By using Tim Shelbourne's timely new book Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook, you don't have to be a trained artist, pro photographer, or Photoshop expert to cook up amazing results quickly and easily.

Shelbourne packed his new book with 53 easy-to-follow recipes, inspirational digital imagery, and authoritative information and advice for digital photographers, designers, and artists. So if your experience of digital manipulation so far consists of simple tonal adjustments and color corrections you're in for a treat.

• Use the improved Vanishing Point, Lens Blur, and Black & White filters

• Create graphic art effects: posterization, watercolor, pen and ink

• Work with lighting effects: neon glows, lens flares, fire and flame effects

• Simulate natural phenomena: rain, snow, and lightning

• Adapt traditional techniques: film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting, cross-processing

• Add motion blurs and other special effects

• Assemble multi-layered images and photomontages  MORE

With pages of full-color examples that show you how to apply your new Photoshop skills to real-world situations, this in-depth reference will improve your overall workflow and help you enhance and prepare images more effectively than ever before.

• Selecting the right brushes and manipulating specific areas of an image
• Adding color to bring your graphics to life
• Retouching like a pro and preparing for print
• Combining image layers to create dynamic print graphics
• Enhancing the details of your image using sharpening tools
• Choosing the right layer styles and filter effects
• Editing Raw files, TIFFs, and JPEGs with Camera Raw

• Harness channels and masks for faster workflow
• Unravel the secrets of creating, mixing, and converting digital color
• Add lighting effects, 3D, and other channel pyrotechnics
• Composite layer content with advanced blending
• Reveal, conceal, and refine your images with layer masks
• Combine selections from single and multiple documents
• Learn to posterize, create textures, correct faded images, and more
• Use type masks to add an artist's sparkle to the text

Well designed and easy to read read, brilliant full color throughout, including hundreds of color screen shots and examples.  Learn how to work with soft-edged selections; Learn how to select and composite transparent shadows  Learn how to blend layers

• Finding images and video clips.
• Changing size and resolution.
• Using the Quick Selection tool.
• Adjusting hue and saturation.
• Applying Smart Filter effects.
• Creating a contact sheet.
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks.
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task.
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step.
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules.

This book includes a DVD that contains "screencast" lessons created by the author that let you watch the specific steps of each project on your screen while you do them yourself. The DVD also includes trial versions of the software used in the book as well as sample images from the text.

This new book from Sybex, "Photoshop CS3 Workflow - The Digital Photographers Guide" is designed to show you how to organize your photographic process, business and/or hobby. What is the best way to get your digital images out of your brain, captured by your camera, then into your computer for editing, correction and transformation into a final product ready to share to with the world?

If you are new to Photoshop, this book is even more valuable. It walks you through the various adjustments and corrections you can make to your digital images; providing you with a recommended order of corrections and effects. Should you start by rotating and cropping or should you take care of image clean-up first? Tom Grey provides his excellent guidance and explanation of what should be done and in what order. more

Rob Sheppard shows pro photographers and serious hobbyists can improve workflow and produce better photos with Lightroom. Its all about how to become a more productive photographer.

• Streamline the process of importing, managing, developing, and presenting quantities of images
• Explore nondestructive image processing and color-managed printing
• Work with tone curve, adjust white balance, fine-tune vibrance and saturation, easily correct color
• Create your own presets to use again and again based on adjustments you use regularly
• Create eye-popping prints, show-stopping slideshows, and Web galleries.

Big print with plenty of diagrams and good layout, this book is an essential for digital photographers wanting how to improve their work by using Adobe's new Lightroom product.

Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book is the only Photoshop manual written by a full-time professional nature photographer. It features a real-world approach that simulates the rich workshop experience, teaching nature photographers practical Photoshop skills that will solve their most common problems.

Written cover-to-cover to fit the unique needs of nature photographers, this practical book addresses the tools, techniques, and workflow ideally suited for natural subjects. You'll figure out how to plan for overlapping landscape exposures, sharpen animal eyes, edit sky and land separately, and repair image elements as delicate as butterfly wings. You'll discover effective shooting tips. And above all, you'll learn what it takes to become a master in the digital darkroom using Photoshop. more

This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop — and then turn them into dazzling works of art. You'll see how to work in the right file formats, master the Brushes palette, get creative with filters, convert color to grayscale, and more!

• Adjust brightness, improve color, and fix flaws
• Take advantage of the Raw file format
• Composite images with layers and blending modes
• Automate your tasks with scripts and Actions
• Apply the new Smart Filters to Smart Objects

Do you want to learn how to do wild and crazy stuff with Photoshop?  How to liven up your videos and create cool looking graphics 

Read the review for PhotoShop Type Effects GONE WILD

The Art of RAW Conversion shows digital photographers how to work with the RAW files generated by a digital camera to produce the best possible image quality in finished photos. The authors (both experts in digital photography, file processing, printing, and color management) describe the conversion tools used to enhance RAW files and maximize photo quality. All techniques covered are based on practical experience and explained with step-by-step instructions, so that readers will be able to apply what they learn and create their own fine art-quality photographs. Covers Adobe Photoshop CS and other leading RAW converters.

• Faster Photoshop startup
• Customizing the Photoshop interface
• Hacking Photoshop’s Tools
• Access hidden dialog buttons
• Hacks for Masks, Layers, Paths, Curves and Selections
• Camera Raw tricks

If you are just starting out with a good, high quality digital single lens reflex camera and Photoshop CS2, this is the book for you!. Billing itself as five books in one, it covers everything from the basics of how to use a digital camera to the essentials of using Photoshop to clean up and correct your images, as well as how to do some basic effects and other cool stuff.

If you are looking to make the next step up in digital photography from snapshots and removing red eye, you should definitely take a look at Digital SLR Photography with Photoshop CS2 - all in one for dummies 

For example, it covers how to:

• Set your camera for the right exposure
• Select the right lens for the job
• Choose the better format—JPEG or RAW
• Tweak exposure and white balance images in Photoshop
• Use layer masks in retouching and special color effects

If you want to be a master of video design and web video, you also have to master graphic design. You don't need to be genius or an incredible artist - you just need to understand how the various tools work. One of the most popular set of tools for graphics and web design is Adobe's new Creative Suite 2. If you master this, you can do almost anything.

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 2 All in One has all the answers to your Adobe Creative Suite questions in one easy-to-use book. You will learn all of the products and technologies in a logical, well-integrated fashion. It covers the basics of:

• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Adobe Illustrator CS2
• Adobe GoLive CS2
• Adobe InDesign CS2
• Adobe Version Cue CS2
• Adobe Bridge
• Adobe Stock Photos
• Adobe Acrobat 7.0