1. Evaluation
What have you learnt about technologies
form the process of constructing this
product?

2. Equipment
When I was taking my photos for my magazine, I used the ipad 2.
This was the quickest way to take and upload the photos onto my
computer so that they could be edited and be transformed into a
realistic hip-hop magazine front cover. The only problems that I had
with the ipad, was that I had to ensure that the adapter was present
at all times, there was a situation where I had taken the photos and
was ready to upload, but I did not have the adapter. Now I am more
organised to ensure that I do not have these problems again as they
can be time consuming.

3. Editing the photos
After taking lots of photos and deciding which ones I was going to
use for my magazine, I used the adapter to upload the photos onto a
computer. I then uploaded the ones that I liked best to the editing
tools online. After I had developed my photos to the extent where I
was happy, I finally started to create my hip hop magazine called
‘Renegade’. I only used colour themes that I thought would be
appropriate for my genre of music, so I looked at some other hiphop music magazines such as ‘XXL’ & ‘Vibe’ and based my colour
themes around the ones that I liked the best and thought would be
most appealing to my audience.

4. Equipment
I also used a Dell Laptop in order to edit my photos online at home,
and I used the school computers whenever I was editing in my free
time at school. I did so by using online photo editing sites called
‘Picmonkey’ and ‘Pixlr’. These were good sites to use because they
enabled me to edit photos exactly how I wanted them so that they
would fit with the house-style of my magazine. On these sites, I was
able to add text to the front cover and I did not have to use any other
editing tools to complete the cover itself, and I was able to save the
photos to my computer without many problems and efficiently create
my magazine.