Evaluation: Question 6

What have you learnt about techniques from the process of constructing this product?

Adobe Photoshop CS6• Photoshop was the main software that I used throughout the

construction of my magazine pages. I used it to design and create the layout of the pages, edit my chosen pictures and create text to go into my magazine. Before starting my media studies course, I had no knowledge of Photoshop and had no experience of using it, this meant that I had to learn and pick up techniques from various sources, such as instructions from my teacher and through watching tutorials on websites, such as YouTube. After a while, I was able to understand more how the software worked and how to construct my final magazine pages, so that they looked like a professional standard.

• Ways in which I was able to give my magazine a professional look was through using simple things on Photoshop, such as placing and ordering selected parts. This was evident as the image of my model is in front of my masthead. This is something that I didn’t know how to do prior to my media course, but after learning it, I was able to put it into use and work it into my coursework.

Other technologies• Photoshop was the main technology that I used, but I also

used other platforms, such as websites like YouTube. I have used YouTube in a number of ways, I have watched video tutorials on it that instructed and informed on how to make the most of software, such as Photoshop. I also used it as a source of different ways to present my work, such as my group discussion about a range of magazines. Another website that I frequently used throughout my coursework was Slideshare. Slideshare was a website that we found that enabled us to upload a PowerPoint Presentation that we had created onto the internet for people to have easy access to. A final tool that I used to create my coursework was a website called Voki, this was a site that let you type in text to a text box and then the site created it into a version in which a computer spoke it back to you, I felt that this was useful because it meant that not everything on my blog was in a written form.