The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion teaches you how to use the Digital Rebel features to make great photographs. Through easy-to-follow lessons, this book gives you a complete class on digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use the Digital Rebel XSi/450D. Author and professional photographer Ben Long includes plenty of full-color examples to show you what’s possible once you graduate from snapshots and focus on the pictures you’ve always wanted to take. The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion is available now for $24.99 USD / £14.99 GBP.

Digital Infrared Photography is a new book shows you how to record the invisible part of the light spectrum. This compact guide to infrared photography shows the beauty of infrared imagery while it teaches how to shoot these images with your digital camera. Digital Infrared Photography provides the basic theoretical background, information on cameras, filters and equipment, and lots of guidance on how to do infrared photography from image capture to post-processing. Digital Infrared Photography costs $24.95.

Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop is a new book by photographer Jerry Courvoisier. It delivers a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera workflow that allows readers to spend less time at their computer and more time behind the camera capturing great images. Joe McNally, photographer and author of The Moment It Clicks, said, “Jerry Courvoisier is, plain and simple, one of the best teachers of digital workflow and image management working today. He demystifies the digital world for both the beginner and the advanced user. For anyone shooting digital pictures, this book simply has to be on your shelf.” Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop is now available for $44.99.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers details the features of the newly released Lightroom 2 software. Author Martin Evening shows readers how to work with images shot in the raw or JPEG format, create and manage a personal image library, apply tonal adjustments to multiple images, and more. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers is now available, priced at $49.99.

Take Your Best Shot is a new book which provides informed answers to the questions serious photographers ask most often. Based on author Tim Grey’s popular Digital Darkroom Questions daily email newsletter, this colorful new reference shows you how to overcome technical and creative obstacles. “The Digital Darkroom Questions (DDQ) started as a total experiment,” explains Grey. “Part of the motivation for the DDQ email was my notion that people learn well in the question and answer format. I had been answering questions for about six years when publishers began telling me what a great book it would make. I agreed. So I decided it was time to make it happen.” Take Your Best Shot is available now for $34.99 / £21.99.

Canon EOS 40D: The Rocky Nook Manual is a must for anyone who wants to get the most out of their Canon EOS 40D. It teaches the basics of exposure and metering to focus modes, live view, bracketing, continuous shooting, and flash photography. Artur Landt is one of Germany’s most prolific authors of camera books with over 30 titles to his credit. Canon EOS 40D from Rocky Nook is available now for $29.95 USD.

The Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide is a full-color portable guide to the Sony Alpha A700 digital SLR camera. This new book guides you through the essential controls, features, and functions of the Sony A700 using step-by-step instructions and full-color images of each menu screen. The Sony Alpha DSLR A700 Digital Field Guide also goes beyond camera settings to offer you a refresher guide to the principles of digital photography. The Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide is available now for 16.00 EUR.

Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich is one of the most unusual photographic/textual records ever published about the German people during Hitler’s twelve-year reign. This stunning record includes 400 photographs taken almost exclusively by amateur German photographers—soldiers and civilians—during WWII and covers a wide spectrum of life on both the home front and battle front. Paul Garson, a photographer, writer and teacher in Los Angeles, has viewed more than 100,000 images from more than a dozen countries to create this photographic record of the Third Reich. Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich will be published later this year by Academy Chicago Publishers.

Places Of Wonder and Discovery is the first book from OUR PLACE, the world’s largest ever World Heritage photography project. Launched at Photokina in September, Places Of Wonder and Discovery is the first of a series of 10 books based on the collection. All OUR WORLD photographers use the Panasonic Lumix DMC L1, L10, FZ50 and LX2 digital cameras.

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 delivers the equivalent of a 2-day course in one project-based book covering all of Aperture’s new features. It takes readers step-by-step through the basics of image management and Aperture’s editing, retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 is now available for $49.49.

Photoshop CS3 Accelerated can help you navigate Photoshop, whether you’re a beginner or a pro. With easy-to-follow exercises, Photoshop CS3 Accelerated gives you a visual walk-through of meaningful hands-on functions and design projects. Full color, crisp screenshots on every page give readers a clear picture of what’s possible, and the CD included with the book contains all of the source files needed to complete the exercises. Photoshop CS3 Accelerated costs $24.99 USD, £14.99 GBP and is available now.

The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow is a new comprehensive guide to creating slide shows using ProShow software. The book covers the basics of design, the fundamentals of ProShow production techniques, and advanced tools to achieve professional results. Written by James Karney, The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow contains over 300 pages, a bonus CD and a helpful index. The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow costs $34.95 and is available now.

The Art of Black & White Photography is a new book that highlights the creative aspects of black and white photography. Author Torsten Andreas Hoffmann focuses on image composition and image capture, as well as on the digital workflow. Topics include overcoming clichéd photos , pictorial tension between elements and conversion to black and white from color. The Art of Black and White Photography costs $44.95 USD / £27.99 GBP.

dispatches is a new quarterly magazine edited by journalist-author Mort Rosenblum and acclaimed photographer Gary Knight. A close-to-the-news journal, dispatches takes a hard look at vital issues facing an imperilled world. The premier issue, In America, explores the United States from the inside out and the outside in. Each issue of dispatches focuses on one critical subject — the next is Beyond Iraq. dispatches costs £10 per issue, with the Premier issue available in May 2008.

Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People offers proven techniques and tips for photographing people. Sammon’s new book comes stocked with his extraordinary images of people from around the world, including Papua New Guinea, Namibia, Cuba, Mongolia, and Bhutan.  “You’ll learn how to photograph people in low light and in bright light, with a flash and without a flash. You’ll see how reflectors and diffusers can turn a snapshot into a great shot. You’ll understand the difference between an environmental portrait (a picture of the person in his or her environment) and a portrait—and the difference between taking and making a picture.” explains Sammon. Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People costs $34.99 / £21.99.

Sitepoint are giving away The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, completely free! Available to download as a PDF, the 278 page book normally worth $29.95 is billed as “the ultimate Photoshop compendium for web designers”. The offer runs until June 13th, 2008…

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Fine Art Printing for Photographers provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing, covering color management, profiling, paper, and inks. The 2nd Edition of this top-selling book has been newly edited, and includes expanded coverage of the newest printers and papers. “If you want to get better prints without having to ship your images off to a lab, this is the book you must get. Eat beans for a week if need be, but get this book.” commented David Huss. Fine Art Printing for Photographers is available now for $44.95 USD.

Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers combines stunning images in a beautifully designed book with no-nonsense insights. Author Harold Davis aims to show photographers how to measure light in order to capture their intended images. Davis commented “As a photographer, I’ve always learned by looking at photographs, particularly when the data about how the photo was made accompanies the image. So I created a book that allows people to learn about photography and to think about how to make photographs by simply looking at photos taken in specific conditions.” Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers costs $29.99, £18.50, 24 €.

Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book is the best-selling digital photography book ever. With over 250,000 copies currently in print, The Digital Photography Book includes nearly 200 of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade”. “Scott Kelby’s book continues to resonate with readers and photographers of different skill levels,” said Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, Publisher and Vice President of Peachpit and the Pearson Technology Group. “With his approachable style, Scott’s hard-earned practical advice on digital photography has his readers constantly clamoring for more from their beloved author.”

Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual puts every new feature in Elements into a clear, easy-to-understand context. “It’s been a long time since Adobe released a Mac version of Elements. That means there are lots of new features in Elements 6, so even if you’re pretty handy with the older versions of Elements for Mac, you’re going to have some new stuff to learn. This Missing Manual is the most complete reference book available.” commented author Barbara Brundage. Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual is available now for $44.99 USD / £32.99 GBP.