To use the Art History brush successfully, there are a few rules you need to follow. Rosie Tanner shares a brief tutorial on Photoshop Daily that will have you quickly nad easily painting from History.

Scott Kelby has posted a set of tips for new users of Lightroom. Even experienced Lightroom users are likely to learn a thing or two.

Creating layer masks is a critical skill to learn for making local adjustments to photographs. Experienced retouchers use layer masks to restrict sharpening effects, apply dodge and burn effects, etc. If you're still tentative about working with layer masks, Jay Kinghorn has a handful of tips to help you master them.

INSPIRE is a site from the Adobe Experience team. It's written in Felx and is without question one of the funkiest, quirkiest experiences for reading a tutorial. That said, they did a focus study of 75 new home users of Lightroom and listened in as they tried to work with their photos. This tutorial distills the top eight things that can help you get set up and working more quickly with Lightroom.

Have you ever tried to use the "Treatment" criterion in LR? It works, but only if you do the B&W conversion in LR. What if you do the conversion outside of LR? Well, you have to fool LR. This quick tutorial from More Than Words explains how.

One of the powerful new features in Lightroom 2.0 is the Graduated Filter tool. Combine it with the Adjustment Brush and you hve a powerful retouching combination for adding dramatic punch to your photograph. Jay Kinghorn's tutorial for CreativePro.com will help you add some striking results.

If you own a Mac and you have a large colleciton of photos, adding keywords can make it easier to find photos later. Kvin Carter has a brief tutorial that demonstrates how to add keywords to you photo collections with iPhoto.

Photoshop Elements has a pecial tool for adjusting skin tones. The Digiretus site has an .HTML tutorial that demonstrrates how to make quick adjustments to skin tones. No more yellows!

Photoshop CS4 includes a new Panel named Adjustments. It brings together the functionality of Adjustment Layers, which should be familiar to anyone with experience from previous Photoshop versions. These adjustments are used for non-destructive editing. Alvaro Guzman offers readers a tour around this new feature in Photoshop CS4.

The Curves dialog is a hard command for beginning Photoshop users to master. Some never do quite catch the hang of it and instead stick with Levels, etc. Laura Shoe has written a brief tutorial that explains the basics of working with Curves in Photoshop.