Fractal Design Painter 5 for Mac and Windows: With CD

This is a great book to learn Painter 5 with. It explains each function of the program. Getting this book and the Wow! book would enable you to get pretty advanced with Painter on your own. It doesn't go into detail as to how you can execute certain special effects. For that, you need to get other books but this is a book which would enable you to have a sound knowledge of the capabilities and the functions of Painter and that is very essential toward mastering an application.

Since I bought Painter 5 bunded,I didn't get a basic instruction book. This book is very basic and comes with extremely helpful lessons to get you started.