What ive Learnt about the technologies used

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

The technologies I have learned to use through the completion of my media product have been Photoshop, the camera I have used and blogger online. By using Photoshop for making my magazine I have learned new techniques for doing things on there for example creating a background colour behind an image, and layering up different sections and creating boarders through the stroke method. I also learned the best ways to take sections from one image and placing it on another, by either using the magic wand tool to quickly highlight an area, or by using the magnetic lasso tool to go around the bit you would like carefully and then cutting it out of that image. With my camera I have learned the best ways to make a portrait image of a person, and I have also learned how to take a light trail photograph like the one I have used as an album cover on the contents page. You can do this by using a long exposure time for the image while light sources move in the framing. Before I started the music magazine and all of the research I have done, I had never used logger before, but now I know how to upload work, edit work once it is on there, change background images on the blogger sight and change sizes of sections. Blogger creates the chance to upload work to be marked without paper making it impossible to lose work as it will be on your blog. It also means I can edit it from anywhere.

The advantages of using Photoshop compared to other editing programs is that you can use lots of different tools to create different effects, like the layer mask and gradient tool to make the image go from black and white to colour. A disadvantage to Photoshop is that if you have never used it before you might not know how to use it properly and some of the stuff you create might not be as good as it potentially could be.

An advantage to using a site like blogger is you can upload from anywhere and then you can edit work from anywhere. This means that you can finish work that you don’t quite get done in lessons, once again a disadvantage is that blogger does take a bit of getting use to and you might not know how to organise work properly so it becomes quite difficult to find work at the beginning if you have never used it.