Amen to that. What I especially hate are the manuals which tell you how to use the infinistrigulation tool, but give no idea why you'd want to or when it will have any effect: in the past I've spent hours following the steps to use a tool only to find later that nothing was happening because I was on the wrong kind of layer/had the wrong blending mode/wrong colour selected. How is the PS6 Wow book? I bought the 5.5 version and was disappointed - the Painter and Illustrator volumes use "real" work in their walk-throughs, so you see the techniques in context, and have lots of other art work in the galleries, but the PS version used mostly artificial situations showing off one-trick special effects and little third-party art.