The document discusses the various technologies used to create a magazine. Pinterest was used to plan photos by creating a mood board of images from different magazines. An iPad was used to store images and show models poses. A Canon camera was used to take photos, but the auto settings made editing difficult. iPhoto on a Mac laptop allowed easy editing of photos by adjusting lighting, tones, and removing blemishes. Pixlr was used to add text and layers to the cover, contents page, and spreads, but lacked an undo function. Prezi and SlideShare helped present research online, though uploading to Blogger was challenging. Blogger allowed editing of blog posts over time from any device with internet access.

1. Evaluation 6What have you learnt about technologies in the process of creating this product?

2. Planning PicturesIn order to plan the ways in which I was going to take the
pictures for my magazine I created a mood board using
Pinterest, this allowed me to have a vast amount of
pictures from my genre and analysed the different ways
that they had been taken and the different poses that the
models were doing easily and all in one place. I also
looked many more different covers online from general
google searches. I then saved everything that I had found
and liked and stored them all on my iPad. Before the
shoot with my models I then showed them the mood
board and other images on my iPad to give them a brief
overview of what I wanted them to do.

3. AdvantagesI found that using Pinterest was a massive help when it
came to planning the way in which I was going to take
the pictures to feature in my magazine. It allowed me to
easily look at many different pictures from my genre all
in one place, I was then able to save the ones that I
liked and have the stored on one section of the website
to refer back to as and when I needed to. Having them
all saved on one section of the website also meant that
I could then just show my models that page so they had
an idea of what I wanted them to do. Having my iPad
with masses of pictures saved from google also helped
as it much easier to take to the photo shoot with
compared to a laptop as that would have been
inconvenient It also meant that my models could pick it
up when ever they wanted to and see what pose they

4. Taking the pictures
In order to take my pictures I used a camera from
school which was a Canon EOS 1100D. The settings
on the camera took a while to figure out, as they were
all on auto so the camera changed see the settings
that it thought would be best. As I was taking my
photos outside it and had got dark the camera thought
that it was best to have the flash on. However this
made the pictures come out lighter in some areas than
others. As the settings were changed the auto focus
also turned off meaning that I had to ensure I focused
the camera myself before taking the picture.

5. Advantages/
Disadvantages
Like said in the previous slide I found it hard using the
camera as I was unsure about how to use it which meant
that the pictures took slightly longer to be taken then they
needed to as it took my a while to get used to the
camera, I had to take some pictures multiple times as I
didn’t like the setting that the camera was on so they
pictures didn’t come out in the way that I wanted them to.
However I was very happy with the quality in which the
pictures came out in as they looked professional and
extremely clear even when the zoom was being used.

6. Importing the Pictures
After I had taken the pictures I used the USB lead in
order to import all of the images to my laptop. As
the pictures were taken on a public camera I
deleted them once they had all been added onto my
laptop. I then kept them all on iPhoto to later be
edited.
I didn’t have any problems when doing this as easily
uploaded them to my laptop without it taking a
massive amount of time. Once they were all
uploaded to my laptop I then was able to go onto
ending them.

7. Editing the Photo’s
As I have a Apple laptop I was able to use
iPhoto as my editing software. The software was
easy to use as it allowed you to undo and re do
things if any mistakes had been made. I used
the the effects the most on the software. As my
pictures were taken outside in the dark I had to
make them a lot lighter, iPhoto allowed me to do
this successfully without making it look like the
pictures had been over edited. Next I used the
warmer effect in order to give my photo’s
warmer tones. The blemish tool then allowed me
to remove any imperfections or blemishes that
my modes may have had.

8. Advantages
As iPhoto was already on my laptop it meant that I did not
have to install any new software which can be extremely
time consuming, it would have also been time consuming
for me to the learn how to use this software and try and
fine the best edits possible. After each editing session of
my pictures the edits would save automatically meaning
that I didn’t have to remember to press save each time.
Even once the app had been closed after an edit session I
could also undo any edit that had been put onto the
images if I wasn't happy with them or felt like minor things
needed to be changed.

9. Pixlr
In order to create my Front Cover, Contents
Page and Double Page Spread I used Pixlr. This
is free to use online however I put the software
onto my laptop as it allowed me to carry on with
my magazine even when I didn't have any
internet. Pixlr allowed me to do many different
things to my magazine like adding text on to the
image,place images onto of each other and fade
certain things. Like the letters T.R.B on my DPS,
which made my magazine look more
professional. It also meant that I could follow the
Q double page spread closely as they had faded
letters behind the text.

10. Disadvantages
One of the major disadvantages that I found when using Pixlr was that once
you had applied the certain edit to your image there was no going back! You
couldn't then make changes to it or undo it you were stuck with it. This
became extremely annoying when you felt like you had finished with your
editing however decided that you didn’t like a feature that you had added to
your work at the very beginning, there was no way around over coming this
without starting all over again. To prevent me from getting to the very end of
my work I began to screenshot the progress that I was making so if I wanted
to go back I could find a screenshot from where I could progress from,
however this became time consuming and I didn’t always remember to
screenshot after making changes.

11. PreziIn order to present some of the research and
evaluations added to my blog I used Prezi. As I first
used press I didn't understand how to use it
however as I asked other people in my class and
played around with it for a while I finally got the
hang of it. I liked using Prezi as it made blog posts
more interesting to use rather than just typing
everything out into block paragraphs.
One thing I didn't like about Prezi was as you had
used up all of the circles that come with the
publication any more that you add are really small
and are placed in random places around you
publication. However with a bit more playing around
you can get them into the place that you want them.
Another thing that was difficult was uploading the
finished Prezi onto blogger as you can not simply

12. Slideshare
At first I found this a lot harder to use than Prezi as I
didn't get that you had to make the power point and
simply upload it. However I like the way in which
slide share presents the information as you can a lot
more to it than you are able to on Prezi, with it still
be clear and effective to read. Although Slide Share
looks good and presents the information in a clear
way there are many different stages that have to
occur before the slide share can finally be shared
onto blogger and takes a long time.

13. Blogger
As I had a blog perviously I was familiar with the blogger
website so did not need to take masses of time getting
use to how everything worked. Blogger has many
positives and negatives to it. It always you to easily
present information using many different forms mediums,
it also allows you to go back and edit posts as many
times as you need to. However the format of the blogs
can be frustrating when you are trying to add many
pictures to a post as sometimes they do not go to the
places that you want to on the post.

14. InternetDue to everything be published onto blogger the internet
was always being used during the production of my
magazine. The internet was vert useful when it came to
researching everything around my magazine and looking
into what other magazines had done perviously. When
ever completing any media work I always had multiple
tabs open looking at many different things.
When wanting to edit anything on my blog I needed the
internet. Also many of the editing softwares that were
used were online. A massive positive to the internet is
that fact you are able to access your work anywhere that
you have a connection on any device.