Photoshop Pro Tutorials

Compositing

How to Create a Photoshop Composite: Cowboy Portrait Step-by-Step

In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the complete process of creating a photo composite in Photoshop — taking a studio-shot cowboy portrait and placing him into a dramatic western landscape. We’ll cover everything from selection to Camera RAW editing to final light matching. You can download the source files here to follow along. Step 1: Setting Up Your Files Start by downloading the tutorial files. You’ll get two images: the cowboy portrait shot on a gray studio background, and a western landscape with a windmill.

March 10, 2026

Photoshop

How to add Shadows in Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add shadows in Photoshop and how to manipulate shadows to match the light source, angle, perspective, blur, and opacity. It’s pretty simple, but it looks pretty cool. To get started, Download the source files to follow along with this tutorial. Get the source files Overlaying the Sky in Photoshop Open the road.jpeg and sky.jpeg files in Photoshop. With the Move tool, drag the sky image over to the road image file.

October 4, 2023

Photoshop Beginner Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 1

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop. We’re going to build 4 Photoshop projects, starting with a very simple and easy composite using just one overlay and building toward more and more stunning effects with each subsequent project. Download Tutorial Files This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop, starting with a pretty simple project.

October 31, 2022

Photoshop Beginner Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 3

In Part 3 of this Photoshop tutorial, I will teach you how to use overlays in Photoshop including neural filters and displacement maps. This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. Download Tutorial Files Project 3: Using neural filters and displacement maps Project 3 is really special. You can see the before image here, which is a great photo but pretty flat: and the after image here, which has a lot of depth added by shadows and lights:

October 31, 2022

Photoshop Pro Tutorials

How To Use Overlays in Photoshop – Part 4

In Part 4 of this Photoshop Tutorial, I will teach how to use advanced Photoshop overlays and what stunning effects you can create with them. This post has been adapted from the YouTube tutorial found here. Download Tutorial Files Part 4. Advanced Photoshop overlays and special effects Finally, in the last project we’re going to work on adding some Photoshop special effects. You can see the before (left) and the after (right) here:

October 31, 2022

Compositing

How To Make Colors Pop in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you’re going to learn how to make colors pop in Photoshop along with some really easy tricks on managing any Photoshop document. If you want the files used in this tutorial to follow along, click below. Download Tutorial Files You can also watch the video by clicking here or just follow the steps outlined below. Now let me show you how to make colors pop in Photoshop.

October 24, 2022