Am just starting Scott Kelby's
7-Point System book for Photoshop CS3.

It guides you in saving what are lackluster results
from originally interesting images, and these are
step-by-step changes you do yourself to the bad
original image, using a copy of his original shot.

The book is for those who've used Photoshop a bit.

I'm starting the book this Oct ('08), but the date of the
image is from when Kelby took the photo in Nov '05.

If viewing thumbnails on the main page,
Click on the thumbnail to get the larger version and
then press "Next" to see the improved one.