Evaluation question 6

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

From making my music magazine I have learnt that it takes a lot more thought and consideration about the layout and content of the magazine, a lot of research has to be done to get it right. I have learnt that to get the best picture you have to have a high quality camera and the lighting is very important to make the image look the best it can. One main use of technology that I have learnt to use from creating my music magazine is the program called Photoshop cs5, this was used to modify and manipulate pictures and images to make them look how I wanted. I used a variety of tool whilst using Photoshop such as the 'spot-healing brush tool,' the 'polygonal lasso tool,' the 'crop tool,' and the 'clone stamp tool.' Before doing my magazine I had no idea about how to use Photoshop but now I feel I am confident and good at changing pictures and editing photographs, I find this program really fun to use and really helpful in the production of my music magazine. I have learnt that without the use of programs such as Photoshop, it would be significantly harder to create the emotion in an image and capture the exact look that a person is looking for, it can make a picture look so professional and effective, I would use it on any photo to make it look better. Another thing about what I've learnt is that it actually takes a lot of time to properly edit an image and to get it to look good, originally I actually thought that Photoshop would be easy to use but I was mistaken, it takes a lot of time, patience and effort to make sure it is up to the standard that you want.

Another thing I learnt about technologies from the process of making my magazine was the program 'Microsoft publisher' this program really helped me to get my magazine to be lay out correctly and get everything in line and looking professional. Publisher really helped in the layout of the magazine as you could put guidelines on it  to make sure everything was aligned. This program really helped me complete the task well and correctly.