What have you learnt about technology from constructing your

product?

Sam Jones

Indesign

Before I used InDesign, I didn’t know anything about it. I was on a 0/10 level of knowledge. Now I can make pages for my magazine, upload pictures, add text and position them where I want it to go. I also learnt from InDesign that you can add shapes and text boxes on the page and arrange them to go to the front of the back, allowing pictures and text to overlap.

PhotoshopFrom using Adobe Photoshop, I have learnt that you can change the brightness and contrast of your pictures, and how to add effects of your choice onto it. Also by including layers, it adds more detail and lets you layer your pictures over each other to create a realistic effect. You can also crop pictures and make the background all one colour, which is what I done when making my poster on my double page spread. I used the rubber tool to make the background all white for some of my pictures. I done this with my professional pictures and I done this by using the magic wand tool (this selects everything of one colour) and then either ‘fill’ or use the ‘paintbrush’ tool.

PreziFrom prezi, I learnt that it is similar to power point. I can put text anywhere on the slide, and when zoomed in, it comes out clearer. It is like a big brainstorm but has separate bubbles for different ideas. I have never seen prezi before, so is a new type of technology that I have learnt about. I have also learnt how to embed (share) the slideshow onto my blog for people to see, rather than just post the link onto my blog.

Camera/lighting

From using the camera equipment and using the lighting, I learnt that there is a variety of different techniques I can use to make my pictures get taken in good quality. I used the Nikon digital SLR to take my photos of the girls to put onto my magazine and used the white backdrop and studio lights to add the brightness effect. When I used this technology I learnt how to position the lights and take pictures at the correct angle.

Microsoft power pointWhen making my magazine, powerpoint helped me when I wanted to save pictures. As well as using photo shop to create this powerpoint, I used powerpoint to copy print screens of my pages on, and then save them as a picture so I could then put them onto my blog. Examples of when I done this was when I print screened my logo and saved it to my documents. From this I learnt you can save a picture on powerpoint as any type of image, from a JPEG to a GIF.

BloggerBlogger is the main technology I use In AS media when creating my magazine. On blogger I put all the drafts on my magazine, added changes that I made, essays that I have written and blog entries of what I have done good and bad. From blogger, I have also learnt how I can add entries at any time or date to put them in order so it in in chronological order all the way through my coursework.