Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Classroom in a Book [With CDROM]

If you are a visual learner like myself and someone who needs hands on training to fully grasp your subject, I would highly recommend this book. It has a step-by-step format that guides you through using the tools and features of Adobe Photoshop 6.0. It comes with a CD that includes visuals to work on for each chapter/lesson. I am by no means a professional web designer, photographer, graphics editor, etc., so this manual gave me much needed information about this feature packed software. For novices such as myself Adobe Photoshop can be intimidating to say the least, but this book along with the lessons on the CD really unlocked using the program for me. I would eventually like to retouch photographs and I now feel confident that I will be ready to do that in the not too distant future, and now I also feel motivated to try my hand at some web page design also.

I just finished the last of the book;s 17 lessons. I gave this book a 5-star rating because it provided an excellent method for learning Adobe Photoshop 6.0. Although I have the user's manual that came with the software, I decided to go ahead and buy the "Classroom" book. I was glad that I did. Step-by-step instructions are presented for each lesson that are relatively easy to follow. The only complaint that I have is that their estimates for the time expected to complete the lessons was underestimated. For instance, a lesson that should take about "90 minutes" to complete may actually take up to twice as long. Nevertheless, the Classroom book will be as useful a future reference as will the user's manual itself. I just bought the "Adobe GoLive 5.0 Classroom in a Book" and am eager to go through all of the lessons in that book as well.

I knew I'd have to learn it sooner or later, but I'd always been intimidated by Photoshop. This book got me started quickly and demystified the complexities of the program. If you have to buy one book to get you started, this should be the one. Work through the exercises one by one, and you'll end up loving Photoshop!

Although I am pretty proficient with computers, I am not a designer, yet I wanted to use Photoshop for simple Image manipulation, enhancement, etc. When I got Photoshop I was at first intimidated. Sure, I could figure out the VERY, VERY basic stuff, but not much more.Well, this book changes everything. A huge amount of information is conveyed in an easy-to-learn format with clear examples and set-by-step instruction. Everything from the work environment, tools, and palettes , selections, layers, masks, painting, photo retouching etc. It's awesome!If you own or are getting Photoshop 6, this is a REQUIRED purchase to go along with it! You'll be glad you did!