The document discusses the learner's use of various digital tools and programs during a project. These included using the internet for research, PowerPoint for presentations, a digital camera for photos, Photoshop for image editing, InDesign for layouts, Blogger for blogging, Paint for image cropping, and SlideShare for sharing PowerPoints. The learner felt they developed new skills in these tools from the start to the finish of their project.

2. During this process I have learnt how to use a variety of new technology
programmes and I feel like I have personally developed my skills within
these from the preliminary task to the final product.

3. THE INTERNET
The internet played a big part in my research and certain websites such as
“find your tribe” helped me when it came to finding a particular target
audience for my magazine, and it helped me within narrowing my
results, and finding what my particular target audience of 15-24 year old
are interested in.

4. POWERPOINTS
Power Points were proven to be very effective when it came to my
evaluation, as it helped me present my work in a much more creative
way in which is more appealing to the eye.,as I could present everything
that is needed including relevant information and images in a clear and
precise way.

5. DIGITAL CAMERA
For all of my images within the task I used a digital camera, this helped
develop my photography skills, as I worked on doing a variety of shots
from low angle to high angle, and I also worked on close ups which
helped me to create the image for my double page spread.

6. PHOTOSHOP
Photoshop was used, however it didn’t have a major influence in my work,
because I wanted to represent my magazine as natural, with the artists
represented being the REAL product, and also so that the audience
could see that celebrities/artists really are just like them. However
Photoshop was used to remove certain things from the background of
the main image on the front cover, because it looked out of place and
wouldn’t had gone with the theme. It was also useful when it came to
cropping images and readjusting the size to them as it meant that each
precise thing would end up fitting perfectly. In Photoshop I also used
the magic wand tool and the lasso tool, I found this quite challenging
and had to have several goes at it before finally perfecting my image,
but initially I did not get on with that certain tool, but was fond of the
magic erasing tool in which it offered.

7. INDESIGN
InDesign played a big part in creating both my main and preliminary task.
The programme itself was new to me as I had never used it before, so it
took some time in locating things and getting to know what all the
individual tools on there were used for, however with time this came,
which meant that my final product was a lot better than the preliminary
one. In this programme I learnt how to change the style of the text, give
things a 3D effect/shadowing effect, how to images and create text
frames etc…

8. BLOGGER
I originally presented all my work on “Wix” however it was hard to operate
and the work was all coming up as links, which wasn’t very appealing to
the eye, so I converted to “Blogger” which I fount much more easier
and clearer to use, as I already had experience with it, it was great for
presenting my work, and it is clearer and easier for both myself and
other people viewing it to follow.

9. PAINT
Paint participated tremendously within my work as that was the only way I
could easily find my work to go up on the blog when I wanted to import
pictures etc… and the majority of my work was placed on a paint
document before finally being placed onto my Blog. I mainly used paint
not for the painting tool itself but for the cropping device in which it
offers!

10. SLIDESHARE
I used Slideshare when it came to downloading my PowerPoints, this is
quick and easy to follow, and all the PowerPoints I have created are
viewed through it. The only problem I found with this was that any
animation effects I added, such as the words flying on screen, and the
timing I had used on it did not work when it was imported onto
Slideshare, so my work did not appear as creative as I had originally
produced it.