I have learned how to use Photoshop and InDesign more proficiently. Photoshop allows for emphasis through editing photos, which I used to brighten images for my magazine. The snipping tool helps extract elements for documents quickly. InDesign is best for layout and text, while Photoshop focuses on photo editing. Through blogging, I discovered new ways to showcase work on sites like SlideShare and Pinterest to make content more interesting. Creating the full product taught me that every design detail, from color to fonts, impacts the magazine and requires thorough consideration. The preliminary task provided similar tools but the final project allowed greater skill through practice and experimentation with each resource.

1. EVALUATION

2. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learn how to use Photoshop and InDesign which I did not know how to use very well before.
The ways in which you emphasis certain things through using Photoshop makes the magazine look a
lot different. I used it a little on my images mainly to brighten them up and give them that energy my
magazine is looking for. The snipping tool I have learnt to use, this helps with taking certain things
that I feel I would want and take it and save it straight into my documents, this makes thinks much
simpler and quicker to do helping with my design for my magazine. I know that InDesign is used for
adding text and should be used to create your pages mostly as Photoshop is used mainly for editing
photos for the magazine. Through blogging I have found out new ways to show my work, through
sites such as Slide share and Pinterest making things look more interesting and nicer to read in
general.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?
I have learnt that every bit of detail in your product is important, colour, models using direct address
or not, connotations, the font, there is so much to think about when creating a magazine and I feel
that the preliminary task gave you the same tools as I did when I was doing my music magazine
however our ability to use those resources were much more in tuned when on the music magazine as
we had practice before and lots of time to experiment with each resource.