ROTFL!!!
Haha,yeah,everybody asks me.
Aw,thank you for the compliment..
Well,what I do a lot of is coloring tutorials (you can find these on livejournal,and Nicki had a thread in the Brush of Unicorn forum a bit ago).That adds a lot to pictures,esp. ones that are already a bright color.
And the soft glow effect (Filters>Soft Glow) works beautifully on close ups of eyes,or for making a banner look "dreamy".
Basically,I just texture a ton,and play with the filters (Clothify is cool,if you make it on a duplicate of your image,and fade it to 30%,it makes it look like a painting)...