Question 3: What have you learnt about technologies from

constructing your product?

The different technologies I've used are:

• Indesign• Photoshop• Camera• Blogger• PowerPoint• Slideshare• Prezzi

IndesignOn Indesign I learnt how to make a

magazine from scratch and how real it I can make it look compared to a real magazine. I also learnt that you could use other programs as well as Indesign at the same time. For example i could edit pictures on Photoshop and place them on to Indesign as well as making tittles for the magazine on PowerPoint and placing them on Indesign.

Photoshop:I learnt how to remove the background from a

picture on Photoshop instead of just cropping out as much of the background as possible which was helpful for my magazine because it made it look more real. I also learnt how to cover spots, bags under the eyes etc with it still looking natural and how to add things to my model like lip colour but making the colour of her lips the exact same colour as the top she is wearing which added effect to the picture as it made her look more like a real model as her face was perfect and her lips the same colours as something else in her outfit.

Camera

I learnt how to use a professional camera and the correct equipment for professional photographs. I had never used a proper camera before taking the pictures for my magazine, only digital cameras so i learnt how to use the basics including flash, light changes. I also learnt how to use the equipment that effect the lighting and where and how they should be placed and the effect it has on the look of the pictures, for example if I placed them right the models face looked brighter and I then didn't need to edit the brightness as much on Photoshop.

Blogger

Blogger taught me how to be able to have everything in one neat and organised place. It also taught me that people from all over the world can see my posts and I can see there's and they can also comment as well. Blog posts also come up in the Google search engine when you type something in that relates to the blog post or picture which I didn't realize happened until I saw it on Google from another student studying media.

PowerPoint

I used mainly PowerPoint word art for the titles for my magazine. However before using PowerPoint for my magazine I didn't know you could have the word art different colours on the outside and the inside. I also learnt how to change the weight of the word art. This was particularly good when I wanted the same colour words but wanted one title to look more important than the other so I made the weight larger of the one that I wanted to stand out more.

SlideShare

SlideShare taught me the same sort of things blogger did. It taught me that I could upload presentations and anyone could view them and i could view there's. This also helped when doing my magazine because there was examples of presentations on SlideShare that I looked at to give me inspiration and help me have a better idea of what to do.

Prezzi

Prezzi taught me how to do a neat and different presentation. It was another website, like SlideShare and blogger that I had never used before starting my magazine. I learnt about the different presentation styles and how many things you can do with Prezzi. Prezzi was easy to use which surprised me as it looked complicated when I started using it.

Question 3: What have you learnt about technologies from

constructing your product?