dstephany - If my resources are getting too low I will reduce my textures sizes in Photoshop.
Regarding editing my textures, I mean changing the variables inside Vue's editor. This could be bump, colour correction, highlights, transparencies, reflections etc. Basically I will change what needs changing to suit the lights & atmosphere in my scene. For example on skin textures I find they are too drab on import so I may increase or decrease specular depending on how much sunlight or ambient light is in the scene. Skin hightlighting changes I find are so important. SkinVue does this very quickly, my method takes longer but I don't mind as I'm always making changes as I go along.