Looks like you had fun. Photoshop is an awesome tool. About.com is a good start for tutorials. And don't forget to keep your basic design skills current; it makes all the difference.
Looks like you were playing with the artist filters. I love playing with those, be careful Photoshop can be addicting.
thanks for the motivation guys... im finally looking on site for tutorials so ill post some more work up tomorrow or so
Can you suggest some specific URLs for good photoshop image adjustment tutorials apart from About.Com? I want to improve my photoshop designing skill.
Good first attempt mate, try practising with dodge/burn, healing/clone - they work really well on photo manipulation and are extremely useful