title: Good book on learning how to create icons in Photoshop
body: <p>I am a developer by trade and I don't pretend to have any reasonable graphic design skills. Neither do have I aspirations to acquire any. However, I would like to learn how to create icons for some hobby programs I develop. My problem is that even though I have a very specific idea how my icon should look like, I have no skills to translate this vision into an actual PNG file. So I wonder, <strong>what is the shortest path to get up to speed with Photoshop in order to be able to create icons?</strong> Maybe there is a book that covers this skill set without assuming one wants to become a graphic design expert?</p>
  
  <p>Before I am accused in using the <em>"Learn XXX in 24 hours"</em> approach, let me say again that I am not interested in learning the graphic design - only the way to translate my <em>very specific</em> vision into a PNG file. The best programming-related analogy I can come up with is learning how to make one's spreadsheets more powerful by learning VBA. This alone wouldn't turn a person into a programmer but it would help him with the task at hand. Pointing one to TAOCP and/or SICP in such a case would be an overkill.</p>
  
  <p>So, what is the best book on creating icons in Photoshop?</p>