If you want your progress bar to look a bit different you can create it in a shape of a circle with counter in the middle. We will create in a so called flat design trend using Adobe Photoshop.
Image overlay pattern comes in very handy when a website has a full screen image or a video as a background. Applying a pattern can make things more readable and easier on eyes. Let's Photoshop.
If you were ever wondering how the heck do they create those continuous patterns, then wonder no more and check this neat Photoshop tutorial that might teach you a new designing trick or two.
You will learn how to manipulate a photograph in a way it will look like an object, melting snowman in my case, is sticking out of a photo using Photoshop CS5.
In Photoshop CS6, the new version of Photoshop, you can use special cropping tool and you are done, but that doesn't mean you cannot achieve the same result with older versions.