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Tutorials That Remain One Step Above the Rest
With hundreds of Photoshop tutorial sites around these days it’s easy to forget some of the classic posts that have shaped and inspired the community for years. These kinds of posts are in a sense timeless, and have inspired countless designers (including myself) to begin writing their own tutorials. For this reason they have received tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands of views), often hundreds of comments, as well as being featured in publications the world over.
Whether it be exploring lighting effects properly for the first time, coming up with some truly extraordinary typography, or simply creating a kick-ass web layout tutorial, these tutorials remain pillars in the design community.
Whilst many of you may have come across these tutorials at one time or another, I find that it always helps to look back over the classics, and remind ourselves just why they’re so great. All of the people running these sites are great designers, and I strongly recommend that you go and check out their sites and subscribe to their feeds.
Apologies if I’ve missed out anyone’s site that feels they deserve to be here, but this post encompasses the main sites that have inspired me in the past and present. Feel free to suggest your own favorite tutorials, or other tutorials that you feel stand out from the crowd in the comments to this post.
Tutorial 9
Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait
PSDTUTS
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect
How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation
Web Designer Depot
Render a 3d Text Scene Using Photoshop
How to Make a Photoshop Montage
PSD Learning
Grafpedia
Create an Awesome Portfolio Layout
Create a Clean PSD Layout with a 3d Look
Design a Realistic Web Layout in Photoshop
Abduzeedo
Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop
NaldzGraphics
How to Create a Glowing Neon Girl in Photoshop
How to Create a Cute Green Apple Photo Manipulation
Create a Lighting Effect Scene in Photoshop
My Ink Blog
Design with Swirls and Flourishes
Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop
Create a Vintage Polaroid Effect
Tutzor
Design a Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer
Smashing Magazine
Drunken Monkey Illustration in Photoshop
PS Hero
PSD Themes
RocknRolla Personal Blog Design
10 Steps
Create a 3d Flowery Text Effect
Create a Face Shattering Effect
Spoon Graphics
Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
How to Create Intense Light Streaks
PSD Vault
Create Diablo III Inspired Grunge Text Effect
Design an Elegant Abstract Site Header Image in Photoshop
Create a Realistic Lightning Text Effect in Photoshop
Web Designer Wall
Photo Strip Photoshop Tutorial
Go Mediazine
Create Dream Design 3d Typography
Old School Type Line Gradients
Also don’t forget to check out the most popular tutorials right here at PSDFAN! I hope that you’ve enjoyed this list, and would love to know of your favorite tutorials that have inspired you over the years!
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Feeling Kind
I would really appreciate a Digg or Stumble on this post, as it took quite some time to compile. Most of these websites do not have a ‘popular posts’ section, so I’ve trawled through all of their archives to find the most popular and inspiring posts in their history.
Comments appreciated too! 
About the Author:
Tom is the founder of PSDFAN. He loves writing tutorials, learning more about design and interacting with the community. On a more interesting note he can also play guitar hero drunk with his teeth.
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Thank you for including some of my tutorials in this list
Great roundup Tom. Thanks for the inclusion
No problem guys
. I count both of your blogs as among the most inspiring out there!
Tom,
This is another huge list of mind blowing inspirations. All these things make PSDfan very special place.
Thanks for sharing.
- J Mehmett
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Thanks for your great selection, I have probably subscribed all sites you mentioned in the post!
Nice
Thanks
Thank you Tom, for mentioning 10Steps.SG
Thanks for the list! It’s a pity my tutorials were not included though – http://www.vladstudio.com/photoshoptutorials/ – some people find them useful
I love it. Now I will be posting this in my twitter
http://www.twitter.com/haicharlie143
Awesome list! Thanks for sharing. I do refer to Tutorial 9 a lot. But do you really believe that referring to these tutorials can actually make you a designer. I mean one should have an eye for designing! Tutorial can teach you the technical part, but the most important factor is creativity. Don’t you think this is the factor that makes your design unique and appealing!!
Super cool photoshop tutorials ! I like 10steps.sg tutorial very much!
wow, thanks for the great bunch of tutorial sites bro,
thanks
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Sumbled & thumbed up.
Great list, will definetly try some of these.