Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours

This book is excellent in helping a person who wants to learn how to use Photoshop 6.

Excellent book for the beginner. Takes reader step-by-step through Adobe Photoshop 6 covering the most basic to advanced functions. Easy to read and very easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to the new Adobe Photoshop 6 user. Its 450 pages are well organized in to 24 "Hour Lessons" plus an Appendix which are packed full of how-to information. I really liked Hour 18 --Special Effects and Useful Tricks and Hour 22 -- Photo Repair Color. My suggestion -- stop reading this review and buy the book -- you won't be sorry! Howard

Being only able to fumble my way around PhotoShop, I really wanted a book I could work with to learn this program. I've been getting more and more involved with digital photography and wanted to be able to work with my photos using more expertise. This book is perfect. The author structures her lessons starting with the basics so you're never overwhelmed. The lessons are also short enough so that I don't get bored from overload. I can work on it when I have a just a little time without feeling like I'm stopping in the middle. Chapters end with a short quiz so you know right away if you've grasped the concepts or not. The images the book refers to in the lessons can be downloaded from the Sams web site so you can do the actual exercises while you read through them. You're able to absorb what you're reading and walk away knowing that you're really learning PhotoShop.

I bought this book for my summer vacations, and i tough that because i didn't had my PC with me to do the exercises, i wouldn't learn a thing. WRONG, you learn either way, pc or no pc. I went from not understanding a thing about Photoshop from being almos an expertn at it, how? read those little secrets the author tells you and you will be an expert too. So, my advice is: if you don't know a thing about P6, buy it, it's a great book to start.

The existing reviews say it all except for using this book for beginners with the Limited Edition version of Photoshop like me. When I got the PhotoshopLE software, I was totally lost. The manual was more confusing than helpful for someone as ignorant as me. I turned to SAMS, again, for help but was leery about this book because it was directed toward the full Photoshop, not my LE version. There have been a few problems using this book for the LE version and a few lessons do not apply but, overall, it was great. I just wish they would come out with an LE version. I bought 4 other books and this was the best for a beginner like me.