The document discusses what the author learned from their preliminary task to their final product. They learned better photo manipulation skills in Photoshop and magazine conventions from research. They were able to improve the color, contrast, and positioning of elements based on their preliminary work. The final product had a more professional looking cover, contents page, and layout overall compared to the plain preliminary version.

1. Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?

2. The main thing I have learned from my preliminary task after progressing to my
main task was mostly about photo manipulation and conventions of real
magazines. In my preliminary task, I used extremely basic photo manipulation
which did not look very professional, whereas in my real product I was able to
use Photoshop to a better standard and do more things with it that I wasn’t able
to before. As well as this, I had the time to look at more of the tools and look
into tutorials about how to use them effectively. To develop my point further, in
the full product I carried out a lot more research into magazines with covers,
contents and double page spreads. From this, I was able to grasp what
spacings I should use, as well as picking up many conventions from the
magazines I chosen to study.

3. Looking back, another thing I was able to develop from
my preliminary task was the colour and contrast of text
on its background. Furthermore, the position of the
barcode was important and looking back to my product
from my preliminary, the magazine cover was very plain
and boring with not a lot going on. On the contents page
I was also able to make further improvements, such as
making the page look more professional as well as it
being for a completely different topic.