Joster, I recommend getting a good book on Photoshop - Inside Photoshop 7 is my favorite. You will find so many cool things that you can do with it that you can apply to your work. I use it for backgrounds, making textures, adjusting colours, adding poser people to montages and reall photos, smoothing dodgy bends, reconstructing very busty scenes that I could not render in one go, creating hair, touching up make-up, adding fairy wings, putting text on, drop shadows, oh I could go on all night! I actually had a life before I discovered Poser and Photoshop!