Excellent Learning Richard Harrington, in Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4,  provides an excellent learning platform for beginner and intermediate Photoshop users.  He provides comprehensive, yet engaging explanations.

Just For Digital Images Photoshop Elements 8 offers far more than expected for photo editing, yet it’s format and function keys are pretty easy to figure out. And the software offers beginners to advanced users a wide range of uses. The Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski focuses [...]

Easy as 1-2-3 There are several books available to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. One of the better ones I’m reviewing is Teach Yourself Visually: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 by Mike Wooldridge, and published by Wiley.