COMPANY: Andrew Doubrovski | URL: http://simplephotoshop.com | TYPE: Flash videos | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $18
			"As Simple As Photoshop" is a video-book for Photoshop users! This set of tutorials offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the program environment. Perhaps you have heard some people saying that Photoshop is very complex. This is partially true; learning all of this application may take you years. The "ASAP" (stands for "As Simple As Photoshop") offers you a faster way. It tells only the things you have to know at the moment, skipping the details, as you have lots of time to learn those when (and if) you need them. Another speed-up secret is illustrations. Every tutorial here is packed with a short movie showing some practical usage of the text-based lesson. You may play those either one by one, or as a full-size and full-length video (125 clips; total run time about 4 hours). The elaborated controls allow the instant location of a required page or episode. In the meantime, the book's interface features all the essential functions available in popular "readers" and web browsers (table of contents, history, bookmarks, text search and more). You don't have to choose between a Photoshop book and a Photoshop video anymore! "ASAP" is more than just a book and smarter than just a video. This fusion of the two media suggests completely new approach. For example, you use full-text search to find a particular movie episode, and then bookmark it. Or click a text link and see the related movie frame. "ASAP" takes you by the hand and shows you around Photoshop, allowing you to combine all the possible learning methods. Just read it, watch it, listen to it and follow it. The latest edition of the book devoted to Photoshop CS3 (both "Standard" and "Extended" versions) is offered for Windows and Mac OSX platforms. The video-book for older versions (Photoshop 6 through CS2) is available for the Windows OS only. The first chapter (available online and downloadable as free video-book) is a quick overview of Photoshop's interface and basic work principles intended for beginners. Just look around and have some feeling of working with the program. Tutorials of the 2nd chapter explain the most essential Photoshop techniques: color and tonal adjustments, layers, transformations, selecting, masking, Web-oriented functions and actions. (Video editing and printing industry specific topics are beyond the scope.) The 3rd chapter is a collection of practical solutions for photographers and retouchers. Real photos, contributed by amateur and professional photographers, are enhanced, retouched and manipulated for you in real time, showing the most efficient combinations of the skills explained in the previous chapter. Some of the tutorials are available online and downloadable as demo-book. However, if you really want to learn Photoshop you need the full video-book. Upon subscribing, a download link to your product (36 mb) will be sent to you immediately. Optionally, you may receive your e-book on CD.