What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing this product?

From the process of constructing these magazine pages I have learnt how to develop my skills when using Photoshop. I did this by creating my whole front cover on Photoshop. However I didn’t use Photoshop to create my front cover into a simply one. But I added effects to my images by optimizing the background and picture’s lightness and contrast.

I then used other effects on my picture and background by changing the levels.

Not only did I use Photoshop to edit my front cover picture and background but I also edited my masthead by adding effects on it to make it bolder and stand out more from the page. I also developed my coverlines on my front cover by using the colour yellow (which hasn’t been used anywhere else on my page). The reason that I did this was to catch my audiences eye.

To edit the text to give it effects, I firstly clicked on the layer, and then I clicked on certain effects to make it appeal more to my target audience.

Below shows what my picture looked like before and after I changed the effects and levels of it.

Before

After

I also developed my Photoshop skills by drawing different coloured rectangular boxes on the page, and then I saved the document and imported it into Quark to create a background, I did this for my contents page, below shows what it looked like when just the imported background was on the page.

In addition, from the process of constructing my magazine, I have also developed my skills on quark as before I stated the media course, I had never been on quark before.

Furthermore, I have also developed my skill in other technologies in the process of constructing my magazine, such as learning how to use the DSLR cameras and I have also developed my skills in new software that I hadn’t used before.