While some are not directly related to typical Photoshop use by photographers, getting to know your tools is always a good thing to do.  Here are six nice free tutorials from watchandlearnphotoshop.com 
Color Modes
In this excerpt from Introduction to Photoshop CS, trainer Nathan Mazur introduces you to the 8 different color modes used by Photoshop.

If you haven’t noticed, Shooting the Kids has been on a little (OK, <ahem> not so little) summer break. We’ve been playing at the beach and eating ice cream and staying up late because, well, it’s summer and that’s just what you do! We’re also in the middle of a house move, which is both [...]

Summer is fast approaching and I can think of no better way to spend it than to take a class or two at the Maine Photographic Workshops. There are many film and photography workshops in the world, but my all-time favorite place to learn is at the Maine Workshops. They have week-long [...]

You’re never too old to send Valentines, right? Wait, I should clarify: the ones with Disney characters or generic messages should definitely be banned for the over eight-year-old set. So what about the rest of us who want to share some love this Valentine’s Day, but without the cheesy sentiments of those chalky candy hearts [...]

I found a great article on Wiki-How about how to build a panoramic tripod head. It seems pretty simple for those with basic carpentry skills. It might be a bit beyond my abilities, but maybe Shayne could tackle it…? A panoramic tripod head will let you take even panoramic shots to [...]

I was recently sent an invitation for a free trial of phanfare.com by Lance from the now defunct Baddog Photo (Where’d you go Lance?). From my initial observations, it looks promising.

No advertising on online albums
Unlimited storage
Universal access to your photos and videos from any computer
Customer support from real people with 1-hour response time
Faster uploads using [...]

I haven’t had to shop for a P&S camera for years…back when we bought our Canon Elph. It’s still going strong so I think it’s going to be a while for us to need to shop for one again. But if you happen to be in the market for one, checkout the NY Times article [...]

Stobist had the good idea of posting the non-photo blogs he reads. Here’s a portion of mine:

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/
http://marginalizingmorons.blogspot.com/index.html
http://www.ballbug.com/
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/
http://www.moneyblognetwork.com/
http://www.parenthacks.com/
http://www.problogger.net/