Evaluation Quesiton 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 I have learnt many things from the process of constructing this product that helped me get my magazine together. The first thing I have done to produce my own magazine is firstly learnt how to use a Canon EOS 400D camera to take the images I wanted to use for my magazine. Even though I have used this camera for my previous task, it taught me different ways of using it such as the directions and this helped me use different techniques with the camera in my final task. Some of my pictures have been taken in a room with just a plain blue background so that the camera was only focusing on the model and not anything distracting behind. To create the effect I Wanted to have for my magazine images, I made sure the lightening in the room was not too dark or bright but enough light to capture what I wanted. Using the Canon EOS 400D camera I found it much easier as I could adjust the brightness to get a good quality picture. There were only minor problems I had to deal with which  was trying to get a steady shot so that it had a good focus as I was holding the camera instead of having a stand to support the camera itself, but then I manages to keep my hands steady and took good pictures.

Another thing I have learnt during this process is the technology of Photoshop as my skills were not as good as now. There are two types of Photoshop which are the CS5 and the CS3; I used both to produce good images for my magazine as I used them for different areas of my images which were helpful. On Photoshop CS5 I manipulated my images by cutting out the background away from what I wanted and also adjusting the brightness by going on to layer, new adjustment layer and then finally ‘curve’ which had done so and this gave it a great look on to the image. I have also used this on all my other images that are on my contents page and double page spread because I liked the effect it gave on the images

Another useful thing I have learnt on Photoshop is to save my finished tasks on JPEG as blogger does not accept other files when trying to upload them on to it. The stroke tool n Photoshop was useful fir my fonts especially my cover lines which made it stand out more on my magazine front cover. This tool was easy and hard to use as it was straight forward but the hard part was getting the right width of the stroke as I didn’t want the fonts to outline too chunky or too thin but just the right thickness so that my magazine still looked professionally made.