Puzzle photo effect

Puzzle Pro

Dreamy photo effect

Mystical Lighting

Photo frame effect

DreamSuite II

Depth of field

Lens Care Depth of field Photoshop plugin

Photo effects

Filter Forge photo effects plugins

 

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