You don't need Photoshop or some other advanced piece of software to resize a large number of images at once. You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager which is part of the Office suite.
In this simple tutorial suitable for the Gimp beginners as well, we are going to manipulate a photograph of standing still car to make it look like it's passing by real fast.
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.
Did you know you can use your camera with Adobe Lightroom to shoot photos and display them directly on your computer screen? It's called shooting in tethered mode.
Awesome guys at Visual.ly just released a a free online tool that can visualize Google Analytics stats into a great looking report in a form of infographic in a matter of basically only a click.