Main Task: Evaluation Question 6

I learnt many things about technology that helped construct my magazine. Firstly through the process of constructing the magazine I learnt how to use a Canon E0S 400D camera to take all my images. Although I used this camera for my preliminary task I found that with the main task I learnt more about the camera and how to use it to create my required effect. Most of my pictures were taken in a studio to help give it a more professional look and give it the consistency to emulate how real magazines look like. In order to create my desired effect and good quality pictures I had to be aware of time, and how bright my location would be. As I was using a Canon E0S 400D camera to take all my images, it was easier for me to take good quality images as I could use the flash to enhance the quality.

The main problem I had whilst using the camera was keeping it in focus and steady whilst using it, as I did not have a tripod it was very difficult to achieve this so the pictures would often turn out to be out of focus but after I got used to it, my pictures became better and looked more professional.

Another technology I found I had learnt a lot from is the use of Photoshop as my skills on Photoshop was very limited before the process of constructing my magazine. I used Photoshop CS3, to construct my music magazine, this is because I could manipulate my images to create the intend effect. I learnt how to use the stroke tool which helped most of my cover lines stand out as my background and image was quite dark.
I also learnt that Photoshop was very useful in creating JPEG files which was needed to upload images to my blog, as Blogger does not accept images unless a JPEG file and uploaded. I used Photoshop to convert my graphs to JPEG. Whilst constructing my magazine I also learnt how to extract and install a font into Photoshop so I could use it; something I have never done before. I discovered that this was a very straight forward process and easy to use as all I to do in extract the file once downloaded and open up Photoshop. This helped massively as without it my magazine would probably not have the look I intended for it.

I also learnt how to use shapes to help some text stand out in the magazine, and also I learnt how to use the free transform tool to help enlarge or rotate a text or image, in order to do this I had to hold onto Ctrl+t.