Technology!

I used an Apple Mac to create my media products. To begin with I found it quite complicated to work with but over time, my understanding of how to use it got

better!

This is the ‘Panasonic LUMIX Digital Camera’ that I used to take all my photos.

I created a blog account using ‘Blogger’ to post all of my research and planning, as well as my final magazine and evaluation. I found this fairly simple to use

and will most probably use it again in the future.

I used ‘Adobe Photoshop’ to create my front cover, contents page and double page spread, as well as edit most of my photos. I discovered as

soon as I started using it that it was very complex and needed some time getting used to! It includes many tools which I used to make my

media products more effective.

As well as ‘Photoshop’, I also used ‘PhotoPlus’ to edit my photos, as this was a program that I’ve used before and felt comfortable using.

After creating an account, I uploaded my photos to ‘Photobucket’ so that I could present them on my blog by embedding the link.

Similarly, I used ‘Flickr’ to upload my final front cover, contents page and double page spread, so I could add notes to them about what attracts the audience.

I used ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ to create my presentations and then uploaded them onto ‘Slideshare’, before embedding the links on my blog.

I used ‘Microsoft LifeCam’ to record my videos, which I then uploaded to ‘Youtube’ in order in to post it on my blog.

I used ‘Quicktime’ to take a screen recording of me using Photoshop to demonstrate some of the skills I learnt when using the program. I found ‘Quicktime’ very easy to use and it successfully shows how I managed to use various tools within Photoshop.

‘Microsoft Word’ and ‘Excel’ were very useful when it came to designing my questionnaire, as well as presenting the results in a graph.

I found the internet extremely useful when it came to researching, as I was able to find out a huge amount of relevant and interesting information. By

searching “fonts” in ‘Google’, I found the website ‘Dafont’. This allowed me to find any font I needed which helped me to create a visually attractive

magazine.