Q6 WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

I learned a great deal about Photoshop as I was not familiar with it before hand. I used adobe Photoshop CS3 it is an advance editing software. This software helped me to do two things, firstly it enabled me to create and edit my media product. When creating my media product I used tools such as the spot healing brush tool to improve the appearance of the models and blending options to lower the opacity of the images as well as the horizontal type tool for the purpose of text. I used the brush tool in order colour various components of the magazine in my chosen colour which is purple. Secondly it helped me to convert files, for example from a Photoshop file to a JPEG file as Photoshop files can not be placed on blogger.

I used the search the Google search engine in order to provide me with various music magazines which I then used for my textual analysis. Google has a large image database which I could view a vast number of professional magazines. In terms of research Google provided me with web search to find a range of different publishing companies. It is hard to put a number on the amount of images Google have stored which is way I used this search engine in order to supply me with images relevant to my coursework.







Before hand I have already used the Canon EOS 400D 10.1 megapixel camera so I did not learn anything relatively new about it, however when taking the picture for my magazine there was a need for lighting to improve my images, I learned as you take a picture using the cannon it had a sensor on the top of it which gives out inferred readings, the camera the sends a reading to the other inferred sensor which then makes the light flash. This all happens in a few seconds which means as the picture is taken with the cannon a flash is given off at the right time. This light that is given off has the ability to lighten a picture in the right places depending on where it is located.
I a used software on the computer called Microsoft word 2007 this is where I typed my work before it was transferred to blogger. Word was used frequently in order to finish my work and it has a feature called spell check which prevented me from making a lot of grammatical errors as well as providing word count to track how much I was writing. The similar software before, however I have not used the 2007 version, this version allowed me to change the font quickly and easily. The software also provided me with a dictionary to find or check any words I was pondering on.