Yesterday I was investigating Deke McClelland's Photoshop Video Series. Have some reservations about it, after seeing what a poor website he created, and seeing the cost ($250) of his DVD Series.
A helpful guy on photo.net pointed me to an alternative:
I have been working my way through Photoshop 7 Techniques, which is a CD-ROM based tutorial by Julieann Kost, one of Adobe's top Photoshop trainers. I have to say that this series is really superb. I think that CD-ROM based instruction is far superior to videos for learning a software program like Photoshop. You actually watch her demonstrate everything on your own computer and then you can try the same things sith the files provided. I think that it is the best computer based instruction I have ever used. There are two sets of 4 CDs, the first called "Fundamental techniques" and the second "Advanced Techniques". I actually learned quite a bit from the fundamentals set. The list price for boths sets bought together is $198, but I bought them for $150 using a coupon code I found in one of the photoshop magazines. I think it was "Photoshop User". I bet if you called the vendor and asked for the discounted price they would give it to you.
I think they have a 30 day money back guaranty, but you should check on this
yourself. I have no connection to this product other than being a very
satisfied customer.
Her site, adobeevangelists.com isn't as offensive as Deke's. Furthermore, her pedigree at Adobe makes me a lot more comfortable than Deke's 6' stack of Dummie books. As well, her art/photography background sounds more similar to my interest than making ugly-looking web buttons and logos.
She provides a list of training materials (one of which is our friend Deke. Deke++ ). More interesting is the link to her product, Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals. There is a discount for this product, ask me about it.
At any rate, there are a couple other video seminar series listed on the adobe evangelists' site. The Ben Willmore series looks like it is probably pretty good, but just deals with specific, more advanced issues. Maybe later. www.photoshopvideos.com just looked like a bad ecommerce site filled with a lot of videos.
I guess right now my idea is to go with the Julieanne Kost series.