What have you learned about technologies from the process of construction of your product?

During the process of creating my product I explored a number of different
computer programmes and techniques of getting the needed results. The base
programme I was required to use was Adobe Photoshop. This is a programme
that allows me to create effective and professional looking magazines due
to the intricate details that you can look into. Adobe Photoshop is widely
used in the magazine industry to create professional magazines and edit
images effectively, this is why Adobe Photoshop was an ideal choice of
programme to use to begin creating my magazine.
I explored different ways of displaying my images, I played with variations
of back-drop from having a brick backrground to having a white back-drop. I
also played with colour by editing the background colour by changing it to
black and white to highlight the main picture, i reinforced this by editing
the brightness and contrast of the model of my image. This worked effectively
as the importance of my model to the double-page spread becomes clear.
I also effectively created a mood through my images by having the contrast
lowered to reinforce a dull mood, or had the brightness hightened to
highlight a up-beat feeling to my magazine.
I used variation in colour as photoshop offers these through swatches to keep
the colour scheme constant, yet this allowed me to make minor changes to shade
of the colour to match the mood of the page I was catering the colour too.
Photoshop lets you have complete creative freedom as you start with a blank
canvas and from there build into having a range of pages making up a magazine,
I fixed on the use of a constant black boarder as a base to my magazine to keep
my magazine consistant and well orginised. In some stages of making my magazine
I had difficulties performing tasks e.g. cutting out an image, painting in colour
etc. due to the use of many technical tools Photoshop has to offer yet overcame
these difficulties with help from teachers and youtube tutorials.
I also used a website to hold all my work as a database called 'Blogger', this
was an effective piece of technology which helped me keep track of what work I
had completed and effectively orginised my coursework. When i began using this
programme I had difficulties with posting with labels etc. yet with experience
I have learnt how to do numerous things on Blogger and it has been a great help
to me.