QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing software used to layout and publish double page spreads and contents pages. It allows for complex page design in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get format. Photoshop is a graphic editing program used to create the front cover of a magazine. Developed by Adobe, Photoshop is the industry standard for bitmap and image manipulation and editing. These two programs, QuarkXPress for layout and Photoshop for image editing, were the main software used to create a magazine during the process of constructing a product.

1. What have you learnt about technologiesfrom the process of constructing this product? Q6

2. The first piece of software i used for my product which I was unfamiliar with was quarkxpress we used this to publish our double page spread and out contents page What is quark xpress? QuarkXPress ("Quark") is a computer application for creatingand editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them.

3. The other main piece of software we used to create our magazine was Photoshop we used this to create the front cover of our magazine What is photoshop? Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphicsediting program developed and publishedby Adobe Systems. It is the current market leaderfor commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. ...