You bought Adobe Photoshop CS3 a year ago? Have you been using it? I'm curious why you have waited this long to get a "manual". I'm pretty sure the official printed Adobe Photoshop book (manual/users guide) would be a hard copy of help file PDF. I bought Adobe Standard CS4 Suite last month. The PDF for Photoshop is 29MB and is 707 pages. Not something I would want to print out. I am seriously considering getting an ebook reader like Kindle because everything seems to come with PDF files rather than a hard copy. Of course I did also buy CorelDRAW X4 last month. That came with both PDF files and a 500 page Users Guide plus a couple of other books.