What's the best way (book/tutorial) to learn CS4? (web design context)

Hey,
I'm very new to photoshop and have been hunting around the internet looking at tutorials picking up things here and there... but I would really prefer to get a book that contains everything I need to know. Preferably in a 'follow along' style, as opposed to one big reference manual.
Can you recommend a good book (or if a not a good tutorial series) on using CS4? I'm most interested in using PhotoShop for web design. While I'm not interested in using DreamWeaver etc, I just want to learn how to make simple things for web design. Buttons. Banners. Etc.

Step by step using basic tools and steps. Then some harder things tossed in but easy to master. Plus you can play with the settings to see different results.
PS CS4 The missing Manual is good too and really digs deep.

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Edited by: doubleEspresso on Jan 10, 2008 8:06 AM

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I'm fairly new to Java and web services. From what I understand, JNLP and WebStart are methods to deploy Java clients to users and not for creating war files and the like. >Correct, while Java Web Start has 'web' in the name, it has little if anything to do with web applications - certainly not providing much toward their installation. It is for launching rich client GUI based (AWT, Swing, SWT..) applications onto the end-user's desktop.
There are some parts of JWS that might seem peripherally useful to the installation of a web-app., but it is really not a 'good fit'.
>
..Any suggestions would be so helpful and appreciated!>You might try the forums for the 'web tier' APIs.
<http://forum.java.sun.com/category.jspa?categoryID=20>
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