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

Whilst my magazine was coming together I used a few different programmes to get it how I disired. Creating my magazine was done on photoshop. This is the first time I used photoshop so I was learning from scratch. Throughout the process I actually learnt quite a lot. I found it very confusing and things went wrong a lot at first, but after some time I got used to and learned how to get what I wanted done. I think photoshop is a really good product to use, because it gets what you want done and to a high standard. If I had previous experiance with it I think my magazine would have turned out better but I spent some time learning how to use it and am still getting used to it now.

Flickr is another website I used. It is a photo and video sharing website. It is free or you can pay for a Pro account to upload more photos. But I wasn't uploading many so paying would be pointless. I found it perfectly easy to use and no problems with it. I have never used it before but would definitely use it again if I wanted to use an image hosting site. It let me annotate my magazine easily and instructs you how to do things. I liked how I was able to highlight certain points of my magazine and write about them seperately. It was like sticking sticky notes on it.

Another website I used is Blogger. This is the website I used more and have presented my magazine and evaluation here. It a really good website and very easy to use. It's even better that it's free. It allows you to do anything you want, you can upload pictures, and it doesn't have a limit on how much you can write which I found very useful when wanting to explain things in detaill. Sometimes I had problems because the spell check is quite unreliable and also it wouldn't upload my pictures sometimes so I would have to log off and on again. It's also quite difficult to move pictures around once you have them in a post. I have very little complaints because for a free website it works really well and gets the job done.

I learnt much more than just how to use the programmes presented above. I also learnt what worked well while taking pictures. Although the camera I used wasn't very high quality. I think my pictures turned out looking OK. A plain background makes the person in the image stand out more which is what I wanted, as the music artist is the main focus. Angles and location are also something I had to work with, but overall I am please with how the pictures turned out, because i'm not exactly experianced with taking photos and for my first time trying I don't think they look too bad.