Instrument Tutorials- Sitar

I own this sitar above. I am a drummer and I have little skill even on guitars.  Below (or after the jump) are some good intro links to the coolest instrument I own. 

Photoshop Tutorial Links

Most of the time I screw with photoshop, I just fix photos I screwed up, cropping and contrast and such.  But after looking around at some of these sites, I now have ideas for photo manipulation that I didn't even think existed.

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/ - this site has tons and tons of various tutorials, ranging from beginner to hard.  This tutorial shows a cool long exposure imitation.
The Photoshop Lady-  pages of random tutorials that you didn't even think of to do
psd tuts- again, pages of random tutorials that you didn't even think of to do
PSLover- I like this one cause it has category lists-
The Andy Warhol PS rip off technique- I really like this one cause Andy Warhol had Ali, we have Tyson.
This Post I did has mad links to HDR photography and how a simpleton like me can get started in it.
and per "Who is Dis, Dis is Alex's" recommendation, a lens flair tutorial and one with a video.

Beatbox Tutorial

HDR Photography

the photo above is from nanothoughts 1.0, and a full res version can be found here

My boy Nauseous Youth Future (buy his album) was telling me about this photography method this weekend called High Dynamic Range Photography. You take multiple pictures with different exposure speeds and then put them all together (via a Merge to HDR type of function) to give you a high contrast between the darkest and brightest parts of the view. You can take your photo with a RAW file and manipulate that in a photoshop type program with a HDR plugin. Below will be some links:

-Da Wiki
-85 Examples of this technique
-Vanilla Days Tutorial- Seems like a good starting place, it even has the luminosity/white clip/appertunre values listed too/
-A good Photoshop HDR site-
-Stuck In Customs HDR site- this one may be the best one, very indepth, and it show how to make an HDR photo out of a single RAW file.