brilliant Photoshop tutorials

Love it or hate it, Photoshop continues to be the design software of choice for millions designers across the globe for a wide range of tasks, including photo editing, graphic design, typography, illustration, 3D modelling and animation.

Here, we round up the very best Photoshop tutorials from around the web covering all these areas and more, whether you're rocking Photoshop CC or using an older version of the software. And to save you from unnecessary confusion, we've organised them to suit your level of Photoshop skills. Choose your difficulty level and get started!

• Beginners' tutorials (this page)
• Intermediate tutorials
• Advanced tutorials

Beginner

01. Get creative with Face-Aware Liquify

The latest version of Photoshop CC's Liquify tool has some powerful facial recognition skills, enabling it to detect areas of the face, such as the eyes, mouth, nose and overall face shape, so you can adjust and warp them with impunity. Here T3's art editor, Luke O'Neill, explains how to get the most of it, from simple adjustments to crazy facial distortions.

02. Create a kaleidoscope effect in Photoshop

Amber Grayson reveals how to combine handmade and digital elements to create a kaleidoscope effect in Photoshop.

03. How to customise animated GIFs in Photoshop

Animated GIFs are a great way to make your designs more eye-catching. With Photoshop, you can customize any animated GIF to fit the style of your project.

04. How to reduce camera shake in Photoshop CC

As a photographer, it's inevitable that you will wind up with the occasional blurry image. Fortunately, in Photoshop CC Adobe has a special 'Camera Shake Reduction' filter to help you repair these images.

05. Turn day into night in Photoshop

Turning this daytime scene into night was inspired by the superb effects work in Lars von Trier's film Melancholia. Shooting landscapes at night can present all sorts of challenges – and even more so if you were shooting a moving image and couldn't use long exposures.

06. How to use Photoshop's Image Sizing tool

07. The Burn Tool

One of our own Photoshop tutorials, hosted on the Creative Bloq YouTube channel, introduces the Burn tool. In the easy-to-follow video, discover how to selectively darken areas of an image, with an overview of settings and tips on working with Shadows, Midtones and Highlights.

08. Color Replacement Tool

Another of our YouTube Photoshop tutorials, this short video introduces the Color Replacement Tool, which lets you paint roughly over an area of an image. Discover how to replace colours based on Hue, Saturation, Colour and Luminosity.