Q6 - WHAT HAVE YOU

LEARNED ABOUT

TECHNOLOGIES FROM

THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS

PRODUCT?

Technology used to create magazines requires understanding of using computing software

like Photoshop and quarke. Because mine was a small independent project, the magazine

would of taken longer in my experience and also would be less professional than Magazines

which are developed commercially (for instance, made every week or month)

Independently made

magazine (my magazine)Commercially made

magazine (MixMag)

Using Cameras

The camera was generally easy to get to know as it was a more expert camera to use unlike a

basic digital camera. Usually in expert use, the camera would be a lot more bigger and several

devices would be used like a white background, lights to produce good lighting, tripods, ect. With

ours, we had to use our surroundings, unfortunately the room my photos were took was a dark

room with a unconventionally used background (detailed old wall paper). The cameras came out

professionally and were easy to use on the Photoshop program to edit them and such.

Similar camera used

for the photo shoot.

Using quark and Photoshop

Using quark and Photoshop did require a bit of practice, but the outcomes on some of the edited

pictures/pages on the software's were professional looking. The process making the pages took a

bit of time but it was to do little detailed touch ups and so forth. Quark was easier to use than

Photoshop as it only required to write in text and paste mostly images around the page whereas

with Photoshop there was cutting out and editing required.

Quark and Photoshop being the two main software programs we used in this project.

Managing the blog

The blog was pretty straight forward and easy to understand its basis and how to manage, it had

draft buttons on the blog so you could post your hidden entry any time you wanted or you could

edit it again and such. The blog was straight forward with its widgets on the posts to put on

pictures and captions to make it straight forward. The blog was slightly more professional than

the more mainstream social networking blogs like Tumblr and Twitter, but it was again a lot more

easier.

Blogging site we used called

Blogger.