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

Since I began constructing my ideal magazine, I have developed skills I never thought I could have. I obviously began by using Adobe photoshop.

This taught me how to use many basic skills, such as how to overlay images on top of each other, drop-shadow and how to use text-wrap effectively.

Furthermore, throughout creating my magazine I also analysed the creative aspects that would be needed to make my magazine look like a magazine. Although this sounds simple, the hours it took to find the right colour for the right font, or how to make the picture fit in well with the text were some of the most difficult I have ever had.


I also developed my picture taking ability. This meant that I would have to understand the properties of lighting for the picture, and also how to effectively work my camera. Such a simple thing such as the flash on a camera could make a shot, or ruin it. This took almost as long to find the right picture, and to edit as it did to do the rest of the magazine.

I also learned how to use adobe indesign, which although it doesn’t have as many of the picture editing abilities and effects that photoshop has, it was much easier to text wrap, to align all of my text and to make the article look realistic. This made it ideal for my double-page spread.

 











I also learnt how to operate a mac. This was completely new to me as I only use a HTP laptop at home. After a long time trying to figure out how to turn it on let alone use it, I finally managed to get to grips with it and the way it is suited to the Adobe programmes made it much easier for me to make my magazine.

The final technology I have learnt how to use is Blogger. Although it seems like an easy program, to make each post look presentable and professional was very difficult. But the benefits far outweighed the problems as the interactivity of it, along with the neat way the data is recorded, allows me present my work in an easy-to-read way which makes it easy for me to find any simple textual mistakes and to correct them.