The document discusses various technologies the author learned about through creating a magazine cover project. The author used the internet for research, looking up professional magazine layouts and finding information about David Guetta. Blogging helped organize research and planning materials. A digital camera allowed the author to take clear pictures with different settings. Photoshop, though initially complicated, allowed image manipulation for the cover, including changing fonts and background effects. The author also learned to edit photos in Photoshop by cutting around images and cropping. Quark was more difficult to use than Photoshop due to its complexity, but allowed column formatting and cropping/moving of images.

1. Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Internet as a research tool
Using the internet has helped me
throughout the project. I was able to
look up the layout of professional
magazines and then use this
information to help me create my
own magazine front cover. The main
magazine that I was using to help
me was mixmag and there was a lot
of things on the internet that I found
out that helped me with my
magazine, for example I also looked
at the contents pages that mixmag
have already produced. This was
essential because I could get ideas
from these magazines for my own
product. I also used the internet to
find out information for my article
about David Guetta.

2. Blogging as a method of organising and arranging research and planning materials
Using blogger makes it easier to
arrange your work so that it is clear
and looks more professional. It is a
good way to organise your work so
that you know where you’re up to.
On blogger is allows you to go back
and edit the work that you have
already done to change it and make
it better. I have learnt that using
blogger is a good way for me to put
all of my work onto, there is also
many different ways to do your
work, e.g. slide share for documents
and you can also upload videos.
Digital Cameras
Digital cameras are good to use so
that you can get good clear pictures.
On digital cameras you can also
have different settings so that you
can get the exact picture you want,
this makes it better because it will
be clearer and more suitable for
what type of image you want.

3. I was unfamiliar with using Photo
Shop and at first it was complicated
but it got easier the more you went
on it. It is a good way to create a
front cover because you can
manipulate the image to look how
you want it. There are lots of
different tools to use to create
different effects. I used the text tool
to create different fonts that looked
good for my front cover, I used a
bigger and bolder font for the main
headline. You can also change the
background effects, I changed the
gradient so that it was darker at the
bottom of the page. I have learnt a
lot of different techniques by using
Photo Shop and I think it is a good
way to create a front cover.
I was also unfamiliar with how to edit photos on Photo Shop. At the stat I had a coloured
background so I learnt how to cut around the image so then I could put the picture onto the
background that I have chosen. Also to manipulate pictures there are tools for airbrushing,
and cropping. I have cropped the image so that is fits onto my front cover and so that it is good
for the layout of what I had chosen to do.

4. I found Quark a lot harder to use
then Photo Shop, this is because it
was a lot more complicated and
harder to create all of the text and
the coloured boxes. One thing that I
did like about using Quark was that
unlike Photo Shop it doesn’t have
lots of different layers so therefore
it is easier to move things around.
However I did like the way that you
could put columns in and then the
writing moves to the next column
when you add more text, this is
better than using text boxes. I think
that on Quark on the computer it
makes it look better than when it is
printed off. I like the way that you
could crop the picture and move
them around. Also on quark there is
an option for you to have a drop
cap, this is important for every
article that goes into magazines.