Some great video tutorials from those nice guys at LearnPotoshop.com Mostly taught in tips and trix style, great for learners or as a refrence for more experienced Choppers :)
If you learn a little something from each of the tutorials, you will soon be Chopping like a pro'
P.S. I never made any of these tutorials, some American whiz kid called craig did all the work. If you sign up to the website you will receive 2 or 3 tutorials a week
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I'm too good to you lot.
In a previous tip, we talked about how to make a simple reflection effect for a logo. But it gets a little more complicated if you're trying to create a reflection for a 3-dimenisional object, such as a box. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to perform the transformations necessary in order to make a very effective 3D reflection effect. In today's video tip, Photoshop guru James Bueti shows you how to make some of your oft-used menu items a little easier to get to by assigning them to your function keys via the 'Actions' pallette. This is just one of many ways that you can customize your workspace and increase your efficiency when working with Photoshop.
How many of you just convert your images from RGB to grayscale when you want to create a black and white image? How many of you just turn to your Hue/Saturation adjustments and completely desaturate the image? Well, in this video, you'll learn how to take control of your black and white images in a much more effective way.
Sometimes when you take a picture, the colors don't come out quite how you planned. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Photoshop's color balance tools to enhance the colors in your digital photos. 
I got an email request recently for creating a wooden frame for a picture in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to achieve this effect using a combination of Actions and Layer Styles. 
In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to create that glossy reflective effect that you see on so many logos and websites. This effect is very simple to accomplish, and it adds so much to your text and your graphics. 
Often you'll see a bridal picture or engagement picture with an ethereal glow to it. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to manually give your photographs a diffuse glow in just a few simple steps. 
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a gradual focus effect in Photoshop, where the objects in the foreground are in focus and the focus gradually fades as it approaches the background. This is a great effect for adding a sense of depth to your photographs. | GRASSY FIELDS |
| In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to create a very realistic grassy field scene from scratch using Photoshop's Filters and Brush Dynamics. |
Sometimes it takes a creative mixture of ideas to put together a good effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to tweak a photograph for use inside your text in order to make a really cool grunge text effect. 
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to take a photograph and convert it to an ink drawing using a few layer adjustments and filters. This effect would be great for creating some fake blueprints. | LIGHTNING EFFECT |
 In today's video tutorial, you'll learn how to create a realistic lightning effect in Photoshop in just a few simple steps. You won't believe how easy it is! |
In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to create an ancient map from scratch in Photoshop. For this tutorial I used an already-existing map as the overlay, but this effect would also work really well with a hand-drawn map.
Sometimes when you take a series of images, not all of them will come out exactly like you planned. Maybe the colors on one or two of your pictures are faded out, and you need to restore the colors to how they look on your other images. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to match colors in Photoshop between two separate images.| MOTION EFFECT |
 In today's video tutorial, I'll show you and quick and simple way to create a motion blur effect in Photoshop that's a little more customizable than just using the motion blur filter. |
If you've ever tried to take a flash photograph of a framed picture straight-on, you've probably noticed that it's impossible to do so without planting a large reflection of the flash right in the center of the picture. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to avoid that unwanted reflection by taking the picture from an angle and then adjusting the picture using perspective cropping. 
In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to make your photographs a little more interesting by putting the focus where it belongs. Specifically, you'll learn how to blur your background while keeping your focus on the foreground. 
In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to create a 3D plastic text effect in just a few simple steps. The result is similar to a bevel layer style, but much fancier and more customizable.In this tutorial, James Bueti will show you how to personalize Photoshop by setting up your preferences. These preferences include file handling, maximizing compatibility, viewing preferences for guides, rulers, and slices, and much, much more. TOP
| REFLECTION EFFECT |
 In today's video tutorial, I'll show you a quick and easy way to create a reflection effect that gives your logo or graphic a little more depth and a lot more appeal. |
In today's video tutorial, you'll learn how to take some text, using a script font, and transform the text into a 3D ribbon using a couple of simple filters. This effect also works really well for transforming very basic patterns into high-quality professional logos. | SHADOWS AND HIGHLIGHTS |
| In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to liven up the shadows in your digital photos that were never meant to be shadows in the first place. |
| TELEVISION EFFECT |
 In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to manipulate your picture to give it scan lines to make it appear like it's showing up on a television screen. |
| TRANSPARENT IMAGES |
| In today's video tutorial, you'll learn the ins and outs of creating images (gif and png files) with transparent backgrounds in Photoshop |
| WATER TEXT EFFECT |
 In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to use Layer Styles, Filters, and Actions to create a very realistic water effect using Photoshop. You'll also learn how to save all the styles you apply to your water layer so that you can use the same effect in the future.TOP |
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to add realistic falling snow to a photograph in just a few simple steps.
Before you throw away those dark, hard-to-see photographs, watch this tutorial! In it, you'll learn how to bring out the bright tones using Photoshop's "Levels" adjustments and restore the picture to what you meant for it to look like in the first place.
A layer mask in Photoshop is basically a way of hiding and revealing certain parts of a layer. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create, edit, delete, and modify layer masks in Photoshop
In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make a panoramic image out of a few separate images using a little recoloring, retouching and blending.
Photoshop has a pretty handy red-eye reduction tool, but in this tutorial, you're not going to learn how to use it. Instead, you'll learn how to reduce red eye while retaining a little more control over what's happenening. Specifically, you'll learn how to use your color channels to get rid of the problem.
In this video, you'll learn how to wrap some text around a picture of a golf ball to make it look like the text was imprinted on the ball before the photograph was ever taken.
I'll give you three guesses as to what you'll be learning in this tutorial! If you guessed that you're going to learn how to create your own photorealistic tennis ball in Photoshop, then you're absolutely right!
Making a Vignette
Today's video is a relatively simple tip on two different ways to create a vignette for your photographs. A vignette is basically a soft-edged border around a photograph. Enjoy!TOP
The Clone Stamp Tool
The clone stamp tool in Photoshop allows you to clone part of an image. It's almost like copying and pasting using a paintbrush, and it can be a very elegant way of duplicating or even removing parts of an image. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the clone stamp tool to duplicate a water tower and then to remove it.
Today's tip is pretty self explanatory. In it, you'll learn how to add a little color to your black and white photographs using blending modes and the paintbrush tool.
In this tutorial, you learn how to take an old photograph and make it look even older by roughing up the edges, tearing the picture, and giving the edges a slightly burned look.
Turning your images into illustrations isn't as difficult as you might think. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make your images look cartoonish in just one simple step.
When designing a web layout or some other type of design layout, you will often need to use some of the same colors over and over again. In this video, you'll learn how to add color swatches to your Swatches pallette, save your current set of color swatches, and load a set that you've already saved.
Want to make your motorcycle photo gallery a little more exciting by adding a little smoke to your pictures? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create smoke in Photoshop using filters and blending modes.
Creating text that follows a path in Photoshop is an extremely simple process. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a circle of text using selections, paths, and, of course, the text tool.
In this video, you'll learn how to create a realistic water effect in just a few simple steps. Then you'll learn how to overlay the water over a picture of rocks to make it look like the rocks are lying at the bottom of a riverbed.
Today's tip is a two-for-one for those of you who want to know how to extract a person from an image. After learning how to do this, you'll also learn how to turn that person into a statue in just a few simple steps.
In today's tip, you'll learn how to convert a normal color photo into a sepia-toned photo using Photoshop's 'Variations' feature. This feature doesn't allow you as much control as other methods, but it does allow you to save your settings in case you have multiple photos that need to be altered.
Ever wanted to link two objects together in Photoshop so that they seem to weave in and out of each other, kind of like the Olympic rings? Well, it's easier than you might think! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create this linking effect in just a couple very easy steps.
Photoshop CS2 has a brand new feature in the "Edit" menu called "Warp", which allows you to distort your images by hand. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create the ever-so-popular page curl effect using this brilliant new feature in Photoshop CS2.
Ever wanted to resize a group of images or add a watermark to a group of images, but you just didn't have the time to do it? Well, with Photoshop's Batch processing capabilities, you can make changes to multiple images all at once. In this video, you'll learn how to add a watermark to a collection of images all at once.
| Creating a Gear in Photoshop |
| In this tutorial, Geoff will show you how to use some advanced "Transform" features that will make creating objects like gears, flowers, or suns quite a bit easier! |
| Grunge Borders |
| In today's Photoshop tutorial, Geoff will teach you how to create a very easy, but very effective, white grunge border around your photographs. |
| Polaroid Pictures |
| In today's video tip, you will learn how to take a photo and transform it into an old-fashioned polaroid photograph |
In today's tutorial, Photoshop guru Geoff Riggs will show you the ins and outs of using the Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop. This plug-in allows you to import images from your camera and make changes to it without actually altering the raw image itself.
In today's video tutorial, Geoff Riggs will teach you how to create an elongated shadow cast in front of a block of backlit text.
If you plan on printing your images in Photoshop, it's helpful to know how Photoshop handles color and other considerations when printing. In this excerpt from "Getting Started in Photoshop CS 2", trainer Geoff Riggs walks you through the basics of how Photoshop deals with color when printing.
In this video tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you how to use Photoshop's Curves Adjustments feature to enhance the brightness and contrast of an image.
The Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop are great tools for lightening and darkening areas of your images. However, these tools are destructive to your original photograph and can only be reversed using your History panel. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you a more creative and effective way of achieving the same effects without affecting the image layer itself
If you don't know how to get around in the workspace in Photoshop, then obviously, you're not going to get much done. In this excerpt from the upcoming video series, "Getting Started in Photoshop CS2", Geoff Riggs shows you the basics of getting around in the workspace.
When you feather a selection in Photoshop, it's a little difficult to tell exactly what the results are going to be until after it's already been done. In this video, however, Geoff Riggs will show you a different means of achieving the same effect.
You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat little trick you may not have known. Using this method you'll be able to very quickly and effectively adjust the brightness and contrast of your image in a very intuitive manner.
The magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop is a great tool for making selections of objects with well-defined edges. In this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you some handy tips for working with the magnetic lasso tool that will allow you to temporarily switch to the regular lasso tool and the polygonal lasso tool.
If you're not a photographer, you might have no idea what a neutral density filter effect is, but in this video, you'll learn how to create just such an effect. Basically, you'll learn how to darken up the sky in an image where the sky just happens to be a little too bright.
Today's tip is an excerpt from the upcoming video series, "Introduction to Photoshop CS 2" by trainer Geoff Riggs. In this video clip, you'll learn some of the basic options available to you when creating a new document in Photoshop.
This video is an excerpt from the upcoming "Introduction to Photoshop CS 2" by Geoff Riggs. In this video, you'll learn how to set up your workspace in Photoshop to meet your own needs and desires. You'll also learn how to save your preferences and revert to the default preferences for the workspace setup.
In today's video tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to created a quick and easy frame for your photographs simply using the eraser tool.
Many of you have been asking to see a tutorial on how to create a collage in Photoshop. Well, this one's for you! In this tutorial, you'll learn some quick techniques for combining images together to make an effective and appealing collage.
Many black and white images can be made much more interesting simply by adding a little color. In today's tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to paint color onto a black and white photo.
Have you ever wanted to have a little more control over the things you can do to your drop shadows? In today's Photoshop tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to send layer effects to their own layers so that you can deal with them separately from the objects that the effects are associated with.
The great thing about text effects is that they're usually very easy to reproduce. In this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you how to make a steel text effect, and then he'll show you how to save this effect so that it can easily be applied to other layers in the future.
Unless you have some kind of level attached to your camera, you probably don't always hold it perfectly flat. And sometimes the horizon comes out a little more slanted than we might want. In this video, Geoff Riggs takes a photo with a slanted horizon and shows you how to use Photoshop's "Measure" tool to fix it.
In today's Photoshop tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you all the ins and outs of creating text that follows a path in Photoshop.