How-To's Day: Photoshop Edition is a new regular feature of the Unofficial Photoshop Weblog in which we give you five highly useful Photoshop tutorials. How-To's Day: Photoshop Edition is the first, third, and, if there is one, fifth Tuesday of every month.

Today's inaugural How-To's Day: Photoshop Edition is a special double-sized edition, with ten Photoshop tutorials all at once!

So let's fire up everyone's favorite image editing program and dig into these hot Photoshop tutorials.

Most of today's Photoshop tutorials show special effects. Like many Photoshop techniques, they can be used for novelty, but in the nimble, restrained hands of a pro, theses tutorials can go far beyond the novel.

Have you written a killer Photoshop tutorial? Send it my way; it may appear in a future How-To's Day.

Today's How-To's Day: Photoshop Edition how-tos:

1. Draw A Realistic Christmas Tree
   by Mihai

2. Brushed Aluminum
   by PixelFull

3. 3D Tentacles
   by Project09.com

4. Focal Point
   by N-Sane

5. Evilize Your Photos For That Dark, Gothic Look
   by Daedel

6. Converting Photos To Sketches
   by Nick Slusarczyk/Spooner

7. Creating Professional Portrait Lighting
   by Fuzzybox/Jay Lambert

8. Create Complicated Vector Tracings
   by Webifex Magazine

9. Interface With Window Reflections
   by PurePhotoshop.com

10. Complicated Signature Borders
    by Harty

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