New This Week in Photoshop Roadmap — Jan 28, 2026

This week’s roundup brings together a new selection of Photoshop tutorials and creative assets recently featured on Photoshop Roadmap. From quick portrait effects to better control over how Photoshop behaves, the focus is on working faster and getting cleaner, more realistic results without adding extra steps.

You’ll find tutorials on creating colorful aura effects, blurring backgrounds with precision, customizing the Photoshop toolbar, building more believable shadows, fixing confusing default settings, and wrapping designs around complex objects using displacement maps.

On the creative side, this week also includes standout fonts, portrait actions, illustrations, brushes, and fire effects, along with AI-powered workflows for style transfer and surreal portrait creation using Generative Fill.

Editor’s Picks: Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create a Colorful Aura Effect for Portraits in Photoshop

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How to Blur Backgrounds in Photoshop with Precision and Speed

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How to Customize Your Photoshop Toolbar and Find Hidden Tools

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Editor’s Picks: Creative Assets

Disney Handwritten Font

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Whimsical Woodland Fox Illustration PNG

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Typography Portrait Photoshop Action

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Featured Posts This Week

How to Create Better Shadows Than Drop Shadow in Photoshop

The basic drop shadow effect often looks flat and artificial compared to how shadows actually behave in real environments. Professional designers know that convincing shadows require understanding light direction, surface interaction, and atmospheric perspective. This technique demonstrates how to create custom shadows that respond naturally to your composition’s lighting conditions,

Photoshop RoadmapPiXimperfect

How to Fix Three Confusing Default Settings in Photoshop

Sometimes Photoshop’s default settings can make beginners think their software or hardware is broken. Images that fly around uncontrollably when panning, scroll bars appearing on full-size images, and zoom tools that seem to have a mind of their own are all caused by simple preference settings that can be easily

Photoshop RoadmapGlyn Dewis

How to Wrap Designs Around Complex Objects Using Displacement Maps in Photoshop

Professional mockups require more than simply placing a design onto an object. Complex surfaces like crushed aluminum cans demand advanced techniques to achieve realistic wrapping that follows every contour and deformation. This process combines displacement mapping, smart objects, and blending modes to create reusable templates that automatically conform any design

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Style Transfer Creation Using Firefly Boards

Firefly Boards offers a unified workspace where you can transfer photographic styles from reference images to your own photos, then transform those styled images into animated videos. This workflow combines multiple AI models in one interface, allowing you to access advanced image generation and video creation tools without switching between

Photoshop RoadmapPhlearn

Create a Surreal Portrait Scene Using Generative Fill in Photoshop

Transforming an ordinary portrait into a magical nighttime scene traditionally requires advanced compositing skills and multiple stock images. This tutorial demonstrates how to create an entire surreal portrait using only Generative Fill, converting a simple daylight photo into an atmospheric Gothic scene complete with Victorian clothing, glowing lanterns, and mystical

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Trees Photoshop Brushes

The Trees Photoshop Stamp Brushes set includes 30 high-resolution tree stamps designed to help you add natural elements to your artwork quickly. These brushes work well for building scenes, backgrounds, or decorative details without having to draw trees from scratch. Each tree is provided as a Photoshop stamp brush, making

Photoshop RoadmapCreative Fabrica

Dynamic Fire FX: 67 Brushes for Realistic Fire Effects

The Dynamic Fire FX Brush Set includes 67 unique Photoshop brushes made for painting realistic fire effects with speed and control. Instead of flat stamp overlays, these brushes let you actually paint flames, sparks, and fiery shapes, making them ideal for sketches, illustrations, concept art, and matte painting. The set

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