I just finished a tutorial on web design in photoshop using patterns as a key feature in the design.  In this tutorial I created three patterns and used some photos from my personal library as content for a basic portfolio site.

Eric Hoffman, who wrote the tutorial, showed me a lot of things I did not know about photoshop, but more importantly about design. You can make your artwork more appealing by using various patterns, gradients, and most importantly, opaque brush strokes to give a lot of visual interest to your viewers.  

Alright, enough with the text, I'm sure you're wanting to see what I did. Oh, and you can follow the same tutorial here.

Oh, and yes, that's me high atop Seneca Rocks in Elgin, West Virginia.  And yes, that's William Goebel, who never was Governor of Kentucky.