Need a crash course in Photoshop ? Need some inspiration for new works to do? Then Sitepoint's "The Photoshop Anthology" is the book for you. This book covers a wide breadth of knowledge, from starting out with Photoshop, to advanced retouching and batch scripting.
Coming in at a little over 270 pages, Corrie Haffly steps you learning the basics of Photoshop, what each tool and setting is capable of. It also doesn't read like a single walkthrough of a package. By breaking each chapter up into some functionality or action, it allows the reader to see possibilities with the tools based on the examples given.
Working with Photoshop on a daily basis means this books is great for reference material. It will also provide good coursework material for the next generation of online or graphic artists.