What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
During the production of my magazine I have learnt so many things, first of all I could not wait to start the main task; the music magazine because I felt that seen as when I did my college magazine a majority of things went well, However I had never made a music magazine before and my photos for my college magazine was not very professional so I felt that some problems may occur. I knew that this was my own product so I could be as imaginative and creative as possible, and try and experiment different areas and images.
During the duration of my music magazine, many products of technology were used for example: digital cameras, computers, Internet and programs (adobe Photoshop CS3). The first thing I began using was the digital camera. I used this to capture the images that I was going to use in my magazine. This was not the first time I had used the camera but normally I would just take pictures for the fun of it, but this allowed me to think about the image itself.
When I was taking the photo of the artist and images that would be used on each page, it made me consider how each person would be positioned, For example would it be mid shot
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or close up, also it allowed me to consider how the lightening of the area would be best suited.The camera used was a Canon Eos 400d digital camera.
During the production of my magazine I have learnt so many things, first of all I could not wait to start the main task; the music magazine because I felt that seen as when I did my college magazine a majority of things went well, However I had never made a music magazine before and my photos for my college magazine was not very professional so I felt that some problems may occur. I knew that this was my own product so I could be as imaginative and creative as possible, and try and experiment different areas and images.
During the duration of my music magazine, many products of technology were used for example: digital cameras, computers, Internet and programs (adobe Photoshop CS3). The first thing I began using was the digital camera. I used this to capture the images that I was going to use in my magazine. This was not the first time I had used the camera but normally I would just take pictures for the fun of it, but this allowed me to think about the image itself.
When I was taking the photo of the artist and images that would be used on each page, it made me consider how each person would be positioned, For example would it be mid shot
, long short .jpg)
or close up, also it allowed me to consider how the lightening of the area would be best suited.The camera used was a Canon Eos 400d digital camera.
Once my images had been taken, I was able to use Photoshop CS3, this was a program that allowed me to edit and improve the appearance and quality of my work. At first I found it quite tricky to use, there was so many interesting tools and I wanted to test out all of them to see the effect it would have on my magazine, however after experimenting with it i started to find it straight forward and quite simple.I used this program to modify my images; it has a variety of tools which make changes to the images easier. For example I used the magnetic lasso tool this allowed me to go around the artists and erase out all the unwanted parts. I felt that it would be more professional if I erased the wall that Valentine was standing against. For the little bits that I could not take of using the magnetic lasso tool, I used the background eraser which was much easier. There was many other tools I used such as creating new layers, croping, magic wand tool, and adding effects such as blur, sepia, styles such as drop, inner shadow.
This is an example of me changing the layer styles of my front cover.
Furthermore during the process of making this blog in which was used to publish my music magazine, I improved on my blogging skills, as until we did the college magazine I was unaware that blogger existed. It was very confusing at first but as I got use to it, I learnt how to make new post, save as drafts, change the colour of writing and how to upload images. Uploading images was the most confusing as in the beginning I spent a long time trying to upload, each time I tried an error will occur, until I found out that you could only upload files that are JPEG, but I was trying to upload them as PDF which is why it didn't work.
Overall during the production of my music magazine, I think I learnt a lot about different technologies and the way they work.
This is an example of me changing the layer styles of my front cover.Furthermore during the process of making this blog in which was used to publish my music magazine, I improved on my blogging skills, as until we did the college magazine I was unaware that blogger existed. It was very confusing at first but as I got use to it, I learnt how to make new post, save as drafts, change the colour of writing and how to upload images. Uploading images was the most confusing as in the beginning I spent a long time trying to upload, each time I tried an error will occur, until I found out that you could only upload files that are JPEG, but I was trying to upload them as PDF which is why it didn't work.
Overall during the production of my music magazine, I think I learnt a lot about different technologies and the way they work.
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