Photoshop CS3- any good books?

I just bought the student licensing version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 through the university where I work. The price was good, but it came with no book at all. I had never upgraded from 6, and was not that knowledgeable about that version. I can do very basic things on six.

Can anyone recommend a book on CS3 that might be easy to learn from?

Hi Ava, and welcome to the forum.
Any good book store will have books specific to CS3, I have the book Adobe CS2 on demand which has about 500pages and i paid about 20quid for it.
If i recall there is a Photoshop for dummies you can also purchase
Hope this helps

I've found Martin Evening's books 'Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 for Digital Photographers' to be very useful and readable. Scott Kelby has produced some good books too but his style is typically american. Checkout Podcasts too, just search for Photoshop.

Martin Evenong's book is the one I would recommend.

The following two books I have and recommend:-

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book (Paperback) SBN-10: 0321492021

Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC (Paperback) ISBN-10: 0240520289

First to get you going and second takes you deeper.

Another vote for the books of Martin Evening published by Focal-Press....

I'm presently wading thru his 'Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers'. I won't pretend it's easy going!!...but it IS at least well written, concise and above all, actually reflects the software,...there are more than a few of the 200+ titles about PS that frankly don't!

Can't get the CD supplied with the book to run on my brand new and exotic computer tho'.....

I had recently spent a whole evening wading through reviews on dozens of CS3 books and I chose Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers http://tinyurl.com/2jvmkt (lots of explanation for real life corrections etc)and Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques http://tinyurl.com/2wykx4 (very detailed how's and why's - over 20 pages just on sharpening alone) Today both books arrived in my mailbox and although I have only had a very brief look at them so far, I must report I am very pleased and would recommend you have a look at the reviews and tables of contents if you haven't already made your purchase. (NOTE: for the CS3 version of Studio Techniques you will have to check out the CS2 version at http://tinyurl.com/374wtg to see a comparable TOC)

My opinions on two previously mentioned authors in previous posts:

I already had Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers by Martin Evening and I must agree with viewfinder that I did not find him very easy to read or follow sometimes and some explanations were quite brief. My Photoshop 6.0 book is still quite useful to me in CS3 though so I reasoned that a different author would be in order for me.

I know for sure Scott Kelby is not to my liking at all. I personally would not describe his stye "American" as mannesty did, it is just plain goofy. Waaaay too much joking and puns - just like all the "For Dummies" books. Very tiring after 10 minutes reading and who wants to read the same stupid jokes everytime you want to refresh your memory on a topic a few months down the road?

I will delve into both of my new books and give a more detailed review sometime in the future but so far, I already can tell that I am going to like both of my new books.

regards

Drew