Outstanding Overview of Photoshop for Photographers

The text is well written and nicely illustrated to provide step-by-step direction for many useful procedures. The best guide I have seen. Far surpasses the Adobe manual for practical applications for photographers.

If you own the 1st CS book, you don't need CS2

I love all of Kelby's books, so I was very excited to read the latest for CS2. It is another great book if you don't already own some of his previous PS books. However, I found myself going over a bunch of tips and tricks that have been around in his past work. There are a few great things in the book, but I don't feel it justifies the purchase.

Excellent, big improvement over last edition

I gave this book 4 stars because it covers all the new features in Photoshop cs2 very well. I don't agree with the authors avoidance of 16 bit process so that is why it doesn't get 5 stars. I bought this mainly to learn all the new feature in photoshop cs2 and the book covers those features very well. Especially the new smart sharpening feature and the enhanced camera raw, and all the other new features. Also it includes a multi-tone grey card to help with color balancing. This books covers in a much more intresting fashion- the material in the new cs2 manual included with the cd. The nice thing here is that the author offers example settings that probably can be applied to 85% of your images as is and give you good results.