Steve Weibrebe starts off by reminding readers that not all skin is smooth. Well, it's my experience that it's rarely smooth and people prefer a bit of digital smoothing for their portraits. Steve has tutorial that will teach you how to soften skin quickly and easily.

At least, that's what Bob Johnson of EarthBound Light says about this new Photoshop CS5 feature.

You can read 11 Photoshop tips from Outdoor Photography pros. You'll learn how they make their photos stand out as extraordinary shots.

PSDTUTS is a site with lots of Photoshop tutorials. Ian Yates has produced a comprehensive tutorial on the Photoshop Pen tool. Mastering it will improve your ability to make selections and knockouts.

Variations on the Pen tool are used in many Adobe products, including Illustrator, Fireworks, Premier, and After Effects. So getting a firm grip on the Pen tool is a good skill to have.

This is part one of a two-part series where Michael Gray helps readers better understand color management. Many of the tutorals on the Web that cover color management for photographers, look at it from the perspective of Photoshop. Tis tutorial instead focuses on Lightroom and Melissa RGB. What's Melissa RGB? Click the hyperlink and read Michael's tutorial to find out.

Do you do a fair amount of printing from Lightroom? Virtual copies can streamline your printing process. Nat Coalson has a brief tutorial that explains how.

Who hasn't over- or underexposed a digital photograph? Michael Gray has written a brief tutorial with a practical workflow in Lightroom for fixing exposure problems.

Every take a shot you'd like to keep but the sky is over-exposed and lacking detail? This tutorial from MRD Photography will show you how.

Rick Sammon is a respected author on digital photography. His latest tutorial for his Eyes on Africa series demonstrates how to use the Vignette tool in Adobe Lightroom 2 to add visual impact to outdoor portraiture.

Kelly Castro is a quality engineer on the Lightroom development team. He wrote a short blog post on creating and using local adjustment presets in Lightroom.