Q6) what have you learnt about technologies

Q6) what have you learnt about technologies

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  Q6) What haveyou learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? To construct my magazine I used Photoshop for my magazine front cover, this allowed my magazine to look professional. I was able to experiment with different tools which helped me get an idea of what I wanted my magazine to look like. Also Photoshop allowed me to insert text which was vital for my magazine as I had to include captions, cover lines etc. I feel that through the process of constructing my music magazine, I have learnt a great deal about the different technologies involved in the creation of a product like this, in the past I have had experience of using a camera, however for this project I used I DSLR camera there was much more to think about this time. I had to think about lighting and background as well as about what the model had to do. I learnt about when the flash was necessary and when it was necessary to take a portrait or landscape photo. I was lucky that I had a 12 mega pixel camera to use because it gave me really good quality images to use and I found that it was unnecessary to edit them too much. I also found that I really got to experiment a lot with Photoshop on this task. I had used the program before when I edited some photos for my media course in secondary last year but I hadn't used it in a huge amount of depth so I found that many features were quite new and difficult to me when I began to create my music magazine. I found it interesting to edit the page layout and use features such as drop-shadows which I'd never used before. I did really enjoy using Photoshop because it allowed me to make my magazine to look professional and ita was a challenge and a change to using the usual Windows programmes such as Microsoft word etc. I also learnt a lot about online programs such as Blogger because I had never used it before and so I had to quickly get to grips with it in order to make good progress with my project. Once I got into it, I found it very easy to use and I think I'll probably use it in the future. I encountered other programs that I had never used such as Prezi, SlideShare and Xtranormal. Alideshare has allowed me to upload my presentations on to blogger I found them all very simple to use and I think they were a very effective way to illustrate different aspects of my magazine project. I enjoyed using them and I think that I picked up a lot of useful experience that I can employ in the future.