The process of creating this music magazine has shown me that constructing such products involves spending a lot of time and effort using technology such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe In Design to create the finished end product. The preliminary task was the first time I had ever used Photoshop and In Design, so it took a while to get used to.
I have learnt how complex Adobe Photo
shop is and that every single effect must be in a separate layer and that cutting out a person from the background of a photo (whether using the magic wand tool, or other tools) is incredibly complicated and hard to get right. The tasks we were set to help us get to know Photoshop were very helpful and showed us what tools did what and how to completely transform images. Once I got the hang of how to use Photoshop, I was able to do whatever I wanted to my magazine's front cover and contents page to make them look as professional as possible. After using Photoshop I can see why it is the ''standard' and possible even most popular photo-editing program.
I have also learnt that there is a lot more to using a publishing program like Adobe In Design, than meets the eye. For example, I did not know you could merge your text around your photograph or carry on text that didn't fit into one text box into another. I was suprised how different it was to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher, which were the only similar programs I had used beforehand. I was also surprised that for two completely different programs, Photoshop and In Design had quite a few similarities, for example they both had common tools including the text and selection tools.
I also learnt how to use an Apple Macintosh computer. Before starting the preliminary task, I had never used a Mac before and getting used to the differences between Mac computers and Windows computers took time, as even the keyboard shortcuts that I thought were standard were completely different on the Mac. However, the two softwares did turn out to share some similarities, so the Macintosh operating system was not too difficult to get used to.
Also, I have learnt how to take professional-looking photos, as before this year I had never owned my own camera, let alone taken pictures for a particular purpose- to look like an authentic music magazine front cover. I also learnt that you have to painstakingly pick what your model has to wear (genre-specific clothing etc) or to select which photos to include, making sure that they have no faults whatsoever (blurring, out-of-place props, the wrong body language/facial expression).
I have also learnt how to use the blogging website, Blogger which was totally different to any school-work I had ever done before, as the only other schoolwork I had done using a computer was just Microsoft Word, Publisher, Excel or Access documents, but never anything web-based (besides emailing documents to teachers). I had also never used a blogging website for anything before, let alone Blogger in particular. I did not know how to post anything, let alone edit or add attachments so it took quite a while to get used to.
I have learnt how complex Adobe Photo
shop is and that every single effect must be in a separate layer and that cutting out a person from the background of a photo (whether using the magic wand tool, or other tools) is incredibly complicated and hard to get right. The tasks we were set to help us get to know Photoshop were very helpful and showed us what tools did what and how to completely transform images. Once I got the hang of how to use Photoshop, I was able to do whatever I wanted to my magazine's front cover and contents page to make them look as professional as possible. After using Photoshop I can see why it is the ''standard' and possible even most popular photo-editing program.
I have also learnt that there is a lot more to using a publishing program like Adobe In Design, than meets the eye. For example, I did not know you could merge your text around your photograph or carry on text that didn't fit into one text box into another. I was suprised how different it was to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher, which were the only similar programs I had used beforehand. I was also surprised that for two completely different programs, Photoshop and In Design had quite a few similarities, for example they both had common tools including the text and selection tools.
I also learnt how to use an Apple Macintosh computer. Before starting the preliminary task, I had never used a Mac before and getting used to the differences between Mac computers and Windows computers took time, as even the keyboard shortcuts that I thought were standard were completely different on the Mac. However, the two softwares did turn out to share some similarities, so the Macintosh operating system was not too difficult to get used to.
Also, I have learnt how to take professional-looking photos, as before this year I had never owned my own camera, let alone taken pictures for a particular purpose- to look like an authentic music magazine front cover. I also learnt that you have to painstakingly pick what your model has to wear (genre-specific clothing etc) or to select which photos to include, making sure that they have no faults whatsoever (blurring, out-of-place props, the wrong body language/facial expression).
I have also learnt how to use the blogging website, Blogger which was totally different to any school-work I had ever done before, as the only other schoolwork I had done using a computer was just Microsoft Word, Publisher, Excel or Access documents, but never anything web-based (besides emailing documents to teachers). I had also never used a blogging website for anything before, let alone Blogger in particular. I did not know how to post anything, let alone edit or add attachments so it took quite a while to get used to.
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