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

For my preliminary task I started of by learning how to use http://www.lunapic.com/editor/ <- that website as a photo manipulating website. I learnt how to use the different tools and what they did. Tools such as :

Brightness

Sharpen

Crop

Colour saturation

Ect.

All of these tools were helpful for when I came to edit my pictures.

Once I had manipulated my pictures I had to learn how to use gimp, ( a software like Photoshop) to create my magazine. This was difficult because I had never used it before. I luckily picked it up quite quickly and figured out how to move layers, how to create text and move it and how to make my magazine look good.

I had to use gimp, because we have a problem at school where we couldn’t get Photoshop so the school got gimp instead. However when running gimp at school the computers ran really slowly and it took forever to do something quite minor.

For my actually task I used Photoshop from my own laptop. This made it so much similar as everything was all on one program, the editing of the images and the putting together of the magazine.

Once I had created my magazine I then had to learn how to use the blog site, which is the way that I wanted to present my work. This was quite easy as I picked it up quickly and it wasn’t that hard to use. I then started posting all of my work.

This is the opening scene from the website where i manipulated all of my images.