Book recommendation for technically challenged beginner

[stsuing]

My wife is just starting on photoshop. She is using the adobe book and is finding it too confusing and is having a hard time learning from it. She needs a book that starts at the ground level of graphic design and works simple examples in photoshop. Like drawing a straight line.

Can someone recommend a book.

Thanks

 

[MarcusStringer]

The "Classroom in a Book" series has always been good to me...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[AtoMikEnrtiA]

Personally I would start by using the Photoshop tutorials that can be found on the software - if you find these too confusing, then try to do a search online for tutorials using Photoshop (there's millions of them for even the simplest of tasks, just do a google search).

If that becomes too difficult, I would suggest perhaps going to a Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks or Amazon - and perhaps looking for Photoshop for Beginners (not to sound rude, but only helpful because it does work from what I hear, but Photoshop for Dummies) is a great source.

Good Luck

 

[GraphicsTutor]

There is a great website for training like this, lynda.com. For $25/month, you have access to probably a thousand hours of training (broken into many 3 to 20 minute Quicktime movies) in dozens of applications. Photoshop alone has a many of hours of training, from the very basics up to power user.