Technologies

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

When creating my magazine, I used different softwares to create different pieces of work. My actual magazine  was done on Photoshop, and then I put my work on show  on websites like Flickr and Blogger. 

At first I did not enjoy using photoshop because I had never used it before and found it hard to get the hang of. However once I had practiced with my preliminary task, I enjoyed using photoshop.  I was struggling with certain things, such as using various lighting tricks, but I worked hard to make sure I knew how to use them well because I was determined to make my magazine look professional.  Photoshop is good software which is available to amateurs as well as professionals, and it felt really good to know I had taught myself how to use it. I was rther proud of my magazine once I had finished,as I had tried so hard to make it as perfect as possible.

I used Flickr to analyse articles and covers for my planning and preliminary task. I had a lot of problems when using Flickr because, it would allow me to open up my image and then when I went to annotate it, it would delete all the text once I had typed it and tried to 'save' it. This was incredibly frustrating. I had Safari at home, so i had to do all of my work on Flickr outside of college, which was inconvenient.However, once it was working it enabled me to produce a higher-standard of work more easily than I could have done without it.

Blogger is a good website for many reasons.  It allows to you upload pictures and other things into a blog and write about them, or just write blogs, and with no word limit you can talk as much as you want. I found that spell check didn't work, and it was very difficult to get pictures to align with the text or go where I wanted them to. It was this that I found the most frustrating out of the whole of this task. However I had no problem accessing blogger on Internet explorer like I did with Flickr. Learning new skills with photoshop, as well as the ones i already knew, i think was the reason my magazine was such a success. I'm also glad I picked up new photoshop skills, i liked learning how to lay things out in a professional manor as Blogger enabled me to.