I've been a longtime fan of Photoshop guru Scott Kelby, and embarrassed to find out now that he released this CS5 edition to his Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers series last August. I had originally become acquainted with the series when it was Photoshop CS, then later updated for the CS4 version. My choice to update again was more or less to help out a colleague who uses Photoshop CS4. I wanted to give her my older edition and get the new one.

I'll say right off if you already own the CS4 edition, then you really don't need to pick this one up unless you want to see new trickery involving some of the new features only found on Adobe Photoshop CS5. For me it's still worth it because of the vast amount of knowledge Kelby gives. This book will help the Photoshop-savvy photographers make their digital images go from great to amazing.

With a massive recession (or is it depression?) all over, companies falling apart, jobs lost, money problems everywhere, it's funny how internet giant Google is seemingly invulnerable to it all. How can this be? How can a company that gives the world free email, free maps, free search engine, free video upload and streaming, free photo galleries, and so much more somehow end up turning profit?