Photoshop is a tool that you will find yourself using quite frequently at ITP. If you’ve never used it before, come to today’s help session for beginners at 3:15 at the ROOM 50. We’ll start with the basics and then open up to questions.
Here are some resources that might help, too.
Resources for learning photoshopÂ
Tutorials from Adobe
You suck at photoshop video tutorials
Keyboard shortcuts
Troubleshooting photoshop
Prototyping Basics
Write-up describing different stages of prototyping
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/16/design-better-faster-with-rapid-prototyping/
Time lapse videos showing low-to-high fidelity prototyping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQn5J7fQYzY&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxF-pISj1w&feature=related
Alternatives to Photoshop:
GIMP – free and open source
http://pixlr.com/editor/ – web based
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html – windows
Edit: some questions came up during the workshop about adjustment layers and animated GIFs. Here are some tutorials that might help for those that are interested: Adjustment Layers, Animated GIFs.
Do you have some more resources you’d like to share? Post them in the comments.