I have a copy of the Photoshop program and want to learn how to use it and get better at it, but find
the program for me isn't very user friendly for complete beginners like myself (while it might be for other
beginners). Can anyone please recommend (as in the title and author) what you reckon is or are best
'how to learn and get good at Photoshop' video instructional courses on DVD Rom (rather than books),
where someone talks in video and in voice over in teaching how to use it, but aimed primarily at beginners
(who aren't as savvy as some other beginners might be), compared to other books, that aren't as easy
to follow.

In regards to getting a 'Photoshop for Dummies' book, I was going to get the 'Photoshop 7 for Dummies'
book from Amazon, but after reading the mostly negative comments people who bought it, had made about
the book (in terms of it not being all that helpful), don't think I want to get it now. I did an 8 week part time
community college course aimed at beginners, but the teacher of it was hopeless.

Deke McClelland

um...not gonna actually imply anything here...but why would a COMPLETE newbie pay 400+ for a copy of photoshop...when you don't know how to use it and it has too steep of a learning curve? for like 80$ you could've got photoshop elements.....

Dude, what makes you think I paid for the copy of CS2 that I have.

so? He's not asking for help on how to do anything illegal. Somebody could have given it to him.

Here you can find awesome collection of a 4 DVD's.

Our group (we are instructors, designers and photographers) put out a really solid book that comes with DVD examples. It is only $29.00 on Amazon. It is published by O'Reilly and is called Dynamic Learning: Learning Photoshop.
It is clear and technically edited by lots of folks, on both Mac an PC platforms, so it is virtually error free and easy to follow. I think it might help you... Good luck!

www.lynda.com has great stuff for the whole creative suite and depending on what you pay for you can get files with the videos so you can do interactive training. I just do the yearly so I have access to everything but you can buy just the specific training on hard copy if desired.