The document discusses the technologies used to create a magazine front cover, contents page, and double page spread. Photoshop was used to create the front cover, allowing the manipulation of text, images, and effects. InDesign facilitated the professional layout of the contents page and double page spread. A camera was used to take high quality photographs for the magazine, and the student learned photography skills like lighting and using the flash.

1. Phoebe
Rowlands
Q6
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

2. In summary I have produced a front cover, contents page and a
double page spread. I used Adobe Photoshop to produce my
front cover whereas I used InDesign to produce the contents
page and double page spread. To produce my images for my
magazine I used a camera to take photographs.
TECHNOLOGIES

3. Photoshop contains many tools that helped me to create my
front cover for my rock magazine. Some of the tools I was
already familiar with and some I hadn’t used before, however, I
managed to pick up new skills quickly as I found that
Photoshop was easy to use. On the left hand side of the screen
there was a drop down bar with the tools I could use to alter
text, images and background.
FRONT COVER

4. For the text on my front cover, I could change the size, colour and the
font. By double clicking the layer of the text I could add effects onto
the text to make it stand out, which I used on my main coverline. For
my main image I was able to require a new skill as I could use
contrast and brightness on my image to alter the way it looked on my
front cover. I also used the polygon tool to cut and crop the image so
that the background of the photograph could not be seen; this
allowed the image to be across a white background. I was also
informed of the tools I could use to enhance my image as well as
fitting it to the background for example I used the blur tool to blend
the image to the background so that it resembled a professional
magazine. Using the buttons control t and the left shift key I could
enlarge the image and prevent stretching the image.

5. To produce my contents page and double page spread I used
InDesign. This software was useful as it resembled the
professional layout of a professional contents page and double
page spread as I was able to add column lines and border line
on the page so that all my text was in the right position. I
hadn’t used InDesign before and so I was not familiar with the
layout, however, it was similar to Photoshop and so I was able
to pick up the skills needed to produce my contents page and
double page spread easily. One main skill that I had acquired
was to be able to frame an image with text around it.
CONTENTS PAGE AND DOUBLE PAGE
SPREAD

6. For my magazine, it was important that I took good quality
photographs. This was achieved by using a professional camera.
I had not used this type of camera before and so I learnt how to
take good quality images and learnt what lighting worked best
with the camera. I also learnt that the flash worked best for my
photographs giving them a better quality of lighting.
CAMERA