1. By Giulia Malacrida

2. Throughout constructing my magazine, ‘Pindie’ I have
developed general IT skills and how to use Photoshop
properly, prior to this task I had no idea on how to create
layers, cut out an image or even use the program, but after
this task I am comfortable with using the program and it
has taught me a lot.

3. I have become more confident in cutting images
out since I discovered the magnetic lasso tool, and
the feathering tool, which smooth’s and perfects
fine and slight any small faults you may have. The
ability to change the colourings and effects on a
picture is great, it helps the picture gain quality
and can change some features dramatically, like
hair colour, skin colour and even make-up.

4. During the process of my magazine I had learn to
use softwares such as Wordpress, Animoto,
Microsoft Publisher and Slide-share, learning how
to use these programs have now changed the way
I portray things, for example when doing a
presentation etc.

5. I feel I have gained a lot of knowledge by being
introduced to these programs, out of them all, initially,
Photoshop was the one I was most wary about, as I had
never used it before, aspects I found in Photoshop which
were always helpful were converting pictures to black
and white, the crop tool and erasing the background of
an image, playing around with the colourings helped me
decide my final colour scheme.

6. Learning how to use programs such as Slideshare
made it much easier for me to share my work on my
blog, as it’s so easy to use and helps with the
presentation side of the work, the tools on Animoto
are also very helpful, I had previously used this but I
really like how it turns a boring slideshow, into a
music accompanied presentation within minutes, this
really helped me when trying to initialise my ideas in
the first