Creativity what's the Remedy?

Dear DevShed folks,
What I am asking for is no matter how much you know about photoshop as long as you do not have creativity in your mind photoshop will never help that much, how can I improve my creativity? how can I get those freaky ideas of these images? even when I get the idea for example say a planet image how can I know the steps to accomplish it like make a circle fill it with clouds make a layer apply guassian blur then add lighting effects.......etc etc etc??????? how how how?
please help

one more thing to give an example, I taught a friend of mine very feeeewww tools in photoshop and this guy just went WILD creating amazing images... do you get my point?

Photo shop is just another medium for expressing creativity. Just like paint and a canvas. So my advice to you is learn the program, create your own techniques if you can't figure out how other do certain things. It starts with you, and then the more you know about the program, the more things you will be able to manipulate and create.

As far a step by step tutorals you must ask a specific question.

Hi da_big_z, I suppose your friend just let it rip, whereas you concern yourself with "the proper way to do it" type of thinking? Even the pros have different ways to achieve thier goals.

What turns you on big_z? Visualizing the end product before hand is a good idea too ...

Sustained creativity requires both discipline and talent. Don't be afraid to fail, since you are just starting out yes? just let 'er rip babieee!!!