After a long time, I'm going to start this back up. Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Going to start it by answering a question a lot of photo editors ask. Where do you get good free royalty free images for composites. The place I use most is CGTextures.com they offer a huge selection that is limited unless you are a paid member, so far I've never needed to pay for a membership either for larger images or more download size.

This image of Katie was created with a concrete wall downloaded from CGTextures

For a more complex edit, I needed a broken pane of glass.

Hope this tip helps. Please comment and tell me what you would like to see?