Evaluation - Question Six

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


Throughout the construction of my magazine I have used various technologies which allowed me to be as creative as I wanted to be, technologies such as 'Photoshop' to create my front and content page. Photoshop is a great digital image editing application. I was taught how to use the powerful tools to enhance and edit my pictures - tools such as 'magic wand' which allowed me to not only extract my model from the background but select certain parts of the image which I wanted to alter without changing the whole image. Another great tool which I found on Photoshop was the 'transform tool' this tool I found of great use as I was able to enlarge my image without over stretching the pixels in my image at the same time making my image look neat and proportional. Without Photoshop I would not have been able to edit the images that I imported into 'InDesign' for my double page spread. 

In constructing my double page spread I used both 'InDesign' and 'Photoshop' together as mentioned before to edit my images I need to use Photoshop, as InDesign did not allow me to add effects which Photoshop did. For example the 'magic wand' to select a section of my image and change the colour. Additionally in using InDesign I used the programme Microsoft Word to type up my article. What I enjoyed and learnt about Microsoft Word is that unlike Photoshop and InDesign; Microsoft Word correct both your grammar and spelling automatically which kept me 100% sure that I would have no grammatical mistakes and my readers would be able to understand my article. 


(To see more on how I used InDesign and Photoshop, please see Construction) 

Another useful piece of technology that I used was an online website - Blogger, this allowed me to be organised as possible. Blogger is equipped with many tools that keep archive of my work,'labels' which allows readers to easily navigate around my blog along with dates and time of each post which helps to me to reflect on whether I am using my time correctly and what I would need to change. 


Furthermore another important piece of technology that I used was the camera in taking my images. In order for my images to come out clear and vibrant I would need a camera with a large amount of megapixels, moreover I invested in my dear friends Canon 600D camera which has 18 megapixels. As mentioned in a previous post the Cannon 600D camera has fantastic properties, such as a uncompressed format, lens mount, exposure compensation, shutter (min-max), metering and so on. 


Here is a wall of less detailed technologies that I used in completing my magazine.