6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have found that I have learnt a lot about different technologies from the process of constructing this magazine. I used my digital photography skills for my photo shoot. I used a variety of shots like close-ups, mid and longs shots so that it was more interesting. I used Photoshop to manipulate my pictures; I cropped them by altering the framing to make it look more dynamic and to focus on particular aspects. I didn’t want the framing to be too perfect as that is not what I wanted the magazine to be. Also when cropping I managed to edit out distracting elements. For example I didn’t always need all the grass surrounding the figure so I cut it out, in doing so I hoped it made the picture look more professional. In Photoshop I also used different saturations to change the lighting of my photos, it was important for the pictures to be vibrant and clear to go with the band personalities. I found that some of my photos were too dark, for example the original picture of the figure standing on the see saw was too dark by lightening it, it looked more striking. I tried a new skill with a cutting tool on Photoshop, i did it to remove the irrelevant backgrounds from around the pictures, again it worked successfully making the picture stand out. I also used the blur tool in the background, to make the figures stand out.

With this picture, I cut around the figure removing the background.

In this picture, I cropped it and put it in black and white to give the magazine variety and age.

With these pictures, I altered the the saturation to make the picture look brighter and more interesting. I also cropped out excess that wasn't needed.

With this picture, I have cropped and brighten.

I found that the picture beforehand look dull and was hard to see, so I lightened and brightened on Photoshop. I also cropped the excess of the fields out.

I cropped this picture taking out irrelevant background

I lighten and cropped this picture

I constructed my magazine on publisher; I have used it before but only for simple things like posters. Designing the magazine can be differcult especially when it comes to adding in text and pictures together as I wanted to make sure the layout looks evenly laid out. New things that I learnt about were how to put all the elements of the magazine together and where best to put them. I used the process of trial and error for example when it came to positioning my pull quote “it was about time we had a decent girl rock band”; I had to think about where the text will lie around it. I originally had it in text wrapping tight and the text was all over the place and difficult to read, I changed it to square so it fitted nicely around the main text. I don’t think that I have learnt a huge amount when it came to using publisher as I learnt most of it when making the prelim task. Another new technology I used was dafont.com where you can access lots of different styled texts so you can get away from word art. I used it on my Eliza Crosses double page masthead and decorated it in paint; I found that having this made the magazine look more professional and graphic.