Photoshop Books

[Cyrael]

Hey guys I have a friend who asked me for some recommendations of photoshop books and i unfortunately could not give her any bc all of photoshop that I've learned I've learned through stumbling through the program or from being around ppl using it and friends showing me tricks, or scouring the interwebs.. soo long story short.

best books to start learning photoshop?

thanks guys.

*EDIT* If there's already been a thread on this my bad and please point me in the right direction, I searched for it, but to no avail

[grimdc13]

Just to learn Photoshop itself or to to do digital painting in photoshop? I have some recommendations from my library.

Digital Painting: The Complete Digital Art Creative Handbook
(from Computer Arts Magazin/ Future Publishing UK) Has CD tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator and Bryce. $24.99

Visual Quickstart Guide to Photoshop CS3/ or CS4 for Windows & Macintosh
Peachpit Press
for Beginning and Intermmediate levels $24.99

Visual Quickstart Guide to Illustrator CS3 / or CS4 for Windows and Macintosh
Peachpit Press $24.99

Traditional Medium books that you can translate to Digital Painting:

Pictorial Composition An Introduction by Henry Rakin Poore
Dover Publications Inc. $9.95 ISBN 0-486-23358-8

How To Paint Like The Old Masters by Joseph Sheppard
"A leading contemporary painter reconstructs the classic oil painting techniques of the old masters in step by step demonstrations."
Watson-Guptill Publications $22.50 IBSN 0-8230-2671-x

[Cyrael]

Great! Thanks for the suggestions, I'll for sure pass them along and I dont think she's specifically focusing on digital painting I think she wants more of a program overview..