I'm a complete noob with photoshop, as in the only thing I've ever used it for is putting text on images, so I decided to branch out and try to actually learn something useful with it.
I found this site/mag called Computer Arts and downloaded a random tutorial on photo manipulation to try out.
Here's the tutorial:
Computer Arts - Photoshop expertise
and here's the image I made (actually my second attempt at it, because i messed up a lot the first try):
