Question 6: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

To edit and manipulate my images I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 rather than Photoshop itself, as for me this is easier to use, it is also like a digital darkroom therefore you can change some of the main features of the image such as:

Exposure

Clarity

Brightness

Colour Saturation

Crop

Etc.

This was helpful as I could edit all of my images but at the same time still make them look natural, rather than fake.

Once I had manipulated my images and had done all of my research I needed to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop CS5  to create my magazine, whilst doing this I found out that this wasn’t the easiest programme to use to design a magazine as it is really hard to work with text as Photoshop treats everything as images. This was difficult because I had never used it before. I luckily picked it up quite quickly and figured out how to move layers, how to create text and move it and how to make my magazine look good. To present my work I had to learn how to use Blogger, this was quite easy as it wasn’t that hard to learn how to publish or edit posts. After learning this I could then publish my work and start to create an online diary of my work and progress. I found using the blog to present my work was a lot easier and better than having to hand in a hard copy and printing everything off.

I also had to learn how to use Slide Share, this was so that I could then publish Power Points onto my blog as this was a easy way to show pictures or results of surveys.

I used Windows DTP to create my preliminary task, I found that this didn’t give me as good a result as Photoshop did because I couldn’t get as high quality results, however this helped me in my progress from my preliminary task to my main task.

To take my images I used a Nikon D70 this is a semi-professional digital SLR camera, I used this to take all of my posed images, however to take the images taken at concert and gigs I used my Nikon Coolpix as it is a compact camera which is easier to use at gigs.