We take a look at the very best creative and digital art books released in the last month

We review the top 6 books that teach you everything you need to know about Adobe Photoshop CS5

When first presented with Photoshop CS4, it’s apparent that Adobe has been hard at work making radical modifications to its interface

There are plenty of great new features in Photoshop CS4, but one thing that has really been hyped about the release is that the whole of Creative Suite 4 is the first application of its kind to take advantage of the power of native GPU acceleration

With the release of Photoshop CS4, one of the big buzz phrases that surrounded it was ‘Content-Aware Scaling’, an algorithm licensed by Adobe to use in CS4

Altering the colour of type

Photoshop is highly regarded for its powerful filter effects

Easy paths

There are so many benefits to shooting your digital photographs in RAW format that these days even some compacts will give you the option to choose how your images are saved

Multiple shapes

Traditionally, many photographers use a range of filters, either of the screw-in glass variety or the plastic rectangular filter-plus-holder combo