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Photoshop books

Published on 28th February 2007 Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Having exhausted the trial time on Photoshop Elements 5, I am now having a look at its big brother, Photoshop CS2. That has got me thinking about Photoshop books so that I become more of the possibilities and how to use them. Having a Safari subscription as I do, that naturally became my first port of call, and I seemed to find two that answered my needs: both are by Scott Kelby; they now lie on my Safari bookshelf: The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers and The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers. Even so, I am tempted to get a dead tree version of one of them and that presents a chicken-and-egg dilemma: the books could help choose which software to buy and the software dictates which of them will be the more useful. That said, I suspect price and features will swing it the way of Elements 5; paying over £400 for software whose capabilities I may never need does not sound financially sensible.

Update March 5th, 2007: Now, I have got my hands on the dead tree edition of Scott Kelby's The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers as well as Brad Hinkel's Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2. Now for some reading...

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