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.

Photoshop is great in so many ways but one of my favorite uses of the program is giving people a fun little makeover.

We present 30 photoshop tutorials for creating your own wallpaper or learning some nice PS tricks in these tuts. Combining some of the techniques used in these tuts should get you well on your way to designing your own custom wallpapers.

It took me years to really understand the full power of shortcuts in Photoshop. For me, as long as I could do what I wanted to do then it don’t matter if I had to go to the menu to select a tool. As long as it gets the job done right? Wrong! Trying to use photoshop without shortcuts is like trying to eat soup with a fork. Not happening!