What have you learnt about technologies from the process

of constructing this product?By Kiera Garrison

Technology I created my front cover and contents page on Adobe

Photoshop. It helped me to create backgrounds and put effects on my text by using the blending option. I found this very useful because I was able to create different layers which helped my put all parts that are on my front cover and contents together but still being able to edit every little detail. I was able to crop around images that didn’t have a suitable background to keep, it also helped make the image stand out alone which made the model seem like the topic of the magazine. To make things more visible than others I was bale to change the opacity which enabled me to make things more see through.

I used Adobe InDesign to create my double page spread. This helped me layout all parts of this page how I wanted and I was able to see if the pages worked and looked realistic.

Technology I have used wordpress to create my own blog space for

other peers to view what I have done as it allows me to post all my recent work on. I am able to customize it to the type of genre of my magazine and it allows me to create separate pages for different types of work.

I have use Slideshare and Prezi as they allow me to present my work in a different way which shows of my excellent ICT skills.

As I created some of my text on the internet it is made my research skills a lot better as I was able to find a website to which helped me create the text that I needed which meant that the text looked more like the genre of the music as well as the masthead which looked very abstract.

Before and After front cover picture using Adobe Photoshop

This is the image I used on my front cover. As I used Photoshop to edit this image it allowed me to erase thing, crop around the image and change the colour of the image. To crop around the image I used a pen tool which allowed my to go around the edge of the model and created a line, to delete the surround I inversed the selected line and pressed Ctrl +D which left me with just the model alone. To erase certain parts of the image such as the bra straps I used the smudge tool when eventually got rid of this. I used this tool because I was comfortable with it which is why it was successful. To change the colour of the image I had to click on image on the bar at the top of the Photoshop document, then adjustments, then curves. When this box came up I was able to move something which either made the image darker or lighter, I made the image darker as it made the model darker which made the colours on her dress look brighter. I also changed the colour of her lips by using the pen tool, colouring them in, changing an option to Linear burn and changed the opacity to about 25%.

Before and After contents page and double page spread pictures using Adobe Photoshop

To change these image I cropped out the background and made the lips have more colour. I cropped out the background by using the pen tool and I made the lips have more colour by using the pen tool and coloured over the models lips red, changed an option to Linear burn and changed the opacity to about 55%. I also flipped the contents page image horizontally as I felt that it didn’t fit the page correctly in its original form.

The different fonts I created using the internet.

As you can see there are a range of fonts here that I have created on the internet. I think that they are all very successful as they suit the genre of music my magazine is which is R&B. I also think that because there is a range of fonts which makes it more eye catching for the audience as they will be interested to look closely at these fonts to read what they say which will make them interested in buying it. From looking at the progression I have made through using all this technology I was able to find the right way of using the technology which helped me with this successful outcome.

To conclude,I feel that I have learnt so much about

different technology. By constantly working on my different products I was able to learn how to use all different types of technologies and how to use the tools involved. I have learnt a lot but if I carried on practicing using these different technologies I think my skills would further improve.