PaintShop Pro X6 Book Recommendation

[larrewl]

I take both NEF (RAW) and JPEG images with my Nikon 5300, mostly wildlife, landscape, and people. Based on my limited experience, I like using PSP X6's Camera Raw Lab then use X6's Smart Photo Fix and Digital Noise Reduction then saving it as a jpg. What is the best (most thorough) book for my kind of photo fixing available for PaintShop Pro X6?

At Amazon.com I see:
1) PaintShop Pro X6 for Photographers by Ken McMahon (Feb 7, 2014)
2) Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Pro X6 by Diane Koers (Oct 16, 2013)
3) Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel PaintShop Pro X6 by Robert Correll (Oct 8, 2013)

2 and 3 are updates of previous editions so I'm not sure how accurate they'll be, as I've see failures to completely update content in other books.
Any opinion is appreciated.

[hartpaul]

I bought both (1) and (2) for PSP X4 and found that each had slightly different ways of explaining common material, but also left out material that I regarded as important or did little explanation.

I found Ken McMahon's book to be better, but in one section he said to do something as described in a previous book and so did not explain that technique properly in the X4 book ie. was concentrating somewhat on the improvements rather then a general overall explanation of the whole program although this was done with other parts.

Diane Koers book gave me the impression of writing to fill up space with irrelevant material. For example she spent almost 2 pages talking about the color wheel and referring to the additive color system with primary colors Red Blue and Yellow rather than the physics color system of Red Green Blue (RGB) upon which is based eye sensitivity to colors, and the jpgs and RGB color system used in graphics programs. She does mention the RGB system (about a page) and the HSL system again about a page. For me the artist's RBY was irrelevant.
As well scripts are given a passing reference that they are not in the scope of this book and so even the simplest method of recording a script is not mentioned while Ken does mention the script toolbar and using scripts as well as quick scripts.
Neither book handles Blend modes well as both use two general pictures and then lots of pictures showing the effect of the blend modes using these two pictures. So it gives no idea of what each specific blend mode can be used for. If Diane needs to fill up more pages she could cut the twaddle and use some specific pictures meant to show the advantages of using different blend modes. ie blend modes do not work well with all pictures and you use a blend mode to get an effect with a particular type of picture.

Ken's book is more for photographers and does provide more information on using Camera Raw incliuding a mini tutorial while Diane is more an artistic type book and gives only an overview of Camera Raw.
You might be better off doing a google search for your specific requirement and get better explanations. Also check out youtube for the large number of video tutorials.
Smart Photo Fix is not mentioned in Diane's index but has at least 6 pages in Ken's.
Remember this was from the X4 versions of their books.