Photoshop CS4 Tutorials abound on the internet and it can be difficult to find one which has the information you are looking for. Hopefully this list of Photoshop CS4 tutorials will help you to get that information quickly. I have broken the thirty up into three groups: text, photographs, and general Photoshop CS4 tutorials. From creating unique and professional looking logos to having some fun with photographs, this list of 30 Photoshop CS4 Tutorials should have you well on your way to achieving you graphic goals.
Text Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
1)
Creating Fire Text
shows you how to get that burning text look that’s oh so hot! This Photoshop CS4 Tutorial will have you creating fire effects on your text in next to no time. Some clever filtering and a little work by hand and you will have created fire text effects in Photoshop CS4
2)
Ice Text Effect
uses layers, channels and many other tools offered in Photoshop CS4 to create icy cold letters dripping with icicles. Although more complex than the Photoshop CS4 Tutorial above on fire text, it is laid out in a convenient two column format. Making this Photoshop CS4 tutorial an extremely clear how to on creating an icy effect on text.
3)
Liquid Text Effect
makes excellent use of the channel and layer features to turn ordinary text into lovely liquid text. This Photoshop CS4 tutorial starts with a background and some text, then through the use of displacement maps, channels, layers and filters, steps you through creating beautiful liquid text.
4)
3-D Text Effect
from the humble beginnings of simple text, this Photoshop CS4 tutorial employs simple duplicate layers, gradients and inner shadows to achieve a beautiful 3-D effect.
5)
Watercolour Text Painted on Wet Paper
starts with simple brush style font of your choice, and in a few quick steps, outlined in the Photoshop CS4 tutorial, turns it into a beautiful watercolour text on a wet paper background.
6)
Pimp Your Text With Photoshop
starts with any heavy font you like and with a few bevels, gradients and other simple effects, gives you bejewelled and pimped text in next to no time, as demonstrated in this near Photoshop CS4 tutorial.
7) The Overlapping Text Effect

Photoshop CS4 tutorial uses any bold style font of your choice to create funky looking overlapping text quickly and easily.
Tree Style Text Effect
can be employed on just about any font, this Photoshop CS4 tutorial employs simple techniques such as smudge to create a verdant and realistic tree style effect.
9)
Killer Half-tone Effect
is achieved in this Photoshop CS4 Tutorial in about five easy steps by employing the Bitmap Image Mode.
10)
The Neon Text
Photoshop CS4 Tutorial creates simple glowing neon light tubes out of rounded edged fonts in four easy steps.
Photograph Related Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
11)
Place A Person In An Object

Starting with some photographs and simply employing a few basic techniques such as layers and the transform tool, this Photoshop CS4 tutorial will have you popping people inside objects like a pro.
12)
Photo Montaging: Human Head In A Tree
using Photoshop CS4 tutorial shows how to create a realistic photo montage. The example they use here is to place a face on a tree.
13)
Create a 3D Photo-cube in Photoshop
CS4, this tutorial shows how to use simple techniques such as layers and gradients to create an excellent looking 3D Photo Cube.
14)
Photoshop CS4 Tutorial: Black and White
shows how to create professional looking black and white photographs from your colour digital photographs without falling back on grey scaling.
15)
Spotlight Effect in Photoshop
show how to add realistic spotlighting effects to photographs using a few basic Photoshop CS4 tools such as curves and gradients.
16)
Enhancing Digital Photographs
Photoshop CS4 is made easy with this step by step tutorial on smoothing, sharpening and colour correction.
17)
Zoom effect
shows you how to create a zooming effect in photographs using nothing more than selective feathering and filtering in one simple Photoshop CS4 tutorial.
18)
Remove a picture from its background
with this easy to follow tutorial for Photoshop CS4 using standard tools.
19)
Skin Retouching
This Photoshop CS4 tutorial is jam packed with useful tips and ways of retouching skin in photographs easily, utilising tools such as blur, thresholds and other layer tools.
20)
Easy Eye Recolouring
Through the use of hue/saturation layers and layer masks, it is possible to fine tune, or even completely change the colour of a portrait subjects eyes, as is shown in this Photoshop CS4 tutorial.
General Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
21)
Glow Effect
uses simple manipulation of layers, effects and filters to create a soft glow around a subject in an image. This is an easy to understand Photoshop CS4 tutorial which will add a little something different to your images.
22)
The It’s curtains for you
Photoshop CS4 Tutorial starts with a blank document and creates classy stage curtains predominantly through the use of filters and lighting.
23)
Four methods to remove colour cast
Is a Photoshop CS4 tutorial which provides four different ways of removing colour cast from your images, from the simplest one step method to complex, more professional methods, this tutorial is sure to solve your colour cast queries.
24)
Tone Correction
Photoshop CS4 Tutorial shows you how to do tone corrections using the new adjustment tools in CS4.
25)
3D Streaks
Is a Photoshop CS4 Tutorial which shows how to use brushes and other simple tools to create 3D streaks which seem to warp in and out of each other.
26)
Vector Mask
Will show you in a neat little Photoshop CS4 Tutorial how to use the vector mask tool to pull and object out from its background.
27)
Recreating a Paper Fold
Is a Photoshop CS4 tutorial which shows how to create a realistic looking paper fold effect using simple tools such as the perspective and blur tools.
28)
Stage Lights
Shows in a quick Photoshop CS4 tutorial how to use filters, gradient election, layer styles and quick mask mode to make smoky stage lights.
29)
Stylised Fire Effect
shows how versatile the layers and filters in Photoshop CS4 are by creating an attractive and unique stylised fire effect.
30)
Using Content Aware Scaling

In Photoshop CS4 tutorial shows how to make use of the new Content Aware Scaling features in Photoshop CS4, stepping through the basics and using the protect tool, content aware scaling opens up a range of possibilities.
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May 1st, 2009 at 11:05 pm
ohhh nice info
May 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Tutorials 28 and 30 are missing links to the tutorials. They only lead to the images shown above.
May 17th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Hello Jim thanks for letting me know i have now fixed the links and now links to the correct content. Much appreciated
May 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
helpful tutorials, thanks for the list..
June 12th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Nice Tutorial..
June 14th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Excellent Photoshop CS4 tutorials i ever seen. Thanks.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Great tutorials! But the link for the face out of the tree does not seem to work,
July 21st, 2009 at 3:16 am
The tutorial for 12 just goes straight to the picture shown as well.
September 1st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Tutorial 12 is missing a link to the tutorial.
it only gives the picture shown above.
October 20th, 2009 at 12:48 am
I love these tuts but ‘curtains’ leads to a shot not a tut PLZ FIX
November 10th, 2009 at 3:21 am
umm…Sorry but the link to the Tutorial 22 (Courtains) It seems it doesnt work, It only leads to the image, not to the tutorial
November 21st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Thank you soooo much, you have no idea how much you have made my lives easier.
December 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hey these are great tutorials! I keep finding broken links though- is there any way to find the actual pages?
January 19th, 2010 at 8:47 am
check out this tutorial