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This book is in the same class as Scott Kelby's Photoshop Elements 3 book. They are good introductory books. Both offer step by step instructions for using the program. Kelby's book offers more techniques (e.g., replacing red eye with a color and straightening crooked pictures are just two examples) but little background information about the techniques. On the other hand, this book tells you how to do something and gives extensive information about why you are doing it. The techniques it doesn't cover that Kelby does are available through the Help system. Like Kelby, this Adobe book ignores Mac users but as someone said about the Kelby book, Mac users can work through this book without too much trouble. Mostly just ignore any mention of the Photo Organizer. The included CD has all of the pictures needed to work the exercises. The two-column layout in the Kelby book is a bit easier to work through than the full page layout in this book. However, the background information given in this book is a great selling point. You can't go wrong with either book but you don't need them both. Your choice is lots of techniques but little explanatory text (Kelby) or fewer techniques but lots of background information (Adobe).