41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials]

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.

So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump.

1. Mental Wave Explosion Effect

   How to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.
   
   

2. Realistic Water Reflection

   How to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo.
   
   

3. Displacement effects

   How to use a variety of filters and techniques to produce an image in an experimental style.
   
   

4. Make Photos More Suggestive

   Learn how to make the model in this tutorial more suggestive with awesome curves
   
   

5. Halftone Dots and Linear Light

   A very cool linear light halftone dot effect in less than 2 minutes.
   
   

6. Retro Comic Book Effect

   Creating a old comic book effect for your photos.
   
   

7. Add Realistic Rainbow To A Photo

   Easily add a rainbow, even a double rainbow, to a photo.
   
   

8. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

   Take a digital photo and make it Lomoified
   
   

9. 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.
   
   

10. Adding Reflections To Sunglasses

    How to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses.
    
    

11. Age Progression

    Go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.
    
    

12. Alien Invasion

    
    

13. Dark Art Picture Style

    How to combine some stocks and Photoshop techniques to make an amazing dark art picture style.
    
    

14. Bringing a Stone Statue to Life

    How to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.
    
    

15. Changing Hair Color

    
    

16. Photo Edit Color Effects

    
    

17. Add Another Dimension

    Create stunning effects using glows.
    
    

18. Crack and Peel

    
    

19. Cool Halftone Effect

    How to create halftone patterns and creatively cut up an image of a model holding a boombox.
    
    

20. Creating Energy Spheres

    
    

21. Devil’s Eyes

    How to make eyes look more sinister
    
    

22. Dynamic Lightning

    How to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph.
    
    

23. Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation

    
    

24. Expressive lighting effects

    How to go about combining several lighting techniques
    
    

25. Fantasy Art

    
    

26. Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion

    Creating a spectacular space scene featuring two planets colliding.
    
    

27. Color Hair Locks

    Getting the hair colored in just few minutes.
    
    

28. Beautiful Lady Effect

    
    

29. How to turn your photo into movie-like effect

    
    

30. 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.
    
    

31. Photoshop Effects: Focus With Light

    How to add focus to an image with light, using Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter and multiple light sources.
    
    

32. Zombie

    Turning Mandy Moore or anyone into zombie.
    
    

33. 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!
    
    

34. Transform a person into an alien

    How to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop
    
    

35. 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.
    
    

36. Reflective Bubble

    
    

37. How to Make Circle Pixels (Pop-art Style)

    
    

38. Easy Watercolor Painting Effect

    How to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting.
    
    

39. Watercolor Effect

    
    

40. Realistic Tattoos

    This tutorial uses a few basic photoshop techniques, masking, color adjustment, liquify and the resize and transformation tools.
    
    

41. Robotic Frog

    How to take a regular frog and opened him up to reveal a mechanical skeleton.