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PSDs not being given really never occurred to me before, even in mainstream. But then again finding mainstream clients willing to pay the $ for a good design wasn't so easy where I was doing this either.
I do some design here and there for people, and will gladly give up PSDs with the project. I don't want five million requests for a typographical change piling up at little or no cost to them if I have other things going on. Fonts, well if they're shareware or freeware, no problem. If not, you can't do that.
You may develop custom layer styles, etc., but in most cases someone buying an Adobe design would take one look at 100 layers and close the file, grab a drink and call you for help before monkeying with anything. It's about subtlety, compositing, a million different effects which someone looking at your file might get a glimpse up its skirts of but not the full picture. Just because you've Quickmasked out the background in a model doesn't mean someone can look at that and do a more subtle job than Jack the Ripper. If you have trademark effects, conceal them and make only the obvious stuff like blending options visible.
Most of Photoshop can't be taught with just one file. It takes years of dealing with Adobe and its quirks, anguish and then ecstasy when new things like layers come out and you learn to use them - it's as much an art as anything, and layer styles/templates don't make someone using the PSD any more convincing than handing someone a camera who watched Ansel Adams take pictures. It takes a special creative personality to figure this stuff out.
Should be a no-brainer.
-doug
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