While looking online for some inspiration I found some amazing photos by Dave Hill. Dave is a commercial photographer originally from California. The effects that he applies to his photography truly amazing.

Gradients and filters can be used for many things in Photoshop, but my personal favorite is to use them on photos. This tutorial will teach you some basic techniques to use when applying gradients and filters to a photo or image. As always experimentation is key, so feel free to try different colors and filter settings when trying this on your own work.

Car photos taken with high dynamic range (HDR) shots are a great way to get started if you are a beginner are experienced in taking great HDR photos. Why you might ask? Well with all of the reflections and shine that a car has, as well as plenty of shadows and darker areas in the wheel wells, grills etc, it becomes a great subject for HDR photos.

Now days there are many sites that advertise free icons, many of them unfortunately have pages filled with spam and adverts. FreeIconsDownload.com is a great site, if you are looking for some unique icons, or just want some inspiration before creating your own. Many of these icons that can be used for your desktop, website or just about any other projects that you might need icons for.

PixelPerfect is a series of videos featuring Burt Monrow. The episodes include photoshop and illustrator tutorials ranging for reflections to creating swirls to adding bruises to someones face! Visit their website which has all 83 full episodes for you to watch.

So you want free stock photos?? There are a lot of sites that offer free stock photography but normally there is some sort of catch or they are not that good. However about 5 years ago I discovered the site Stock.xchng. As of now there are an astonishing 353667 photos online, making it one of the largest collections free collections on the net.

I saw some pretty nice prelaoders on a lot of templates that people are selling. So I decided to try it and it turns out it is pretty straight forward. I wanted to go with a high-tech look so I found some great shapes that would match my design. Here is the tutorial on the graphics side of the flash preloader.