what have you learnt about technologies?

Question6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product

what have you learnt about technologies?

To answer this question I am going to show the key steps when creating my front cover page going over the key tools I used the most and the main editing involved. I used two programmes which were Adobe Photoshop and Adobe In Design.

what have you learnt about technologies?

The first thing I did was edit the image to make it brighter and eye catching. By doing this it makes my magazine more professional. I used Photoshop to do this. I did this by clicking on image, then adjustments and brightness and contrast.

what have you learnt about technologies?

After I did this I experiment with different fonts on Photoshop. Once I found one I liked I edited it by adding stroke, colours, and changing the size etc… For the title of my magazine I applied many effects which is shown below.

what have you learnt about technologies?

I used many different tools to construct my magazine one of which is called the crop tool. This enabled me to get rid of any unwanted parts of my image. Once I had done this I could resize and position it without losing any quality of the image. I also the free transform tool to change the size of my image without distorting it.

Crop tool

Before crop

After crop

what have you learnt about technologies?

Other key things I did when creating my front cover was positioning every to my liking and keeping the layout as professional as I could. I used the rules of thirds when deciding where to place things and I often had to use the resize tool and move tool to do this.

Rule of thirds.

what have you learnt about technologies?

I used the colour tool to pick the perfect colour I wanted to use. Photoshop has a range of different colours I could choose from which was a good thing when creating my front cover. I did this by clicking on this tool.

what have you learnt about technologies?

I have learnt a lot about Adobe InDesign. For my induction magazine I did not make a double page spread so I didn’t use InDesign at all. Therefore I feel like I have learnt the most from this programme. It’s was fairly difficult to use at the beginning but I got use to it. I learnt many new things such as drop caps, and organising text into columns. I also imported images and text from Photoshop into this programme. My whole double page spread was created by this and my front cover and contents was made on Photoshop.

what have you learnt about technologies?

To conclude before the production of my magazine I was fairly familiar on how to use Adobe Photoshop as I have used in before and in the induction task. I did learn things during the time making my front cover and contents page. Things such as shortcuts on the key board to do things such as free transform allowed me to work productivity and quicker. I have learnt many new effects which I didn’t know before and I learnt how to organise layers. However I feel I have learnt the most from Adobe In Design as I was new to it. While making my double page spread I found out some aspects of it was similar to Adobe Photoshop but I also learnt many new things such as making the correct dimensions when making my page, inserting text and images which was different to Photoshop. I also learnt how to add drop caps, columns, edit images and texts.

In Conclusion…