Question6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

While designing and making my final Magazine cover, contents and double page spread I have learnt to use:
· Camera- I learnt how to take a close up. Mid-shot and other angels

· Photoshop- I learnt how to use a lot of tools and that without theses tools it would be impossible to create a good, finished and neat Magazine.

Theses included the sponge tool which helped me lighten the brick wall so that the writing would stand out more and was read able.

I also learnt how to crop our writing using the crop tool and also how to move the writing around and angel the lettering. By doing this it made the writing a lot more interesting to read and made the page look a lot more professional.

I was very interested in the Magnetic lasso tool which helped my lot with cutting out my photos. Without this I would not have been able to cut out my photos so precise and neat and not free hand.
If you didn’t like the magnetic Lasso tool you could also use the magic wand which also made cutting out photos a lot easier by clicking on a certain part of the photo and the wand picked a certain part of the photo to match the colours you wanted to delete I found this a lot easier than the Magnetic lasso tool.

With Mac Photoshop I found the best part was the layering. With this you could change things around so that something was behind an object or the other way around. Also by using the layers you could select objects a lot easier. Next to the layers there was and ‘Eye’ tool. If you clicked onto the eye next to a certain layer that layer would disappear, this layer could be writing or even a single image. By doing this you could see if you wanted the layer and if it was necessary without deleting it because as soon as you clicked that certain eye again it would re-appear.

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Mac Computers
With the Mac Computers I learnt how to get Photoshop up and also how to print screen certain part which I needed and not just the whole screen. This made things a lot easier for me because I didn’t have to fiddle around with cropping parts out the print screen as I already s

elected the part that I wanted.

· Memory stick
With my memory stick I used it a lot to save my layers and without it I might have lost a lot of my work.

· Scanning
With the scanning I used it to scan in my photos and also drawings. If I just look a photo of my planned sketches for my front cover you would not have seen a lot of details because of the flash so this made my work a lot clearer.


· Blog
I learnt a lot about bloging and I think this is a really good way to show your work. As some people aren’t very creative or neat using a computer makes it a lot easier for people instead of having it printed into a folder or stuck down onto pieces of paper. I learnt how to upload photos and information onto the blog which made it look a lot more interesting and professional. I also learnt how to change the date of the New post so that it would fit into the space and time that it should have been in there. By doing this is made my blog a lot more ordered and you can also see the progression that I have made