Here’s a blog that gives nice tutorials on the Gimp, PhotoShop, creating blog templates, and free web design tool resources and tips:

Susie’s Design Blog

In this blog I will help you create your own blog template, either from scratch or by modifying one of the default templates. I will also talk about adding hacks, give some thoughts about web design and provide links to web design resources I have found useful. Whenever possible I will use freeware or shareware software and review the software for you. For image editing I use Adobe Photoshop and the GIMP, so there will be some basic tutorials for these too.

Sometimes it’s nice to grab a good cup of coffee, put your feet up on the desk, forget about ‘business’ and polish up on some design skills, learn some new things or find design inspiration.