Evaluation - Question 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of designing this product?


Throughout the designing of this product, I have used many different software to ensure I got the best quality product I could. 


Digital Camera -  I used my digital SONY camera to do my photo shoot for my magazine,which I also use for photography. I know that it will give high quality images. I also know how to use this camera very well so I knew it would be appropriate for my shoots.





Internet - I used the internet for the following; Research images, findyourtribe and Dafont.


- My research was mainly from google which lead me to information and on websites to help me find out about magazine institutions, and I also used google images to find all of my magazine cover, contents pages and double-page spreads to analyse for my magazine research. 


                       


- I used www.findyourtribe.com to find out my social group and the variation of social groups as part of my research for my audience of the magazine. This was a different/new software to use but I found it very easy and fast to use.

- I used Dafont website to create my mastheads and headings. I felt this was a good website and had so many different fonts to chose from and had so many different meanings and genres to them. 

InDesign - I used indesign to make my front cover, contents page and double-page spread. This was such a different programme to Publisher which I had used for my preliminary task. At first I found it very hard to use but as I knew how to use photoshop, it slowly became easier to use and I finally got the hang of it. I am pleased with the results of my magazine from Indesign and photoshop and can see how much of an improvement it made from using publisher.




Photoshop - I used photoshop to edit and cut out/crop my images. I edited them by altering the brightness /contrast and removing any unnecessary parts of the image. I made sure the image was clear and of a high quality by sharpening my image. I found photoshop fine to use for this project. 





Paint - I used paint to do print screens and cropping of my fonts from www.dafont.com to create them for my magazine. 



Word - I used word to type up notes and documents leading up to and for research and any planning for my magazine. I also produced my origonal audience questionnaire on Word. 



Powerpoint - I used powerpoint to produce all of my powerpoints, which were research and planning for my magazine and my audience research. Powerpoints were a very clear and easy way to produce lots of planning onto and to also produce our flat plans.







Publisher - I used publisher to produce my preliminary task because I did not know how to use Indesign at the beginning of my project. I'm a lot happier with my results from Indesign though.



Slideshare - I used slideshare to upload and embed my powerpoints to upload to my blog. I found slideshare seem to take a long time to upload my powerpoints but it was a good way of uploading them onto my blog.





Blogger - I used www.blogger.com to upload and share all of my project. After getting used to blogger I found it a very easy and simpe way to share all of my work onto my blog, and I liked how you could adapt and make it look how you wanted.