OK, I've got photoshop now, and am looking for the "best" book from a photographer's point of view. There's a lot of reviews on Amazon, but it seems like nearly all of the books are very good. The only one I have right now is "Skin" by Lee Varis and it certainly seems to be full of good information and well worth going through page by page. I ordered and received Photoshop CS2 for photographers by Scott Kirby, but is was missing the introduction -- publishing error, the pages were simply not bound in. I looked through it before I sent it back, and while it also seemed to have a lot of good information and detailed techniques, I wasn't too thrilled that the word count was upped by somewhat out of place humor a bit too often for my taste.

Perhaps the best thing to do is work through the one I have?