| BTW I know there are a bazillion (or is it kajillion?) Photoshop books around, but I wanted to mention the one I have found consistently head and shoulders above everything else. Photoshop Artistry by Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler — the latest version is "Photoshop Artistry: For Photographers Using Photoshop CS2 and Beyond".
This is a very detailed and intensive (but not impenetrable) course in just about everything you would want to do from a photographic standpoint. (If you're looking for "1001 fun things to do with Photoshop", then this book isn't for you.) I started with the version-4 book about 9 years ago and even that out-of-date book still explains the basics of retouching more lucidly than most books today. The authors even have you do things the 'wrong' way sometimes, then make you go back and do it again a different way, the better to help you learn the whys of what you're doing.
Anyway, if you're serious about Photoshop, I honestly think there's no better book available. |