Photoshop In A Day

Hi there,
I just purchased Photoshop and I'm wondering if anyone has used the manual, Photoshop In A Day (see link: http://www.watchya.com/photoshop-in-a-day.html). I'm brand new to Photoshop and I'm starting out from point zero in terms of experience. I'd like to begin with some sort of how-to manual and/or video tutorials to help me become familiar with the basics. I've checked out a few books (including Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book and Photoshop CS5 for Dummies) and to be honest, they are extremely daunting and filled with jargon I don't even understand.
Could anyone direct me to a manual and/or video tutorials for someone who is just beginning to use Photoshop?
Thank you very much for your input.
Jonathan

Adobe have a series of tutorials about PS - you'll find them here.
Tutorials
I also found the book Photoshop CS5 - The Missing Manual extremely helpful. It's published by O'Reilly and written by Lesa Snider.
What can be a bit daunting to begin with is working with layers and trying to visualise what this means. So, spending some time getting used to the workspace and layers etc can be very worthwhile. Also, don't be afraid to play around with things - as long as you don't save over your originals! So, always open your file and save it as another name - then you're safe.
Another good source of free tutorials is WatchAndLearnPhotoshop Theses guys are good at many things, Flash etc and their free tutorials are great. You can buy their full courses, but I taught myself Flash and Dreamweaver just by using their freebies.
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