Go to Amazon and check out any of the "WOW" books by Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton. There is a "WOW" book for Illustrator by different authors also. I'm sure you'll be all set in less than a week. And don't mind the folks that suggest you use the manuals - I've hardly used any of these for anything. The manuals are written by the folks that make the software and as such they get too technical for me.