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

From making my magazine I have used a lot of different technologies on the computer and have learned many different skills while producing the cover, contents and double page spread of my magazine. The main technology I used while producing my magazine was Photoshop. I used this to layout the magazine and have the design I wanted. I was able to play around with different themes and styles when producing my magazine to find the correct one. Using Photoshop enabled me to learn skills that help me produce my magazine in a faster time and to make it look more professional. I was able to get the correct colour on the cover that I thought would suit the audience I was targeting. I had learned many different skills from making my draft copy to making my final copy of the magazine. I had learned how to get the same colour from my cover on to my contents to make it match. This is a vital skill to learn because it made the colour a constant running theme throughout the magazine. This made it look more professional as it looked like the colour scheme had been specifically picked. On Photoshop I also learned how to get different fonts of texts from the website www.dafont.com and put them on Photoshop and make them the colour I wanted and also change the size. This helped the appearance of the magazine as it allowed the font to follow a pattern that the reader would recognise from other pages of the magazine. I used a similar font throughout the magazine but changed the colour of it to make it stand out on different backgrounds.
I also learned how to re size pictures on Photoshop so they would fit on my magazine how I wanted them. I also learned how to cut them out of the background so I could put the photo on any background so they would stand out. From this I was able to have my photos wherever I wanted them, and after looking at existing magazines I was able to get a good idea of what worked and the size my pictures should be. Photoshop allowed me to change them to exactly how I wanted them. I did however encounter a few problems while using Photoshop. I was unable to get the right background colour to suit the style of my magazine so I decided it would be best to leave it white. If I was able to get a mixed colour background I would have had a mix of white and grey to make it stand out slightly. I also had some problems cutting out the photos as it took me a long time. I did not find a quick way of doing this which would have saved a lot of time. I also had a problem transferring text into Photoshop; this made it hard to get the right sized text and the right font to go with my magazine.
I also learned how to use Scribd when transferring work from a word document and putting it on my blog. I was able to re size it and put it on my blog making it look different and keeping the work as a whole piece on my blog. It made it easier to put work onto my blog.
I used a school camera to take the pictures for the cover, contents and double page spread of my magazine. I was able to get the right shot as I took many pictures until i found one I was going to use. I then transferred my pictures from the camera and put them onto a memory stick. I have learned that I would take more of a variety of photos so my magazine would have different people pictured in it. I have learned how to efficiently use the camera and make the zoom to the correct position I want. This allows me to have the picture I want so I can make them similar to the existing magazines such as ‘NME’ and ‘Q’ that I have found from my research.