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

For my double page spread of my magazine I used ‘Adobe InDesign’. I had never used InDesign before so this was a challenge for me. I played around with it from a while and figured out a few simple skills on my own but I also watched many youtube tutorials on how to use InDesign, these helped me a lot. I needed to use InDesign for my double page spread and not photoshop as I needed to use InDesign’s column system plus InDesign allowed me to edit in more depth than photoshop would.

Before creating my product I had never properly used a blog. Our blogs were for uploading our final products and uploading research for our magazines etc.I now know how to upload things to my blog and edit the information once it has uploaded. I also learnt how to use slideshare as this is something I had never heard of until creating my product.

For my front cover and contents page I used photoshop. I was familiar with photoshop but only to an extent. When I first began studying media 2 years ago in year 10 I was taught some basic skills of using photoshop, but as I hadn’t used it since then I had forgotten quite a lot of them skills. So again I watched tutorials and figured things out on my own. I found photoshop a lot easier to work with than InDesign. I also used photoshop to edit my pictures for my double page spread. This is another thing I didn’t realise I could do. I have gained a lot of knowledge of editing software from creating my media product.