The student learned several skills from using various technologies to construct a magazine: - Photoshop allowed the student to crop, place, and transform photos to suit the magazine genre, and add effects like bold text to emphasize artists and catch readers' eyes. - InDesign was initially confusing but helped the student challenge conventions by creating shapes, page numbers, and arranging images. It was used to construct contents pages and double page spreads. - Blogger helped the student track progress, access classmates' work, get feedback, and improve their own magazine. - Illustrator enabled the design of a unique masthead that branded the magazine, and effects were added to make it glow and appear 3D.

1. Question 6- AS Media Evaluation
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

2. Photoshop
I used Photoshop when designing the front cover of ‘Image’ Magazine. At first I did not know how
to use it – evident from my first magazine constructed for a ‘school magazine’ project. I discovered
how to do new things such as; what pre-set to use to best fit a magazine front cover. How to crop,
place, transform and add effects to pictures to make them better suit the genre of your magazine.
This was beneficial to my magazine as I could best fit my photography to suit the genre of my
magazine.

3. As you can see here, Photoshop also allowed me to add, develop and challenge real
magazine conventions on my front cover. On my LSC magazine I was unaware of how to
use Photoshop to its full ability. On my Image magazine I used few cover lines on purpose
as I was going for a certain style I saw on a XXL magazine. I learnt how to add effects to
the text making the cover lines really reach out to my targeted audience. I made it bolder
and embossed it making it more eye-catching, emphasising what that artist is proposing. I
believe this has been beneficial to my magazine in terms of emphasising and catching the
eye and also it has added to the look of it all.
Also…
Style in which I was going for
Names of additional artists
throughout the magazine.
Bold cover lines.
Lack of knowledge to use Photoshop
to full potential; nonetheless I have
learnt more over the course of
designing Image
Photo nicely cropped and adjusted
using magic wand and cropping tool

4. In-design
• I found using In-design confusing to begin with which is also evident in my preliminary task contents page. I have
developed using in-design as it allowed me to use, challenge and develop conventions I have seen on XXL
Magazines. I was able to move my masthead onto in-design; create shapes to make space for page numbers, features
and puff/flash etc. I also learned how to make fields to place images in and how to fit content to frame and arrange
images to bring them forward/ to the front etc. In-design is what I used for my contents page and DPS and was a
big help.
New
My contents
pages

5. logger
Blogger was helpful to me as I used it as a place to update and track my work and progress almost every time
there was a lesson. Therefore when the next lesson came it was easy to recognise where I left off. I could
clearly see my progress and I could access my classmates blogs which gave me a taste of how my work should
look etc. I could comment on their blogs ways to improve and what they did well and they could do the same
for me which gave me an insight to way others viewed my magazine. This helped me to take all the positive
criticism and use them to construct and develop my work. This was all very beneficial to me.

6. Adobe Illustrator
I used Illustrator to design and create my masthead “Image”. This was very beneficial in terms of
branding my magazine as it gave my magazine a unique selling point and a point of value. Illustrator
helped me to make my masthead look creative and read. I was able to add effects and erase sections
of my masthead. Making it glow, become 3D, etc.
I decided to change the colour of my masthead
as my cover star was wearing a blue jacket and
purple didn’t seem to suit the look anymore.