Difficulty: Newbie • Clicks: 3,254 • Author: NikonErik
Comment: Layer masks may be a little confusing at first, but if you want to alter areas of an image whilst retaining flexibility and without affecting the underlying source, then there is no finer feature at your disposal!

Difficulty: Newbie • Clicks: 2,251 • Author: Turvas
Comment: You may not believe it, but old-style text designs are coming back into fashion in a big way! With a basis depending entirely on rainbow gradients, they may seem difficult from the outset but they are, in fact, simplicity themselves to create and only require simple Photoshop tools.

Difficulty: Newbie • Clicks: 1,578 • Author: Jacorre
Comment: If you've been around Photoshop communities for a while you'll have noticed screenshots being used to illustrate techniques, results, etc. You may have also asked yourself how these screenshots were captured. Well, with this tutorial you'll find the answers to your questions!

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 3,152 • Author: Tamlin
Comment: The Curves adjustment layer provides a sophisticated method for modifying the contrast of an image, but that's not all that you can do with Curves. This tutorial tells you how to duplicate the colour toning of a reference image so that you can use it to tone other black & white pictures.

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 12,205 • Author: Andantonius
Comment: Have you ever seen pixel art on games such as Coke Music or Habbo Hotel, and wanted to do such things yourself? Well then read on as we take you through the basic, intermediate, and advanced techniques that create such interesting, fun, and beautiful work.

Difficulty: Newbie • Clicks: 4,597 • Author: Gunyu
Comment: Ranging from simple objects created with punctuation marks to fully-fledged A4-sized masterpieces, text-art is a unique and often very difficult to master artform. But why spend hours with notepad when you can simply fake ASCII art using Photoshop in under 5 minutes?

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 5,675 • Author: Heri
Comment: There’s been a problem that has plagued the PNG world for years. Few people ever figure out why PNGs appear darker in IE and didn't match CSS colors... but there is a solution! Read this easy-to-follow guide to find your way out of this nightmare!

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 10,981 • Author: Little T
Comment: Removing characters from their backgrounds is rarely as easy as using the 'Extract' tool, especially when hair or fur is involved. This tutorial details an simple yet devious workaround for times when you need to mask out hair/fur, but don't want to spend hours fidding at max zoom!

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 2,582 • Author: Man1c M0g
Comment: Even the best industry-standard printers have great difficulty printing more than 50 distinct shades of grey (i.e. 'Monotone'). To enhance this greatly and improve underlying tonal quality, a second color is often added, making the image two-color (or 'Duotone').

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 2,797 • Author: Man1c M0g
Comment: The ability to flow text along user-defined paths may sound a relatively minor feature, but the creative capabilities it opens up are well worth it, and reduce the need to rely on Adobe Illustrator even further!

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 5,666 • Author: shinmoteuchi
Comment: Cleaning up scanned artwok is fraught with problems, extending from finding the perfect color mix to working out ideal levels of sharpness. The technique detailed in this tutorial will not act as a cure-all but it does detail a method of cleaning up your line art quickly and easily.

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 2,996 • Author: Zapphnath
Comment: Far from being voodoo, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how they work, and realize how mastery of Levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 5,492 • Author: Zapphnath
Comment: We all agree that masks are extremely useful and look a whole lot better than cutting the object out of it's background with the Lasso or Pen Tool. But wouldn't it be nice if there were an easier, quicker way to get the basic shape separated from the rest?

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 37,773 • Author: Malboroman
Comment: Ever wanted to be a professional thief? Cracking open safes, robbing banks? Not such a good idea, but why take the risk of getting caught if you can fake it? I'm going to teach you how to make a nice laser cut on a metal surface, with all the effects you get when you do it.

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 10,838 • Author: Man1c M0g
Comment: This tutorial details the simplest way to create animated avatars from movie clips. We can't help you pick the best subject for your creations, unfortunately, but we can definitely give a few handy hints to keep the file sizes down and the quality as high as possible.