Books The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
Books and Publications Average Rating:

Rating: - Amazing book
Scott Kelby is the best at explaining shortcuts to photoshop in easy to follow steps. I highly recomend his books.

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Rating: - An outstanding book
This is one of the few books on the market that actually takes one through a procedure step-by-step. I'm do not have an in-depth knowledge of Photoshop, so the methodology this book presents is particularly useful. And along the way you get a better understanding of how all the editing pieces actually fit together. Buy this one. It's a keeper.

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Rating: - not for pro's but nice and funny for amateurs
it's a kind of big-mac meal ... just for the large consumers ... very easy and simple to follow, some nice approchment, but nothing to do with professional retouching. but will surely be a nice help for amateurs to begin to work in a different way with there photoshop

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Rating: - a collection of tips
I have to say that I did not buy this book, I read it however. I would everybody advice to first check out the book if possible before actually buying it. Also, if you find the book where the "2" is missing in the title, buy that version because it has for a large part the same content and saves you probable a few dollars.

Scott delivers with this book a collection of tricks which are quick to use and easy to understand with good example images. Even if you have no knowledge of Photoshop this book will give some very easy to understand material to do some basic photo editing tasks.

However it is nothing more than that, and sorry to say if you check some free websites and photoshop forums there is more to find. Furthermore Scott does not explain 'why' it is purely a 'how' book. If you want to learn more about photoshop in relation to photo editing techniques instead of only using them, keep an eye on the books of Martin Evening.

As a final I do want to mention the words 'humor' and 'pro', both have a relation to the text but not to the content of this book.