I need to learn Photoshop

What will you be using it for? I'd try to find a class/instructor that uses PS for a similar thing - it can make a difference in how you approach the program.

FIT has classes - I believe they have them as a weekend long session, or an evening a week for like 3-4 weeks. It is through their Extended Education program.

I totally recommend having an actual person go through at least the basic tools and commands with you rather than a book.

Once you're comfortable with the tools, a book can be helpful to look something up (though the help function for Photoshop CS is actually quite good), but most of your learning is just going to happen by lots and lots of using the program and running into things you don't know how to do and figuring out a way to get it done.

Hah, yes Carny, right on cue.

They may just appear to be for mere entertainment value, but they are also pretty awesome to watch from a tutorial perspective, giving glimpses of some of the more efficient capabilities of PS beyond beginner the stuff.

They do a great job of showing ya where you can go once you have the basics down. So very clever.

The ones actually put out by adobe are pretty good. I think they're called "classroom in a book"


++1 for you suck at photoshop videos.

I agree with rachmouse FIT has some great classes through continuing ed and pretty inexpensive as it is a state school (SUNY)