Portraits can reveal lots of skin details. Close-ups can show skin pores, tiny blemishes. Get careless with sharpening and portraits can end up looking like they have leprosy or some other skin disease. Photoshopper27 has a tutorial for using channels to smooth skin.

Matt Kloskowski posted the link to this tip. It demonstrates how you can combine LR and Photoshop to fade a LR preset. You need to have Photoshop to do this. No way to fade a preset in Lightroom itself. You'll also consume more resources, since there will temporarily be three copies of your photograph kicking around. But, it is an interesting solution to a problem that sometimes vexes LR users.

Considering making a print on canvas? Tried it and experienced difficulty? David Saffir has some helpful advice on getting your prints out from behind glass and on canvas.

Matt Kloskowski has posted a brief list of five common slip-ups he's seen Lightroom users make.

Ever shot a picture of a tall building without a view camera or a tilt-shift lens? You're almost sure to get visual distortions. Photoshop CS4 has powerful features to correct perspective. Brandon Oelling demonstrates how to fix those problems quickly and easily.

Photoshopper27 has posted a tutorial with the steps for quickly and easily adding a B&W frame effect in Photoshop.

Want an interesting frame effect for three photos. Photoshopper27 has a detailed tutorial that walks readers through all the steps.

You might not associate the name iStock Photo with Phtoshop tutorials, but they do have a handful. Nothing especially remarkable. This link is about as good as it gets on iStock Photo so far, a basic tutorial on simulating a B&W film effect. I think you'll find the actions here on TLR do a more realistic job and there's a couple of detailed blog entries on the topic here, too. Still, it's good to hear alternate voices and you can also use this link to check out their other tutorials.

Photoshop Tutorials has added a nice tutorial on glamour retouching that gives readers a good solid walk-though.

You've adjusted the dynamic range and the overall contrast. You've sharpened your photograph. Still, your photograph lacks "pop." It appears flat and uninteresting.

Michael Reichmann described a technique he called Local Contrast Enhancement. I even include it as part of the TLR creative sharpening actions and scripts.

Hans Weichselbaum has written a tutorial that explains the basics of Local Contrast Enhancement that explores some of the options for the Photoshop user. His tutorial will have your photos popping off the paper.