From the process of creating my music magazine I have learnt a lot of skills when using Adobe Photoshop. I have also learnt to use various editing websites, animoto, using cameras, and photography equipment in the photography studio. Before I began creating my magazine I had a basic knowledge of these, but now I have completed the magazine and I look back on what I have learnt in the process, I have learnt an exquisite amount of skills. I can now take a lot more photos that look more professional, transfer them onto a computer and then begin editing on Photoshop. I can use various tools on Photoshop to fix images I have taken to the exact standard I want them to be. I can put together a magazine using Photoshop, and add in my own fonts, images, colours and logo’s to make it my own.
With my new knowledge of these gadgets and programmes I can produce a realistic looking magazine. I have learnt that modern day technology is a huge part of creating media products, and without it the media industry would suffer. The technologies I have used can be difficult to use but can also be reasonably easy to get the hang of.
Photoshop was a huge part of my magazine process. What I learnt during using photoshop, was basically the entire concept of it. I'd never previously used it before, and I found it relatively easy to use once you knew how to. It helped me to create the entire magazine, putting on text, arranging and cutting out images and overall creating my magazine.
I have previously used cameras for various other things, so it wasn't difficult for me to understand how to use the camera. The part I found most difficult with this was actually taking the right photo. I took hundreds of photos to limit down to 3 for my final magazine. I sometimes struggled to catch my models positioning and expressions. I did eventually learn a little on the matter, as I ended up successfully finding images perfect for my magazine.
Flickr was a website I have never previously used before. I knew the basic concept of using Flickr, which was to share photos to other photo sharing users. I used flickr to upload every image I had taken from my shoot, and linked the flickr format straight to my blog. At first, I didn't know how to do this, so I did get help. But I now know how to use Flickr in a reasonable manor.
I used Animoto during the research and planning stages of my magazine task. I used this to do a 25 word pitch showing the basic audience, price, genre, theme etc. of my magazine, which I then posted onto my blog. I found it easy to get the hang of and it was fun and creative to use as well.
Ipiccy is a photo editing website I found during the process of my magazine design. I used this to slightly manipulate the appearance of my model photos. It's a simple site to use and it doesn't cost anything either. I think this was a good find for my magazine process as again, it allowed me to easily lighten colours of photos, get ride of shadows and slightly airbrush the models.
Photoshop was a huge part of my magazine process. What I learnt during using photoshop, was basically the entire concept of it. I'd never previously used it before, and I found it relatively easy to use once you knew how to. It helped me to create the entire magazine, putting on text, arranging and cutting out images and overall creating my magazine.
I have previously used cameras for various other things, so it wasn't difficult for me to understand how to use the camera. The part I found most difficult with this was actually taking the right photo. I took hundreds of photos to limit down to 3 for my final magazine. I sometimes struggled to catch my models positioning and expressions. I did eventually learn a little on the matter, as I ended up successfully finding images perfect for my magazine.
Flickr was a website I have never previously used before. I knew the basic concept of using Flickr, which was to share photos to other photo sharing users. I used flickr to upload every image I had taken from my shoot, and linked the flickr format straight to my blog. At first, I didn't know how to do this, so I did get help. But I now know how to use Flickr in a reasonable manor.
I used Animoto during the research and planning stages of my magazine task. I used this to do a 25 word pitch showing the basic audience, price, genre, theme etc. of my magazine, which I then posted onto my blog. I found it easy to get the hang of and it was fun and creative to use as well.
Ipiccy is a photo editing website I found during the process of my magazine design. I used this to slightly manipulate the appearance of my model photos. It's a simple site to use and it doesn't cost anything either. I think this was a good find for my magazine process as again, it allowed me to easily lighten colours of photos, get ride of shadows and slightly airbrush the models.
think about all the different technolies that you used and comment on what you learnt when using them to make your product.
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