Quote Originally Posted by mjs1973
Steve, aka Another View, has refferanced some very good photoshop books in other threads, but I don't remember what they were. Perhaps he will post them again for us.
Anything by Scott Kelby. He has different series of books, but Adobe Photoshop xxx for Digital Photographers would be the one to start with. It's kind of a recipe book but you start picking up ideas for the how & why while working with it.

Welcome to the site - but please check out the forums here as well. Questions like this probably would be better in Digital Imaging.