Digital Photography and PhotoShop Books

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Neat book. Lots of color, great images, lots of good explanations. Deals with both practical issues, ideas and PhotoShop. Recommended.

The short version of "Digital Photographers Handbook". Cheaper, lightly smaller page size, but most of the pages are identical - except there are less of them (about 1/2 as many). Covers all the basics but leaves out some of the more detailed explanations and more advanced topics. Recommended, but get the "Digital Photographer's Handbook" if you can afford it.

A look at PhotoShop from the perspective of a photographer, not a computer geek or graphic designer. Not a PhotoShop manual, but that's probably a good thing for most working photographers!

Very much not a PhotoShop manual. Contains lots of ideas, examples and images created (or edited) using PhotoShop. You could sit and read this book (try that with a software manual). This book has something of a spiritual "new-age" feel to it, which you may or may not be a fan of.

Big, thick, 1000+ page reference manual. Sometimes we all need these things, but you probably won't curl up with it next to the fire.

Another big, thick, 1000+ page reference manual. If you need it, it's probably in there, but not exactly a "page turner".

It's a dummies guide. If you like them, you may like this one. If you hate them, well.... The information is in there, presented in bite sized pieces. No prior knowledge is assumed (just as well if you're a dummy).

One of the best comprehensive (860+ page) guides to PhotoShop for photographers. Well written and well laid out. Recommended.

Only 900+ pages in this one and I don't think it's hit the shelves yet - I haven't seen a copy. However it's supposed to cover all the new features in PhotoShop CS, and if it's as good as the PhotoShop 7 edition, it should be a winner