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From the tone of your question, I'm going to recommend a night course, if you're time and money budget is tight. "talk to people and ask them live" A class in photoshop where you can meet and talk to other people of varying skill levels is always better than a book, if the personal interaction is what you most want. http://www.3dgarage.com/ Short of that I've used the training DVD's from Dan Ablan for Lightwave. I thought they were a good jump start to seeing someone go through demos of different aspects of the software. Reading the manual in specific as-needed segments is still neccessary. He does a slew of other courses, Photoshop might be one of them.