Digital BW, The Print

Can anyone suggest a good book that 
> >focuses on learning photoshop for photography and preferably black 
> >and white photography. 

Go to amazon.com and in the search field for books enter "photoshop black and white" 
and several good books will pop up. Although I'm not convinced you need books that deal 
specifically with B+W since the same principles apply to color work in PS as well.

I had an earlier copy of the jim Rich book and was quite pleased with it. George Schaub is 
also a noted author on digital B+W. Both have books available on amazon.

As far as general PS books, I have always been very pleased with Bruce Fraser and David 
Blattner's Real World Photoshop series as well as Martin Evening's books.

Michael