CGSociety just put out a little article with 10 texturing techniques. Probably not new for a lot, but I certainly learned a couple things. http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4678
Vig, good point - I have CTRL-R on "crop", so every now and then if I'm happy with most of a texture I'll just CTRL-A (select all) and CTRL-R (crop). That gets rid of any stuff spilling over borders, but still allows me to use the layer mask as a non-destructive transparency per layer. Plus it's annoying if you've got…