The document summarizes the tools and techniques used to create a magazine for a course assignment. It discusses using the Nikon D3200 camera, studio lighting in Photoshop to crop and edit photos, learning blogger to share process and media schedule, using Google for research, and uploading documents to Slideshare, Scribd, and Prezi for variety in representation. The document reflects on learning to use these tools and finding the best methods to successfully complete the magazine assignment.

1. Evaluation 6 - Final

2. Camera
 The camera that I used was the Nikon D3200 and it is a very good camera to
use when it comes to professional pictures as it’s a camera that is designed
with a zoom feature and other features that would be good with a studio
based camera. Some camera’s that I could of used instead are the Nikon D610
or the Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 and these are both good cameras to use for
taking pictures associated with magazines. I used this camera because it was
the best camera that I could get my hands on at that moment in time and it
was either that or my iPhone camera and that choice is easy.

3. Lighting
 There are technically two types of lighting that are easily available to use on
a photoshoot, those are artificial lighting and natural lighting. Artificial
lighting you can control so that you can have white lights, tinted yellow lights
and all other different colour of lights if they are necessary. This is the type
of lighting that I used because it is more controllable compared to natural
lighting, I used white lights and they were Studio lights because I felt they
were more appropriate for the pictures that I wanted to take.

4. Photoshop
 Before starting this magazine and the coursework in general I had never used
photoshop before and therefore had a struggle on how to use it at first but after a
while I learnt with the help of my peers and everything that I learnt was basic in
comparison to how much you can do with photoshop. However, I used Photoshop
CC compared to Photoshop CS6 and therefore had different tools and fonts
compared to my peers and this meant that I could do things that they couldn’t and
vice versa. One of the fonts that I used which was AR DARLING was not on CS6 and
therefore had to make sure I was on Photoshop CC at all times. Some things that I
learnt on photoshop CC were: I learnt how to crop pictures so that only the person
was in the photo and the background was removed and I did this using the lasso
tool and I did this with all the images that I used in the final product. I also learnt
how to add a border to certain things and I did this with the text on the double
page spread where I put a white border around the black text which made it stand
out when it overlaid the person in the picture and I did this with the stroke tool
when you double click on the text or picture that you want to give the stroke to
and this was very helpful.

5. Blogger
 Before this assignment I had never used the site of blogger and during the
assignment I slowly grew to know how to use the site and everything about it.
I used it because it’s an easy to use very effective site to show my progress
throughout the assignment and I believe I have done that successfully
throughout my time in this assignment. Some of the things that I have learnt
are embedding sites into the blog like some of the sites in lower slides and
these sites are the different ways that I represented my work. Another thing
that I learnt is how to schedule my blog posts so they were in the right order
of the media schedule that was provided to me and one final thing that I
learnt was how to input images onto the blog, simply clicking on the image
button and making sure that the image I wanted to input was a JPEG for the
best quality.

6. Google
 I used a lot of google within the making of my magazine and this was for
getting the images for my mood boards, finding out information about
magazines and trying to find a publisher and photographer that would be
relevant to the music genre that I am doing. I did all of this because without
all the information from google about magazines and my genre I would not
have been able to create my magazine at a suitable standard because I
wouldn’t know what to put into the magazine and what the character on my
magazine should look like and therefore wouldn’t have succeeded at the task.

7. Slideshare, scribd, Prezi
 I had to use all three of these to upload my word documents, PowerPoints and to
create variety within my work and I learnt how to use these different sites when
doing all of my research and planning and with the evaluations I’ve learnt a lot
about them. All 3 of these types of representing my information are different and
have their different benefits and drawbacks and that’s why I have used all of
them. Scribd is easy to use when making word documents and putting them into
the website for sites like blogger and it’s a simple but effective styling which is a
good site to use as a back-up if there are no other sites appropriate for the
amount of information within the word documents. SlideShare as I have mentioned
before is for Microsoft PowerPoint as if there are a lot of slides about the different
types of information you can have a PowerPoint slideshow and it makes it look
more professional when representing in front of an audience. For Prezi you can
make other types of slideshows which look more professional compared to
SlideShare as you can do a lot more and have different styles to the Prezi which
make it look more advanced compared to the simplicity of PowerPoint and
SlideShare.