Photoshop 5.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Well-illustrated and easy to use!
Review: This is one of the most readable, useful books I've found on Photoshop 5.5. As a "cybergranny," I just recommended purchase to my daughter, whose company just asked her to upgrade her knowledge of Photoshop.

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Summary: If only it was a guide
Review: While this book does go through the fundamentals of photoshop, it does little to actually guide you through. It makes the same mistake that so many tutorial books do; it tells you what to do but then does not explain why, when or how it works at all. There is very little organized explaination of the different tools and all explainations it does give are cut short. I feel like i need to buy a new book to REALLY learn photoshop.