I think the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" series is excellent. I used the Basic and Advanced books to learn Photoshop originally, then moved on to other books. I have a LOT of them I've bought over the past few years but I'm a real book freak anyway. Some of them are truly great, some have their great parts. I'll try to sit down this evening and write down the titles of the ones I've found valuable and would recommend, for what it's worth. Gromit