DOF or Depth Of Field is a commonly used technique in photography where you can precisely focus only part of the face or object you are taking shot of. Let's recreate this using Photoshop.
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.
The new Adobe Photoshop CC introduced quite a few awesome updates to existing tools and feature. One of the most welcomed ones sure is some of the new Image Resize functionalities, check it out.
We will open a random photo taken at day light and add exploding fireworks to it. We will also we will modify the whole picture to make it as realistic as possible, enjoy!
A bit longer Photoshop tutorial, but still very suitable for beginners, where you will learn how to carve a random text into human skin from scratch and make it look realistic.