The document discusses various technologies used to create a magazine, including Adobe Photoshop, green screen, digital camera, Apple Mac, and Blogger. Photoshop was used to edit photos to a high standard and remove green screen backgrounds. Green screen allowed inserting new backgrounds or removing backgrounds from photos for the cover and spread. A digital camera enabled taking many practice photos and deciding which to use. An Apple Mac operated Photoshop better and worked faster than Windows. Blogger was used to document the process, get feedback, and view work in one place.

1. In the process of creating my magazine I have learnt how
to use several different technologies which have greatly
improved the quality of my media product. I have
regularly posted on my blog throughout the process of
creating the product and therefore I will reference these
posts or the Pictures which I have taken including practice
shots and final shots to show the different technologies I
have used whilst creating my magazine.

2. Whilst making the magazine I used several different
technologies which enhanced the quality of my
product.
This included:
• Adobe Photoshop
• Green Screen
• Digital Camera
• Apple Mac
• Blogger

3. Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is the photo editing software I used, meaning I could edit and
manipulate my images to a high standard. Due to my use of green screen for
my final photos, Photoshop made it very easy to take the background out of
them.
The main image on my front cover and double page spread were both edited
using Photoshop , this meant that the photos were able to be edited to a
standard which I could not have achieved using other photo editing software.

4. Green screen
Green screen is used for taking photos against a bright
green background which makes it easy to either put it a
completely new background or simply take the background
out, I used green screen for my final photos as I didn’t want
a background for the photos on my front cover and double
page spread.

5. Digital Camera
Using the digital camera I was able to take as many photos as I needed and I
was able to look back at all of them and decide which, if any, I wanted to use
for my photos, this would not have been possible using a traditional camera
because the amount of photos I could have taken would have been limited.
Another advantage of the digital camera was that I was able to connect it
straight to the computer so I could the see the images on a larger screen and
this made it a lot easier to decide which images I would use. Through using a
digital camera I learnt things such as different camera angles and also camera
techniques like shallow focus.

6. Apple Mac
In the process of creating my product and editing my photos for the product I
used an Apple Mac, this was a new piece of technology to me and through
using it I learnt that it worked particularly well for editing photos as
Photoshop operated better on a Mac OS than on Windows.
I found the operating speed of the Mac was superior to that of windows and
this helped in creating my magazine as I constantly needed the Mac to be
able to do several things at once i.e. posting, editing, saving etc.

7. Blogger
I used Blogger for posting the progression and planning of my media product,
it was useful for uploading photos and being able to get feedback from
people who viewed the blog, it also meant that I was able to view all my work
in one place and I could edit the posts at any time with the option of either
posting them straight away or saving them as drafts.