1.  6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of demonstrating
what I have learnt with different technology)
Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software package that can be used by
experts and novices alike. Some of things which I learnt myself were things such as a
magic wand tool, this tool allowed me to select parts of the image and crop them out. I
was also able to edit my images, changing clarity of an image or simply allowing me to
make colours brighter or darker. I have used many drop shadows which I feel work
extremely well on my front cover. I used a drop shadow on my cover star, it made him
stand out more drawing the focus to the main image constructing this product.
Quark
I made my contents page and double page spread in quark which I did find was quite
difficult to use however it helped me a lot with things such as adding text because quark
allows you to put grid lines on and anything outside the lines will not be printed. I feel
that the majority of things you can do in quark you can also do in Photoshop however it
is just another form of media.
SLR Cameras
I have learnt that the light from the object reflects from a mirror and is taken through
the eyepiece to the eye of the photographer, in contrast to a viewfinder camera where
the photographer is looking through a separate lens at the subject. The advantage of the
SLR is that the eye sees approximately what the picture will look like, so that you can
freely interchange lenses, use close-up lenses, etc and still see what you will take a
picture of.

2. 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
College Magazine Music Magazine
Looking at the prelim and my final music magazine there is a clear difference. I feel my
music magazine is considerably better, I used more types of media on my music
magazine such as downloading fonts and barcodes. Where I have placed these things on
the page also catches the eye of the reader whereas on my music magazine it looks like I
have placed the text and pictures anywhere. I am happy with how my music front cover
looks now. It did take a long time to get the cover picture correct and a lot of editing but
I am now happy with the way it looks, I do think my magazine would sell well.