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

I have used programmes like; Photoshop, FLIKR, blogger, and word. These have all helped me to create my work, some more than others. When I first started the coursework I had little experience of Photoshop, now I can work independently on it. The main Photoshop tool I used for a lot of my magazine is ‘Render’ this changes the brightness, by creating a light around and on the image. This tool is used on all of my images to create the right look. As you can see moving the circle makes the light brighter/darker.

 

The advantages of using Photoshop is that it can do, everything and anything you want, although its complicated, it can produce a lot of effects and tools. The only disadvantage is that I took a lot of time to understand and feel confident using.

Flikr was good because it allows you to tag writing over the image, this makes it easier to explain, however they were hard to log onto and blogger is hard to understand.

These programmes are good for the work I had to do. Word was good because it allowed me to write my article up before hand and try different fonts.