This course offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the Photoshop environment. Perhaps you have heard some people saying that this program is very complex. This is partially true; learning all of Photoshop 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. The course is packed with 224 movie clips (total running time: 6 hours). So, you needn't choose between a Photoshop book and a Photoshop video any more. "ASAP" is more than just a book and smarter than just a video. It 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 tutorials are fully compatible with the 6th, 7th, 8th (CS) and 9th (CS2) versions of Photoshop (what's new in Photoshop CS2?).

Some tutorials are available online and downloadable as a free video-book. However, if you want to learn Photoshop ASAP, to master all of its power, you need the full-versioned book.

The first chapter - Concepts - is a quick overview of Photoshop interface and the basic work principles intended for beginners. Just look around and have some feeling of working with the program. Online version is here.

The tutorials of the chapter Skills explain the most essential Photoshop techniques - color and tonal adjustments, layers, transformations, selecting and masking. Online demo is here.

Web is devoted to ImageReady, a Web-oriented Photoshop component. This chapter tells how to prepare your images for Internet publications, create animations and even compose interactive web pages. Online demo is available here.

Automate It chapter will help you to save your time and effort by using actions and batch processing. Did you know that most of your repetitive activity in Photoshop and ImageReady can be accomplished with a single click? This chapter offers hands-on tutorials and suggests some practical solutions for the both applications.

Tools is a comprehensive Photoshop Toolbox reference invoked to show you purpose and work principles of any Photoshop tool within a few seconds. Online version here.

Click here to download the free video-book that includes the first chapter. It is packed with 12 movies (total running time: 15 min). To order the full version go here. Download link to your product will be sent to you immediately. Optionally you may receive your e-book on CD.

Last updated 10-Nov-2005 (See history)

This "light" version of the ASAP course is intended for users of Adobe Photoshop Elements - this "light" version of Photoshop. The e-book is packed with full-sound movie clips and a patch file unlocking some useful undocumented Photoshop Elements functions inherited from full-versioned Photoshop. More about...

Demo includes 11 movies. To order the full version (94 movies; total run time - about 2 hours, patch included, download size 37 Mb) go here.

Last updated 16-Nov-2005 (See history)

This video-book is devoted to Paint Shop Pro - another affordable alternative to Photoshop. If you didn't know, most functions offered by Photoshop are also available in Paint Shop Pro. Furthermore, if you get used to Photoshop, you can make Paint Shop Pro mimic Photoshop interface and continue using the same commands and shortcuts. More about...

Demo includes 9 movie clips. To order the full version (60 movies, total run time - about 2 hours; download size 20 Mb) go here.

Released 01-Feb-2006