Unfortunately, tutorials in manuals seem to be deeply unfashionable. Painter 5 came with a substantial "how to" booklet, and both Photoshop 5/5.5 and Illustrator 8 included short walkthroughs in their manuals, while Freehand 8 had a series of mini-tutorials on different tools. I don't have PS or Painter 7, or any pre-MX FH, but all the other recent versions have had nothing to help the first-timer (and the latest versions of Amapi and Freehand had no manuals, though Amapi did include a booklet with retreads of some of the tutorials from previous versions). When third-party publishers can make a profit selling books for less than the software cost, to a sub-set of the user base, you would think that developers could run to some sort of guide, at least in the non-upgrade packages.