As with all the Sam's Teach Yourself books, this is a good introduction to a new subject, and I am certainly far better at PS as a result of working through. Would have been 5 stars if the author had talked through how to animate images using Image Ready, but sadly this is skipped despite promising that it is included??! When I found how to do this elsewhere it would have taken less than a page to explain, so not sure why it was omitted. Overall an excellent text and a good introduction to a great program