100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials

How can we define what’s a photo effect? That was my main concern when I started the research to build this list. Despite of this situation, I had one thing clear: the final result had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a post production photo manipulation.

That idea would leave all kind of complex photo retouching and subtle color correction out of the discussion. I’ve already gathered some of those tutorials in my Guide to Photoshop digital makeover and 70 horror, blood and gore photoshop tutorials and brushes articles.

So, with that idea in mind, I gathered what I consider 100 of the best photo effects Photoshop tutorials available on the web. If you have created a photo effect that you consider should have made it into the list, feel free to post the link in the comments section.

Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials

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Retro comic book	Photo to illustration	Color ink illustration
Fantastic Splashing water girl effect	Elegant two color Technicolor effect	HDR toning effect
Creative colors	3D Stereo Effect	Water reflection
Polaroid collage	Rainbow effect	Oil painting
Watercolor painting	Andy Warhol pop art	Daguerreotype
Cubism effect	Cross processing	Dynamic lighting
Ghost	Dusk lighting effect	Lomo photography
Fake HDR	Mysterious lighting	Frozen scene
Da Vinci style	Photo mosaic	Photo mosaic
City globe	Pencil sketch	Fake model photography
Photo to stencil	Photo mosaic	Filtering out colors
Panographies	Lichtenstein pop art	Vector art
Vintage photo effect	Selective sepia	Adding rain to a photo
Soft glow effect	High key B&W effect	Charcoal drawing
Adding snow to a photo	Sin City movie effect	Horror film effect
Movie like effect	Professional HDR	Painting effect
Spotlight effect	Better negative effect	Dave Hill style effect
Frosted pixels	Coloring effects	Darklight manipulation
Blueprint	Fade pixel stretch	Old movie effect
Fog and mist	Night vision	Blurry scanlines
Dreamy soft focus	Realistic painting	Portrait painting effect
Hot and fiery effect	Trippy colors effect	iPod people
Torn photo	Painting with light	Sunset silhouettes
Photo to fire effect	TV screen closeup	Dramatic colors
Displacement water	Greek painting	Pop out frame
Indie movie look	Depth of field	Infrared vision
Old texture effect	TV Scanlines	Photo on cracked wall
Roman fresco	Modern Rembrandt	Modern Van Gogh
Byzantine Icon	Photo Mosaic	Halftone dots
Puzzle effect	Cool and warm sepia	Apply texture to photo
Cast light from a window	Dreamy misty effect	Motion blur
Speed effect	Paint on canvas	Photo dither
Watercolor	Polka dots	Stylized paint
Text photo effect	Night shooting effect	Color pencil effect
Photo to sketch	Illustration effect	Dramatic gritty effect

Photo Effects Photoshop Plugins