Difficulty: Elite • Clicks: 48,421 • Author: Slickgreekgeo
Comment: The most complex and awe-inspiring digital paintings are often created using the simplest techniques. In this exclusive guide by our resident expert, Slickgreekgeo, you can find simple yet powerful techniques that will help your digital paintings reach new heights of excellence.

Difficulty: Advanced • Clicks: 82,112 • Author: In Tenebris
Comment: Feathers are beautiful to behold but they are also one of nature's most complicated objects. This tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough for the creation of a simple feather, the basics of which can be further expanded upon to produce feathers of any depth and complexity.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 37,064 • Author: Tamlin
Comment: This tutorial details a simple techniqe to create text with a shadow that conforms to the structure of undulating clouds behind it. Images created using this method won't win you any medals, but they may get you noticed in business meetings... and that's never a bad thing!

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 23,798 • Author: Stryke De Lorme
Comment: Not all Photoshop study materials have to describe techniques that you will find genuinely useful for the rest of your creative existence. This particular tutorial, for example, details a fun and entertaining way to make a personal logo for a forum

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 64,652 • Author: Zapphnath
Comment: An "Out of Bounds" (OoB) image is an interesting concept that, I'm sure, you've seen many times on the internet and in magazines and wondered how it was done. Well, wonder no more - I'm going to lay it all out for you in this concise and easy-to-follow tutorial.

Difficulty: Novice • Clicks: 62,349 • Author: Jimmy1012
Comment: Of course, not everybody can afford electronic luxuries such as iPods. That doesn't mean, of course, that you can't create an iPod-style image in Photoshop. It's not particularly portable, but it looks nice and is free! All you need is Photoshop and an hour or so of free time... :)

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 50,844 • Author: Sami1337
Comment: If you have neither the time nor willpower to go though our full-fat Anime Eye Tutorial, you may be interested in a quicker method. This tutorial is designed to be accomplished in under 5 minutes, and uses no filters or complicated tools.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 66,893 • Author: NeoLokie
Comment: The creation of chains sounds simple enough, but getting a decent 3D effect can prove to be elusive. This tutorial details a comprehensive method for creating chains and chain links of almost any size, and even gives a few examples of how they can be used to their best effect.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 112,570 • Author: Man1c M0g
Comment: This tutorial details a simple method for creating realistic water droplets that can be added to any image. All you need is Photoshop, an underlying picture, and a sense of perspective. Interested? Read on...

Difficulty: Elite • Clicks: 133,865 • Author: Centi
Comment: Comprising of thousands of curves, shadows, and highlights, hair is difficult to color effectively, but make it anime-style hair and the problem gets even worse! This tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough for one way of tackling this advanced artistic dilemma.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 63,301 • Author: BrandonC1
Comment: There are, of course, hundreds of different ways to make 3D abstracts, with no particular method better than another. This intermediate skill-level tutorial uses a combination of a 3D package and Adobe Photoshop. The results speak for themselves!

Difficulty: Elite • Clicks: 137,850 • Author: Centi
Comment: Eyes are notoriously difficult to color effectively, but make them anime-style eyes and you make the problem even worse! This tutorial is a very detailed and simple walkthrough explaining the steps needed to create a detailed and effective anime-style eye!

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 61,713 • Author: Ramseus
Comment: This tutorial describes step-by-step how to create a nice fancy lighting/coloring effect.  With this technique you'll never need to change the color balance on a render to make it blend well with your background ever again!

Difficulty: Advanced • Clicks: 118,347 • Author: Wycked
Comment: This tutorial details a technique to turn a perfectly normal photograph into a piece of art that looks as if it has been painted from scratch by a very skilled artist.

Difficulty: Intermediate • Clicks: 80,897 • Author: Daniel Alekow
Comment: They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul... which probably explains why they are so flipping hard to design digitally. If you have this problem, follow this little tutorial on painting a realistic eye in Photoshop, and be enlightened!