To optimize performance in CS5, users need to carefully consider the memory and hard space requirements for Photoshop. While some choices, like the number and types of layers are rather obvious in their demands for system resources, other changes in Photoshop CS5 are more obscure.

If your only reason to visit The Light's Right is for "strictly" photography resources, you might want to skip this. Aside from the fact that this illustration reflects how I feel sometimes, I find the technique interesting and the result downright impressive. This tutorial from Photoshop Tutorials demonstrates that Photoshop is much more than just a photo editor.

I am always favorably impressed with the video content on Mark S. Johnson's site. In Workbench 243, he demonstrates how to give photographs a dreamy, expnressionist appearance that he calls "Moonlight Dreamscape." Very nice effect!

This is a very nice tutorial on a great topic. How to create a texture brush. It's handy for giving photographs extra texture without the need to blend images.

Photoshop Roadmap has assembled a collection of 27 "Scott Kelby"-like photo effects tutorials. No slight at Scott is intended. These just  remind of the sort of tutorials he produces for his books and for Photoshop User. There are, indeed, some very interesting effects in this collection.

Lightroom's Library module is a great tool for organizing your photo collection. But it can get confusing because operations can work differently, depending on whether you're working in Grid View or Loupe View. Gene McCullough explains.