The vast array of Photoshop tutorials available online is one of the things that makes Adobe's software so appealing. It makes it easy to learn how to do whatever you want to achieve in Adobe's industry-leading app.
Photoshop has lots of competitors, but its strength is that it has so many different tools. This makes it the best software for digital art, but also the best photo editing software and among the best graphic design software.
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Photoshop new features
Discover the new features introduced in Photoshop 2024 and the latest beta version, Photoshop 26.0, in these quick overviews. These include brief introductions to Photoshop Generative Workspace and the new Find Distractions tool. Scroll down further for beginner Photoshop tutorials.
What's new in Adobe Photoshop 2025?
If you're already familiar with Photoshop and you're just wondering what's new in the latest release, Photoshop 26.0, this video from the ever succinct Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect provides clear breakdown of seven key new features, including new tools in beta. It shows how we can now work with 3D objects using the new Substance 3D Viewer, including how to apply materials and render.
Other new features demonstrated include Find Distractions with the improved Photoshop Remove Tool, improved Generative Fill and the new Generative Workspace. For some of the newest features, you'll need Photoshop beta. See our guide to how to download Photoshop.
Photoshop parametric filters tutorial
The other addition in Photoshop beta 25.1 are new parametric filters. The short demonstration above shows how they can be used to create the impression of glass over the subject in an image.
How to use Generative Fill in Photoshop
Generative Fill powered by Adobe Firefly AI, and, as of September 2025, also by third-party AI models, allows users to generate new imagery or remove or modify existing elements in an image using text prompts. The new elements are generated in layers so they can be individually manipulated without destroying your original image, and the AI tech automatically adds details like reflections and shadows to match the existing image.
Our tutorial on how to use Generative Fill in Photoshop breaks the process down into simple steps. Just turn the Contextual Bar on in Window > Contextual Task Bar, select an area in the image with a selection tool like the Lasso, Pen or marquee, type a text prompt in the Contextual text bar and click Generate. Cycle through the results and choose the generation that you prefer. You might want one of the best laptops for Photoshop to make use of the software's AI features.
How to use Photoshop Generative Expand
Generative Expand in Photoshop allows you to change the dimensions of an image beyond those of the original. If a photo is too narrow or too short for the placement where you want to use it, you can use the tool to expand its borders with AI-generated visuals that match the scene.
In our tutorial on how to use Photoshop Generative Expand, we show how to choose Generative Expand in the Task Bar with the crop tool selected, and to select the crop proportions you want or create a new Crop Preset of your own. You'll then need to drag the crop handles out to fill your new required size. Generative Expand will provide you with three options, which you can cycle through to choose the one you like best.
Photoshop basics
The beginners' section in our roundup focuses on Photoshop tutorials that introduce key tools and essential skills as well as overviews of how Photoshop works.
Photoshop for beginners tutorial
Adobe-certified instructor Dan Scott offers a comprehensive tutorial fit for complete beginners with no Photoshop, photography or design knowledge at all. In a three-hour video, Scott, who works for Envato Tuts+, walks through all the basics. Don't have that level of patience? No problem. If you don't fancy consuming three hours of Photoshop knowledge all at once (and we don't blame you), the video has a handy timing list in the description box so you can jump to the section in the Photoshop for beginners tutorial that you want and work your way through it in stages.
Get to know Photoshop tutorial
Part of a series of Photoshop tutorials produced by Adobe itself, Get to know Photoshop teaches you the basic tools and techniques of the software. You'll be introduced to the work area and will learn how to open and save your images, zoom in and out, and undo mistakes.
Photoshop on iPad tutorial for beginners
It's been a few years since Photoshop made the leap to the iPad, and like the desktop version of Adobe's flagship app, the software is constantly evolving. This tutorial from YouTube channel Art and Design gives a great primer, with a step-by-step demonstration of how to use PS on an Apple tablet. In just half an hour you'll learn how to move layers, utilise paint tools, create clipping masks and more with your Apple pencil (see our guide to the best iPad stylus for a review of all the best stylus options for your tablet.)
How to resize an image in Photoshop
Image resizing is probably one of the most essential basic tasks you'll want to do as a beginner. It might seem simple – just go to Image > Image Size in the menu bar, and enter the dimensions you want in pixels, inches or centimetres. But there's the tricky issue of image resolution.
In our guide to How to resize an image on Photoshop, we look at the difference between resizing the image and resizing the canvas and consider how changing the image size affects dpi and what we can do to avoid compromising too much on image quality using resampling. We also look at cropping and resizing single layers.
How to work with layers in Photoshop
Layers are one of those fundamental concepts you'll need to get your head around, and here's another of Adobe's own Photoshop tutorials to walk you through the basics. How to work with layers teaches you what layers are and how to use the Layers panel, how to resize the contents of a layer, and how to add images to a layered file.
How to make selections in Photoshop
Photoshop now has some powerful AI-driven tools to automatically select subjects and objects in images, but sometimes you still need to do things the old-fashioned way using the Quick Selection or Lasso tools. Adobe's How to make selections tutorial reveals shows the process, including how to fine-tune the edges of a selection.
How to flip a layer in Photoshop
Discover how to flip a layer in Photoshop, and then blend the results with the original. In another of his excellent Photoshop tutorials for Creative Bloq, Matt Smith walks you through the process in six easy steps.
When incorporating repeating designs and patterns into an illustration, smart layers are your friend. In this tutorial, how to use smart layers in Photoshop, Alix Branwyn teaches you how to use them to create a separate layered PSD that can be embedded into your original PSD.
How to use smart layers in Photoshop
Photoshop tutorials for digital art
How to use the Photoshop Brush tool
In another of our Photoshop tutorials from Mark White, you'll discover how to use the Brush tool in Photoshop. This step-by-step guide includes helpful guides to what each of the icons in the Brush palette mean.
How to use the Photoshop Pen tool
This is one of Creative Bloq's very own Photoshop tutorials. Here, Mark White explains how to use the Photoshop Pen tool, a simple selection feature that enables you to fill, stroke or make selections from whatever you draw.
We've also looked at how you can use the Pen tool together with textures to add depth to digital art in Photoshop. Use the Pen tool to draw simple, solid shapes to build up the most distant elements of the illustration and a combination of freehand drawing and the Pen tool to introduce the midground elements.
How to use Photoshop layers: 6 top tips
This tutorial, How to use Photoshop layers: 6 top tips, will teach you to use Photoshop's layer system; the key to unlocking the software's versatility. Here, you’ll find out how to create layers, lock them, group them and adjust opacity.
Digital painting with Photoshop CC for beginners
Digital painting with Photoshop for beginners breaks down the process of creating a simple digital painting, from start to finish. If you can work on a canvas with paints, then many of the same painting techniques you use will transfer directly over to digitally painting in Photoshop.
How to create an anaglyph effect in Photoshop
An anaglyph effect is the vintage style of 3D where you have to wear red and blue glasses to appreciate the content. One of our most popular Photoshop tutorials, Create an old-school anaglyph effect, explains how to achieve this classic effect using base images, shading and textures.
Create textures with the Photoshop Pattern Stamp tool
Photoshop's Pattern Stamp tool can be a godsend when you want to create ideas and concepts as quickly as you can. In this most visually inspiring of Photoshop tutorials, Lino Drieghe explains how to use the Pattern Stamp tool to create a variety of textures and colours and your own custom patterns.
How to transform a pencil sketch
This is another one of the many Photoshop tutorials that deliver exactly what they promise. In how to transform a pencil sketch, Don Seegmiller talks us through how to make hand-drawn sketches easier to work with in Photoshop.
Create painterly effects in Photoshop
These two video-based Photoshop tutorials direct from Adobe can help you take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Create painterly effects in Photoshop CC starts out with an explanation from Kyle T. Webster on how to use the Mixer brush tool to add life to simple shapes.
The second tutorial delves into how to use Adobe Stock to add some context to your digital painting. It shows how to create painterly effects using Photoshop's range of Edvard Munch paintbrushes.
Photoshop tutorials for photo editing
Edit your first photo in Photoshop
Photoshop tutorials for beginners can be found on a range of subjects, and this one teaches you how to edit your first photo. Bring out the best in your images with the useful techniques outlined here.
How to retouch images in Photoshop
How to retouch images is a trio of Photoshop tutorials in video form. They walk you through how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools in Photoshop.
How to make a photo collage in Photoshop
Learn how to combine images to make a simple photo collage in Photoshop with this tutorial from Matt Smith. You can use this technique to create your own collages from photographs, and perhaps eventually build on your compositions to create more intricate design collages from your own creations.
How to use Photoshop layer masks
One of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, How to use Photoshop layer masks will help you streamline your digital art workflow. As any beginner will quickly learn, layer masks are one of the most fundamental parts of the software: without them your work will look flat. Follow these tips and shortcuts to work more quickly and easily.
How to remove a background in Photoshop
Another of our own Photoshops tutorials takes you through several different ways to remove a background in Photoshop. Jo Gulliver starts off by taking you through how to use the Magic Wand tool and Quick Selection tools to remove a background, before moving on to more advanced techniques.
How to create a meme in Photoshop
Social media’s all about memes these days, and making them is a nice skill to have. In one of our most popular Photoshop tutorials, How to make a meme in Photoshop, Matt Smith explains how to make multiple memes in moments. Have fun!
Photoshop Neural Filters tutorial for perfect eyes
These intermediate Photoshop tutorials cover everything from useful tools to retouching eyes and faces to creating logos, posters and web prototypes.
One of the biggest developments that Adobe's been adding to Photoshop in recent years are its Neural Filters. Powered by artificial intelligence, these can be used to generate new pixels, radically changing images. There are Neural Filters to colourise black and white images, change backgrounds and modify human figures.
That's what portrait photographer Glyn Dewis deals with in this Photoshop Neural Filters tutorial. He shows how the Smart Portrait Neural Filter for eye direction can be used to easily change the direction of a subject's eyes, simply by using a slider. We get a great insight into his working process too.
Four little-known Photoshop tricks that will change your workflow forever
Even for the most experienced Photoshop user, though, there'll always be something new to learn. For example, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda has revealed four rarely used practical features that will make a significant difference to your workflow. From Sky Replacement to Pattern Preview, you can learn them all here.
How to Photoshop someone into a picture
Editing a photo of somebody into an illustrated scene is a useful technique. In this most easy to follow of Photoshop tutorials, how to Photoshop someone into a picture, Matt Smith explains how to do so in six steps without using AI.
Visual development tips in Photoshop
Learn how to hone your storytelling skills and use them to create a visual development scene in Photoshop. This workshop focuses on creating a pre-visual development, which is about painting gorgeous scenery.
How to create masks in Photoshop
Crafting your own digital art masks can seem daunting at first, but once you start using them you’ll never go back. In how to create masks in Photoshop, Paul Canavan offers tips to get you started.
Six essential Photoshop layers to improve your images
In 6 essential Photoshop layers to improve your images, James Paterson outlines the six most frequently used Photoshop layers for image editing, and explains how you can use them to improve almost any photo.
How to manage colours in Photoshop
How to manage colours in Photoshop is a helpful tutorial in which Sebastian Bleak provides an overview for anyone new to colour management, with practical advice for managing colours in Photoshop.
Get creative with Photoshop Blend Modes
Combining layers and images can allow you to create a huge variety of effects. For one of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, Get creative with Photoshop Blend Modes, James Paterson explains how these effects work, and some of the wonderful things you can do with them.
Photoshop for web design: pro tips
There aren't that many Photoshop tutorials covering its use in web design, but here's a great one. In Photoshop for web design: 20 pro tips, David Everly and Dan Rose offer tips for being efficient when creating website graphics.
How to make a composite in Photoshop
Make a composite in Photoshop is another instalment in Adobe’s series of handy one-minute Photoshop tutorials. Here, you'll learn a quick way to make a composite in the software, in the time it takes you to boil a kettle.
How to make an animated GIF in Photoshop
Who doesn’t love an animated GIF? Learn how to craft your own with this video direct from Adobe on how to make an animated GIF in Photoshop.
Get creative with Face-Aware Liquify
In another one of Creative Bloq's own Photoshop tutorials, Get creative with Face-Aware Liquify, Luke O'Neill explores the Liquify tool, which has some powerful facial recognition abilities. Use it to detect areas of the face, such as the eyes, mouth and overall face shape. You can then adjust and warp them as you please!
Create style frames in Photoshop
This tutorial teaches you how to create style frames in Photoshop. A style frame is a snapshot of a finished frame as it would look within a longer animation. It aims to capture the overall look and feel of an animation, but in a still image.
Make a double exposure in Photoshop
Here's aother of Adobe 60-second Photoshop tutorials under the 'Make It Now' banner. Make a double exposure in Photoshop shows you to create an impressive double exposure effect.
The Photoshop Refine Edge box tool explained
Learn about the seven main features of the Refine Edge tool in this Photoshop tutorial, The Refine Edge box tool explained. If you've ever tried to change the background of a person with frizzy hair or a horizon dotted with bushy foliage, you'll know just how intensely time consuming this can be. Luckily Refine Edge is here to make your life easier.
Combine traditional and digital skills to create a comic cover
Combine traditional and digital skills to create a comic cover shows you how to draw an illustration by hand, then take it into Photoshop to colour and light it, then add eye-catching filters. If you like working with traditional materials, this is one of the best Photoshop tutorials to help give your work more impact.
Rapid site prototyping in Photoshop
Photoshop isn't only an image-editing package. Although it isn't so widely used for UI/UX, it actually offers a comprehensive toolset for mocking up websites quickly and easily. In Rapid site prototyping in Photoshop, Antony Kitson explains how to use the key features to convey your idea to a client or developer.
How to age a photograph in Photoshop
Another of Creative Bloq's most popular Photoshop tutorials, this will teach you to age a photograph in Photoshop using the duotone technique. This will help you turn a ho-hum, full colour image into something striking in a more controlled way than by using simple filters alone.
How to remove wrinkles in Photoshop
Learning how to remove wrinkles is the kind of thing that Photoshop tutorials are made for. This is one of the classic Photoshop skills. Here, award-winning photographer Jason Parnell-Brookes walks you through how to parse out some crow's feet and tone down some deeper folds, while keeping your subject looking natural.
How to use grid and guide tools in Photoshop
In how to use grid and guide tools in Photoshop, an original tutorial created for ImagineFX and Creative Bloq, Gillian Galang shows us how to make use of the software's guide and grid tools to paint a beautiful landscape painting with great accuracy. It's a lot easier than you think if you're using the right tools.
How to colourise greyscale work in Photoshop
In colourise greyscale work in Photoshop, one of his Photoshop tutorials for Creative Bloq, Stephan McGowan walks us through the techniques and tools he uses to create full-colour images from a greyscale line-art starting point, using Photoshop's default tools.
Create a glowing neon text effect
Learn how to create a glowing neon text effect with just one background image. It’s a lot easier than you might think, says Mark White, and indeed it is if you follow his process.
How to photo stack in Photoshop
If you're a landscape or macro photographer, you're probably familiar with the technique of photostacking. This is a technique that involves take multiple captures of the same scene with the focus on a different point. The aim is to get every part of a subject in focus in instances where that isn't possible with a single capture, even with a small aperture.
In the video above, Nick Page makes the process easy to understand, from initial edits on the raw files to opening the images as layers in Photoshop and auto aligning them to compensate for focus breathing.
Master the Mixer brush in Photoshop
This is one of those advanced Photoshop tutorials that's actually wonderfully simple to follow. In Master the Mixer brush in Photoshop, Wangjie Li teaches us how to quickly make brushstrokes in the style of a traditional artist.
Seven essential Photoshop Blend mode tips and tricks
In 7 essential Photoshop Blend mode tips and tricks, James Paterson explores the most useful Blend modes and how they can help you in your day to day work. Whether you’re dodging and burning, hand-painting or portrait‑toning, this is one of those Photoshop tutorials that aims to make your life easier.
How to use control points in Photoshop
Most Photoshop users will be familiar with making selections or using masks to isolate areas for selective adjustments, but control points are different. You simply click on a point, adjust the circular area to fit over whatever you want to target, and the software will work out what you want to adjust by seeking similar tones. See how it works in the Photoshop tutorial how to use control points in Photoshop using Nik Collection plugins.
The ultimate guide to compositing images in Photoshop
Of all Photoshop tasks, compositing images into one fantastic frame is perhaps the most enjoyable and creative. In this tutorial, The ultimate guide to compositing images in Photoshop, you'll discover how to shoot, build and finish off convincing composites using Adobe's software.
Colour in Photoshop: top tricks
This is one of the most colourful Photoshop tutorials, and one that's bound to improve your mood. Colour in Photoshop: top tricks teaches you how to paint with muted colours and create a festival scene tinged with nostalgia, featuring Hong Kong’s Lion Dancers, using various Photoshop effects.
Turn photos into 3D animations with Photoshop
Want to breathe some fresh air into old still albums, using Photoshop's timeline capabilities? This is one of the best Photoshop tutorials for that. Turn photos into 3D animations with Photoshop walks us through how to extra add depth to photos and even animate the resulting piece.
Get more from custom Photoshop brushes
Get more from custom Photoshop brushes is a tutorial that reveals the endless things you can do with custom brushes in Photoshop's Natural Brush Media window. Learn how to manipulate your brush to create patterns, textures, hair, a painterly feel, happy accidents and more.
Photoshop tips: next-level lighting advice
Photoshop tips: next-level lighting advice is another of those Photoshop tutorials that does exactly what it says on the tin. Following Suzanne Helmigh's insights on lighting can lend your digital art an extra level of realism.
Turn day into night using Photoshop
And finally, for the ultimate trick, we'll turn day into night. Yes, How to turn day into night using Photoshop shows you how to convert a sunny landscape into an atmospheric night scene. The simple step-by-step guide makes applying this clever digital art technique a breeze.
Photoshop tutorials for graphic design
How to create a design in Photoshop
Create your first design is a series of Photoshop tutorials that introduces how to work with layers, combine images, use layer masks, and add creative graphics, text, and effects. You can then use these skills to combine design assets into a simple, unique composite for print or online use.
Make a poster from a template in Photoshop
Make a poster from a template in Photoshop show you how to make a poster from a template. Another of Adobe's super-short Photoshop tutorials (under 60 seconds), this walkthrough will have you designing posters faster than ever.
How to make a logo in Photoshop
Okay, so Photoshop isn't the ideal place to make a logo. You'll probably want to use Illustrator if you can. But if Photoshop's all you've got, then follow this guide to how to make a logo in Photoshop.
How to add fonts in Photoshop
Whether you’re on a Mac or a Windows, adding fonts in Photoshop is nothing to be daunted by. In this tutorial, how to add fonts in Photoshop, Matt Smith explains how to go about it.
How to use Photoshop's 'Match Font' feature
This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop’s 'Match Font' feature to find the don't you're looking for. The feature helps you avoid laborious searching through your font book, your type client, or online foundries to get the closest match to a typography sample you’ve spotted. Luke O’Neill reveals how to get the best results from it.
Inspiration
Create a beautiful digital art portrait in Photoshop
Learn to paint a loose and colourful portrait in Paint with Photoshop – create a beautiful digital art portrait. Ayran Oberto takes us through the whole process, from sketch to final portrait, sharing the brushes, layer process, and colour theory behind his visual style.
How to paint Harley Quinn using Photoshop
Ever wanted to know how to paint comic art like a pro? Well, in how to paint Harley Quinn using Photoshop, Marvel and DC comic artist Joshua Swaby reveals the secrets of his own technique for painting DC's star of The Suicide Squad. Follow along and discover the tools he uses to bring the anti-hero to life.
How to draw in the Tintin art style using Photoshop
Many of us still have a fondness for Tintin and there's no denying the beauty of the series' style. This tutorial shows us just how to draw in the Tintin art style, or the Ligne Claire style as it's known. This detailed comic book and illustrative style is perfect for Photoshop. Igor Wolski shares his process in a detailed step-by-step video.
Paint colourful art in Photoshop
In Paint colourful art in Photoshop, Randy Bishop outlines several key techniques he uses as an illustrator in Photoshop: rough concepts, clean line work, colour, light and shadow, and some of the pitfalls that people tend to fall into while working through an illustration.
