Just look at these 9 examples of great HDR car photos that I found on flickr. Each photo is linked to the original photo’s URL so if you wish to comment on their photo you can do so, also feel free to post a comment or post your own HDR car photos at the comment box below.

Many of these icons that can be used for your desktop, website or just about any other projects that you might need icons for.
Here are a few of my favorite:

Step 1: Create a new document (300p x 200px) with the background color of your choice

Step 2: Create a rectangle using #242424

Step 3: Apply the following layer style to this layer.

Add the following pattern you can DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Step 4: Create a new rectangle inside of the previous one that we created this time using color #333333
(IGNORE THE BLUE IN THE FOLLOWING IMAGE AS IT IS JUST TO SHOW SOME CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO RECTANGLES)

Step 5: Add the following layer style to this rectangle

Step 6: Now we are going to add some text, I used Tahoma 10px #FFFFFF

Step 7: Next create a really small thin rectangle I used #341713 for the dark red and I added a 1px outside stroke
(This is for the background of the loading bar so whatever color you are going to use for the loading bar make this background a much darker color, so if you were to use a light blue you would probably want to use a dark navy blue for this rectangle)

Step 8: Duplicate the rectangle you just created but this time using the rectangle marquee tool cut off about 2/3 of it, and add a color overlay. I used #7b1d0e in the example below.

Step 9: Now for the fun part! Get out your brushes or any images that you can use to create a tech like border. I found these really cool tech parts from a deviant art user ~kopus. Download them at the following Link

Step 10: I decided to use two of the images from the link above and use them on the corners.

Step 11: Now if you look you will see that bright white in the top right corner, you do not want this here as it create too much contrast and will be the first thing that people look at. So to correct this simply use a small soft round brush and set its hardness to 0% and select color #333333 then simply paint over it, next set the layer to Multiply and set Opacity = 85%. This should take care of it.

(You can do this same thing with a light color to create highlights, as always experimentation is key)

To turn this into a flash preloader I would really suggest checking out some of THESE great tutorials on Good-Tutorials.com

• First of you want to create a new document (any size will do, in this example I used 164 x 50)

• Create a rounded rectangle of the color of your choice this will be the main button color. In this example I am using black which is #000000 - Set the radius to 5px on the top toolbar

• Apply the following styles

• Create another rounded rectangle, with the same radius (5px). This one will be the reflection, so it is going to be smaller and positioned at the top. I used #DEDEDE for the color of this shape.

• Next click the “Add to vector mask” button on the bottom of the layers palette.

• Press the letter D and then X this will set the forground to white and the background to black. With the Gradient Tool drag a line from the top of the small rectangle to the bottom of it, you should see something that looks like this.

• We are going to now add some text between the layer you just created and the base layer (the one we added some styling to) In this example I am using Helvetica – Medium Condensed – 14pt – Sharp We are going to be using two colors in this tutorial White (#FFFFFF) and a nice Green (#DCF414). Put the text on the right side of the button so that we can put a small image on the left side.

• Next we are going to add a small image to the left side. For this I am going to use the check mark shape that comes standard with Photoshop.