This is not a tip, exactly, but simply an alert to something I've written elsewhere that you might find illuminating.

Late last year I completed a print project for a client — a direct mail brochure — using most of the Creative Suite applications. In our studio, it was CS's "maiden voyage" with a high-end project from start to finish.

I wrote an article about the project — what new features came in handy, what mistakes I made — and titled it "Adobe CS in the Real World" (Original title: "I Am Joe's Brochure With Transparency."… if you've never read a Reader's Digest, you're probably going "huh?" … never mind.)

The article appears on my web site, on the home page:
<http://www.senecadesign.com>

Check it out if you get a chance, I think you'll like it. Much of the information is about InDesignCS, but I do touch on some of the other apps in the suite. And it was so great to be able to include screen shots, something I can't do in DesignGeek!