Photoshop video tutorials and digital art. Tutorials featuring everything from photoshop speed paintings to photo manipulation, layer masks and brush effects.

To create a You Tube avatar, you will need to set the canvas size to 100 x 100 pixels at 72dpi. Create the graphics that you like and upload it to your account.

This is a quick and straight forward video, showing how to kern text in photoshop using the character panel. Highlight individual letters and use this method to work on individual space between each letter.

This photoshop tutorial is an easy to follow guide to creating your own custom background for the Xbox experience interface using Photoshop. Starting with a template, it shows which areas will be in view on the interface through to how to upload the image to your xbox.

Fantastic photoshop drawing of Kurt Cobain (and music) by Williams Shamir. As in many of the speed painting videos, you will see the technique of building up colour is used. To create this effect use a brush size appropriate for you drawing, reduce the hardness but also reduce the transparency of the brush (this can be found in the panel running along the top of the photoshop interface when you have the brush selected). To make it easy to edit and delete areas of colour use the layers pallette to seperate layers of different colours or areas within your drawing.

First Duplicate the image that you are starting with by dragging it into the new layer icon in the layers palette. With the new layer selected go to filters> blur> surface blur and play with the settings until they are right for your image. Then choose filters> blur> smart blur>. To sharpen up the areas that you don’t want blurred use the eraser tool and reduce the opacity to go over the areas such as the hair, the lips and the eyes.

Create a vector rectangle and colour it using layer styles. Please note that the select modify and feather options will only work in the same way if you are using the same settings for the size of the rectangle, canvas size and dpi settings. You can still use the same method but you will need to change the number of pixels to a higher or lower amount dependant on your settings.

Follow this simple video tutorial to create a dreamy effect with your photos.

Despite the bad spelling! .. this is a good technique for changing the colour of hair using layer masks.

Create this liquid blob effect in Photoshop with a combination of filters, channels & layers.

A really quick and easy effect. Good for use when trying to add text to a scary photo. Could also be created with a white background with light grey and blue colours to create an icy effect.