This document discusses different technologies learned through constructing a product: Hot-metal printing involved typed text producing a paper tape to cast type for large, inexpensive printing. Movable type allows single characters to be reused. Desktop publishing uses computers for high-quality documents, giving more control over characteristics than word processing. Photoshop was difficult to learn initially but skills improved. Creating unique fonts and cropping images was challenging to position correctly without distortion. Quark Xpress was hard to use at first, particularly for double page spreads. Inserting articles and properly sized images without distortion took practice. Future use would involve better learning the software first.

1. EVALUATION- QUESTION 6
What have you leant about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?

2. Hot- Metal Printing.
◦ First of all I learnt about the ways in which people use to publish work, magazines,
newspapers etc. through hot-metal printing.
Text is typed into a machine to produce a punched paper tape which consoles the
characters that are cast by the casting machine. Hot- metal type allows the production
of large quantities of type in a relatively inexpensive fashion.
Movable type is a method that allows single type characters which are set in a block
and printed as each character is a single unit, it is ‘movable’ and therefore can be used
again and again.

3. Desktop Publishing
This is using a personal computer or workstation to produce high-quality printed
documents. A desktop publishing system allows you to use different programmes to
create work the best ability. The most powerful desktop publishing systems enable you to
create illustrations, while less powerful systems let you insert illustrations created by other
programs.
In general, desktop publishing give you more control over different characteristics over
word-processing. It is now more efficient.

4. Adobe Photoshop
◦ I have never used Photoshop in such depth until this year therefore it was like learning
how to use a new technology.
It was difficult at first when learning how to use the technology but I eventually got the
hang of how to use most of the tools within the software.
When using the programme I found it easy to make the font for my title, unique and
different. This then follows the codes and conventions of a music magazine title.
I found it particularly difficult to crop and erase the image and insert it onto my actual
product. It was difficult to get it in the right position and to ensure that it was not distort.
Overall, I feel I have learnt and developed my skills on Photoshop well.

5. Quark Xpress
◦ I had difficulty when trying to learn to use Quark for the first time. Particularly when
creating my double page spread. I found it very difficult to get everything correct and
then inserting my article correctly.
It was also difficult when inserting the images correctly as I had to put them into
Photoshop, crop and ensure they were the right size to be able to fit in the space
without being distort of too close up etc..
When using Quark Xpress again I would definitely learn how to use the software better
first.