Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When creating my magazine I had to use various forms of technology, when experimenting with them I extended my knowledge on them more which made my product even better.


1. Internet Explorer

Before creating my magazine I had to do some research on other magazines, I used internet explorer to access websites and pictures to look at other magazines front covers and so on. I learnt that internet explorer contains much more useful information than you think and that search engines are very useful.





2. Digital Cameras

To take my images for the main task and the preliminary task I used the Nikon D70 camera, I havent used a professional camera before, DSLR's have so many more controls than ordinary digital cameras, I experimented with the controls and learnt what they did. I learnt that changing the apperture on the camera can create the background out of focus while the foreground (In this case the model) stayed in focus, this made images look more interesting.






3. Photoshop

I used photoshop to alter my images to make them better or more suitable. I experimented alot with photoshop and learnt new things and how to improve images. I cropped images to make them more suitable, changed the colour balance, contrast, curves, sharpness and much more. I think photoshop was the most useful tool. I also used it to make my magazine pages.

Here is one of my images which i chose to feature in my magazine, I decided that it needed to be cropped as the sky was very high and it didnt need to be

Here on my final double page spread you can see the difference between the cropped image and the non cropped image









4. Dafont

The fonts used in my magazine were from the website dafont.com. I hadn't used this site before so it was all new to me. After messing about and researching I learnt how to get the fonts and how you can use them on photoshop and other programs.







I found photoshop the most useful as you can do almost anything on it, I was able to erase parts of an image, move text behind an image, make text see-through and lots more.