Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe

Beginning photographers may need some help with the terminology.

Book is ok to read but free web version of book is better to use on iPad next to computer since you can read screen shots more clearly. The printed book shows screens but difficult to read all the stuff Adobe packs on the main window. My main complaint is that the book tries to cover too much stuff and seems to try to satisfy Adobe’s cloud based apps which are often aimed at designers, rather than photographers. Also the really hard task most Classroom buyers need help with is printing using a printer, like Epson or Canon. But a lot of space is given primary focus to CMYK color profile and preparing files to send to outside lab and less than two pages to sending files to home printer. Most of the photographers I know want help using Photoshop and their printers. I think those who work in CMYK and send stuff to labs know most of the stuff in the book. I think Adobe needs to have the writers focus less on the fancy stuff and to think more on the basics and who is most likely to buy their books or how they control what’s covered in the book. I’ve worked with Photoshop since the 80s and I still need refreshers on selecting, layers, tools, etc. Photoshop is a huge system. Add on Lightroom and it’s mind boggling. The Photoshop Classroom is like taking 4 years of college in one year.

Just buy it. It will be worth it.

The book is good, but I could not access. The online lessons cannot find the proper code. Please help me with this or else I will return the book.

I bought my first CIAB about twenty years ago (when the books still had CD-ROMs attached), but had not touched Photoshop for ten years or more. Having recently subscribed to Lightroom/Photoshop Creative Cloud, I felt the need for some refresher training/updating. CIAB 2024 is perfect in this respect. The book contains 15 self-contained lessons, each covering a specific set of features eg Working with Selections; Masks and Patterns. Importantly, purchase of the book gives access to additional online resources, including downloadable images, video tutorials and interactive quizzes which supplement the textbook material, and appeal to a range of learning styles (visual, auditory, practical, theoretical etc). The preamble to each chapter states each lesson takes about one hour to complete, but this is very ambitious. My advice is, unless you're on a learning deadline, take your time, try to absorb the learning, and practise on your own images after you've completed each lesson. Okay, a bit pricey, but, if you have ambitions to become competent in the huge range of features that the latest versions of Photoshop contain, this textbook provides a very comprehensive starting point. Highly recommended.