Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Studio Techniques

Staring at a shelf full of Photoshop books at the local
bookstore, it seems that there are more special-effect
“cookbooks” and technical tomes than anyone would ever
care to read. The problem is that none of those “cookbooks”
provide enough detail to really let you feel like you
understand the program (blindly following the listed steps
just doesn’t do it), and all of the technical books are deep
into terms like rasters, vectors, and bit-depth settings. That’s
the primary reason that most people aren’t truly comfortable
with Photoshop. They either get the 1-2-3 steps (but
no real understanding), or they get so many technical
terms that Photoshop becomes impossible to grasp.