Written by a full-time UK-based commercial and fashion photographer and CS3 alpha tester, this book covers issues most digital photographers face, from workflow issues, color management, color correction, and retouching. Highly recommended as the first Photoshop book for a photographer.

In my own opinion, the single best book on color correction and sharpening on the market today. It’s not an easy read, but the techniques in this book should enable anyone to vastly improve the quality of their prints. VERY Highly recommended

Katrin is one of the leading Photoshop writer/experts today, and all of her books are all highly approachable (and recommended). This one is an excellent guide to basic color correction, retouching, photo repair/restoration, and more.

The LAB color model offers significant advantages over RGB or CMYK for many tasks. While not primarily aimed at the novice, it covers many techniques to quickly and easily improve images in less time than in RGB or CMYK, as well as fix some problems that are impractical—if not impossible—to fix in RGB or CMYK. I do recommend reading Dan’s Professional Photoshop before this one, however.

This is the guide if you want to master Color Management. If you just want a photography-specific guide, Tim Grey’s Color Confidence may be a better choice; it’s somewhat more approachable, albeit with much less detail. I can’t recommend Michael Kieran’s Photoshop Color Correction; it had too many errors.

This is a specialized book, in that it primarily discusses only photographing and retouching people. By doing so, however, it gave the author room to include things which are often neglected in other texts. I don’t recommend it as a “first” or only Photoshop book, but it has enough material not covered elsewhere to make it quite worthwhile adding to a collection.

Primarily for, as the title says, commercial retouching. Glenn uses different techniques than either Katrin Eismann or Suzette Troche-Stapp, and shows how to get excellent results in a variety of circumstances.