The document discusses the tools used to create a magazine called Rockit!. A digital camera was used to take high quality photos for the magazine. Photoshop was used to edit the images by removing the backgrounds. Publisher was used to layout the front cover, contents page, and double page spreads with a conventional design using colors, fonts, and images. Through creating the magazine, the author's skills with Photoshop and Publisher improved, and they also learned how to use additional tools like Blogger, SpicyNode, Animoto, and Bubbl.us for presenting work more creatively.

2. Camera
 Photoshop
 Publisher
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3. I used a digital camera to take my photos, this
allowed me to get good quality photos for my
magazines that would look professional and
affective.

4. I used Photoshop to to edit my
images. I wanted the images in
my magazine to have no
background so I took the
pictures against a white wall
and used Photoshop to edit the
background out. The reason I
wanted to do this was because
I found that many images in
rock magazines didn't have
backgrounds.

5. I used Photoshop as it was the
best program that I had access
to for editing images. It is a
good program for this. I deleted
the background by using the
quick selection tool. Using this I
highlighted the parts I didn’t
want and simply deleted it.

6. I made my front cover, contents page and
double page spread in publisher. Publisher
allowed me to make my magazine with a
conventional layout. Also also allowed me to use
a range of colours, fonts and images.

7. Before the production of Rockit! I didn’t know how to use
Photoshop at all, this was because I had no previous experience of
it. However now I feel fairly comfortable using it which could have
me in tasks in the future whether it be media related or not.
As well as developing my Photoshop skills I also feel more
comfortable using publisher. I have learnt how to things that
previously I didn’t know. This includes things that are fairly simple
like re ordering the items on the page.

8. I haven't just developed my skills while producing my magazine, I
have also developed skills making my evaluation. I now know how
to use websites like Blogger, SpicyNode, Animoto and Bubbl.us.
These are all good websites to now how to use as they will allow
me to present my work in a more creative way than just writing an
essay on Microsoft Work. Before working on my evaluation I hadn’t
used or even heard of some of the websites that I have not only
now used but also feel confident while using them.