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

When working and creating my magazine I learnt new skills on software such as photo-shop, Microsoft words, publisher and a friends professional camera. I then uploaded my work on an online blog site called bloger. 

At the beginning I had difficulty using photo-shop, publisher or the professional camera, however over time I gradually learnt how to use the programmes and hardware. 


I used my friends professional camera to take my original shots at Camden and Southbank. 

I mostly used the school's computer to do most of my work, as I didn't have Photoshop on my laptop, which was quite difficult for me. 

Other programmes I used were:

Facebook:

To get my target audience reaction of what they thought of my magazine, I received some comments on what people thought of my magazine but it was not as helpful as the video. 

Flickr:

I used this programme to annotate my magazine however, it was difficult for me to use as I didn't know what to do. 

Windows Moviemaker:
I used this programme to edit the video's of people's reaction to my magazine and make it more presentable. It was fairly easy to use as it was straightforward.

Windows Publisher:

I used windows publisher to write up my musical article into columns. I did this as I wanted to not have any grammatical errors and give it a professional look, after  then copied it into Photoshop.

Photoshop 7.01

Photoshop 7.01 was a programme that I used a lot, I used it to make my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I also used Photoshop to manipulate my original pictures for example cropping, colour boost or generally changing the pictures. An advantage of using Photoshop was that it made my magazine look professional and was easy to use when I knew how to use the programme. A disadvantage to Photoshop was that it was time consuming as I had to learn how to use everything from scratch.  

Photoshop evidence: 

Manipulation on Photoshop:

This is evidence of how I have manipulated the photo's on Photoshop so I am able to change the pictures to fit the Indie genre.  

Here I'm changing the title, as I didn't want the black background included in my magazine.