Evaluation - Question 6

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

In the process of creating this product I have learnt many new technological things. Firstly, photography and lighting, I learnt how to use a Canon Eos 1000D and as I took all the pictures at home I used my own lighting and used a black or white background so the picture would be of best quality and look like it was professionally done in a studio. The software that I used the most to construct my media product was Photoshop CS5. On Photoshop I have learnt to use different program tools, the first tools I learnt to use were ones to do with cropping, ‘magnetic lasso’, ‘magic wand’ and ‘lasso tool’. I used these because I needed to crop the photographs of the models neatly. I also learnt how to use ‘blender options’ this is where you can make something thick to transparent, this was used for things such as the ‘a’ on the double page spread. I did this to add the little extra detail that will attract the reader in. In addition I used ‘drop shadow’ – the title on the double page spread and ‘outer glow’ – cover lines on the front cover. I did this to add that you modern vibe to it where it is excitable to look at and attracts the audience in. Technology allowed me to put all my creative ideas on my magazine, things such as having the central figure on top of the masthead and the layouts of my magazine.