Guys and gals,

Which one's do you use?

Just got Photoshop CS6, getting my head around the beast!

Did have CS2 before, so a big step up.

Thanks for you time

Richard

None.
Never really needed any.
Everything I ever needed to do was actually available/possible within Photoshop itself - either for retouching, or for whatever other type of work (digital painting, compositing, masking, color/tone grading, sharpening, advanced postproduction, design ..) ..

But - some people like working with plug-ins, though.
For various good reasons (there are a few plug-ins that might be worth trying out, as far as I know, for some type of workflow ..) ..
Perhaps someone else will give you some better answer/insight.

Anyway -
if you ´jumped´ right from CS2 to CS6 - this is pretty a ´big jump´, since some major/significant improvements and functionality were added since then ... so now - I guess - for sure you´ll find a lot of new useful things and functionality to play with, within Photoshop itself 
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I have Alien Skin Exposure 4 and the Nik Bundle (includes Color Efex, Sharpener Pro, etc.)

I think I've used them a total of once in all the time I've had them.

Nik Software is really good... (I mostly use Color Efx Pro).

But that's just me...  :-)

I've tried Topaz Labs ReMask but I was really disappointed by it. I can do faster and more precise job using channels (maybe I'm just to used to it in this way). And because of that I decided no more plugins. For me, it's just not worth effort and price

Thanks for info.

Can you point towards a good tutorial on CS 6 ?

Thanks for your time

Richard

I like Adobe TV, Lynda.com, Total Training etc. just to name a few,
but there are definitelly many other good resources too, in the net.

Just thought
here´s where you could start from, perhaps:

Terry White on Adobe TV - How to get started with Photoshop cs6
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suit … how-to-do/

Or Julieanne Kost Essential CS6 training on Lynda (only a few chapters are free, but you can try out, and if you like, then you can pay - some $25 per month - to get acces to many, many more resources.)
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorial … 619-2.html

i use portraiture, portrait professional, radlab and color efex and silver efex and i have the bundle from alienskin. thinking i need some sort of HDR program now. the plug-ins let me quickly pre-biz different treatments to finalize an image.

topaz and onone have some more.