photoshop basics books

[Furyous]

With pp being my weak point, has anyone got any recommendations for a basic come beginners guide to cs2 ?

I have Scott kelbys book, but that assumes a basic level of adobe understanding.

I find ps to be very unintuitive to use, and thus avoid if possible.

If I can get my head round the basics, I'm sure my other book will start to make more sense too.

Amazon and google bring up way to many choices.

I did see a 1 on 1 book by deke mclelland that looked useful...

eta - This one

, but as you lot know all the answers, here I am.....

Edited by Furyous on Thursday 2nd July 17:44

[The Tea Boy]

i too am on the look out for a book everything with post processing baffels the hell out of me, i spent 3hrs on a photo the other day and still cannot work out the layers thing never mind actually doing anything to improve the photo!!!

[kman]

i just ordered martin evenings book on CS3 for photographers. Scott Kelby's is meant to be quite informative but his writing style is very annoying (american sense of humour), by all accounts!