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Inspiring Photoshop Projects for Digital Artists

DigitalArt

Published on July 25, 2023

As more features are added to Adobe Photoshop, such as non-destructive brush painting, Layer panel improvements, and the new web-based and iPad-based versions, it might get intimidating to keep up with the changes. One way to keep yourself from getting overwhelmed is to only focus on the features relevant to the projects you want to make. Simply put: figure out what you want to create and find out the best way to make that happen using Photoshop.

DSLR photo of an open, dark grey ASUS ZenBook laptop from an angled view in a dimly lit room with cool blue ambient light and cinematic contrast. The laptop screen is in sharp focus, displaying the Adobe Photoshop interface in modern dark mode. A portrait of a man with a beard is centered on the canvas, dramatically illuminated with split lighting, red on one side of his face and green on the other. The software's toolbars and palettes are visible with abstract UI elements. In the background, a second monitor is out of focus with a strong bokeh effect, displaying a bright, stylized blue graphic.

Now, if you’re stuck figuring out what your next project is going to look like, we’ve selected some of the most amazing Photoshop projects available on Behance for you to draw some inspiration from. Sometimes, other than brushing up on online tutorials and courses, immersing yourself in the works of other amazing artists is the best way to get started on your own work.

Hopefully, these projects will prove that with the ever-increasing capabilities of Adobe’s flagship graphic editor program, the only limit to digital art is a user’s imagination.

A seamless, repeating tessellating pattern of an isometric 3D render recreating Vincent van Gogh's 'Bedroom in Arles'. Each isometric cube is a detailed miniature diorama with light blue textured walls, a light wood floor, a yellow wooden bed with a vibrant red blanket, a small yellow chair, and a side table. The scene features a green open window and a blue closed door. Blender style, matte plastic materials with clay-like textures, soft global illumination, and even lighting.

The Rooms Project 🔗

dimi_mak

While quarantining in 2020, Behance user dimi_mak created a series of 3D-painted “famous” rooms from the worlds of art, literature, and cinema. This is the first of his series, Van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles”. The creator, dimi_mak, is a 3D illustrator and visual artist from New Delhi, India.

Digital illustration in a vibrant 80s anime cyberpunk style, featuring a young man on a sleek, futuristic red motorcycle speeding through a dense city at night. Dynamic low-angle side view capturing a powerful sense of motion. The background is filled with towering skyscrapers with glowing windows and brilliant neon signs with abstracted Japanese characters. The scene is illuminated by a saturated palette of neon magenta, cyan, deep purple, and red, with bold outlines and smooth gradients. Horizontal light streaks and motion blur effects convey extreme speed.

Some Work 🔗

Van Orton

Behance users Van Orton is an artist who specializes in graphic design and illustration. In this gallery, he showcases select works that he made in 2022. It’s a collection of artwork with solid outlines, bold blocks of color, and wild patterns. Van Orton is from Turin, Italy and he specializes in these kinds of pop art pieces.

Vibrant and chaotic mural-style vector illustration depicting the energy of digital communication and social media. A dense, maximalist collage of stylized cartoon characters with exaggerated expressions, including a hipster with a red beard and a cool cat with glasses. The scene is filled with overlapping elements like speech bubbles with abstracted text, laptops, and smartphones. The artwork uses a flat, graphic style with bold outlines and a high-contrast color palette of electric blue, fiery orange, sunny yellow, and teal against a dark navy blue background. Pop art influence, panoramic composition, presented as a panel floating over a solid blue backdrop with a soft drop shadow.

Rede Globo 🔗

Leo Natsume

Leo Natsume, a designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil was commissioned by Rede Globo, the largest communication group in the country, to create a series of illustrations for Facebook. With the opportunity to create work that covered different audiences, Natsume was able to create a wide array of illustrations.

Close-up DSLR artistic portrait of a woman's serene face, cinematic contrast lighting, ethereal and dreamlike atmosphere. The scene is illuminated by vibrant duotone color gels; one side of her face is cast in a cool cyan-blue light, while the other is warmed by a rich red and orange glow. The image features a subtle double exposure effect with soft, hazy motion blur and semi-transparent ghosting. Warm yellow and red light leaks and soft lens flares create a shallow depth of field and an abstract, blurry foreground.

Cromatica 🔗

Mathew Guido

Mathew is a Canadian photographer and art director that showcases a series of inspiring headshots of various subjects in this Behance gallery. He employs creative ways to use lighting and colors to produce some truly unique portraits of people. There are plenty of Photoshop tutorials available that show you not just how to create digital images from scratch, but also teach tips and tricks on working with existing pictures and photography. If you're exploring other tools to enhance your workflow, check out the best Photoshop alternatives that might suit your style and needs.

Interior Design - Mood Boards 🔗

Manisha Pateria

Indian designer Manisha Pateria uses clean and cleverly designed interior design mood boards to portray the feel of the spaces that she has chosen to showcase. It’s a thoughtful use of various pictures of furniture, materiality, and color to accurately convey the spirit of spaces.

Marshall 🔗

Evgeny UPROCK, Max Kozhanov, and Spectr Design Lab

The redesigned website of Marshall back in 2020 was a collaborative effort between many different artists. In the process of setting up websites like these, clients will often avail of the services of many different graphic designers, UI/UX designers, and web developers.

DSLR photograph of a breakfast setting on a dark wood dining table, viewed from an over-the-shoulder perspective. In the foreground, there is a blue mug and a plate with a taco on a woven placemat. The scene is lit by soft, natural daylight. Digitally composited onto the table are several vibrant, 2D cartoon characters in the pop art style of Keith Haring, with thick black outlines and flat colors. A blue figure stands on a red box, and two smaller, crawling figures in orange and yellow are placed around the table, all with small black motion lines indicating energy.

Distraction 🔗

Kiara Orozco

This graphic design and illustration project showcases pop icons reminiscent of Keith Haring’s works superimposed onto various pictures or everyday scenes. Kiara Orozco’s creative and whimsical use of illustrations adds a certain charm to seemingly mundane slice-of-life photographs.

DSLR photograph of a graphic design project mockup created in Photoshop, featuring two vibrant magenta posters wheat-pasted onto a textured, light pink concrete wall. Soft, even studio lighting highlights the realistic wrinkles and peeling corners of the posters. The left poster displays a dynamic, flat-style cartoon illustration of a woman in a blue outfit with yellow stars, surrounded by white liquid splashes. The right poster features a minimalist design with repeating bold yellow sans-serif placeholder typography and a central graphic of a milk carton. The entire image has a sharp focus, emphasizing the tactile texture of the paper and the wall.

Notmilk 🔗

Makers Company

Makers Company is a Cape Town-based illustration and animation studio that’s behind a ton of the graphic and branding identity of well-known products, magazines, and companies. Almost, in itself, a great tutorial in design thinking and digital art, this particular gallery showcases the thought processes behind the branding of Notmilk™.

This curated list of Behance projects shows us just a few examples of the amazing things you can do with Photoshop. We sincerely hope that you found them inspiring. And if you’re ready to bring your own ideas to life, don’t miss our guide on how to run Photoshop smoothly on any device — so nothing holds you back while you create.

For more interesting works, be sure to stop by Vagon’s social media channels and interact with our community of passionate digital artists when you can!

And if you’re curious about how to keep Photoshop running smoothly even on systems without a dedicated graphics card, don’t miss our guide on how to run Photoshop smoothly without a GPU — it’s packed with practical tips for artists working on low-end machines.

You can also check out our GPU Guide for tips to use GPU, along with speed up and acceleration tips for Adobe Photoshop.