Q6. What have I learnt about

technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

During the time I was making my music

magazine, I had to use Photoshop, this

is a software that helps produce

magazine of all sorts. It was really

helpful and helped me a lot, without it I

wouldn’t have made a good music

magazine.

When you first enter

Photoshop you are

introduced to a page that

looks like this.

At first this was very confusing

because all I saw was a bunch of

tools and no where to start my

magazine.

This bit is important because its

where we decide what kind of paper

we are going to use and what part of

the magazine we are going to start

off with but we had to start off with

the front page of our magazine and

as you can see we had to choose

international paper with a size of A4.

This is how it looks nice after you

have put in the setting you want

and then pressed ok. After this bit

you are ready to start our front

page of our magazine.

Without theses'

function I wouldn’t be

able to create a

magazine. They are

all important and they

helped in relation in

making my magazine

creative.

This is where I change the colour

of a certain thing, it is also where I

can put effects on images or text.

This is really good because with

effects on certain things, it gives it

a different meaning and can

connote many things, the good

thing about that is that it makes

the audience more involved and a

better understanding.

This section is where I can

organize things. For example

if I wanted a text behind an

image all I do is drag the text

below the image. This was

really helpful because if it

wasn’t there I will be confuse

as what is what and it will

mess my magazine. It just

keeps my magazine tidy.

This was one of the fun and creative part about doing my magazine.

This is the colour picker. It consists of a range of different colours.

This was important and useful for my magazine. Without a colour

picker my magazine would be plain and boring and it won’t attract

any readers. I think colour is one of the main feature that attracts the

readers.

The colour picker also has a range of the same colour for example

like above, the pink changes from white, light pink, dark pink, pinkish

purple to black, again this is good because if a colour is too bright or

too dark you can pick in-between and that is what I had to do a lot

because I wanted the colour of my magazine to be just right.

This is the shape tool. This

was another important

feature used for my

magazine. Without the

shape tool my magazine

wouldn’t follow the codes

and conventions

You press the shape

tool and you decide

what shape you want.Then you hold down

anywhere on the paper

and you drag depending

on how big you want the

shape to be.

When you have

finished that you can

change the colour of

the shape and you

can also put effects

on it too.

During my time doing my Music Magazine I didn’t

have any technology obstructing or limiting my

creative process because to make a music

magazine was in Photoshop but I know that if I

knew more about Photoshop my magazine will be

much better because I will have more creative

elements in my magazine.

But overall I think without Photoshop my

magazine wouldn’t look like a Music Magazine.