2. 6. What have you learnt about technologies
from the process of constructing this product?
When creating my magazine I used different software’s
and hardware’s to create my final product, some new to
me but some I had already had experience in using.
When taking the photos I used a camera, I planned
firstly on using my own camera from home but due to
the changes from hearing we had to take photos with
the college cameras in college times by booking them in
and out, I took a college camera to Birmingham City
Centre, I firstly took images of Gabby in town, I felt the
camera I was using was very professional looking even
without editing, I then later met Wilson, I had the
camera over night and took images of Wilson outside in
the dark with a flash light making sure he was shown
and the background was dark around him, I also felt the
camera used was a very good quality camera. I soon had
the images up on the computer, I edited them using
photoshop, I had already used photoshop before at
school and also at home due to already having it, I was
able to soften the images, use the blur tool, spot healing
brush tool, paint brush, darkening tools etc. also using
brightness and contrast tool to add contrast and
brightness to my photos.
3. When creating my front cover I created it in
photoshop, using things like text, etc. I also did
my content page on photoshop, using text
tool, shape tool, inserting edited images, etc. I
then had to import the front cover piece,
content page piece, and also the edited image
for my double page spread into In design
software which I had never used before, I
found it slightly confusing at first to do things
such as wrap the text around the image of the
artist or to make sure the pages were the right
size, which I had to get help with but I found it
okay once I was instructed on what to do, I
found the simple things easy like adding text,
rotating object, etc. it was easy to understand
once shown, I was able to learn how to wrap
text around a selected object, add columns,
enhance quality of the image/double page. I
also used basic normal software’s such as
internet explorer to find text on the internet to
insert in my magazine or for my research
section. I also used word document to create
my article.
