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

i have learnt many things from the use of technologies which have helped me to create and keep track of my magazine creation. i created a time plan in order to help me keep track and i used IT in order to create this. I have stuck to this in order to help create my magazine succsesfully. i have learnt many simple things such as the use of SLR digital camera's and how to take a MCU photo as well as how to use publishing software. This was caled Quark Xpress. This allowed me to create my magazine front cover, contents page, and double page spread. on this program i learnt how to get rid of white backgrounds from imported pictures from Photoshop. Photoshop was another software i used in order to edit the pictures taken from the camera themselfs, this including reducing the exposure of certain photographs and adding effects on layers to the photographs seen on all the photo's in order for them to therefore fit the genre of the magazine even more.

On the front cover i used certain effects in order to make the magazine look more proffesional to the reader. This included the angled boxes placed on the front page, this was simple but effective and i feel made a difference, this as a result made my work stand out more even though it was the simplest thing. I also used to correct use of colour in order to achieve this.

Because of the standered use of technology of which i used, it is now easily able for amateurs to produce work that is also reasonabley proffesional. i tried to stay away from these simple tools as the use of some can make work seem tacky instead of proffesional. I also used unique tool which connoted individualism to the genre of my magazine.



Looking at the photo's above, you can see that the stranded of photoshop-ing is fairly unique but simple. It doesn't look too busy but it creates the correct effect.

Looking at the background this was purely done on photoshop. I tried to make it look as professional as possible. this meant keeping the colour cordination correct throughout all of the magazine pages. Therefore with the correct technology and correct amount of creatable ability. It is able for a normal person to create a proffesional looking magazine.