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I hate to ask dumb questions, but, one thing I wish I could get in photoshop is the ability to rotate a couple of the up-to-down or right-to-left tools - eg. when you select "M" (a selection rectangle), it would be nice if you could ROTATE the rectangle after you have defined its dimensions to any angle you chose so that your selection is bounded by the rotated box.  Then, you could use any of the normally oriented transform edit tools (such as scale,skew, perspective, distort) that would apply against the rotated box using the rotated orientation instead of up-to-down or right-to-left.  The same for the warp predefines - that way, you could focus in on any particular portion of a photo (that will probably NOT be oriented up-down/right-left) and use the predefined, but rotated, warp selection to adjust that portion in whatever orientation you find it in the photo.  Of course, one way to achieve this now is to make the selection, then rotate it to where it is oriented up-down, and THEN apply the warp predefine (such as arch), and then reverse the rotation back to its original orientation, and you've got your desired effect - BUT, and this is a big drawback, when you rotate, then apply the arch, and then reverse the rotate, you lose some level of pixel precision.  So, if any of the later versions of photoshop (after CS2) allow for rotating the normal selection methods PRIOR to affixing the selection, that would really make a big difference for those cases where your object you want to edit is not under normal orientation (up-down/right-left). 

I am hoping you gurus will be tolerant of what may seem like a dumb question, but, I'm still learning.  There is so much it can be overwhelming.