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About nine years ago, when I started The Photoshop Roadmap, tutorials were all about special effects. In fact, no matter how ugly, any kind of effect was well received, because designers and artists were starting to discover the Web as an invaluable source of inspiration.
As time went by, the need for more complex, better looking and usable effects began to prevail. Tutorials writers replied with a new wave of awesome, eye catching well designed tutorials with loads of cool ideas inside them.
Some of these new wave of tutorials can be found in previous selections I made, such as The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web, 100 Wonderful Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials, A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop, 70 Horror, Blood and Gore Photoshop Effects and Brushes and Grunge and Dirty Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures. The titles pretty much explain the content of these articles.
For this article, I collected perhaps the newest trend in tutorials: Dreamy, magical and lighting photo effects.
A quick visit to sites like PSDTuts, Tutorial9 or Abduzeedo, will confirm this new trend where dreamy compositions or impressive lighting effects are catching everyone’s attention.
To keep this article into a manageable size, I only selected photo effects related tutorials, leaving outside all illustrations or text effects tutorials. All the tutorials contained in this article, are based on photos.
Dreamy, Magical and Lighting Photo Effects Tutorials
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Neon Lights With Photoshop
The Making of Mystic
Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop
The Little Mermaid
Electrifying Energy Beams
Add Another Dimension to Photos
Dreamy Mystical Photo Effect
Dancing in the Dark
Mysterious Lightning
The Soft Sea Light
The Arch
The Magic Night
Colorful Picture Style
Make a Perfume Commercial
Adding Light Streaks to a Photo
Add a Sparkle Trail to a Photo
Dreamy Sparkling Photo Effect
Never Forget
Light in the Forest
Reflective Bubbles
Decorate Your Dreamy Desktop
Composition With Adjustment Layers
Dreamy Photo Effect
Plasma in the Lake
The Making of Secret Pond
Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect
Creating a Rocking Silhouette
How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds
Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph
Create Spectacular Concept Art in Photoshop
Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo
Expressive Lighting Effects
Super Speed Lighting Effect
Combine photos to create surrealist landscapes
Photoshop Expertise
Create Silky Smooth Waterfalls
Ghosting an Image
Make Your Image Look Awesome With a Few Light Effects
Electrifying Glow Album Art
Creating Energy Spheres
Dusty Light Effect
Fairy Night
In The Sky Photo Collage
Underwater Scene
Soft Glow Effects
Glamour Photo Effect
Soft Focus Effect
Mysterious Hell Gate
Lighting Effects
Photoshop Lighting Effects Plugins
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