The student learned several skills from creating their music magazine product: They overcame difficulties with Blogger and learned to transfer pages to posts. Photoshop skills like image adjustments and selection tools improved. InDesign skills like page layout, text formatting, and gradient effects grew. Camera techniques like lighting, angles and outdoor shooting were practiced. Overall, skills with technologies like Photoshop, InDesign, DSLR cameras, and Blogger developed through completing this project.

1. Evaluation Question 6
What Have You Learnt About
Technologies From The Process Of
Constructing This Product ?

2. Blogger
All of the work that I have produced throughout the
process of creating my products has been uploaded onto
Blogger. This has allowed my work t be viewed easily online
by others. I have over come difficulties with this website
during the course of my work however I have over come
those along with learning many skills.
To begin with I uploaded my work as pages , however
found that only 20 pages could be made. To over come this
I transferred all of my music magazine work into posts
where they are now labelled into relevant sections and my
preliminary task is left as pages.

3. Photoshop
To edit the photos which I had taken and was going to use in different
aspects of my magazine I used Adobe Photoshop. I found this at first a very
difficult programme to get the hang of however my preliminary task helped
with this and throughout the process I became more familiar and found it a
lot easier.
Some of the tools which I used on this include ;
• Changing different adjustments of the images such as the levels,
hue/saturation
•Lasso / Quick Selection Tool to pick certain areas of the image
•Clone Stamp tool which allowed me to duplicate certain areas of an image
onto another area

4. Magic Wand / Quick Selection Tool
This was a tool that I used to select areas of my
photos quick and easily before editing aspects of
them such as changing the adjustments or
deleting areas.
Clone Stamp Tool
This is a tool which allowed me to reproduce
certain areas of the photo onto different parts of
the canvas. It was the tool that I used to create
the background for my double page spread giving
it a textured feel.
Adjustments
I used the adjustments feature many times during the creation of
my music magazine. I feel like this was something that I became
more confident with as a became more familiar and by the end of
the task I knew which adjustments I must change to achieve the
desired effect on the photo or certain area of the photo.

5. InDesign
Adobe InDesign was the programme which I used to actually create the
pages for my magazine. Using InDesign was the next stage in the creation
process after I have manipulated my photos to a worthy standard on
Photoshop. Alike Photoshop, I did find this a difficult programme to use at
first as I was not familiar with it however it became easier over time as
many of the tools that I were using were the same for each of the pages I
was creating.
This tools included;
•Place , to insert images
•Line , used for creating borders / shapes
•Text Type, allowing me to draw a box where needed and type
•Characteristics, for changing aspects of text or stroke of things
•Gradient Swatch, to create a gradient effect within designated areas or on
the whole page.

6. Gradient Swatch Tool
This was a tool which at first I struggled to use however after
practice I became familiar with it and was able to use it
effectively in my work. I used it to add a gradient fill on the
char bar which I inserted onto my contents page.
Eyedropper Tool
This tool allowed me to pick up colours from parts of the
page and drop the colour onto other parts or into a
swatch. This ensured exact consistency on my products
making them look as professional as possible.
Characteristics Window
When inserting text onto my products I was able to modify the
font that I had already chosen to use through changing the
characteristics of the text on this window. This was something
that I used actively when I was researching titles for my final
products.

7. Cannon DSLR
All of the photos which I took for all three of the
pages of my magazine were with a Cannon DSLR
camera. I had never used a camera such as this
before to take serious pictures therefore learnt a lot
about it over this process. In some cases I used the
camera in conjunction with a backdrop and lighting to
ensure I captured the most professional photos and
light my models features appropriately. In other
shoots I used a light reflector and hand held lighting
as in a dark outside environment I found that it was
important to capture as much extra light as possible. I
also have learnt a lot about camera angles as I have
used a variety of these through different shoots for
my end product from extreme close ups to mid shots.

8. Other Technologies Used
To complete the evaluation questions for this product I have used a variety of technologies,
some in which I am already familiar with and others I am using for the first time.