Would “Photoshop for Dummies” for CS2/CS3 be helpful…?
The “for dummies” series may be helpful to a complete, rank, beginner. It can help one “get started” with a, bare, handfull of features. It reminds me of a remedial driver’s ed handbook I once saw. On one page I saw an illustration that showed a steering wheel with arrows pointing around the rim. The caption read, “Turn clockwise to make the car go to the right. Turn counter clockwise to make the car go to the left.” If the potential driver needed this level of instruction, he shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel on any public street. The problem is that “Photshop for Dummies” does not teach the user much of the software’s functionality, since Photoshop is rich in features and a very powerful creative tool. How may people need to buy a book to teach them that “File-Save” is how to save a file? A better series is the “Classroom in a Book” set of books, published by Adobe. This series takes the user through a set of projects, designed to introduce he user to many of the applications fea
