For $97.00 from one online vendor we found a wealth of Photoshop tutorials on CD. You can try the first three chapters of this tutorial at no charge before making the commitment to pay the $97.00.



All you have to do is click on the hyperlink for the online demo. One thing to keep in mind as you evaluate the Photoshop tutorials through the demo is that the manufacturer has reduced the frame rate and quality of the sound to allow for a faster rate of streaming.

In order to look at the free demo you'll need Quick Time. If your computer does not have it installed the vendor's site will direct you to the free download.

The subjects covered in these Photoshop tutorials include an introductory chapter, which tells you in very general terms about what Photoshop is and what it does for you.

It then walks the student through the new features and products in the latest Photoshop version, Photoshop CS2. You'll then learn what is required of your system in order to safely and successfully install and run Photoshop. RAM requirements are taught, as well as the use of mice and digital tablets.

The next CD, after your study of the introduction is completed, is the study of the Photoshop interface.

These tutorials teach you about the welcome screen ? its use and maneuvers; the color spaces and how to make use of them; the Photoshop document window ? what it does and how to use it; the Adobe Photoshop tutorials that teach the uses of the toolbox, the menus, the color palettes, the options bar, and shortcuts through the Photoshop system.

You'll even learn, in this particular Photoshop tutorial, where you can go for help.

Adobe Bridge is the next of the Photoshop tutorials in this CD package. In this group you'll learn about the features, benefits and use of the Adobe Bridge itself, its Metadata system, the keywords and rankings involved in your use of Photoshop, and two CDs about stock Photos for Adobe.

You'll learn both the beginning and advanced stock photo uses.

About your Photoshop documents the tutorials will teach you setting, sizing and resolution of images, resizing of your documents, canvas sizes, undoing and stepping, dragging, dropping, and the pros and cons of rasters as opposed to vectors.

Cropping tutorials for Photoshop will teach you the tools you'll need to crop photos, as well as the perspective and how to rotate.

You'll learn about navigating and viewing, and the use of colors. You'll be taught about color palettes, swatch creations and eye drop and picker tools for color.

The selection features the tutorials will teach you include selection tools, strokes, marquees, the Magic Wand for Adobe, its Lasso tools, inverting, pasting, anti-aliases and feathers, addition, subtraction, as well as saving and loading of photos.