The document discusses the technologies used to create a magazine coursework project. It describes using a digital camera, computer, and lighting equipment to take photos and Photoshop and InDesign software to edit photos and design magazine pages. Blogger was used to present the coursework and Glogster and SlideShare for planning and evaluation pieces. Specific Photoshop tools like cropping, magnetic lasso, and photo adjustment tools helped tweak photos for the magazine. InDesign allowed referring back to skills from preliminary tasks and completing the main coursework pages.

1. What have you learn about
technologies from the
process of constructing this
product?
Throughout the process of creating my magazine pages, I
have used a variety of both hardware and software in order
to get the desired style and contents that I wanted to
include. Examples of hardware that I’ve used are a high
standard digital camera to take photos of anything that I
wanted to include visually on any of my pages whilst also
using a computer to store any photos as well as edit them
whilst I also used it to create my magazine pages in terms of
design, text and layout. I’ve used some lighting equipment
when taking some photos to get a desired style in my images
that would go with my overall theme of my magazine and
that would also appeal to my target audience Examples of
software that I’ve used is Photoshop which was the main
program I used to edit the photos that I’d taken in any way.
I’ve also used the InDesign software which helped me
create my final magazine pages. Additionally, I also used a
number of websites such as Blogger to show my coursework
in a presentable way. I’ve also used sites such as Glogster
and Slide Share to create pieces planning and evaluation

2. Blogger
By using Blogger, I’m able to
present my completed pieces of
coursework in a clean and
professional way so that I can show
off the work I’ve done but also go
back and look back at things that I
may wish to improve on or review.

3. InDesign
With the InDesign software, I was able to
create both my magazines with all the
contents and pages necessary for my main
coursework task and my preliminary
coursework task. Whilst creating my
music magazine, I was able to refer back
to tools and skills I used in my
preliminary task to help me complete the
remainder of main coursework pages.

4. Photoshop Tools
Whilst editing my photos on this piece of software, I used a number of tools that helped
me tweak my images so that they looked more professional and fitted my magazine style
more so with my color selection and layout. I’ve used tools such as cropping to make an
image smaller so that it’d ideally fit better on a page if my magazine. Another tool I used
was the magnetic lasso tool to cut around a particular part of a photo to which I could
cut out or edit if needs be. I’ve also used a selection of photo adjustment tools such as
saturation, vibrancy, filters and curves to make an improved photo that was suitable for
my magazine.

5. Magnetic Lasso
Tool
From the original image, I cut
around the person I wanted to
include on the page shown on the
image below. Using the magnetic
lasso tool allowed me to cut that part
of the image out more smoothly and
make my image seem more
professional when placed on my final
double-page spread. Also, this tool
allowed me to smooth out the edges
of the image so it looked as if it had
been professional placed rather than
just quickly being cut out and placed.

6. Crop Tool
The crop tool allows me to make a particular image smaller so that I
fits better on a page to cut out and undesired part of an image. With
this example, I’ve cropped both sides to highlight the person in the
center and dispose of the extra person and the black space on either
side of her.

7. Vibrancy and
Saturation
Tools
The vibrancy tool enhances the
lighting in the images to create
much more natural and clearer
looking image on my page. The
saturation tool brings out the
color in the image and adjusts it
to more a suitable standard that
will suit the style of my page
more.