The document summarizes the various software tools used to create a magazine. Photoshop was used for layout, adding text, images, and logos. Lightroom was used to edit raw images by adjusting colors and converting to black and white before placing in Photoshop. DaFont was used to find fonts for the title, cover lines, body text, and skyline. Pages was used to write body text for easier editing and grammar checking before placing in Photoshop. Screenflow recorded the production stages and iMovie edited the videos for uploading to YouTube, which hosted the videos through links on the creator's blog. The blog was created using Blogger and SlideShare created an annotated slideshow.

1. For the main production of my magazine, I used Photoshop CS5 – this including
adding text, logos and images to the front cover, contents page and double page spread.
The overall house style and layout of the magazine was made in Photoshop.

2. I used Lightroom CS5 to edit the raw images for my magazine, I used the program to
edit the images (such as making a black and white background, and enhancing the colour)
before placing them into Photoshop for further editing (spot healing etc...) and then being
added to the magazine.

3. I used DaFont.com to find the fonts I used for each part of my magazine. These
included fonts for the title, main cover line, main body text and skyline.

4. I used Pages to write the main body text for the double page spread, this was better
that writing the text straight into Photoshop as it gave me a spelling and grammar
checker. Once the text was written, I simply dropped it into Photoshop.

5. I used Screenflow to record the stages of making for my magazine. This is a
‘screencasting’ program that records the monitor of my computer, allowing for an
easy yet detailed account of how I made the magazine.

6. Once the stages of making had been recorded I used iMovie to edit the video, I had to
cut the video so to only include the relevant sections, and speed it up (so that the actual
videos were about 3-4 mins long each) – I was then ready to upload the videos.

7. Once each ‘stages of making’ video was edited, I uploaded them to YouTube.com
- this made it easy to provide a link, from my blog, to each video (rather than
uploading each video individually to the blog).

8. I used Blogger as the blogging site for my work, this gave my a place to plan, record
and analyse all aspects of the planning, creation and evaluation of my coursework.

9. I used SlideShare to create the slideshow you can see – it allowed me to
annotate and add several images easily to the blog.