What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

1. QUESTION SIX
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. When doing my research for the magazine product, I used the internet for my
main source to find information. For example of Front covers, contents pages
and double side spreads which I had to annotate.
We created a blog on goggles blogger, before creating this blog about my music
magazine I had to learn how to use . As I had never used blogger before, I
needed to get to grips with it before I actually started uploading things. The
first thing I had to do was create a design for ,my blog, I changed the
background and the positions of the text and boxes which my post would be
positioned in on the blog page.
I found it quite easy actually once I got the hang of it. When putting photos onto
the blog like posting photographs from my photo shoot, the positioning of the
picture would change without me even moving it. This was a struggle for me as
I would be typing and photos would juts instantly move.

3. Prezi is an advanced version of Powerpoint and slide share is what you use to
let it feature on your blog. Accentually it is PowerPoint with all the
animations added on already built into the Prezi. I want to compare
PowerPoint and Prezi because I think Prezi is actually better and looks more
professional. However I used Slide share in my Evaluation which allows a
PowerPoint to be viewed on my blog. I think this worked really well and
effective as it is not too much going on and gets straight to the point. Using
Prezi can be quite difficult to use as zooming in and out all the time and be
quite distracting, however once you know how to handle it, it becomes quite
easy. Where as PowerPoint is simple and easy to use, and if you can use word
you can use PowerPoint.
I used both Prezi and PowerPoint in my evaluation to split it up a bit so who
ever is reading my blog doesn’t get bored.

4. Photoshop
I had used Photoshop before creating my magazine product in some of
my art coursework, so I knew the basics and didn’t really need to learn
much because I knew how it work and tips and tricks which others
didn’t know. The only think I struggled with was putting text on to my
front cover, contents page and double page spread. As soon as I wrote
something the text would move over and it wouldn’t go where I wanted
to go. I over come this by adding some of the text and titles separately so
that why I could place it where ever I wanted and I could place it as
close together as I wanted.
The one thing that I did learn, was how to edit photo graphs in
Photoshop. I learnt this by just simply searching how to edit photos in
Photoshop. This gave me step by steps and videos on how to edit it. You
use filter which brightness the photograph and hue and saturation
which you can add colour or warm tones. I also learnt how to sharpen
the pictures by using filter then smart sharpen.