Satman Loc: Indy

Roberts innIndy has a 2 night classes getting ready to start soon, might check.,

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

I’m a big fan of Scott Kelby’s books.

SueScott Loc: Hammondsville, Ohio

I'll check him out - I'm sure we'll be ordering more than one book.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

Scott Kelby's book "How Do I Do That In Photoshop?" from publisher "rockynook" is a good one.

Bike guy Loc: Atlanta

There is a newer 2019 version of the Classroom Book coming out in the end of December.

Georgeski

Martin Evening puts out comprehensive books on all the Photoshop features--but it is expensive --I look at mine from time to tine.

JanetG

I totally agree with this recommendation. For several years I have taught a college class using whatever the current version of this book is out. It is very detailed and you can download the files to do the lessons in the book. Each lesson also includes a graphic of the end results of each project so you can compare the layers and see what you did right or what you missed.
Good luck!

droszel

For me, the most important thing was understanding how the library works. I came from Aperture so understanding the notion of a catalogue was paramount to my not getting things all irrevocably founded up.

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Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Kan't go wrong with Kelby.

farnsworth52 Loc: W. Pa.

Phlearn on utube has hundreds of tutorials

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

My collection of inage editing books is:

A few scanning tips, Wayne Fulton 2000

Real World Scanning and Halftones, Blatner & Roth 1993

Photoshop Channel Chops, Biendny, Monroy, Moody 1998

Photoshop Channels Book, Kelby 2006

Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Eismann 2006

Digital Color Correction, Walker & Barstow 2004

Photoshop Elements 2 (hidden power of), Lynch 2003

Photoshop Elements for digital photographers, Kelby 2004

Real World Camera Raw, Fraser 2005

Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips, Kelby & Nelson 2006

Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques, Willmore 2006

Photoshop CS3 essential skills, Galer & Andrews 2007

Photoshop CS4 The Missing Manual, King 2009

Photoshop CS - CS4 for digital photographers, Kelby

plus numerous Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book editions.

An Author to watch for is Ben Willmore. Kelby's books are mostly recipes for doing things - along the way you will learn Photoshop. The Adobe Classroom books are very detailed.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I have found that there are basically two types of Photoshop books; One type is reference based and the other is instructional based.

The reference based list each and every component of Photoshop and how it works with a brief illustration. These are along the lines of The Photoshop Bible or Classroom in a Book which is my favorite of these types. I use it when I know what I want to do but I am unsure of which command or tool does it best.

The instructional based book has a series of "projects" that takes you step by step with screenshots on how it was done including a CD of the examples so that you can follow along with each step as many times as you wish. One of my favorites of this type are the "Photoshop WOW books". I use these when I want to learn how to do something new and repeat it on my own work and variants.

Both the reference and the how-to books are great to have but the reference book is like owning an encyclopedia (really showing my age) which you need to know what you want before you know where to look. The how-to books are like owning a specialty cookbook that shows a lovely dish and then walks you through all the steps to make it.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Adobe writes books. Recently they've been updating them for all the Adobe CC apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, Bridge, etc. The one for Photoshop is nearly 1000 pages, was updated a month ago and is available as a .pdf. Just reading the "what's new" section may be worthwhile.

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/pdf/photoshop_reference.pdf

I've got links for the rest if anyone wants them.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I use the "dummies" book and am fine with it.

jsfphotos Loc: New York, NY

I find that Lynda.com has more thoughtfully structured courses on both LR and PS -- and beats the guy on YouTube who shows you how to do one thing at a time. It costs for a Lynda.com subscription, but as a member of the NY Public Library, I can access all the Lynda courses for free. I bet it works that way with most libraries.

Personally, I have given up on Photoshop -- a program that was designed to do MUCH more than photography editing. I find it to be just too damn geeky and un-intuitive to do what I want to do. I used to love Aperture, but since it was discontinued, I am starting to love PhotoRAW 2019 put out by On1, which is much more robust than Aperture and actually combines the best of both PS and LR.