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Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Modeling and Design Skills

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You have to use Adobe Photoshop for a really long time to understand its potential completely. There are many things you can do using its endless features. You need to discover them and decide how to use them in new and innovative ways to create the creative, beautiful and realistic digital art. In this article, we look at Photoshop in a different way: as a tool for designers to create realistic objects and 3D models.

You have to use Adobe Photoshop for a really long time to understand its potential completely. There are many things you can do using its endless features. You need to discover them and decide how to use them in new and innovative ways to create the creative, beautiful and realistic digital art. In this article, we look at Photoshop in a different way: as a tool for designers to create realistic objects and 3D models.

Below you’ll find over 50 Photoshop tutorials that teach you how to create beautiful realistic objects and 3D models

. Let’s see what it takes to turn Photoshop into a design workspace. We also have a plenty of tutorials on using Photoshop to improve the quality of your images:

Watches & Clocks

How to Draw a Watch

Use layer styles and shading to produce a really nice rendering of an analog watch in Photoshop.

Create an Apple Watch

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an Apple Watch in Adobe Photoshop.

Design a Vintage Clock

Follow this step by step guide to create a cool vintage clock design with lots of detail.

How to Render an Apple Watch

Learn how to render an apple watch from scratch in Adobe Photoshop.

Create A Pretty Nice Wall Clock

Learn how to create a pretty nice wall clock in a few steps.

Screens

Apple iMac Tutorial

How to create a realistic Apple iMac in Adobe Photoshop.

Create a Slick Black iMac

What a black iMac might look like? Well, use a regular one to base it off.

How to Create an iPad

In this tutorial you will learn you how to draw Apple’s iPad 2.

Create a Photo Realistic iPhone

This tutorial will show you how to create a photo realistic image of Apple’s iPhone4.

Create a Cute Television

How to create a cute detailed vintage television icon from scratch using Photoshop.

Create a Detailed Vintage TV

How to create a detailed vintage TV from scratch using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities.

Designing a Black Zune

In this tutorial you will learn how to desgin a Black Zune 2.

How to Create a Photorealistic iMac

Use several basic techniques to create a vector style monitor and mouse.

Technology

Draw the Nintendo Wii

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create the black Nintendo Wii.

Design a Detailed Audio Receiver

How to create a detailed audio receiver icon using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities.

Designing a Portable Gaming Device Poster

Walking through the making of an interesting, creative advertisement poster.

Create A Nintendo WiiU

Learn How To Create A Nintendo WiiU From Scratch In Photoshop

Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

Create the Magic Mouse in Photoshop, though you could use these techniques to create other mouse design styles as well.

Cameras

Create a Digital Camera

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a digital camera with wooden Accents using Photoshop.

How to Create a Photo Realistic Camera

In this tutorial you will see a powerful combination of vector shapes, layer styles, and manual drawing to create a photorealistic camera.

Camera Lens

Learn to create a Camera Lens in Adobe Photoshop.

Create a Detailed Camera

How to create a detailed Fuji X100 camera icon in Photoshop.

Designing a Canon Camera

In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design Canon digital camera.

Draw a Leica

Draw one of the most notable Leica cameras in Photoshop, the Leica M1.

Vintage

Create a Retro Mixtape

In this tutorial you will earn you how to illustrate a retro cassette tape in Photoshop.

Vintage Polaroid Camera

Create a Polaroid camera icon by the use of lots of layer styles and draw manually with the brush tool to achieve this realistic appearance.

Retro Game

How to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect for a Retro Game Cartridge Design.

Retro Style Game Controller

How to draw a Super Retro Style Game Controller for all you classic arcade lovers.

Roll of Camera Film

How to create a roll of camera film using Photoshop.

Realistic Compact Cassette

Combine the power of pixel editing in Photoshop and vector drawing in Illustrator to draw a realistic compact cassette.

Film Style Video

Give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.

Other Models and 3D-Objects

3D Wood Cup

How to create a 3D cup from scratch in Illustrator and how to apply some texture to it in Photoshop.

Striking Matchbox

Create the cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box.

Super Shiny Pencil

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a pencil icon in photoshop.

Wine Bottle

Create a Realistic Wine Bottle Illustration From Scratch.

USB Key

How to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface.

Photorealistic Apple Remote

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a shiny new apple remote.

Designing a Canon Camera

In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design Canon digital camera.

Draw a Leica

Draw one of the most notable Leica cameras in Photoshop, the Leica M1.

Vintage

Create a Retro Mixtape

In this tutorial you will earn you how to illustrate a retro cassette tape in Photoshop.

Vintage Polaroid Camera

Create a Polaroid camera icon by the use of lots of layer styles and draw manually with the brush tool to achieve this realistic appearance.

Retro Game

How to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect for a Retro Game Cartridge Design.

Retro Style Game Controller

How to draw a Super Retro Style Game Controller for all you classic arcade lovers.

Roll of Camera Film

How to create a roll of camera film using Photoshop.

Realistic Compact Cassette

Combine the power of pixel editing in Photoshop and vector drawing in Illustrator to draw a realistic compact cassette.

Film Style Video

Give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.

Other Models and 3D-Objects

3D Wood Cup

How to create a 3D cup from scratch in Illustrator and how to apply some texture to it in Photoshop.

Striking Matchbox

Create the cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box.

Super Shiny Pencil

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a pencil icon in photoshop.

Wine Bottle

Create a Realistic Wine Bottle Illustration From Scratch.

USB Key

How to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface.

Photorealistic Apple Remote

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a shiny new apple remote.

iPod Shuffle From Scratch

In this tutorial you will learn how to re-create an Apple iPod Shuffle by using the original image as a reference.

Compass Icon

Design a detailed, metallic Compass Icon in Photoshop.

Making a 3d scene

In this tutorial, you’ll be creating a nice 3d scene using 3d models.

Classic Guitar

Learn how to design a Classic Guitar from Scratch In Photoshop.

Bamboo Fun tablet

How to draw a Photorealistic device Bamboo Fun tablet from scratch.

Stylish Wireless Phone

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a great looking Wireless Phone.

Communicator

Draw a retro Star Trek style communicator, a voice communication device used in the original Star Trek series.

Bangin’ Woofer

Illustrate a woofer and make a simple wood texture for the background.

Sweet Donut

In this icon design tutorial you will learn how to make a sweet and tasty donut icon from an initial sketch.

Takeout Coffee

Learn how to design a realistic Takeout Coffee Icon.

Futuristic Bicycle

Create a futuristic bicycle icon from scratch using some basic Photoshop tools.

Easy 3D Globe

How to create a nice 3D globe in Photoshop using basic tools.

3D Snooker Ball

How to create a realistic 3D snooker ball in Adobe Photoshop.