Evaluation- slide 10 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Through constructing this product i have learnt so much about technologies especially photoshop and blogging. I now feel confident when using both and will carry these skills forward when doing Media Studies next year and hopefully i'll be able to develop my skills further.



Firstly starting with blogging which was something i had never done before, i had viewed blogs online but never created one. When we first started out doing this in September blogging was completely new to me as you can tell from my first picture. my first blog was very simple, no pictures included just plain writing, it looks quite boring. After looking at other peoples blogs i saw that there was much more you could do with them. I found out how to add pictures and how to c hange the writing etc. These new skills helped me to create a more professional looking blog.



Secondly photoshop is something that i started off hating but i have grown to love. At first i could not get to grips with it at all. Looking at the front cover of my preliminary task it is quite clear to see that i had no idea what i was doing. But after being very persistant i have come to learn so much about photoshop. I started out with the text slowly learning how to do different things with it. I used the help section on photoshop which i found really useful as it talks you through it in a simple way. I also watched some videos on youtube which helped when it came to editing my pictures. I now know how to create loads of different text styles, i can change the colour, the size, the background shading i can even create a glow around the edge which you'll see in my magazine. Next i moved on to editing my pictures, i learned how to change the lighting to make the photos more clear. Also i learned to change the colour of particular parts on the picture, on my front cover picture the hair accessory the girls are wearing started out blue i changed it to purple so that it would match the colour scheme. In the picture at the top of the slide i put a boarder around it to make it stand out. I also edited the picture to make it look sort of worn, i believe this gave it a good effect and made it look different to your everyday photo. Using the layers was something i also mastered after much practice, being able to put one layer over the next so that it is on top of previous layers. Cropping, feathering and the magnetic lasso tool were also things that i mastered using on photshop.