The document discusses the creator's experience using various design programs - InDesign, Photoshop, and internet resources like Blogger, Prezi, and Slideshare - to create a music magazine. For InDesign, the creator gained experience using basic and advanced features compared to an initial task. Photoshop use was limited due to inexperience. Blogger and Slideshare were easy to use, while Prezi allowed visually appealing presentations but had usability issues.

2. InDesign
• InDesign is the program I used to produce my magazine pages
• It is a mac OS only program
• It has many simple and advanced tools to help you easily
create designs for many things including magazines.

3. During the creation of my preliminary task cover, I had to use InDesign.
This was my first experience with the program, so I did not know how
to make full use of all of its features. I only knew of the basic features
such as Layers, text boxes and inserting images
This time, I already had a grasp of the basic features of the program.
Since I had much longer to complete the task, I had a chance to
experiment with the more advanced features. I learnt how to add
effects to my images and text which made them look more original
and stand out more.

4. Photoshop
• Adobe’s Photoshop is an image editing tool
• It has many advanced features to edit
photographs and other images
• It’s not very easy to use for beginners due to
the huge amount of buttons and tools.

5. I did not make use of Photoshop during the creation of my preliminary
task so the only experience I had with it prior to my music magazine
was a few years ago when I briefly used it in year 8.
Because of this, I did not risk spending too much time experimenting
with Photoshop’s features. I used it to do a basic edit on the image I
used for my double page spread. It was not used for anything else.

6. Internet resources
• Blogger, Prezi, Slideshare etc
• Websites I used to help present the research
behind my magazine.

7. Blogger I used during my preliminary task. That was my first time using
it but that didn’t really matter because it is a very simple website to
use. This time was no different. I had to post updates often on my blog
to show progress in my magazine and research to do with my
magazine, such as target audience research
Prezi I had not used before so it is new to me. It allows the user to
create more visually appealing PowerPoints. I learnt that it can be
annoying, unhelpful and sluggish at times, but the end results do look
good.
Slideshare was useful for uploading PowerPoints I had made for my
research onto my blog. It was very simple and did not give me any
hassle.