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.
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.
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.
Neat little trick to force the preview images of running programs in Windows 7 taskbar or a so called Aero Peek, to show instantly with no delay at all.