What a year it has been for Photoshop, with a multitude of new, fresh and original tutorials, a wide array of useful Actions, textures for, well, every possible texture you can think off. Resources are seemingly endless.

What we have done today is put together a collection of the best Photoshop resources from this year (2009), There are tutorials for image manipulations, text effects, icon design, digital imagery, illustration… and much, much more. Accompanied with all of this, there are also huge collections of PS actions and textures.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year searching for the best photoshop tutorials for you. They have come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, selected from there published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from there Photoshop users and readers.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

Whether you're after advanced advice on font trickery or you hanker for detailed guides on photo manipulation, you're sure to find something here to help you while away those long winter nights and boost your Photoshop know-how in the process.

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

In the resource you will find The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

The author of this article have listed 45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials for those designers out there who wants to try this type of art. Read through the tutorials in this post and gain useful tips to master the technique… Have fun!

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

In this article Tripwire magazine has a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). With the click of a button an action can help you achieve time consuming effects in no time, you just need to have access to the right actions.

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

This time, the Photoshop actions are for Photographers, with an impressive collection of 25 actions, this post is worth bookmarking.

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

This style of designing is mainly achieved using Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw to get that vector-like effect, but for those who do not have vector graphics editor, orsimply prefer Photoshop, this is a nice selection for you.

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees and Christmas balls are once again in fashion…and just for that Naldz Graphics have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season.

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures. Since there were so many textures released in 2009, it must have been difficult to choose the best. However, this post does a damn good job with this collection, and most will be valuable additions to your texture library.

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).