Evaluation Question 6

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

I used Photoshop quite a lot in the making process of my music magazine. My final products were made on Photoshop and i got to use a lot of different techniques and tools during the task. I experimented with many tools which improved my skills. To help me i also watched video tutorials on YouTube about how to do specific things such as "how to move objects in an image".
My knowledge about how to edit and change photos or how to create things on Photoshop has improved.

I learnt how to get an image onto Photoshop, in this case the bar code, and put it on my music magazine front cover. For this i had to open the bar code in a new tab and drag it to the tab that my magazines front cover was on. Then i went on edit > free transform, and made the bar code smaller. I made sure that i kept pressing shift while making the picture smaller so that it does not alter the shape of the image.

Once i picked the image that i was going to use, i watched a tutorial on YouTube which told me how to cut the background out of a picture and then add your choice of colour. This really helped as i needed to use this technique multiple times on my magazines front cover, contents page and double page spread. To carry out this method, i used the laser tool on the toolbar to the left. This allowed the picture i needed to be a different layer so that i could easily delete the background layer. This left me with the image that i needed and a plain background to add colour. 

On blogger, i uploaded all my work including my final music magazine. I did not have any experience with blogger before so i got to learn a lot of new things. I learnt how to create and publish posts, how to change the timings of when i posted my work for important reasons and a lot more. Once i got the hang of blogger, it was quite easy to use and make it easier for me to upload all my work and for others to access. It was easy to upload my work and i also learnt how to add links or upload images.

For my work i also used Microsoft Publisher, Word and PowerPoint, these three were really needed to complete my work from my preliminary task to my final products. On publisher i had made a photo collage of all the photos that i had taken for my magazine. This software was really easy to use and was the best to make a collage of all my photos. First i made the page landscape and the process of adding images was quite simple, insert > pictures > then pick the picture you want to add.  It would easily allow me to change the size of the image, crop the image etc. 

I had used Microsoft Word for one of my evaluation questions. Because i have had experience with it a lot of times before, it was really easy to use. Once thing that i got to learn on Word was how to make a pie chart and add my own information by editing.

PowerPoint was a really important software that i needed to complete my work. I used it multiple times but especially for a website called Slide Share. To upload work on Slide Share you would have to have that work on PowerPoint too. As i have used PowerPoint many times before it was quite simple to use. Something that i got to learn form PowerPoint was how to add images, edit and filter them or put them in front/ behind other text. Many of these tasks gave me opportunities to use these three software's and learn new things.

I did not use Prezi before my coursework but for me it was one of the easiest websites to get used to. Because i had not used it before, it gave me a chance to learn new thing so that i could improve on my work. Prezi was one of the most creative ways to present my work and also one of my favorite. I learnt how to use Prezi effectively and did not really have to watch tutorials or search online on how to use this website. Things that i learnt was how to upload pictures, how to upload my work on Prezi, how to edit and change the appearance e.g. colour and design. This helped improve how i presented my work on blogger. I would definitely use this website again in the future.

In the start i did not know how to use Slide-share because i had not used it before so it took some time understanding how. Although after searching online i found out that the process of  uploading my work was quite simple. There was an upload button at the top of the page but what i was unaware of was that i had to make a PowerPoint in order to have my work uploaded on slide share. After understanding that, it was quite easy to use, i had experience with PowerPoint which made it easier and the process of uploading my work was simple. First i clicked upload then upload file, then i chose my PowerPoint, gave it a title and added some descriptions, then uploaded. 

Fireworks was necessary for me to use to complete my work. On this i uploaded my music magazine analysis and also edited pictures that i wanted to upload on to blogger. It helped a lot to complete my work before i started using Photoshop. I used Adobe Fireworks to edit the multiple pictures on blogger, for my music magazine analysis of front covers, contents pages and the double page spreads. Because i had not used this program before i got to learn a lot of new stuff on how to use it. Also because blogger does not upload images straight from the internet or from software's such as Word and PowerPoint, i used Fireworks to upload them. 

Survey Monkey was an easy website to use. On this i created my audience survey for my final music magazine and also a survey for my preliminary task. I did not have to research how to use it as it was quite straightforward and also guided me. I did not have any experience with Survey Monkey before so i learnt a lot of new things, one of the main ones being how to create a survey and upload it on to blogger using the link. I also took screenshots of my surveys and uploaded them onto blogger so that there was a visual of how it looked. To do this i used Fireworks.