I have learnt a lot about technologies and programs as I have constructed this product. Things I hadn't done before like, creating magazines, editing photos to a good standard and using blogs have increased my knowledge efficiently. I will definitely use what I have learnt in the future if I intend to do similar work to this. Also I can use techniques I have learnt for even little things like making cards etc.
The photo above is me constructing my two page spread. InDesign is probably the most complicated programme I learnt to use. At first it was just a load of buttons and little images that I saw no way of getting my head around. I've learnt how to create a book, magazine, and all types of documents. Indesign could also be very efficient for card making aswell. Changing text, colour, rotation, editing size are all things I could easily do to an image on Microsoft Word, but on Indesign it looked very complicated. I eventually got the hang of it all and learnt my way around Indesign. I still feel that this was the most complicated programme in the process of contructing my production.
Another program that gave me a wider insight into technology was Photoshop. I found this very fun to use and I liked playing around with different alterations of my photo and deciding which one would go best one my cover, contents and two page spread. At first I found using the layer a bit tricky but I soon figured it all out. In terms of what I had learnt, I learnt how people who make the magazines do it all. I had never considered layers before when people made front covers but now it clearly makes sense that they do. I have also learnt the amount of work it takes to make a good front cover. I used to think you just had a picture and placed various pieces of text around the page but clearly with serious editing and concentration and other effects/techniques I can see now that its actually much more than that. Photoshop has taught me how serious and creative magazine editors and creators actually are. It takes more skill than I initially thought it did.
As I used Blogger, I learnt a load of techniques and shortcuts to make my blog look more presentable. When making presentations on Google Drive, Flickr and Prezi I wasn't sure on how to export those presentations onto my blog. However, through various Youtube tutorials I slowly figured out how to embed presentations to my blog. I had heard of embedding however I wasn't quite sure what it consisted of. Using Blogger has taught me all about it and now I have posted a range of presentations on my blog by embedding the link into the HTML section when I'm creating a post. I feel that I would be able to export presentations on other softwares using embedding and feel that I have learnt something very beneficial in the technology department.
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