Projects ranging from very simple to fairly complex.

Introductory

These tutorials will give you the basic skills you need to use Photoshop.

• Melted and Warped – Get to know some tools by messing up a face.
• Multiple Me – Create a mock-Warhol using layers and filters.
• Banksy-Style Image – Create a stenciled graffiti effect using layers, blending modes, filters, and smart objects.
• Font Feelings – Learn how to install, select, and modify fonts
• Mister Vegetable Head – Use layers and selections to build a vegetable creature.
• Complementary Colors – Learn the how and why of RGB and CMYK!
• Organic Name Shapes – Use the shape tools to create a unique design with your name.
• Outline Effect – Use the pen tool to create multicolored outlines.

More Complex

Build on the skills you’ve developed to create more challenging works.

• Frankenface – Use layers, masks, and adjustment tools to create a mashup of multiple people.
• Mutant Zoo – Combine two (or more!) animals into an all-new creature!
• Half Me, Half Monster – Expand on the skills you learned from Frankenface and Mutant Zoo to replace half of your face- and the world behind it!
• Bling! – Use text, filters, and layers to build virtual jewelry.
• Hollow Head – Remove someone’s brain and replace it with whatever you like!
• Big Me, Little Me – Add a small version of yourself to an image.
• Anaglyphs (3D) – Use layers and channels to create an image that pops off the page.
• Graveyard – Use drawing tools and layers to create an image of a graveyard.
• Image Trace – use drawing tools to trace an existing drawn image.
• Face Trace – A step above Image Trace. Create a drawing from a photograph.
• Cartoon Drawing Effect – other methods for tracing a photograph.
• LEGO-style image – Make a picture into bricks.
• Animated flying through space – Make a GIF of a rocket ship.
• Animated Walk Cycle – Make a smoothly repeating GIF of a person walking.

More Self-Guided

These projects assume you’ve had enough practice with Photoshop that you no longer need to be given every step of process.

• Bookmarks – create a set of printable bookmarks.
• Droste Effect – Design and create a never-ending image.
• Cereal Box I – Make the front cover for an imaginary cereal box.
• Cereal Box II – Make the rest of the box!
• Graffiti Tag – Make a personal tag without using existing fonts.
• Four Panel Comic – Use found images to create a comic strip.
• Fumetti – Create a comic book page out of your own photographs.
• Comic Word Balloons – a mini-project for making your comic creations speak.
• Pokemon-style card – Build your own card game.
• Magazine Cover – create a fictional magazine.
• Movie Poster – Design all the elements and build a poster for a mythical movie.
• Photoshop Tennis – Two (or more) person project. Take turns turning a blank scene into a detailed image.