Evaluation: Question 6

Emily Jones

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

When creating my magazine I used different software’s and hardware’s to create my final product, some new to me but some I had already had experience in using. When taking the photos I used a camera, I planned firstly on using my own camera from home but due to the changes from hearing we had to take photos with the college cameras in college times by booking them in and out, I took a college camera to Birmingham City Centre, I firstly took images of Gabby in town, I felt the camera I was using was very professional looking even without editing, I then later met Wilson, I had the camera over night and took images of Wilson outside in the dark with a flash light making sure he was shown and the background was dark around him, I also felt the camera used was a very good quality camera. I soon had the images up on the computer, I edited them using photoshop, I had already used photoshop before at school and also at home due to already having it, I was able to soften the images, use the blur tool, spot healing brush tool, paint brush, darkening tools etc. also using brightness and contrast tool to add contrast and brightness to my photos.

When creating my front cover I created it in photoshop, using things like text, etc. I also did my content page on photoshop, using text tool, shape tool, inserting edited images, etc. I then had to import the front cover piece, content page piece, and also the edited image for my double page spread into In design software which I had never used before, I found it slightly confusing at first to do things such as wrap the text around the image of the artist or to make sure the pages were the right size, which I had to get help with but I found it okay once I was instructed on what to do, I found the simple things easy like adding text, rotating object, etc. it was easy to understand once shown, I was able to learn how to wrap text around a selected object, add columns, enhance quality of the image/double page. I also used basic normal software’s such as internet explorer to find text on the internet to insert in my magazine or for my research section. I also used word document to create my article.

Print screens of using Photoshop and Indesign