Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Illustrator 9.0 Advanced Classroom in a Book [With CD]

This is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn how to use Illustrator and Photoshop together to produce complex graphics. The is an "advanced" Classroom In A Book, so you better know your tools and terminology before starting in on these exercises. But that just leaves more space for the multiple authors to demonstrate advanced techniques and ways to use and combine tools that may not seem obvious. The "sidebar" features provide great explanations of some of the more complicated features, such as Photoshop's knockout options for layer blending. As with all the Classroom In A Book titles, you are taken through the exercises step by step, in great detail. All the supporting image files are provided on the CD that comes with the book, in "before" and "after" formats, so you can go through the exercises over and over, and see the effects of each step as you work through the exercise. I noticed a couple of minor editing errors, probably made in the transition from the Photoshop 5/Illustrator 8 version of this book to the current version. (On p. 41 you are referred to a discussion on memory requirement on p. 2 - but there's no mention of memory on page 2). All in all, a very worthwhile investment for anyone wanting to get the most out of these two great software packages.