What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this

project?

The first thing I learnt to do on Photoshop was edit my pictures to make them look better, with brightness, contrast, hue and saturation. On my magazine, I edited the picture by making the image brighter and lowering the contrast to make the features more prominent. I altered with the “black and white” feature to make other colours stand out more, for example the reds and the blues in the image.

For the masthead of my magazine and the title on the contents page, I chose two different fonts from dafont.com. Before I chose the actual texts I used, I played around on the website by typing in the words and scrolling through all the different options they gave for fonts. I had to print screen the image, and paste it onto my image on Photoshop. Then, I cropped the image and highlighted all the areas which were still white so the gaps in the letters were transparent and you could see the background of the image through them.

The magnetic lasso tool allowed me to cut the backgrounds from my images so I could place them onto other backgrounds. I only used this tool on my contents page as the page is blank. To do this, the cursor has to be dragged around the main image and once it has around 5 points, it automatically cuts the shape of the image you are lassoing. However, as the image below shows, it does take a bit of precision or else you cut parts of your image out.

When I was exporting my magazine into InDesign, I had to use the Rectangular Frame Tool so that the image could be placed in there.

To export the image, you had to click file > place and insert the image into the square box.

My finished product is now imported into InDesign.