Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From the process of making my music magazine I  have learnt so many things about technology which  I use to help me construct my magazine. Firstly the first bit of technology that I used was the Canon camera which I used to help take my images. For the preliminary task I had problems getting to grips with how to use the camera but the main task I was really comfortable with the camera and took all of my pictures in one location other then one of pictures. This meant that my images would look as professional as they can be to help attract the target audience and make my magazine more professional and appealing as I used the flash to enhance the quality of my images. One of the  main problems I encountered with using the camera was the getting the red dot from the camera on my subjects eye to get a better focus which gives me a more clearer image, my subject was standing at arms length away from the a Bowen Gemini Esprit Gm500 60cm softbox which uses radio trigger which meant when I pressed the button on the Canon EOS 400D Digital camera radio wave was sent to the softbox which then produced the flash to enhance the quality of images with the shutter speed being at 1/200 of a second with the focal lenght being 32mm.

  



Another technonlogy that I used to help contrust my music magazine was photoshop CS3, but before this process my photoshop skills were very limited as I didnt really know how to use photoshop alot. I used this program as it was easier to edit and make changes to my images without causing to many problems and this program is designed to edit images and make images more professional.

Seeing as I took high quality pictures I didnt have to manipulate my images which meant that I didnt really use many tools as my magazine was based around the high standard of my images.

However I did use some tools such as the rectangle tool to highlight the important content on my front cover and to make the content standout.

Another technology I learnt was how to use  effects which were used  to make my work more professional and it was a way of me attracting my target audience and it made my magazine stand out. I used all different effects such as Bevel and Emboss, contour, stroke and even gradient overlay. It was quite easy using this tool but the difficult part was getting the right amount of stroke to help the content stand out as if it was too big it would ruin the design of my magazine and if it was too small it wouldnt stand out enough.



I also learnt that photoshop was good for changing files into JPEG files which meant I could upload my work onto blogger as, blogger only accepts JPEG files, this could be easily done by photoshop.

while also constructing my magazine Photoshop allowed me to upload fonts which meant my magazine could look more appealling and attract my target audience as without these fonts my magazine would not look how it intended to look.

so through the process of using photoshop I have construsted my magazine to a high standard which I personal feel would really attract my target audience.