Best Book or video to buy?

Hi guys and gals!

I'm trying to expand my processing knowledge from DPP to LR3 or CS5. Can you guys advise on which book or video to get? I'm looking for a somewhat 3rd grade explanation of what every slider or button does, and what happens to the picture if I move a certain slider from left to right.

I already tried using youtube, and it's not working out to well for me. Thanks in advance for helping me out.

I'd go for Real World Camera Raw, available through Amazon.com -- a very thorough treatise.

For Lightroom look for books by either Scott Kelby, or Martin Evening.

Thanks guys. Does these book go in detail of every slider or button? Like what to expect when you move the slider left or right? Im finding LR3 and CS5 overwhelming. In DPP i usually just adjust for saturation, contrast, sharpness, preset wb, and exposure. I dont really understand the s-curve or anything complicated.

You can always go to a local Barnes and Noble, or Borders, and browse the books yourself. That's what I always try to do so I can see if an authors style suites me.

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You can always go to a local Barnes and Noble, or Borders, and browse the books yourself. That's what I always try to do so I can see if an authors style suites me.

+1. (Do they have book stores in CA?)

"The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby is a great book. I have it and it starts with the very basics on how to set up your hard drive to how each slider works. I use it constantly as a reference.

+1 to Martin Evening, I started out with his LR3 and CS5 books. Both are very informative and pretty well written overall. I found them to be more readable start to finish than a lot of the more reference styled books but also still easy to look stuff up in as well.
I have a bunch of Kelby books too and they're all good but more starter books, you work through them very quickly and then end up looking for something more detailed. I don't have his lightroom book however, so that might actually be a step up from some of the photoshop books he has.