1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES
FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?

3. Before the Preliminary tasks I had no prior• Crop the image and rotate it to have an
experience with Photoshop. Throughout this image close enough to the face to get the
topic I have developed a fairly good base effect I want.
understanding of Photoshop. I have learnt too: • Select certain parts of the image/texts so
• Use the magic wand tool that the effect of brush only applies to this
• Using layer masks to apply Gaussian blurs area.
• Applying the red of the image to create an• Copy and paste in Photoshop
airbrushed effect. • Free and puppet warp the image
• Selecting the eyes and then sharpening• Clone pieces of the images for a desired
them to add impact to them and bring out effect, e.g. fill in a gap in the hair/ add
the natural contours. more hair.
• Create text • Use a suface blur to smooth the skin
• Use dodge and burn tools on different• Use the smudge tool to smooth the skin
settings to brighten and darken the chosen• Use scattering while cloning to make the
parts of my picture. image look like it is being blown away by
• Use the warp tool to get the desired shape the wind.
of the body/facial features. • Using different lasso tools and refining the
• Use different brushes to add highlights to edge through this
the hair/ thicken eyelashes. • Using the Vibrance slider to make the skin
• Play around with the Opacity of an image paler then using the curves/levels tools to
to make the images overlap of be faint on make them brighter.
the page. • Using layers
• Use swatches to keep the colour scheme• Saving work in different formats. Etc.
consistent.

4. This is a visual representation of how I used
smart sharpen to add impact to the eyes.
• I pressed ‘Q’ to enter quick select mode
• Then ‘B’ to select my brush tool
• Then I went over the eyes with the brush and pressed q again to go
to the selection
• I has to press ‘Ctrl, shift and I’ to invert the selection so the yes were
selected.
• I then went to Filter>sharpen>smart sharpen
• This opened the window shown is the picture on the bottom left
from her I adjusted the ‘amount’ and ‘radius’ sliders to get the
desired effect.

5. Using the clone tool to fill in eyelashes.

6. I had no prior experience with blogger before this task. Through this
task I have learnt how to:
• Create a blog
• Change the colour scheme
• Post on this blog
• Use html to post on the blog
• Upload images to this blog

7. I think that as a method of recording, storing and evaluating my work blogger
was excellent. It allowed me to be more creative with my work by giving me
different mediums to use, it allowed me to use slideshows word documents
and gifs to demonstrate the points that I was trying to make. The visual
element makes my work look more interesting than traditional methods like
essays and the online database meant that my work could not get ruined by
loosing paper or spilling something on it. It is simple to use, meant that I did
not have to carry lots of work around with me and I knew that it is safe.

8. Before this task I had no previous experience in using a DSLR camera.
I learnt about camera angles shots and model posing to create the
effect that I wanted. I learnt how to upload the images using a USB
cable and copy them to my files.

9. Before this topic I had never heard of issuu but because of this topic I
discovered it. I learnt how to upload a Word document to this website
and then publish it to my blogger account.

10. I have learnt how to upload my PowerPoint presentations onto
slideshare and put them onto my blog so that they can be played on the
internet. I believe this is a more aesthetically pleasing way of reading
text than in one big bulk.

11. While doing this project I have had to use Flikr for the first time. I learnt
how to create an account, upload a picture, add notes and post it to my
blog.

12. Because of this task I have learnt about YouTube tutorials and how they can
help you with work.