Adobe Photoshop Cs3 Classroom in a Book (2007, Package)

Adobe CS3 classroom in a book is a good description of what you get, an excellent instructional book with step by step lesson plans. Each chapter takes about 90 to 120 minutes to complete. A complete beginner would get a tremendous amount out of this resource but the more advanced graphic designer would probably get bored in a short time. The book comes with a CD that contains images and lessons that you can download but the one resource that I came to use extensively weas the online tutorial. Photoshop CS3 is a very powerful software and this book does a good job highlighting basic techniques to more advanced but some of the methodologies left me scratching my head. A lot of the settings they use they give to you randomly but they do not explain how they come to that certain ideal setting, leaving you to guess or figure it out on your own. Complete beginners may struggle with Adobe's glossing over of some materials as mentioned earlier but like I said, go to the tutorials offered on the inside cover for further help. Overall this is an excellent resource to have at all times when working with photoshop elements.