Others say...

"Helpful Resource"
This book was a required purchase as a supplement for a 4-week class I recently completed. Aside from a few minor typos, the book proves to be a helpful resource for me in and outside of the classroom. The examples are specific, and the word choice is straight-forward and easy to interpret. The CD of lesson materials has been expertly assembled. The lessons seem a bit "time consuming" as compared with other books... but the learnings are complete and easy to reference in the future. I intend to purchase other books from the "Classroom in a Book" series in the future.

"easy to follow"
I do not have Adobe Photoshop CS2, but am taking a class that follows the book. When I get the CD and install it, I will be able to do all the wonderful things to my photos that I am learning in the class. The book is very easy to follow. I also bought CS as it has more information in it.

"Confused "
I bought this book thinking that learning Adobe software would be best with an Adobe book. What I discovered was the confusing instructions with Adobe books to get started with the lessons in both InDesign and Photoshop. The instructions for "Restoring Default Settings" or "Deleting Preferences to reset to their Original Default Values" and "Save your Current Color Settings" make zero sense to me, and to all in my family who have worked with Photoshop. We followed the instructions exactly on pages 4-7 only to hit a brick wall. When we've tried to open the first lesson which is called Lesson01/Project1 and 01End1.psd file, a dialog box comes up that says "Embedded Profile Mismatch". I called Adobe customer service and Technical support, spoke to 3 different people who could not answer the question, and they did not know what the Mismatch meant. How am I, or other "newbies" supposed to learn the program with such confusing terminology? Does anyone out there know the solution to this dilemma? Should we unistall the program and start over? This has been a very discouraging way to start learning the program. I wanted to get Adobe Certified, but I can't even get thorugh Chapter One. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks.

"Classroom In A Book CS 2"
The perfect book for the perfect product. I have always wanted to learn the basics of Photoshop and this book is certainly a first step in doing that task.

"The Title Says It all"
If you want to go back to your school days and have no interaction with the subject matter then this book is OK. But to work on your photos and learn what you want to do to them forget it. Way to structured, more suited to a textbook in a real class room where you can ask the teacher "how do I do this", forget it.