Main Task: Evaluation FINAL

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the process of developing my magazine the technologies that I found very useful was PhotoshopCS3. The most common tool that I used was ‘Ctrl+Alt+T’. This helped me to arrange certain things on my page such as boxes and making them symmetrical. While taking my photos I used 893CANON camera. I was able to have an understanding of the length and structure my picture would be, for example for a front cover it would have to be portrait and double spread would be landscape. In addition to this while taking the pictures I was able to control the brightness by moving the light stand closer to the object, this would create an atmosphere that I wanted. Despite the fact that I was standing up most of the time, while doing my double spread picture I wanted the subject laying down. This was very difficult to achieve because it was hard to keep focus and the picture normally ended up turning out blurry.

I found it hard to blog my magazine because I wasn’t aware of blogger and I didn’t understand how to save it as JPEG even though it is now an easy process. I learnt that if it is not saved as JPEG before blogging it would not upload because all the layers used on Photoshop was not in one group or flattered. Similar to this I learnt how to highlight certain objects like different boxes. This gave a similar colour contrast throughout my magazine.