1. Question 6
What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. During the past few months, we have been using several different technologies to design, create and publish our
music magazines.
Adobe Photoshop
The main piece of technology I
used to create my magazine was
Adobe Photoshop. Although I have One piece of technology that
been using this software for almost was new to me was Blogger.
3 years now, my skills over the past The website allows you to
few months have developed create your own blog and
significantly. Even simple skills I upload various different
have acquired such as putting things via the blog.
shadows behind text and images
At first, I found Blogger a
have all helped to improve the
quality of my magazine. I also
Blogger little difficult to use because
you had to upload a post of
learnt how to manipulate images,
every single thing you did in
and change the brightness/contrast
order to produce my
and the colour etc within
magazine. However, after a
Photoshop.
couple of weeks I got more
into it and used it to upload
research, planning,
designing and the final
pieces of work.

3. PowerPoint
I used PowerPoint to write up various results and elements of
my planning. PowerPoint is a program I am confident with.
To then upload the PowerPoint presentations to the blog, I
used a website called www.slideshare.net. This website was
new to me but very simple to use as it was a case of just Urban Fonts
uploading the PowerPoint to the website and entering the
html code into a post on blogger. www.urbanfonts.co.uk is another website that I had
never before used to create the title for my
magazine. The website enabled me to use different
font styles that aren’t available on Photoshop so that
I could create the most effective title for my
magazine.