The document discusses the technologies used to create a media product and what was learned from using Photoshop and InDesign. In Photoshop, the author learned how to flip and transform images, add and style text, create flash boxes using effects, and insert images like a barcode. In InDesign, the author learned how to insert and style text, place images and fit them proportionally within frames, and add colored strokes around frames. The purpose was to construct a magazine cover and contents page using conventions from existing magazines.

1. AS preliminary Task:
Moana Schischka

2. In what way does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of media
products?
A comparison between my front cover and RED
magazine:
Clear Masthead
Flash box
Similar position of image
Bold cover lines: Sans Serif
Issue date
Barcode
Price
Serif
Footer showing what’s
in the magazine

3. In what way does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of media
products?
A comparison between my contents page and a RED
contents page:
Page reference
and text about
the page
Image with page
reference
Masthead
Same colours being used
throughout, My magazine:
purple & green. Basketball
magazine: Blue, White &
Black.

4. What have you learnt about the technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
The technology I used to create my product:

5. What I have learnt from Photoshop:
 After inserting my image I
realised the model in my
image was facing away from
“empty space”
 So I then clicked on edit and
scrolled down to ‘transform’ to then
select ‘flip horizontal’; my image
then looked much better because
she was then looking into the
“empty space”

6. What I have learnt from Photoshop:
 To insert text onto my
background layer I
selected the “T” text tool at
the side on the tool bar
 I then wanted to make my font
more appropriate for a college
magazine, so I changed my font
using the drop down tool at the top
of the page to select a different
font.
 I also wanted to change
the colour of the text so I
clicked the colour box on
the tool bar and selected
the colour I wanted.

7. What I have learnt from Photoshop:
 The text didn’t completely stand
out over the image so to make it
stand out, I clicked the ‘fx’ tool on
the side of the page where it showed
my layers, I then chose ‘Bevel and
Emboss’ which then added a drop to
the text. Making it stand out.
AFTER
BEFORE

8. What I have learnt from Photoshop:
 To create a ‘flash box’ I used
the rectangle tool on the tool bar,
I then wanted to make it stand
out so I used an ‘outer glow’
chosen from the ‘fx’ drop down
selection.
 I then selected
the opacity and
size of the outer
glow. I also
selected the
appropriate
colour to suit the
magazine.

9. What I have learnt from Photoshop:
 Because I wanted to
insert an image of a
barcode, I clicked on file
and selected place
 It then opened up a
choice of images I
could select, I then
chose ‘barcode’ and it
inserted it onto my
product.
 I then resized it to fit into the
right hand corner of my front
cover.

10. What I have learnt from In Design:
 To insert text into in design, I
clicked on the ‘T’ (text tool) in
the text bar and I inserted a text
box in the position I wanted it
in.
 At the top of the page I had the
choice of various fonts, and I
chose the continuous one I have
used for everything else.
 I typed what I wanted to write and
then to change the colour I
highlighted my text and selected the
colour block on the toolbar and
picked my colour.

11. What I have learnt from In Design:
 Because I wanted to insert an
image I selected the ‘rectangle frame
tool and created it where I wanted to
picture to be.
 I then selected place from the
file drop down and selected the
image I wanted to place inside
the rectangle frame.

12. What I have learnt from In Design:
 My image didn’t look exactly
how I wanted it.
 So I then right clicked on
the image and selected
‘fitting’ which lead me to
another drop down, where I
selected ‘fit content
proportionally’
 Holding shift I then moved the
image according to how I wanted it.
It then fit proportionally into the
rectangle frame tool.

13. What I have learnt from In Design:
 Because I wanted a thick coloured  To change the colour of the
frame around my image, I selected stroke I then selected the
‘stroke’ from the various selections of ‘swatches’ option and chose a
tools on the tool bar and increased purple from the swatches that I
the weight of the stroke to 6pt. had also used for other frames.