EVALUATION6. What have you learnt about

technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a program that I have used throughout this task. I used it when drafting the magazine and I also used it when constructing the final magazine.

Despite the fact that it was a program that I already was familiar with before the task, this task has definitely improved my knowledge of the program.

The techniques that I learnt from this task include: increasing the brightness of an image, changing the vibrancy of a picture, and adding effects to pieces of texts.

The different versions of Photoshop that I used throughout the task include: Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS6.

Prezi

Prezi was a program that I never knew existed before I started the task, however know it is a program that I like using and a program that I will most definitely use in the future.

It is a much better alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. Its graphics are much better and its free. It was also able to be presented straight onto the Wikispace, this meant that I didn’t need to take screenshots of it.

I used Prezi to do my genre research and my audience research. It allowed me to present my findings in a nice presentable way.

SLR Camera

For some of my photos I used an SLR camera, this was the first time I had used a camera of the sort. At first I found it very challenging, this is because I never realised that you had to adjust the focus before taking the picture, but after realising this I was able to take some good photos, as is evident on the Wikispace.

Another problem I had to overcome was with the zoom. I didn’t know how to zoom in and zoom out. However, once I had learnt how to, I was able to take good photos with varied zoom levels.

Wikispace

Furthermore, Wikispace was an online forum where we had to showcase all the work that we had done. I had heard about it before we started the task but I hadn't really used it.

When I started using it for the task I was surprised at how easy it was to navigate. The features were reminiscent of blogger which I was really familiar with. So basically whenever I uploaded work onto the Wikispace, it felt as if I was blogging.

There were a few obstacles I had to overcome when using the Wikispace however. Sometimes other peoples work would randomly appear on my Wikispace, this was because we had given our files the same name, I overcame this barrier by putting my name at the end of my files so that it would not get mixed up with other peoples files.

Publisher

Finally, Microsoft Publisher is also program that I used during this task. I used it when making my Double Page Spread Draft. I chose to use publisher instead of Photoshop because I felt that the publisher fonts were better.

My knowledge of Publisher was sufficient for me to be able to produce a high quality double page spread.

The techniques I used in publisher included: cropping, removing backgrounds, and editing images.

I used the cropping tool when I had to make the image into the DPS page format and I had to edit the image of Lex Luger in order for it to cover the whole page.