Recommended Photoshop book or manual?

[TheStoat]

Yes, it's me again This time I'm after your own experiences with Photoshop books or manuals. I've got to the point where I want to pick up the pace on Photoshop but don't want to buy the wrong book (there's quite a choice out there). I'm trying to avoid reference books and books obsessed with digital photography. I really need a proper guide that covers the basics *and* the advanced stuff. A couple of tomes that have caught my eye are Photoshop CS3 Bible and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book - anyone used these before? Any favourites or recommendations out there?

Cheers,

Andy

[kiwisr]

If it os for photography related stuff there is only one book to get and that is Adobe Photoshop for Photographers by Martin Evening.

[TonyHetherington]

This will probably get a better recommendation in the phtography forum, so I'll move it over there for you...plenty of avid photshop users in there

[F308 MAN]

your initial tendencies are good ... also checkout scott kelby's photoshop CS3 book

http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Digital-Photograph...

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[chockymonster]

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=419 
Very worthwhile running through this.
I learnt an awful lot from it.

[Greg964]

chockymonster said:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=419 
Very worthwhile running through this.
I learnt an awful lot from it.

+1

I recommend learning photoshop from videos rather than a textbook. Learning stuff is way faster and makes sense first time. Digital photo mag has a dozen video tutorials on the free cd each month.