well hopefully i will be submitting some of my own work when i get round to learning how to use it, i have bought "photoshop 7 in easy steps" but there were a few other books there that looked cool but i wanted to ask your advise b4 buying them, what would be useful for a newbie like me.

sorry to ramble but im a bit excited lol.

i realy wanna turn out some decent work for you guys!

congrtats to the :newbie:

No worries CM...
I've been just toying around w/the software and learning as I go along...don't have any books but they will help. The tutorials here on AF here have helped me out...but I think it'll be trial and error that will get you the furthest...
Good luck!
CL

before you go out and buy a book try searching for tutorials online.
Here's a link to over 200 tut sites.

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1232

Trial and error werkt fer me. Most of the stuff is self explanitory.