Hi Catnapper,
I teach Photoshop CS in the evenings for a community college I work for. Feel free to send questions and I'll try to help if I can.

The Adobe website has some tutorials on their website that may help get you started and I have some step-by-step tutorials that if you just follow each step, you end up making a really cool picture while learning about different parts of the program.

Be patient...Photoshop has a LOT OF STUFF in it and I'm learning something new everytime I teach it.

rkidsrcats