Stock images can be great for creating quick scenes but sometimes it can be just as easy to create the object from scratch. I know it’s much more gratifying for me, so let’s find out exactly how to do this and with an object I’ve actually grabbed stock images for in the past. If I only knew! Ladies & gents…The Moon!

The quality of Photoshop tutorials seems to increase year after year and 2009 was no exception. After going through quite a few ourselves, below are a handful that really caught our attention but may have been missed by a lot of the round ups posted throughout the year. Here’s a second chance to catch up on our top overlooked tutorials of 09. Hope you guys and gals enjoy and here’s to a great 2010.

It’s easy to get caught up in using Helvetica as your go to font for almost everything but it’s time to break away from this habit. Sure it works but from time to time we need to think outside of the box and use the imagination a bit. Let’s get inspired! Follow along with the tuts below and it will be at least a few hours before you get sucked back into Helvetica-land.

Learn how to paint / recreate an object in Photoshop from an existing photo. This is a great exercise for working on your layer structure and pen tool skills. Breaking down the object and being able to separate and place in the correct order is what will take your artwork to a whole new level.